• Inclement weather caused several postponements and delays in Rhode Island high school championship games on Saturday.
• Track and field events were postponed to Sunday, while some lacrosse and baseball games were completed.
• La Salle boys lacrosse won their 13th straight title, defeating Moses Brown in the state championship match.

Saturday’s weather wreaked havoc with the high school championship schedule, as several games were postponed, a few finished and some had to endure rain delays. Here’s where we stand after a soggy Saturday at Rhode Island College and Brown University.

The District 2 championship boys’ volleyball teams were eliminated from the PIAA playoffs in the quarterfinals Saturday afternoon at Exeter Township High School.

Holy Redeemer’s outstanding season ended with a 3-0 (25-19, 25-22, 25-21) loss to York Suburban in the PIAA Class 2A playoffs.

Abington Heights finished its historic season with a 3-0 (25-9, 25-14, 25-18) loss to District 3 champion Cumberland Valley in the PIAA Class 3A quarterfinals in the second match of the doubleheader.

In the Class 2A opener, York Suburban, the runner-up from District 3, advanced to the semifinals and a rematch with District 3 champion Manheim Central, which defeated Dock Mennonite, 3-0 (25-14, 25-17, 25-12) in Tuesday’s semifinal.

The Royals, who won the program’s first District 2 Class 2A championship since 2021, finished the season with a 20-1 record.

Josh Rocha led Holy Redeemer with 29 kills, six service points, and two digs. Rocha finished the season with 956 kills and 125 digs.

Setter Jack Wasiakowski contributed 37 assists to push his season total to 950 for the Royals during the run to a second straight state quarterfinal.

Max Mohutsky had six digs and four kills, Korey Tang had five kills and two blocks, and Brandon DelBalso had three kills and two blocks for Holy Redeemer.

In the Class 3A match, Cumberland Valley (20-0), the No. 1 team in the Class 3A poll by the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association, advanced to Tuesday’s semifinals against Governor Mifflin, the third-place team from District 3.

Abington Heights, which won the District 2 Class 3A championship and earned the first state playoff win in program history Wednesday against Bethlehem Freedom, ends with a 16-5 overall record.

The Comets’ frontline of Shawn Theodore and Shane Brower led the attack. Each had five kills, while Theodore added two blocks and Brower had one.

Theodore finished the season with 243 kills, and Brower had 180.

Chris Cummins led the defensive effort by the Comets with 13 digs.

Ryan Horutz, a sophomore setter, ran the offense and had 18 assists to give him 591 this season.

Originally Published: June 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM EDT

The Indiana High School Athletic Association girls track and field state meet was Saturday at North Central.

ST. MICHAEL — An army of Warriors will represent Brainerd in the Class 3A State Track and Field meet Tuesday, June 10, at St. Michael-Albertville High School.

Twenty-one athletes qualified for state, including four relay teams.

Senior Ty Nelson looks to defend his state title in the triple jump. He posted a new Section 8-3A record of 48-foot-11.5, which is also held at STMA.

Nelson won with a 47-7.5 at state last year.

“He’s got a mindset of shooting for 50 feet,” Brainerd head coach Casey Miller said. “If he jumps anywhere near that, there’s not anyone else that has the potential to do that.”

Joe Smith returns to state in the pole vault. Smith cleared 13-6 to place 15th at state last year. He won the section by clearing 13-8.

“He’s cleared over 15 feet in practice; he just hasn’t done it in a meet,” Miller said. “I fully expect him to put it together at the state meet.”

Kyle Peterson is back in the 110-meter hurdles. He did not make it out of the prelims last year at state with a 15.32. He won sections with a personal-best 14.77.

Peterson joined Jordan Davis, Austin Asher and Travis Albrecht to qualify the 4×100 relay team with a first-place 42.69.

Asher will compete in the 100 dash as he qualified with a time of 10.97. Preston Miller qualified in the 300 hurdles with a second-place 40.03.

“We didn’t have Austin and Jordan on the 4×100 team earlier and we were one second off the state standard,” Miller said. “Coach (Mikkey) White put them through some serious exchange work and they missed the school record by five hundredths of a second. Asher is starting to break 11 seconds in the 100 consistently now and his starts are coming around. Kyle continues to look awesome. His main race is the 110 and he could make the finals. I think Preston is going to break 40 seconds at state.”

