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Monarch High School is shining bright during the postseason, highlighted by a District Championship from their softball team and another team qualifying for Regionals.

The softball team was crowned District Champions on Wednesday following their win over West Boca Raton Community High School. After going 9-10 during the regular season, the Knights earned the top seed in their District and beat Olympic Heights Community High School 17-1 in their first playoff game.

Jayden Uzzo, Mylie Carlson, and Sara Connor all homered while the Knights had five players drive in three runs with Faith Linderman, Gabriela Pearosn, Sammie Rice, Uzzo, and Carlson. Connor knocked in two while Mia Maciaone struck out four in her two innings before Elana Ramirez got the final three outs with two punchouts.

The Knights went on to win in the Championship Game 10-3 on Wednesday. Gabriela Pearson finished with a team-high three RBIs, while Faith Linderdam and Jayden Uzzo each drove in two. Rice, Carlson, and Camyn Piskun each drove in one, and Macipitched another complete game with three strikeouts.

Monarch will head into Regionals as the fifth seed and play Fort Lauderdale High School in their opening game. The Flying L’s are 12-6 this year but lost to South Plantation High School in the District Tournament. These teams met earlier this year, with the Paladins winning 3-2 in extra innings. The winner of this game will play either top-seeded Doral Academy or Miami Beach High School. South Plantation, Cooper City, Braddock, and West Boca Raton Community High School qualified.

The boys’ volleyball team reached the District Final after beating West Boca Raton High School 25-20, 25-14, 18-25, 25-16 in their opening match. The Knights went on to lose 25-18, 25-7, 25-22 against Boca Raton Community High School, but they were still able to qualify for Regionals. Monarch is set to seed fifth and will play Palm Beach Central High School in the opening round. The Broncos are 9-5 and are seeded fourth after losing to Wellington High School in the District Tournament.

The track and field teams competed in the Regional Championship at Coral Springs High School, with the girls’ 4 x 100 relay team of Katrice Burke, Kennedi Stephenson, Chelsea Dumas, and Zykeria Ruthledge coming in seventh.

 Stephenson, Peterson, Silvia Guzman Serrano, and Katrice Burke also ran in a relay and came in 14th. Individually, Stephenson came in 17th in the 100 meters, Silvia Guzman Serrano in 18th in the 400 hurdles, and Sasha Rodriguez. The boys team had their 4 x 100 relay team come in 14th with Dominick Brannon, Amari Deer, Jabari Brady, and Jayden Joselin.

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Box Elder High School swept the boys and girls team titles by convincing margins.

Bonneville junior Davis DeGroot set a new 5A and all-classifications record by jumping 24 feet, 1 1/4 inches in the boys long jump. He just missed being a three-time title winner; he claimed a win in the 200 meters but Box Elder’s Jeremylee Macias edged DeGroot by 0.03 seconds in the 100 meters.

On the girls side, Clearfield junior Lily Weaver was a three-time winner, taking titles in the 200 meters as well as the 100- and 300-meter hurdles.

Below are individual winners and team results from the meet. The state championship meet is scheduled for Thursday, May 15, through Saturday, May 17, at BYU.

GIRLS INDIVIDUAL WINNERS

100 meters: Sabrina Hubbel, Woods Cross, 12.32

100 hurdles: Lily Weaver, Clearfield, 15.61

200: Lily Weaver, Clearfield, 25.48

300 hurdles: Lily Weaver, Clearfield, 45.23

400: Margaret Jeppesen, Viewmont, 58.86

800: Kiara DeVries, Woods Cross, 2:18.49

1600: Avery Barton, Bonneville, 4:59.16

3200: Avery Barton, Bonneville, 11:06.46

4×100: Woods Cross, 49.85: Jayda Boddy, Emily Gill, Sabrina Hubbel, Jayli Loveland, Bailey Brown, Isabelle Manning

4×200: Box Elder, 1:45.54: Sevia Sommer, Oakley Norman, Kassidee Kidd, Kaylan Anderson, Jessica Bell

4×400: Box Elder, 4:07.48: Molly Emerson, Ariana Poll, Oakley Norman, Elizabeth Rupper, Abby Reeder

4×800: Box Elder, 9:52.43: Elizabeth Rupper, Kathryn Agren, Maya Lee, Brynlee Cragun, Kassidie Douglass, Macie Lee

