On Saturday the Cross Country Teams traveled to Portage Michigan for one of the biggest meets in the Nation. Throughout the day there were more then 7,000 participants. The High School Girls team finished 10th out of 28 schools in their race. Leading the way was Skylar Thompson who had a fantastic race as she ran her fastest time ever to finish in second place. That time she ran also moved her up to the fourth fastest athlete ever at Concord. Shianne Alejandro, Nichelle Smith, Savanna Gamet, and Kiara Ozuzu all ran their fastest time ever. Natalie Sharp also had a great race as she barely missed her fastest time ever by .3 seconds. Congratulations ladies on an awesome team preformance.
The boys team also had a fantastic day as they ran against some of the best teams in the State. They finished in sixth place out of 29 schools. Leading the way was Jonathan Mikovits who finished in fourth place with his second fastest time ever. He was followed by
Matt Record who also ran his second fastest time ever.
While we had a lot of great races on Saturday, the following all ran their fastest time ever. Adair Artis by 22 seconds, Malachi Boyd by 33 seconds, Logan Barrett by 57 seconds, Hunter Sharum by a minute 14, but Louie Fritz destroyed his best time ever by an amazing four minutes and 28 seconds. Way to go guys. On Tuesday the teams travel to Reading (Kimble Camp) for a very important Jamboree match up.
The Middle School Cross Country teams competed at the Portage invitational on Saturday. The girls and boys races had 500 runners in each race. Cece Barret, Riley Adam's, and Gwen Bulko earned medals in the girls race. Caitlin Wright nearly missed a medal and Riley Sinden, Maddy Barrett and Jordayn Metcalf all finished in the top half of the race.
The boys were equally competitive. Manix Furqueon paced the way for the Yellowjackets. Nate Fritz, Slade Hellard and Maddox Hutchinson all ran good races in finishing in the top half of the field.
The Varsity Volleyball team defeated Grass Lake 21-25, 25-21, 25-16 and lost to Hillsdale Academy 16-25, 11-25. Leading the hitters were Georgia Weeks with 7 kills, Karlee Gamet with 6 kills and Anna Burrow with 5 kills. Julia Riske had 22 assists. Karlee had 32 digs, Rylee Weeks had 23 digs and Georgia had 18 digs. Rylee served tough tonight serving 18/21 with 4 aces, Jaycee Hutchins was 18/18 with 1 ace, Hadley Kettwich was 14/16 with 1 ace, and Julia Riske and Karlee Gamet were both 14/14, and Karlee had 2 aces. The Lady Jackets are now 6-14-4 for the season.
The Concord JV Volleyball team split at tonight's tri-match. The lost to Grass Lake 25-23, 19-25, 10-15 and beat Hillsdale Academy 25-15, 25-11.
Jonesville Jamboree Team Scores:
Girls
1. Jonesville 49
1. Bronson 49
3. Homer 73
4. Quincy 86
5. Concord 142
6. Reading 149
7. Springport 162
8. Union City 202
Boys Varsity
1.Jonesville 52
2.Concord 67
3. Bronson 74
4. Homer 82
5. Quincy 108
6. Springport 154
7. Reading 198
8. Union City 218
Boys Reserve Scores
1. Concord 39
2. Jonesville 51
3. Bronson 54
4. Homer 98
5. Springport 109
Highlights from the Jonesville Jamboree. Skylar Thompson continued to dominate the Big 8, as she placed first beating out second place by 59 seconds. Haylie Kowalski moved up 4 places from where she finished in last weeks Jamboree. On the guys side Logan Barrett had an outstanding race as he moved up 8 places from where he was last week. Malachi Boyd also had a great race as he moved up 7 places. Hunter Schraum moved up 6 places and Adair Artis moved up 5. While it wasn't the overall race the girls or the guys were looking for as a team. We head to the Portage Invitational on Saturday, then next Tuesday we go to Reading for an opportunity to run against the other 7 Big 8 schools again in our next Jamboree.
The start time for the Concord Varsity Football game on Friday (October 4th) at Quincy has been moved up to 6:00 pm. Please help spread the word.
Running in hot and humid conditions plus a very muddy course, the Middle School Cross country team had a very good day.
