Onaway, Rogers City remain unbeaten in conference play
In Onaway Tuesday, the Cardinals made quick work of the Pellston Hornets winning 3-0 (25-18, 25-23, 25-17).
“You always get up for Pellston, no doubt about it. They have been our biggest rival for a long time,” said Cardinal coach Steve Watson. “They were ranked seventh. We were ranked eighth. It was tough on them tonight because they were playing without their best hitter. The cards were stacked against them. We were really mentally and physically ready for them and it was at our home court.”
In the first set, Onaway went on a 9-0 run behind the serving of Alison LaFave to go up 16-6. Setter Taylor Ehrke set up sophomore left hitter Maddie McLean for three kills in the rally.
Pellston closed to 23-17, but McLean’s cross-court kill on point 25 won the game.
Onaway went up 3-0 in the second set as Jade Galer drilled an ace. The lead changed hands six times before the Cards prevailed. Galer, a senior libero, made three highlight reel digs on point 25 to give Onaway a 25-23 for a 2-0 lead.
With McLean serving, the Cards came out with a 5-0 lead to open the third set. Onaway led 13-9 before running off five straight points. Pellston never got close after that.
McLean had nine kills and six digs; Ehrke four kills, 25 assists, two aces and 12 digs; Galer four kills and 17 digs; Vydailya Lutz had six kills, 10 digs and two blocks; LaFave notched three kills and seven digs and Jaclyn Nash added eight digs. The Cardinals are now 5-0 in conference play.
Last Saturday, the Cardinals were at the St. Ignace tournament, making it to bracket play before losing to Cheboygan (18-25, 19-25). Earlier they split with Engadine (25-21, 21-25), Sault St. Marie (23-25, 25-21), and Bellaire (25-18, 23-25). Then Onaway defeated Newberry (25-18, 25-20).
The Cardinals host Marine City in a varsity-only match starting at 6 p.m. tonight (Thursday).
In junior varsity action, Pellston downed the Cards 2-1 (20-25, 14-25, 15-11) Calley Selke had four aces while Daria Domke added three aces.
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The Rogers City Hurons’ varsity volleyball team traveled to Sault Ste. Marie Tuesday and took the match in four sets 25-15, 25-20, 19-25 and 25-7.
Senior Sarah Meredith had 15 kills while sophomore Kayla Rabeau had nine and freshman Taylor Fleming had seven. Freshman Jayna Hance had three aces.
Senior setter Ally Streich had 24 set assists and senior libero Megan Brege had 22 digs. Rabeau also added 15 digs.
“The girls have played phenomenal these last two days. Alcona has really stepped up their program and the Sault always plays us tough. We have stepped it up a notch by keeping our errors in hitting and serving to a minimum and improved,” said coach Jackie Quaine.
The junior varsity team fell to the Sault 23-25, 8-25 and 15-17. Madison Hincka, Alexis Saile and Shawna McDonald each had two kills while Christina Andrzjewski had two aces.
MONDAY THE Hurons were at a tri-meet in Alcona where they defeated the Tigers in four sets to improve to 4-0 in North Star League play. Rogers City lost game one 25-27 but won three straight 25-17, 25-19 and 25-17 to take the win.
They also defeated Standish in a best two-of-three match 25-18 and 25-14.
Streich finished the day with 47 set assists, 23 digs and five aces. Meredith had 25 kills, 19 digs and two aces. Brege had 39 digs and three aces.
Rabeau had 18 kills, 16 digs and six aces. Taylor Fleming added 14 kills and was involved in three blocks. Junior Hannah Dittmar had five kills and 14 digs. Hance added eight aces in the match.
The junior varsity defeated Alcona 25-17, 26-24 and 17-15 and Standish 25-8, 25-8 and 15-12. Catheryn Hart and Hannah Fleming each had four kills while Madison Hincka, Amanda Wirgau and Saile each had three. Kaylee Fenstermaker had nine aces while Alissa Bowden had four.
The Hurons are at Hale today (Thursday) and host Posen Tuesday.
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The Lady Vikings followed up their second-place showing at the Oscoda tournament with three easy wins over Atlanta Tuesday on the home floor. The scores were 25-9, 25-11 and 25-14.
“We got everybody in different spots. We did not cover well and were kind of flat-footed,” said head coach Laurie Maynard. “They have to push themselves in the tough situations, and this is one of those situations.”
The competition gets much tougher with Alcona tonight and then at the Mackinac Island tournament Saturday.
Following the win over Atlanta, Posen is 5-1. Brooke Ciarkowski fired eight aces, including three in a row in game two. Cami LaTulip had four kills, while Lyndsey Romel and Sam Lenard both had three. Jenna Hincka
At Oscoda, the Vikings took part in a round-robin tournament with seven schools playing each other.
Posen split with Oscoda, 20-25, 25-19, and Tawas, 19-25, 25-18. They knocked off Hale in two, 25-13, 25-19, as well as Hillman, 25-15, 25-23.
Maynard said her team moved on to play Whittemore Prescott (WP), “And it was a battle”, but WP won, 17-25, 23-25. At the end of the round-robin Posen and WP were tied for first. After tallying the point differential, WP took first by one point.
Last Wednesday, the Vikings won three of four at Hale, 25-9, 25-19, 22-25, 25-13.