The Glen Lake volleyball team remains winless in the Northwest Conference, but secured its second match win of the season last week at Manistee.

The Lakers, 2-27-1 overall, 0-6 in the conference, lost at Benzie Central on Tuesday 25-18, 25-9, 25-16. But the Lakers won at Manistee on Thursday 25-18, 25-17, 25-18. Glen Lake’s first win was also against Manistee.

ERIN SNEED had 15 assists and a kill during
Leland’s Northwest Conference match win over
Buckley Tuesday. The Comets are 4-2 in the
conference with a final regular season Northwest

match at Glen Lake on Tuesday.

At Benzie coach Sue Flowers said her young team nearly put together a match win against a conference foe.

“We came close, but Benzie is a good team and stopped us with a good defense. They didn’t let much hit the floor,” Flowers said.

Dani Frost had 4 kills, 7 digs, and 2 aces on 11-for-11 serving to lead Glen Lake. Leaha Carey had 4 kills, 9 digs, 3 aces; Mandy Brown had 2 kills, 11 digs, 2 aces on 10-for-10 serving; and Heather Flowers had 15 assists, 10 digs.

The Lakers put together solid play and scoring techniques to win at Manistee. “The girls were communicating, getting the ball to the right hitters at the right time. They all just played really well,” she said.

Gabe Sitts had 9 kills, 14 digs and 5 aces to lead the Lakers. Carey had 6 kills, 12 digs; Frost had 4 kills, 5 digs and served 15-for-15; and Flowers had 13 assists, 6 digs and served 7-for-7.

Suttons Bay is close to wrapping up the regular season Northwest title after beating Frankfort 25-13, 25-5, 20-25, 25-13 on the Norse’s home court Tuesday. Suttons Bay is 6-0 in the conference, 37-6-2 overall. A second consecutive conference title seems likely with only one match remaining at Buckley on Oct. 16 before the conference tournament at Leland on Oct. 20.

“We had a good match against Frankfort, everyone covered their part of the floor and hit very well,” said coach Mike Kelly yesterday.Maggie Walters had 15 kills and 7 blocks to lead Suttons Bay. Crystal Dittrich served 21-for-22 and had 10 digs; Anna Pryor had 8 aces; Arianna Guillen had 2 assists, 8 digs; Fran Belanger had 4 kills, 2 blocks, 8 digs; Emily Send had 5 kills, 2 digs; Kelly Kerr had 7 kills, 4 digs; and Emily Seeley had 8 digs.

Leland improved to 4-2 in the Northwest with a 25-14, 25-20, 25-17 win over Buckley at home. The Comets are 16-20-4 overall.

Senior Erica Breen had 8 kills, 2 digs and 5 aces to lead the Comets. Rhiannon Hildenbrandt had 7 kills, 1 assist; Julianna Lisuk had 3 kills, 1 block; Erin Sneed 1 kill, 15 assists; Haley Versnyder had 16 digs, 2 aces; Molly Harrison had 4 assists, 3 digs; Sarah Ruszel 1 kill, 1 dig, 1 block, 2 aces.

ERICA BREEN had a team
high 8 kills against Buckley on
Tuesday night.

The Comets competed at the Ferris State University tournament on Saturday, but no results from those matches were made available.

Northport volleyball coach Kristi Fischer lacked her usual stat helper at the Benzie tournament Saturday, so she could not provide match scores. “We played some very tough teams, Pentwater, Big Rapids Crossroads Academy, Benzie, Kingsley, T-C Christian. We were close in those matches, scored lots of points, but didn’t win any,” she said.

For the day Kelly Fischer had 42 assists, 4 kills, 11 aces to lead Northport. Betsy Shiner had 10 aces, 16 kills; Octavia Buss had 8 aces, 7 kills; Kristina Leabo had 7 aces, 20 kills; Shauna Sitarek had 13 assists; Mariah Crowgey had 26 assists; and Emily Stowe had 16 kills, 6 aces.

Glen Lake will host Christian tonight and will host a tournament on Saturday with Leland, Northport, Kalkaska and Lake City in two gyms. Play will start at 9 a.m. with Leland taking on Kalkaska and Glen Lake facing Northport. Suttons Bay will play at the Northwoods University Tournament on Saturday. Northport will play at Frankfort in three-team meet with Manton tonight and will host the Grand Traverse Academy on Tuesday. Leland will play at Glen Lake on Tuesday.