Princeton trio, St. Bede’s Anna Cyrocki advance to girls golf sectional: BCR roundup for Oct. 1

Girls golf

Seneca Regional: Three Princeton golfers and one from St. Bede advanced to sectionals from Tuesday’s Seneca 1A Regional at the Morris Country Club.

Princeton junior Reese Reviglio was the fourth individual qualifier with a round of 99. She’ll be joined at Monday’s El Paso-Gridley Sectional by sophomore teammate Hanna Clairborne (104) and senior Halli Peterson (105), who were the seventh and eighth individual qualifiers.

St. Bede junior Anna Cyrocki also advanced after surviving a one-hole, three-player playoff after shooting a 107.

“I came close to advancing (to sectionals) my first two years, so to finally be able to do it is so amazing. I did it,” Cyrocki said.

Downs Tri-Valley (395) won the championship followed by Seneca (401) and El Paso-Gridley (403), who also advanced followed by Bloomington Central Catholic (404) and Princeton (415).

Also scoring for Princeton was seniors Samantha Woolley (108) with senior Addie Carr adding a 111 and freshman Illyana Jones a 116.

For St. Bede, Andrea Brandner shot a 117, Eden Galvan a 122, Mae Hagenbuch a 126, Violet Lopez a 135 and Gaby Martinez a 137.

Hall’s lone golfer, Jamie Valdez, shot a 124.

At Cambridge: Bureau Valley (538) finished 11th in the Cambridge Regional at Valley View Golf Course. Senior Faith Hanson led the Storm with a round of 118 with Michaela Noder adding a 120, Gracie Phillips a 147 and Elizabeth Boywer a 153.

Host Ridgewood (384) won the regional championship, led by medalist Gracie Russell (73).

Volleyball

Princeton 2, Newman 0: The Tigresses completed the season sweep, defeating the Comets 25-19, 26-24 in a Three Rivers East match in Sterling. For PHS (9-11, 4-3), Keighley Davis had eight kills and nine points, Keely Lawson had six kills and two blocks, Caroline Keuzter had 13 points and three aces, and Camryn Driscoll had 10 digs.

Mendota 2, Hall 0: Laylie Denault put down nine kills to help the Spikers to a 25-22, 25-16 victory Tuesday in a Three Rivers East victory in Mendota on Monday.

Morgan Hoscheid had 10 assists and an ace for Hall, while Kennedy Wozniak had five kills.

Girls tennis

Princeton 4, Coal City 1: The Tigresses swept both singles matches and took two of three doubles matches to defeat the Coalers.

Emilee Merkel was a 6-1, 6-3 at No. 1 singles and Audrey Thompson was a 6-1, 6-4 winner at No. 2 singles. Doubles winners for PHS were Nora Schneider and Fiona Wempe at No. 1 (6-3, 6-0) and Anna Ellis and Paige Jesse at No. 2 (6-3, 6-3).

Cross country

At Monmouth: The Princeton girls had four top 20 finishers to lead the Tigresses to a third-place finish in the Three Rivers Conference Meet at Monmouth-Roseville.

Ruby Acker led PHS in fourth placed in 20:53, while Payton Frueh (21:05.8) was fifth, Alexandra Waca (23:30.1) was 14th and Natalie Meyer (24:16.4) was 20th.

In the boys race, Princeton’s Augustus Swanson placed sixth in 17:44.4, while Hall’s Jeremy Smith was 18th in 19:07.6.

The Red Devils finished fifth and Mendota was sixth. Princeton did not field a full team.

At Seneca: St. Bede had two top 10 finishers in the Tri-County Conference boys race as Kaden Nauman finished seventh in 19:42.57 and RJ Hermosillo was 10th in 19:46.78.

The Bruins scored 57 points to place third behind Lowpoint-Washburn (17) and Seneca (55).

Seneca (28) won the girls race.