When describing the Dragons Volleyball team this early season, you got to look at a team building a ton of confidence in this early season.
Red play hasn’t started yet, that starts on Tuesday.
Orion sent a message to the entire State on Saturday winning
the Novi Invitational and knocking off two State Powers in Clarkston and Novi.
The Dragons were ranked fourth in the State coming into the
weekend while the Wolves were ranked fifth and the Wildcats were third in the State.
Orion has beaten Clarkston now three times in this early
season. The Dragons and Wolves will meet a few more times during the season
including a showdown at Orion in October and likely in the District playoffs at
Clarkston.
The Wolves have a player in Abbey Malanowski whom is heading
to Michigan next season.
Novi is the two-time defending State Champions in Class A
and has two Big Ten players on their roster in Michigan bound Erin O’ Leary and
Abryanna Cannon whom is heading to Northwestern next season.
Orion has their fair share of talent and experience but not
of the Big Ten caliber of talent as the Wolves and especially the Wildcats but
the Dragons have Illyra Kalaj whom is heading to Western Michigan and Paige
Briggs whom is a Western Kentucky recruit and that’s not even mentioning Wren
Macauley, Sydney Smith, and Danelle Sargent whom should be College Volleyball
offers soon.
The Dragons beat Lakeland, Plymouth Christian and Detroit Cass
Tech in pool play. They would be placed in the Gold bracket in which they took
on Ann Arbor Huron in which Orion won 25-20 and 25-20 in the quarterfinal. In
the semifinal the Dragons took on Clarkston in which Orion beat the Wolves
25-16 and 25-20 for the third time this season. In the final it was the Dragons that beat Novi in two games
25-23 and 25-21 on the Wildcats home gym.
Orion now goes to 26-3 on the season and will travel to
Stoney Creek on Tuesday to kick off the league play.
I'm sure the State now knows whom the Dragons are.
I'm sure the State now knows whom the Dragons are.
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