Ava Loney highlights the Warrior girls by qualifying for three events. She ran a state-qualifying time of 12.33 in the 100 dash at sections.

Along with Macy Castle, Avery Duerr and Kenadie Paulson, Loney helped the 4×100 and 4×200 relays qualify, too.

“There’s still a ton of improvement for the relays,” Miller said. “It’s a fast team and they look great. They look better every time they run. They just missed the school record in the 4×100 again, but I’m hoping for a finals berth in both relays. Ava is just getting faster and faster and hopefully she can figure out a way to get in the finals.”

Natalie Smith is back at state, but in a different hurdles event. Last year, she finished 14th in the 300 hurdles. This year, she qualified for the 100 hurdles with a 15.72.

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“We were hoping to get her in the 300 hurdles, but she didn’t quite get there,” Miller said. “The 100 hurdles has been her best event all year. She is going to have to work for it, but it’s not impossible to make it to the next round.”

Isabelle Ploof placed second to qualify in the discus with a toss of 118-6.

“She missed the state standard by one foot, but she’s been out to 127 back in April,” Miller said. “She’s been working through some things and hopefully it all can come together and she can get back to the 125-130 mark.”

Brainerd’s 4×800 relay teams of Brooke Wenz, Sophia Blanck, Madi Miller and Annelise Baird and John Cowell, Ben Stadum, Mullen Bratney and Carter Mielke qualified.

The boys’ team raced a second-place time of 8:07.94 while the girls ran a state-qualifying time of 9:30.49.

“I think this is the fourth year in a row that we’ve taken the girls’ team,” Miller said. “We will be the fastest team in the slowest heat and we are hoping to come out of that heat and sneak into a podium spot. On the boys’ side, I’m not sure if you told me at the beginning of the season that we had a team that could do it. We have great senior leaders in Ben and Carter who pulled the team together. We are trying to find a way to drop four or five seconds.”

It’s believed that 21 state entrants is a school record for the Warriors.

“Everything we had put in to hopefully make it was hitting,” Miller said. “We almost added another three kids with some other relays. (Assistant coaches) Dave (Herath) and Robb Kolodziej and some of those guys who have been around a long time have mentioned that this is a record number of athletes.”

CONRAD ENGSTROM may be reached at 218-855-5861 or conrad.engstrom@brainerddispatch.com. Follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/the_rad34.

When: June 10-12
Where: St. Michael-Albertville High School
Times: 9 a.m. June 10 Class 3A prelims, 3:30 p.m. June 10 Class 1A prelims; 9 a.m. June 11 Class 2A prelims, 3:30 p.m. June 11 Class 1A Finals; 9 a.m. June 12 Class 2A Finals, 3:30 p.m. June 12 Class 3A Finals

OTTAWA – Canada will be aiming to level their record at 2-2 when it plays Serbia on Sunday to cap off the first week of women’s Volleyball Nations League action.

Canada slipped to 1-2 with a 3-0 loss to Japan in a best-of-five match played Saturday in front of more than 5,100 spectators at the Arena at TD Place.

Canada dropped the match to Japan 24-26, 20-25, 19-25. The unbeaten Japan squad led in attack points (39-33), serving (7-3) and made fewer errors 19-30).

“Japan is really tough to play against, and we were right there with them,” said Canadian setter Brie O’Reilly of Langley, B.C. “We’re just missing those after-20 (points) plays and finishing sets.

“We need to stay aggressive and take confidence that there was a lot of our game that was really great.”

O’Reilly said the Canadians need to server more aggressively against Serbia and “just keep our block defence systems working a bit more cohesively.”

Kiera Van Ryk of Surrey, B.C., led the scoring for Canada with 13 points and also set a personal best with a serve clocked at 113 kilometres per hour.

Yukiko Wada of Japan led her team with 20 points.

Canada opened the VNL schedule with a win over Bulgaria and then lost a Thursday match to Netherlands.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 7, 2025.

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