Boyne City volleyball tops Mancelona Invite, Petoskey runs in Portage
MANCELONA — Add another tournament title for the Boyne City volleyball team.
After opening the season with an overall win in Pellston, then adding multiple quad sweeps, the Ramblers traveled to Mancelona over the weekend and earned a first place title following a 9-1 day.
The title game win came over Johannesburg-Lewiston for the Ramblers, with Boyne City coach Tyla Coates happy to see her team rebound after a tough loss earlier in the week.
“We needed this. We wanted it,” said Coates. “From our first game of the day I knew it was going to be a great day. Our communication, defense and smart plays really helped us pull it together. The girls did so good working with each other and this group is just a happy going group who’s there to win but have fun too.”
Ava Tarsi again stood out for Boyne City, doing it all from her setter position, while impressing Coates again with her 80 assists, 12 aces, 29 digs and nine kills. Eliana Michael also had a strong day, finishing with 20 digs, three aces and two kills, while going 31 of 32 on serves.
“I was very impressed by Ava and her setting up every hitter then when needing too making a quick dump or hitting it herself over,” said Coates. “Her serves were crazy good.”Eliana stood out today as well. Her attitude is always an uplifting, one, but she really helped filling in where we needed her and playing some of the best defense this season.”
Josie Wilson finished with 26 kills and nine digs for Boyne, Elly Wilcox had 34 kills, 25 digs and five aces and Ameilia Dunstan added 19 kills, 10 digs, five aces and three blocks.
Katelyn Dittmar also had 10 digs, Aubrey Burns had 75 digs and five aces and Sawyer Cadarette had two blocks.
Boyne City will get back to the court on Tuesday, Oct. 10 to celebrate senior night against Harbor Springs.
NORTHERN LAKES
Harbor Light at Boyne Falls Tri
BOYNE FALLS — Playing on a back to back, the Harbor Light Christian volleyball team earned a split in a Northern Lakes Conference tri meet at Boyne Falls Friday.
The Swordsmen earned a win over Burt Lake NMCA and then fell in a close match against Boyne Falls in a 2-1 final that needed a tiebreaker.
Ava Kenwabikise finished the night with 17 kills, four blocks, three aces and seven digs, Anna Zielinski had 10 kills and 26 digs, Molly Ogden had 27 assists, 29 digs and three aces and Charlotte Gagnon had 40 digs.
Harbor Light head coach Hannah Urman was also impressed with the night for Maddie Gwilt.
"Maddie did an excellent job on serve receive for us tonight,” said Urman. “They had some good servers and she more than held her own. She also played great defense and got a lot of tips and rolls up for us tonight."
Harbor Light gets back to the court on Tuesday, Oct. 10 at Cadillac Heritage.
CROSS COUNTRY
Petoskey at Portage Invite
PORTAGE — Another weekend, another major meet for the Petoskey cross country team.
After competing in the massive Shepherd Invite last Saturday, Petoskey traveled down to Portage for an equally large invite that always sets teams up with a clear picture on what the state finals could look like.
Broken up into divisons, Petoskey rightfully ran within the Division 2 race, placing seventh among the 40 teams on the boys side, then 10th in the girls race, which featured 45 teams.
Leading for the Petoskey boys was Shane Izzard in 29th (16:16), Tommy Farley placed 39th (16:28); Jack Lindwall, 71st (16:55); Brady Odenbach, 78th (16:58); and Zahar Rush, 84th (17:05).
On the girls side, Petoskey’s Nora O’Leary clocked a new personal record to earn a 20th place finish (18:57.7).
Ava Pawlick placed 40th (19:42), CamBrie Corey was 47th (19:54); Fiona Scott, 94th (21:24); and Sydney Hoffman, 168th (22:18).
GOLF
Petoskey at Katke Classic
BIG RAPIDS — The Petoskey girls’ golf team traveled to the annual Katke Classic in Big Rapids over the weekend, though put in just one of the two days.
Petoskey shot a 381 as a team, led by Riley Barr’s 87. Emma Berg also shot 96, Marley Spence shot 97; Sara Hasse, 101; Sophia Gardner, 101; and Anna Hasse, 111.
Grand Rapids Catholic Central won the event with a two-day 678.
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This article originally appeared on The Petoskey News-Review: Roundup of weekend action, with Boyne City winning the Mancelona Invite
