Lady Lions, Tigresses post Senior Night wins
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| Daniel Roby (center) and the Ohio Bulldogs captured the Malden Grade School tournament. The Bulldogs did battle with Malden and Musketeers’ Blake Thompson (left) and Michael Keisler. (BCR photo/Kevin Hieronymus) |
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LaMoille/Ohio and Princeton turned Senior Nights for their volleyball teams this week into winning nights.
At Princeton: The host Tigresses improved their NCIC Lincoln conference mark to 6-3 on the season as they topped Kewanee 25-12, 25-9, at Prouty Gymnasium on Senior Night Tuesday. Lacy Jensen registered eight kills to lead PHS, Sarah Maynard added six. Molly Stephens notched 22 assists and nine service points with four aces. Jolyn Kain posted four digs, Steph Bonucci added three for the Tigers, who advanced to 26-5-1 on the season.
PHS won the sophomore contest 25-20, 25-14 to remain unbeaten at 9-0 in NCIC play at 22-1-2 overall, and also took the freshmen (17-4, 7-2) game 25-5 25-21.
At Ohio: The Lady Lions notched their fourth win of the year by defeating Serena 25-14, 25-21 Monday over the Little Ten rival in a non conference matchup in Ohio. Erika Walzer led the Lady Lions (4-22-1) with six kills, Macee Monroe had a team-high seven points and Raeann Coughlin 21 digs.
Serena took the F/S match 20-25, 25-21, 25-22 with Monroe posting 17 digs, nine kills and eight points, Emily Kirby 14 digs and 10 points and Aubrey Molln six points and eight digs.
At Kirkland: LaMoille/Ohio picked up their second win in a row Tuesday night as they topped Kirkland-Hiawatha 25-16, 25-21 on the road. Libero Reann Coughlin had a big night defensively, registering 20 digs for the Lady Lions co-op, Laura Stouffer added 12 digs to go along with 11 service points, and both Taylor Gott and Mary Bartoli were also in double-digits with 10 digs apiece. Erika Walzer led LaMoille/Ohio (5-22-1) with 10 kills, with Haley Stouffer adding six.
Kirkland captured the F/S contest 25-17, 25-7.
At Somonauk: The host Bobcats pushed St. Bede into three games before the Lady Bruins made off with a 25-17, 22-25, 25-16 non conference win Monday. Kayla MacDavitt led the Lady Bruins with seven kills and five blocks and Molly Scott had 11 points.
At St. Bede: The Lady Bruins made short work of the visiting Lady Giants of DePue, taking a two-set 25-4, 25-9 win Tuesday night at the Academy. Kayla MacDavitt registered 12 service points with six aces to go along with two kills and two blocks for the Lady Bruins. Molly Scott and Brittany Burgess shared the SBA lead in digs with three apiece, Kelsey Moravec had three kills and Jillian Stariha notched four assists for the St. Bede (15-11-2, 6-2) win.
At Fulton: The host Steamers came out on top of Bureau Valley Tuesday, notching a 25-22, 25-15 win in Three Rivers conference play. Megan Mussche led the Storm with nine digs, and Sam Shepard tallied nine assists. Lauren Hasbrook was the team leader with six kills for the Storm (20-10, 9-5).
Fulton also pulled out wins in both the sophomore (25-21, 25-21) and freshmen (25-12, 25-23) contests.
Junior high basketball
The Ohio Bulldogs won last week’s Malden Grade School Invitational, led by all-tournament selections Brandon Morris, Kai Tomaszewski and Josh Hawley. LaMoille finished second, Neponset third and Malden fourth.
The all-tournament selections included LaMoille’s Damon Quest and David Dickey. The best cheerleading squad award went to Ohio. The All-American Cheeleraders selected included Ohio’s Kaitlyn Hughes and Harleigh Younge, Neponset’s Liliana Ruiz and Malden’s Zabrina Karns and Alexis Richards.
Cross country
At Sterling: Princeton freshman Taylor Smith captured second place in the girls’ freshman race at Sterling’s Freshman/JV meet Tuesday with a time of 26:40 on the three-mile course. Andrew Birkey finished 10th in the boys’ freshman race at 22:06, and Collin Schertz came in 12th at 23:55. Sam Smith finished 37th in the JV race with a time of 22:35. PHS coach Pat Hodge said that the runners did a “pretty good job” with solid efforts.
