Results from Maconaquah for Monday, September 30th
Maconaquah Braves MS tennis won all first-round matches against Manchester. Winners included Max Berryman, Dax Mooney, and Sarah Klepinger at singles, as well as Mikey Waun, Emma Crowder, Lukas Merritt, Owen Worley, Xavier Rutherford, Oliver Newton, Peyton Peterson, and Cadence Powell at doubles.
The Maconaquah Boy’s soccer team played TRC foe Manchester on Monday Sept 30th and came away with the win. The scoring for the Braves stared early with a first minute goal. Bennett Isenburg deflected a squire defenders pass then fed Colton Beebe on a thru ball run. Colton took a shot on the goal, but the Manchester goalie got a hand on it deflecting it to the side. Video is not clear if the ball would have found the net, but Kaden Hanson didn’t allow the risk and put the ball in the back of the net from a foot away. The Braves carried the 1 goal lead all the way until 7 minutes left in the game when Isenburg found Kevin Nord on a similar run. Kevin’s left footed shot near the goal was strong enough that the Manchester goalie didn’t have time to gather it after it hit him in the chest and bounced in. With this win, the Braves are now 11-3-1 on the season, but in 2nd place to Northwestern in the TRC. Maconaquah is now rooting for Manchester on Wednesday when they face Northwestern. If the squires win, and Maconaquah can defeat Peru on the same day, there would be a 3 – way tie for the TRC championship.
Maconaquah with a tough loss against Eastern MS tennis. Two wins at 1 and 2 singles were Max Berryman and Dax Mooney.
Varsity vs Whitko High School (3 – 2) Win
The Lady Braves volleyball team was at Whitko Tuesday and came away with a five set win 23-25, 25-9, 25-20, 23-25, 15-5. After having a large lead in the initial set, the Braves failed to terminate the ball consistently and allowed Whitko to make long service runs to drop set one. Set two saw the girls play with confidence to easily win the set. Set three was closer but we held control throughout. The fourth set we were playing catch-up to draw even at 23 before losing the last two points to force a decisive fifth set. We were able to win the fifth set in convincing fashion to secure the road TRC win. The Braves offense was led by Alyssa Birner with 12 kills and Middles Katelyn Greis and Ireland Kile each downing nine kills. Kile added five blocks and Greis blocked three balls as our Middles dominated the net. Emma Zeiser also tallied eight kills from the OH position. Setters Delaney Betzner and Averie Maiben ran our offense and had 19 and 17 assists respectively. Libero Addie Maiben tallied 25 digs and 30 serve receptions and DS Aubrey Kaiser dug up 20 balls and had 13 receptions. Our service game included 13 aces with Addie Maiben leading the way with five aces and Betzner adding four service aces. The JV team had a rough first set but finished strong to start the night with a win 13-25, 25-23, 16-14. Lucee Jernagan led the attack with nine kills and Kira Ropes added six kills. Naomi Cook served four aces in the win. The Braves are now 15-8 and 5-3 in the TRC. Our next match is Thursday at home vs Northfield.
