Volleyball
Michigan Center, Napoleon at Leslie Invitational: Napoleon High School defeated Michigan Center in the final at Leslie. Napoleon’s home tournament scheduled for Saturday was cancelled due to lack of referees. The Pirates defeated MCHS 25-20, 23-25, and 15-11. Maggie Beer finished with 25 kills, 25 assists, and 26 digs on the day for Napoleon. Audrey Chapman finished with 31 digs and Gracie Tallman tallied nine blocks for Napoleon.
Mason Invitational: Western High School went 3-0 in pool play with wins over Dansville, Northwest, and Sturgis. In bracket play the Panthers defeated Bath and Dansville before losing 25-21 and 25-18 to Mason in the final. Kayda Herrick finished with 58 kills, Abby Nieswender dished 110 assists and served 10 aces, and Palmer Fortress tallied 42 digs for Western.
Girls Cross Country
Homer Invitational: Michigan Center High School finished sixth with 146 points. Julia Reynolds of MCHS finished 27th in 24:29. Columbia Central failed to post a score, but Melyssa McJennett finished 21st in 23:48.
Hanover-Horton, Napoleon at Bath Invitational: The Comets won another invitational scoring a minuscule 23 points at Bath. Olivia Perrine won the event in 20:12, teammate Sophia Reynolds was second, Julianna Debozy-Crawford placed fourth in 21:37, and Brynlee Swihart was fifth in 22:02 for the Comets. Napoleon finished fifth as a team with 115 points as Lauren McLain finished 15th with a time of 23:30.
Grass Lake at Rambling Rock Invitational: Grass Lake finished 16th with 360 points at Willow Metropark. Elise Bullock finished 54th in 21:59.
Boys Cross Country
Columbia Central at Homer Invitational: Columbia Central High School finished second (74) as a team, Jackson Christian was seventh (163), and Michigan Center placed ninth (200) at Homer. Wyatt Vowell placed second (17:26), Jack Gorton was ninth (17:58), and Owen Lambarth was 10th (18:01). Noah Blondke of JPEC finished 19th in 18:35.
Hanover-Horton, Napoleon at Bath Invitational: Hanover-Horton won the event with 29 points and Napoleon finished third scoring 91. Landen Boulis won the event in 16:41, Evan Shepherd was second in 16:49, Owen Brown placed ninth in 17:42 for Hanover-Horton. Kyler Pequet finished 10th for Napoleon with a time of 17:50.
Grass Lake at Rambling Rock Invitational: Grass Lake placed 18th as a team with 539 points.
Boys Soccer
Northwest 1, Columbia Central 1: The two local teams played to a 1-1 tie at Columbia Central.
Jackson Christian Tournament: The Royals defeated Leslie 8-0 but lost to Dansville 3-1 in the tournament final.
Michigan Center at Onsted Tournament: Michigan Center went 1-1 on the day, losing in the first game 4-1, but defeating Onsted in the second game 2-1 in a shootout. Spencer Berkeypile scored in game one and served as the goalie in game two making a number of diving saves. Berkeypile, Miles Finch, and Alex Van scored in the shootout win over Onsted.
Girls Golf
Columbia Central at Bedford Invitational: Columbia Central High School finished fourth as a team with 369 at Bedford Golf Course near Battle Creek. Logan Bentley finished third with a 78 and Anna McCubbins of Napoleon was eighth scoring an 83.
Boys Tennis
Northwest at Mason Tournament: The Mounties tied for fifth with 11 points in the eight-team tournament. St. Joseph won with 21 points.
College Sports Events
Women’s Tennis
Spring Arbor 6, Huntington 1
Men’s Tennis
Huntington 7, Spring Arbor 0
Women’s Volleyball
Spring Arbor 3, Michigan-Dearborn 2: Spring Arbor won game five 15-8 to earn the victory. Kendall Bollenbacher finished with 14 kills and Hayden Fortress dished 26 assists in the win.
Spring Arbor 3, Kuyper 0: The Cougars gave up only 25 points in three games. Abby Rissman finished with 11 digs for Spring Arbor.
Women’s Soccer
Delta College 4, Jackson College 2: Frances Parks scored both goals for Jackson College in the home match on Saturday. JC goalie Katelyn Gasper finished with 11 saves in net for the Jets (5-3 overall).
Men’s Soccer
Jackson College 5, Bryant & Stratton of Ohio 0: Emmanuel Ndjoli, Stephen JoPaul, and Wyatt Robinson scored goals for the Jets in the first 25 minutes of action at home. Goalie Antonio Rodriguez earned the shutout in goal for Jackson College (1-3-2).
Lawrence Tech 3, Spring Arbor 2: Matheus Cunha and Voight each scored goals for Spring Arbor. The loss was the first of the season for Spring Arbor (4-1-1).