The girls team placed second overall and were lead by individual champion, Cece Barrett. Gwen Bulko finished 3rd, Riley Adams 4th, One shoe Rylee Sinden placed 35th, running with one shoe after she lost one in the mud. Maddy Barrett was 44th, Dani Fritz 44th and Jordyan Metcalf was 48th.
The boys improved their standing in the league with a great run in finishing 4th overall. Tyreke Brown lead the way in 11th place. Manix Furqueon was 19th, Lleyton Bauman 23rd, Slade, one shoe, Hellard was 25th, Nate Fritz 31st, Maddox Hutchinson was 35th
Great Job Yellowjackets
The Varsity Volleyball team lost a tough match to Springport tonight 25-19, 25-23, 20-25, 21-25, 7-15. Leading the hitters tonight were Karlee Gamet and Georgia Weeks each had 9 kills, Hadley Kettwich had 7 kills, Anna Burrow had 6 kills and Jacey Hutchins had 5 kills. Julia Riske had 33 setting assists. Our defense keeps improving every match! Hadley Kettwich had 39 digs, Rylee Weeks had 27 digs, Karlee had 23 digs, Georgia had 21 and Jacey had 18 digs. Rylee Weeks served tough tonight, serving 20/22 with 1 ace, Julia was 15/15 with 2 aces and Jacey was 14/14. The Lady Jackets are now 1-3 on conference play.
The Middle school cross country teams traveled to Stockbridge on Saturday. Both the girls and boys teams had outstanding performances.
The girls finished 5th overall as a team and were lead by Cece Barrett in 14th place. Riley Adams was 19th, Gwen Bulko 20th, Caitlin Wright ran an exceptional race in 24th and Dani Dritz was 101st. All the girls ran a season's best time. There were 170 girls in the race.
The boys also ran exceptionally well. They all ran season's best times in placing 9th as a team. Manix Furqueon lead the way in 29th place. Lleyton Bauman was 46th, Tyreke Brown was 48th, Nate Fritz was 68th and Maddox Hutchinson was 75th. There were 180 boys in the race
In an unusual way of running a meet. Stockbridge ran everyone from all schools together
then scored the race with all schools and with a small school division and a large school division.
Stockbridge Team Scores Girls Everyone
1. Adrian Lenawee Christian 80
2. Stockbridge 97
3. Capital Homeschool 114
4. Hudson 124
5. Fowlerville 149
6. Leslie 154
7. Pittsford 164
8. Ovid Elsie 216
9. Lansing Christian 216
10. Onsted 226
11. Hillsdale 249
12. Concord 263
13. Whitmore Lake 281
14. Britton Deerfield 291
15. Jackson Northwest 353
16. Addison 382
17. Williamston 405
18. Jackson Preparatory 424
19. East Jackson 449
Stockbridge Small School Scoring
Girls Team Scores
1. Adrian Lenawee Christian 51
2. Hudson 74.
3. Pittsford 95
4. Lansing Christian 104
5. Concord 139
6. Whitmore Lake 151
7. Britton Deerfield 156
8. Addison 197
9. Jackson Preparatory 204
10. East Jackson 212
Stockbridge Team Scores Boys
1. Fowlerville 48
2. Leslie 75
3. Marshall 86
4. Concord 135
5. Stockbridge 159
6. Whitmore Lake 190
7. Capital homeschool 207
8. Onsted 237
9. Pittsford 253
10. Jackson Northwest 319
11. Jackson Preparatory 319
12. Hillsdale 342
13. Hudson 350
14. Addison 355
15. East Jackson 366
16. Ovid-Elsie 373
17. Williamston 458
18. Lansing Christian 466
19. Adrian Lenawee Christian 530
20. Britton Deerfield 543
Stockbridge Small School Scoring
Boys Team Scoring
1. Concord 37
2. Whitmore Lake 63
3. Pittsford 102
4. Jackson Preparatory 129
5. Hudson 144
6. Addison149
7. East Jackson 154
8. Lansing Christian 197
9. Britton Deerfield 234
10. Adrian Lenawee Christian 235
The 8th grade volleyball team travelled to Marshall for their 2nd tournament of the season. They were able to play against some great teams including Marshall and Coldwater. Despite a losing record, improvement was shown by all players. Zoe Schultz had 4 aces for the day. Madi Barrett added 2 aces and Maria Stevens and Rylee Sinden each added 1 ace. Maria Stevens led the team in kills with 4. Madi Finch stepped in to play middle and had 1 kill and 1 block. Keep improving, ladies!
