Prep roundup: Brighton hands No. 2 Northville first soccer loss
BRIGHTON — Brighton’s soccer team snapped a two-game losing streak in a big way, beating Northville 2-1 to hand the second-ranked Mustangs their first loss of the season.
Northville came into the game with a 5-0-1 record, allowing only two goals.
Brighton had two goals by halftime. Owen Buckley scored off an assist from Ethan Cassar to open the scoring and set up a goal from Devlin McGinnis to make it 2-0. Northville cut the deficit to 2-1 before halftime.
Charlie Burchfield stopped all seven shots he faced in the second half to preserve the victory. Reece Meyer made five saves in the first half for the Bulldogs (4-3).
Fowlerville 2, Eaton Rapids 1
Brandon Hunt and Tanner Camps scored for Fowlerville (4-2).
Salem 4, Howell 1
Alex Romo scored for Howell.
Tecumseh 5, Pinckney 0
Pinckney (1-6) was shut out for the sixth straight time after a season-opening victory over Charyl Stockwell.
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Volleyball
Howell 3, Canton 0
Howell won three 25-15 sets to beat Canton.
Payshince McDaniel had 12 kills, Emerson Baum 17 digs, Mackenzie McCormick 14 digs and Keira Manning 14 assists for Howell.
Mason 3, Fowlerville 0
Mason won 25-23, 25-16, 25-21.
Morgan Thomas had 19 assists and 16 digs for Fowlerville, while Payton McConnaughey had 20 digs and Kaitlyn Seiter had 14 digs.
Cross country
OCS Small School Invite
Charyl Stockwell senior Anthony Urbaniak placed third with a time of 17:59.1.
Swimming and diving
Brighton 102, Plymouth 82
Ola Bodyl won the 200-yard individual medley, the breaststroke and was on two winning relay teams for Brighton.
Grace Gray won the 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly and a relay. Sage Bissett won the 100 freestyle, 100 backstroke and a relay.
Novi 130, Howell 56
Annabelle Respondek won 50 freestyle in 26.29 seconds and Olivia Glenfield won butterfly in 1:07.42 for Howell’s two first-place finishes.
Tennis
Brighton 9, Howell 0
Singles: Dorian Pettengill (B) d. Lucas Nolen 6-0, 6-0; Tyler Adams (B) d. Nick Syrett 6-0, 6-0; Pierce Pettengill (B) d. Ryan Meeusen 6-0, 6-0; Joseph Mertes (B) d. Carter Greeneisen 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles: Keegan Parrish-Nate Reynolds (B) d. Noah Heilig-Giovani Maisano 6-1, 6-0; Ayush Shenoy-Jonathan Solgat (B) forfeit; Lucas Lamberjack-Matthew Wendrick (B) forfeit; Logan Gardner-Jackson Alexander (B) forfeit; Dylan McKee-Noah McKee (B) forfeit.
Plymouth 8, Hartland 1
Singles: Aarav Dalal (P) d. Ben Krause 6-2, 7-5; Pawan Ramayanam (P) d. Dominick Marinelli 6-1, 7-5; Ryan Belanger (P) d. Ryan Pompilius 7-6 (5), 6-2; Asher Smolinski (H) d. Aarush Kumar 6-2, 6-3.
Doubles: Jack Cristea-Rohan Savoie (P) d. Gavin Sweet-Gavin Bangs 6-3, 6-2; Sanath Reddy-Kunal Patel (P) d. Colton Krueger-Curtis Wynn 6-4, 6-4; Jackson Grube-Ian Neves (P) d. Ethan Raap-Havoc Roberts 6-3, 6-4; Abhijay Das-Arivan Mudaliyar (P) d. Evan Green-Logan Demeniuk 6-2, 6-3; Coltin Belanger-Hariswaran Balamurugan (P) d. Kruz Kruszka-Carter Derby, 6-2, 6-7 (5) 13-11.
Canton 5, Hartland 4
Singles: Ben Krause (H) d. Gaman Keshav 6-3, 6-1; Alessandro Negrini (C) d. Dominick Marinelli, 6-2, 6-1; Alok Swaminathan (C) d. Ryan Pompilius, 6-0, 6-2; Mihir Bharadwaj (C) d. Asher Smolinski, 6-4, 6-1.
Doubles: Jason Zhang-Joseph Pierson (C) d. Gavin Bangs-Gavin Sweet 6-4, 6-2; Suprathik Emmadi-Elan Hong (C) d. Colton Krueger-Curtis Wynn 6-4, 6-4; Ethan Raap-Havoc Roberts (H) d. Ragav Babu-Armaan Sandhu 7-5, 7-5; Logan Demeniuk-Evan Green (H) d. Varun Vemulakonda-Paul Rasoletti 6-3, 7-6 (4); Kruz Kruszka-Anthony Aung (H) d. Akshar Desai-Kean Hui 7-5, 6-2.
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