Local Sports: Late goal lifts Ida; Monroe's Soule wins twice
IDA – It's demoralizing for a soccer team to give up an own goal.
Ida gave up one at a terrible time Friday night, allowing arch-rival Dundee to tie the game 1-1.
But the Blue Streaks were able to shrug it off and score with less than three minutes left to pull out a 2-1 victory.
“I am proud of the team for coming back from a setback to win the game,” Ida coach Mark McCaskill said.
Clare Allen scored the winner. It was set up by a great defensive tackle by Clare Cogan.
Rilee Weatherholt netted the first goal off an assist by Haden Mannor.
Dundee was missing several players because of conflicting school activities and had two go down with injuries during the game. Sara Merkel, Evie Brandy's, Sarah Straka, Samantha Schwab, Hannah Fowler, Elizabeth Bensch, Maddy Lovoy, Sidney Hebel. Sara Marek and Alyvia Taylor played well.
"Not the result that our girls would have wanted, but as their coach I am extremely proud of the work they put in tonight and am so grateful that we get to watch our players develop into young women with integrity, work ethic, and character that will take them far in life,” Dundee coach Mark Dotson said.
PREP SOCCER
Carlson tops SMCC
A shorthanded roster hurt both teams, but Gibraltar Carlson found the right mix of subs to overcome St. Mary Catholic Central 5-1 Friday.
The Marauders were without six players and were coming off back-to-back losses to Trenton and Woodhaven.
"I wasn't sure how it was going to go," Carlson coach Steve Briggs said. "We were able to get off to a good start. We had the wind behind us and had a couple nice distance goals."
Rachael Poli had two goals and an assist for Carlson (8-3-2). Anika Irwin, Lillian Raines, and Kristine Piatt-Bakos also scored with assists from Amanda Flores, Piatt-Bakos, and Ella Mason.
Emma Zaleski scored for SMCC with an assist from Ava Kuehnlein. Kaydence Johnson and Cailynne Flint also played well. The Kestrels fell to 7-8 overall.
"The Kestrels had a hard time finding the back of the net tonight," SMCC coach Laura Perry said. "Carlson did a good job of slotting their passes behind our backline. We couldn't prevent the shots from getting off. Most of their goals were results of shots released beyond the 18."
Thomas leads Rams
FLAT ROCK – Bella Thomas scored three straight goals to lead Flat Rock to a 5-0 win over Ann Arbor Prep on Friday.
Marissa Bradley had a goal and two assists, Anna Klein scored twice, and Thomas also added an assist for the Rams. Evelyn Davis earned the shutout.
TRACK AND FIELD
Soule wins twice
SALINE – Monroe's Meredith Soule won both hurdle races in the Saline Golden Triangle Invitational Friday.
She went :15.57 in the highs and :45.78 in the lows and also placed fifth in the 200 meters.
Kamryn Bice finished both in both throws and Faith Butler was fourth in the high jump for the Trojans.
In the boys meet, Jefferson’s Alex Mansfield won the shot-put in 58-6.5.
Monroe’s Andrew McCarthy was second in the 400, fifth in the 200 and seventh in the high jump. The Trojans also placed third, fourth and sixth in the shot-put with Jordan Bassler, Brayden Richards and Teegan Simmons. Noah Stein took seventh in both the 200 and 400 and placed fifth in the 3,200 relay.
Medals for Milan
MANCHESTER – Milan's girls took home 39 medals in winning the Manchester Metric Relays Friday. Milan scored 106 to beat out an eight-team field.
The Big Reds won the long jump relay (Jenna Griffin, Julia Lorch, Emma Budd), the coed shuttle hurdles (Zach Spradlin, Anastasia Hill, Carson Baugher, Gabriella Dryden), the 4x1,600 relay (Hannah Segrist, Bri Smallwood, Ella Racette, Mya Ross), the Manchester medley (Griffin, Budd, Julia Lorch, Malea Wourman), the 4x200 relay (Griffin, Lauren Fairbanks, Budd, Wourman), and the 4x400 relay (Segrist, Fairbanks, Smallwood, Wourman).
Milan also was second in the high jump relay (Wourman, Courtney Nye, Budd), shot-put relay (Avery Young, Evanescence McLaughlin, Olivia Henry), the distance medley (Segrist, Ross, Smallwood, Lilly Rader), and the 4x100 relay (Griffin, Fairbanks, Isabella Kuhn, Ryan Legier).
Two Bobcats win
ONSTED – Whiteford had a pair of champions in Friday’s Onsted Boosters Invitational.
Jacob Iott won the 400 meters in :54.11 and Noah Bauman ruled the discus in 127-0. Keegan Masters was second in the 1,600 and third in the 3,200).
Others in the top 10 were Stephan Masserant (fourth 100), Ryan Oberle (fourth 400), Elliott Rodgers (fifth 1,600), Dylan Anderson (sixth 400), Cooper Bieber (seventh 200), Nick Oberle (eighth 800), Kyle Gray (ninth discus) and Kolby Masserant (10th long jump).
Kenzie Gray was fourth in the shot-put and ninth in the discus and Alaina McClain was fourth in the 800 for the Whiteford girls. Other standouts were Madelyn Thomas (seventh 400), Annabelle Gapp (seventh low hurdles), Haley Luse (eighth shot-put) and Alena Ellis (ninth high jump).
Carlson girls second
FLAT ROCK – Gibraltar Carlson’s girls won three races on the way to taking second place Friday in the Flat Rock Ram Relays.
The Marauders wins came from the 400 (Emily Petty, Riley Ivy, Maraya Finklea, Elyse Miller), distance medley (Arianna Pate, Kylie Iwasko, Maraya Finklea, Brooke Cifaldi) and the freshman/sophmore (Andria Konczal, Finklea, Ivy, Pate) relays.
Carlson was second in four other relays.
Bulldog boys third
OTTAWA HILLS – Summerfield's boys were third out of 10 teams at the Green Bear Relays Friday.
Gold-medal winners were Teddy Gault, Roman Iott and Drew Dafoe in the high jump relay, Dafoe, Herrmann, Brandon Thompson and Iott in the mid distance relay, and Herrmann in the low hurdles.
Second-place medals wen to the long jump relay (Brandon Iott, Dafoe, Mitchell Gomulinski), the 800 relay (Dafoe, Thompson, Herrmann, Roman Iott), the 800 sprint medley relay (Gomulinski, Roman Iott, Thompson, Herrmann), and the sprint medley relay (Roman Iott, Dafoe, Thompson, Herrmann).
Keslyn Cay, Megan Pease and Madison Stone took second for Summerfield's girls in the discus relay.
PREP TENNIS
SMCC defeats Milan
MILAN – Marisa Rostash (No. 1), Molly Blanchett (No. 2), and Elizabeth Zwack (No. 3) won single matches to lead St. Mary Catholic Central to a 6-2 win over Milan.
The Kestrels also won double matches from Brooke Kemmerling-Grace Kemmerling (No. 1), Anillese Flint-Grace Walsh (No. 2), and Claire Leach-Hannah Borer (No. 4).
Milan's Ally Jones won 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 at No. 4 singles, and Allyson Held-Carlie Barron rallied for a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 win at No. 3 doubles.
This article originally appeared on The Monroe News: Local Sports: Late goal lifts Ida; Monroe's Soule wins twice
