Boyne City takes a 5^th place finish at the Pellston Invitational on Saturday. The Lady Ramblers started out strong taking two straight sets from Pickford with scores of 25-15 and 25-16. The Ramblers then split with St. Ignace winning set one 25-20 and loosing a hard fought set two 18-25. They went on to win out in pool play beating Mancelona 25-19 and 25-14, followed by Central Lake with scores of 25-18 and 25-7. This gave the girls a 1^st place in pool play with a 7-1 record and based on final pool play record and point differential a 3^rd place overall for bracket play. Boyne was paired up with Onaway first in quarterfinal play. Boyne played an almost flawless game winning the first set 25-15. Onaway put up a fight in set two and had several great serving runs to take set two 22-25. Game three was hard fought between both teams with the score going back and forth, unfortunately Onaway was able to get momentum on there side to take set three 13-15. 

“For our first game play of the season I was extremely happy with how my girls played. Defense has been our focus so far this season and they exceeded my expectations. Libero Katelyn Gabos had a tremendous performance today and I am really excited that her hard work is paying off, she was able to get great passes to Annabelle (our setter) so we could set up our hitters and led our team to a 98% dig percentage. The girls never let anything get out of control and were able to fight back and make the teams we lost too really earn those wins, which is all I could ask for. Obviously I would have loved to play Rudyard in the Semi-Finals but now we know some of the things we need to work on to get better for the rest of our season. I am very excited for this season and definitely think this is one of the best Boyne City teams we have put on the court in along time.”- Coach Mallory Slate

Leading Ladies:

Senior-Captain-Setter-Annabelle Seelye #2: 51 assists, 11 kills, 3 aces

Senior-Captain-Libero-Katelyn Gabos #15: 35 digs, 28 for 30 on Serve Receive, 4 aces, 6 kills

Senior- Captain-Outside Hitter- Brooklyn Fitzpatrick #4: 23 kills, 11 aces, 13 digs

Senior- Middle Hitter- Josee Behling #13: 5 blocks, 6 kills, 4 aces

Senior- Middle Hitter- Jillian Cain #7: 4 blocks, 14 kills

Senior- Defensive Specialist- Chelsey Coleman #10: 6 aces, 20 digs