Discus: Karlee Mayfield, Northridge, 127-1

Shot put: Karlee Mayfield, Northridge, 36-7.75

Javelin: Brooke Steed, Clearfield, 105-8

Long jump: Nataya Valenzuela, Box Elder, 17-8.75

High jump: Mae Johnson, Bountiful, 5-10

Pole vault: Breelle Merrill, Box Elder, 8-6

GIRLS TEAM SCORES

1. Box Elder 205

2. Clearfield 123

3. Woods Cross 94.5

4. Northridge 77.5

5. Bonneville 68

6. Viewmont 49

7. Bountiful 29

8. Roy 7

BOYS INDIVIDUAL WINNERS

100 meters: Jeremylee Macias, Box Elder, 10.74

110 hurdles: Nathan Webb, Woods Cross, 14.95

200: Davis DeGroot, Bonneville, 21.25

300 hurdles: Ace Brown, Viewmont, 39.32

400: Grant Nelson, Woods Cross, 49.53

800: Talmage Bruschke, Viewmont, 1:55.38

1600: Hayden Hooper, Bountiful, 4:20.89

3200: Parker Lattin, Box Elder, 9:53.28

4×100: Bountiful, 43.50: Carter Brooks, Kai Duerden, Gavin Pond, Yuri Rapaso

4×200: Box Elder, 1:30.49: Wyatt Abraham, Malik Crozier, Easton Connelly, Jeremylee Macias, Samuel Montgomery

4×400: Clearfield, 3:28.47: Corbin Miyamoto, Bryson Ridge, Kash Keeler, Tate McMillan, William Downer

4×800: Bountiful, 8:20.90: Simon Barlow, Hayden Hooper, Mason Christensen, Evan Richards, Drew Babcock, Jackson Burgener

Discus: Chance Richards, Box Elder, 152-2

Shot put: Chance Richards, Box Elder, 54-8.5

Javelin: Colby Frokjer, Roy, 162-7

Long jump: Davis DeGroot, Bonneville, 24-1.25

High jump: Rory Violette, Woods Cross, 6-3

Pole vault: Ben Anson, Clearfield, 12-0

BOYS TEAM SCORES

1. Box Elder 154.5

2. Viewmont 107

3. Woods Cross 99

4. Clearfield 86.5

5. Bountiful 62

6. Bonneville 50.5

7. Northridge 46.5

8. Roy 46

EMMITSBURG, Md. (May 11, 2025) – With the Mount St. Mary’s men scoring 143 points and the women scoring 121.5 points, the track & field teams finish a respective second and third place at the 2025 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Championships.

Three players took major honors bestowed by the conference. Emelie Beckman earned Women’s Most Outstanding Field Honors, and Camryn Jones-Howard took Women’s Field Rookie honors. Abdulazeez Iyiola took top Men’s Track Rookie honors. 

 

Winning performances on Sunday began with the 4×100 relay of Torian Neblett, Daniel Reader, Lucas Koon-Perez, and Kalani Pu’uloa. The quartet finished with a time of 41.19 seconds. Individual victories start with Madelyn Valpy, who came within .01 meters of her school record to take the triple jump with 12.24 meters. Keighan DeCoff won the discus at 42.56 meters while Maeve Parrish finished first in the 800m with a time of 2:15.10. Iyiola won the 400 hurdles with a 54.12 second effort.

 

Podium finishers also included Iyiola for the 110 hurdles where he finished second with 14.49 seconds.  Elizabeth Freymann was a second place finisher, coming one second after Parrish in the 800m (2:16.20), and Dante Elliott earned 2.01 meters in the high jump to also earn a second place showing. Caleb Nelson earned a runner-up mark of 14.97 meters for the triple jump.

 

Reader took third in the 200m (21.55 seconds), as did Jones-Howard for the triple jump (12.04 meters).

 

Both 4×400 relay teams finished in second place for the meet. The women’s team of Avery Ferron, Jasmine Kidd, Reanne Jones, and Zaria Wilson finished in 3:48.41. The men’s team of Iyiola, Gunnar Williams, Koon-Perez and Reader finished in 3:15.08.  

 

Qualified Mountaineers move on to compete at the IC4A/ECAC Championships, hosted by George Mason next weekend.  

 

The final kill of Keani Kaneakua’s high school career was a history maker.

The Radford senior’s 25th of the match gave the Rams the school’s first state volleyball championship. It completed a comeback that took both teams to the limit, with Radford edging Kapaa 25-20, 22-25, 21-25, 25-23, 15-13 to capture the New City Nissan/HHSAA Boys Volleyball Division II title Saturday at Moanalua.

Kaneakua was also the Rams’ emotional leader.

“He’s been a leader ever since he was a sophomore and he got to Radford,” fifth-year head coach Melanie Toloumu said.

Toloumu is a curriculum coordinator at Radford, with biology as her specialty. It’s obvious she knows something about chemistry, too, the way she steadied and inspired her team during numerous timeouts when Kapaa threatened to complete the deal after taking a 2-1 lead in sets.

Kapaa had the early lead in the fifth-set race to 15, but never regained the lead after a Kaneakua dump shot made it 4-3. There were six ties after that, the last at 12-all, but an error and Kaneakua’s second-to-last kill set up his championship winner.

