BCR roundup for Tuesday, Sept. 5: Princeton volleyball falls to Kewanee

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Kewanee defeated Princeton 25-21, 25-19 in a Three Rivers East volleyball match at Prouty Gym Tuesday.

Junior Ellie Harp led Princeton (8-6-1, 1-1) with six kills and eight points. Also for PHS, Miyah Fox had 13 digs and seven points, Natasha Faber-Fox had 14 assists, seven digs and six points and Caroline Keutzer added four kills.

Kewanee also won the sophomore match 25-19, 25-18, but PHS won the freshmen tilt, 25-22, 16-25, 26-24.

Putnam County def. Bureau Valley 25-16, 19-25, 25-21: Maggie Richetta had 19 digs, nine kills, five points, one ace and a block to lead the Panthers to a nonconference victory in Granville on Wednesday.

Ava Hatton had 10 points, one ace, eight digs, six kills and a block for PC (7-3), while Maggie Spratt contributed 10 points, three aces, six digs and five kills.

Leaders for the Storm were Emma Stabler (9 kills, 10 digs), Kate Salisbury (9 points, 4 aces, 1 block, 4 digs, 19 assists), Kate Stoller (3 points, 1 ace, 7 digs), Lesleigh Maynard (9 points, 3 aces, 12 digs), Mattie Michlig (5 kills, 2 points, 3 blocks), Taylor Neuhalfen (5 kills, 5 points, 1 ace, 1 block, 4 digs) and McKinley Canady (5 kills, 2 blocks, 9 digs).

Boys golf

At Princeton: Junior Jacob Diaz claimed his first career medalist honors with a 41 to lead Hall (175) to sweep over Mendota (177) and host Princeton (180) at Wyaton Hills on Tuesday.

Also scoring for Hall were Noah Plym (42), Landen Plym (44) and Joseph Perez (48).

Jackson Mason led the Tigers at 44 with Tyson Phillips and Kaiden Coomer both with 45s and Nolan Kloepping a 46.

Brody Hartt and Dane Doyle each shot 43s for Mendota.

At Sterling: Host Newman (165) topped Bureau Valley (188) at Emerald Hills Tuesday. Wyatt Novotny carded a 40 to lead the Storm with Landen Birdsley (43), Logan Philhower (51) and Atticus Middleton (54) also scoring.

At Spring Valley: St. Bede (174) used medalist honors from Ryan Slingsby (40) to defeat Henry-Senachwine (193), Marquette (194) and Putnam County (206) Tuesday at Spring Creek.

Also scoring for the Bruins were Luke Tunnell (42), Logan Potthoff (43) and Zack Husser (49).

At Spring Valley: Landen Plym shot an even par 37 to lead Hall (174) to victory over Monmouth-Roseville (182) and Rockridge (190) in a Three Rivers Conference triangular at Spring Creek on Wednesdday

Also scoring for Hall were Joseph Perez (44), Noah Plym (46) and Jake Diaz (47).

Girls golf

At El Paso: St. Bede (232) finished second behind El Paso-Gridley (208) and Pontiac (237) took third in a nonconference triangular at El Paso Golf Club.

.Anna Cyrocki (52), Erin Dove (56), Aleah Espel (59) and Andrea Brandner (65) scored for the Bruins.

Boys socer

Riverdale 6, Princeton 3: The Rams beat the Tigers in a Three Rivers contest at Bryant Field Tuesday.

Cross Country

At Princeton: Host Princeton warmed up for Saturday’s Gary Coates Invitational by sweeping a boys-girls meet at Zearing Park on Tuesday.

The PHS boys defeated Fieldcrest, 24-31, with Kewanee not fielding a full team. Freshman Tyler VandeVenter led the Tigers with a third-place finish of 19:56. Also running for PHS were 7th Ethan Mallery (22:17), 9th Dawson Lambert (22:43), 10th Kamden Wahlgren (26:02), 12th Jackson Drozda (26:41) and 15th Cruz Rodriguez (32:20).

Kewanee’s Chase Palm was the race winner with a time of 19:51 for 3.0 miles.

In the girls meet, Princeton defeated Fieldcrest, 26-31, with Kewanee once again not fielding a full squad.

Kewanee’s Natalee Martin won the 3.0-mile race with a time of 22:15. She was followed by PHS freshmen Payton Frueh (22:35) and Ruby Acker (22:53). Another PHS frosh, Alexandra Waca, was sixth (25:23) with Avery Waca seventh (27:12) and Ella Grey 14th (33:00).

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