Orion Regional a washout

Bureau Valley's Jordan Twidell gets some swings in before Tuesday's Orion Regional was postponed. (BCR photo/Shawn Doubet)

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The rain probably would not have stopped the British Open, but golfers from Bureau Valley, Princeton and 10 other area schools will have to wait another day to find out who will advance to sectional play out of the Orion Regional.

Regional play at Valley View Golf Course in Cambridge was suspended due to inclement weather Tuesday. The constant and occasionally heavy rainfall caused scores to rise and left water standing on six of 18 greens.

As the last groups were making the turn at the ninth hole, the coaches met and decided that the rain had created conditions that were no longer fair to all golfers, especially those who had started later in the day after the rain had begun falling.

“It looks like Mother Nature gave everyone a mulligan today,” Princeton coach Brian Church said. “This is the first time in my 14 years as golf coach that this has happened. Everyone will start over with a fresh start. Some of the kids were happy about this, while others were not.”

The first group off the tee, which included PHS’ Collin Slattery, had played 13 holes when the golf course became unplayable. Slattery had an unofficial front nine score of 39 and teammates Brandon Poss and Aaron Quanstrom each posted 45s and Noel Nichols a 43.

“Considering the circumstances, these scores were very good. Canceling the tournament today was the right decision,” Church said.

Volleyball

At Manlius — Sixth-seeded LaMoille/Ohio fell to No. 3 Hinckley-Big Rock 25-20, 25-23 in the first round of the Little 10 Tournament at Indian Creek High School.

Hallie May had 10 points, 10 assists and five aces. May and Erika Walzer led the Lady Lions with four kills apiece and Chelsea Gross had 10 digs.

At Manlius — Caitlin Blaisdell had 10 points and four aces and Emma Dale had six kills and five blocks to lead Bureau Valley past Erie 25-21, 22-25, 25-17. Lauren Hasbrook added five kills and four blocks.

At Spring Valley — The Hall Lady Red Devils reached the 20-win plateau with a 25-14, 26-24 win over Kewanee on Tuesday. Kendall Rush had 14 kills and Erin Polte added 27 assists, nine digs and nine points for the Lady Devils (20-6, 5-1). Mickey Victor chipped in seven kills.

At St. Bede — The Lady Bruins defeated Fieldcrest Monday at the Academy 25-18, 26-24. Sam Galas had 11 kills and four blocks, Abby Toraason had 11 digs and Scott nine points.

At Oglesby — IVCC swept Black Hawk Monday, led by Merideth Rounds (Hall) with eight kills and Laura Lovgren (LaMoille) with seven kills.

Cross country

At Elmwood — Bureau Valley finished second in Monday’s Elmwood/Brim-field Invitational, 42-8 to the host Trojans. The Storm had three top-12 finishers in seventh Tevis Mott (16:33), 10th Joseph VonHolten (16:48) and 12th Derrick Johnson (16:56).

BV placed seventh of 10 teams with Cassie Olson (22:18) taking 30th individually.

At Sterling — Hall won the battles Tuesday, but Sterling won the war. Hall had both race winners with Scott Janusick (17:08.5) and Elizabeth Mosbach (21:04.4), but Sterling defeated both Red Devils teams 20-59.

Kyle Miroux (18:21.4) gave the Red Devils a fifth-place run and Brett Herrmann (19:21.4) and Lexi Fonderoli (23:03.3) finished ninth.

Soccer

Streator 4, Princeton 2 — Matt McClure added to his newly polished school record with both goals for the Tigers in Tuesday’s NCIC loss on the road. Reiter Bird had an assist for the Tigers, who fell to 11-4-4 and 3-3 in conference.

The F/S won their game 3-1 with goals by Bryan Clucas, Jacob Fisher and Zach Rosene and assists by Evan Suarez, Zach Rosene, Eric Savage and Jake Biddix.

Princeton 2, Peoria Christian 2 — On Monday, Princeton spotted Peoria Christian a 2-0 lead, but rallied for a 2-2 tie in nonconference boys’ soccer play in Peoria. The Tigers got on the board with a Bird goal on an assist by Matt McClure with 19 minutes remaining. McClure added a goal with a penalty kick to tie the game.

Princeton won the F/S game 2-0 on two goals by Evan Suarez.