The varsity football game will be played at 4:00 pm tomorrow (gates open at 3:00). The Punt, Pass & Kick participants will be recognized at halftime. We will also recognize all military in attendance just after halftime.
Tonight’s football game is postponed until tomorrow at 4:00 PM (tentative). More information to follow.
The Varsity Volleyball team lost to Bronson 14-25, 11-25, 16-25. We did a lot of good things defensively tonight! Georgia Weeks led the hitters with 6 kills and Karlee Gamet and Hadley Kettwich each had 3 kills. Julia Riske has 16 setting assists. Rylee Weeks led the defense with 10 digs, Karlee had 9, and Jacey Hutchins and Georgia each had 8. Julia led the servers, serving 14/14 and Rylee Weeks was 10/10! We are now 1-2 in the conference!
UPDATE: There will be no JV football game next Thursday (10/3) v. Quincy and the following Thursday (10/10) v. Union City. We are targeting to play on OCTOBER 17th at Homer if healthier and grades improve.
The middle school football team beat East Jackson 40-14 with the whole football team giving 110 percent for all four quarters. Sean Combs from the defensive line ran 60 yards and made a saving tackle which resulted in us stopping them on four downs. Ethan Newman 8-9 passing with a 50 yd touchdown. Gavin Riske was 4-4 with 60 yards passing. Makei Wingfield had 160 yards rushing with four touchdowns including a kick off return. Collin Thompson had 65 yards rushing and 10 tackles on defense. TJ Allen had 4 receptions for 85 yards and an interception on defense with a 65 yard return for a touchdown. Alex Winters eight tackles and a sack. Ashton Easterwood seven tackles and two sacks. Alec Warner two receptions for two point conversions. Levi Raymond had eight tackles on defense and two receptions for 20 yards on offense.
The Cross Country Team would like to say Thank You to all of the community that came out to help with our Big 8 Jamboree last night. We would also like to say thank you to Coach Clark and the football team and all those that came out to cheer us on. The girls finished this first Big 8 Jamboree in fourth place. Leading the way was Skylar Thompson as she not only placed first but finished 50 seconds ahead of the Homer runner that was second. Congratulations to Shianne Alejandro and Nichelle Smith as they both ran their fastest times ever. The boys team battled the other schools in the Big 8 as they narrowly beat out Jonesville for the top spot. This Jamboree Championship improves the boys season record to 50-0. Leading the way for the guys was Jonathan Mikovits in 3rd, Matt Record in 8th, Bryan Smith in 10th. Congratulations to Cody Hellard, and Adair Artis as they both had an outstanding race. Our next meet will be on Saturday at Stockbridge the first race will start at 9:00 am.
Concord Jamboree Girls Varsity Team Scores
1. Jonesville 49
2. Bronson 59
3. Homer 66
4. Concord 104
5. Quincy 105
6. Reading 144
7. Springport 177
8. Union City 212
Concord Jamboree Girls JV Team Scores
1. Jonesville 18
2. Quincy 57
3. Homer 60
4. Concord 63
Concord Jamboree Boys Varsity Team Scores
1. Concord 56
2. Jonesville 65
3. Bronson 70
4. Homer 99
5. Quincy 108
6. Springport 139
7. Reading 187
8. Union City 226
Concord Jamboree Boys JV Team Scores
1. Concord 24
2. Bronson 68
3. Jonesville 69
4. Homer 92
5. Springport 93
The Middle School Cross Country team competed in the first Nig 8 Jamboree of the year. The girl's team placed 2nd overall to Quincy, who was 1 pt ahead of the Yellowjackets. Cece Barrett won the meet, Riley Adam's was 3rd, Gwen Bulko was 4th, Caitlin Wright was 15th and Dani Fritz was 64th
The boys placed a close 6th and were lead by Ttreke Brown who finished 18th, Lleyton Bauman was 24th, Manix Furqueron was 25th, Slade Hellard 28th, Nate Fritz 30th and Maddox Hutchinson was 38th.
Good job Jackets
The 8th grade volleyball team was defeated by Jonesville (15-25, 4-25, 22-25, 15-25, 6-15). Madi Barrett led the team in aces with 9. Savanna Payne added 4 aces. Maria Stevens had 3 kills.