“We tried our best, but our mistakes kind of hurt us,” Kapaa senior outside hitter Felisi Hunt said. “And I’ve never seen a more talented player (than Kaneakua.)”

The Warriors (13-2) played their three state tournament matches in three different gyms, but coach Kapule Kaona did not use it as an excuse.

“We’re lucky our boys didn’t know any better,” Kaona said with a chuckle. “We have guys that are more athletes than volleyball players. Credit to both teams on a great match, but you could see the experience and craftiness (of Radford).”

The Rams (11-4) ended the season with a nine-match winning streak. The early adversity of a 2-4 start helped them become a team, Toloumu and Kaneakua both said.

“I think they got comfortable being the underdog and coming from behind,” Toloumu said. “There were a couple of turning points when we had a big injury in the Campbell match, and then when we played five sets against Waipahu and played through adversity.”

There was plenty to play through Saturday, as Kapaa was often one or two plays from taking over the match in the pivotal fourth set.

“I don’t know any other way than to just keep trying,” Kaneakua said. “I’ve always been this way.”

Emry Piturachsatit’s ace and the loudest block of the match of many by Curren Pope gave Kapaa a 5-1 lead. A few minutes later, JM Miyahira and JP Bucalo got the Rams to 11-9, and the crowd into it. A timeout did not cool off Bucalo, who immediately scored down the line again to cut the deficit to one. But Kapaa regained momentum, and Syren Burley’s kill made it 18-13.

But Radford steadied itself, and then went on a scoring spree starting with a Bucalo kill and continuing with Mark Kimo Villejo serving three more points to tie it at 19-all.

The teams traded figurative punches and timeouts, until the Rams got in two in a row: Villejo was in on a block, and then he dropped in a soft one at the net for the set-winner, deadlocking the match.

Pope, Hunt, Burley and Piturachsatit did most of the scoring in a third set that Radford never led after a 3-2 edge; Pope closed it out with a kill.

The Rams led the second set 19-15, and had many thinking sweep. But Piturachsatit scored on a variety of shots as the Warriors battled back. His kill to end a long rally with Kapaa ahead 24-21 was followed by a Pope set-winner.

Micah Kalima-Keohohina led the Rams’ early first-set surge with back-to-back kills. Three consecutive Kapaa errors let Radford gain control. Villejo found an open spot in the middle to make it 24-20, and Radford won the first set on a Kapaa hitting error.

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BATON ROUGE, La.- The 2025 Southwestern Athletic Conference Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships are slated to take place at A.W. Mumford Stadium located on the campus of Southern University on May 11-13.

The championships will begin on Sunday, May 11 at 10:30 am EST with the Decathlon.

The final day of competition (May 13) will be streamed live on the SWAC Digital Network beginning at 5:00 pm CST with the women’s 4×100 meter relay event.

Live results for the event will be available at the link above.  

Daily State News

DOVER — Four Downstate squads are among the 16 teams that made the field for the DIAA boys’ volleyball state tournament.

The bracket was announced this morning for the tourney, which gets underway with matches on Tuesday.

Unbeaten Caesar Rodney (15-0) is the No. 3 seed in the event, with No. 1 Appoquinimink and No. 2 Salesianum ahead of the Riders.

In Tuesday’s first-round matches involving Downstate teams, CR hosts No. 14 Concord, No. 10 Cape Henlopen goes to No. 7 Christiana and No. 15 Indian River goes to Wilmington to face No. 2 Sallies.

On Wednesday, No. 13 Dover travels to No. 4 Wilmington Charter. First-round matches start at 6 p.m.

The tournament continues with matches on Friday and Saturday.

This is the third season that there’s been an official DIAA state tourney in boys’ volleyball. Cape Henlopen and Sallies won the first two titles.

BOYS’ VOLLEYBALL
DIAA State Tournament
First round

Matches start at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 13

15-Indian River (9-5) at 2-Salesianum (15-1)
10-Cape Henlopen (9-4) at 7-Christiana (11-4)
14-Concord (10-5) at 3-Caesar Rodney (15-0)
11-Odyssey Charter (10-5) at 6-Archmere (13-2)

Wednesday, May 14

16-Dickinson (8-7) at 1-Appoquinimink (15-0)
9-Middletown (10-5) at 8-William Penn (12-3)
13-Dover (8-5) at 4-Wilmington Charter (12-2)
12-Mt. Pleasant (7-8) at 5-Odessa (11-4)

Quarterfinals

Friday, May 16 or Saturday, May 17

Semifinals
Tuesday, May 20

Sites and times, TBA

Finals
Thursday, May 22

At Smyrna, 6 p.m.