The Lake Orion Volleyball team kicked off the 2018 season with a bang winning their own invitational in Waterford on Saturday over 27 other solid programs including Clarkston, Northville, Stoney Creek, Troy, Troy Athens, Adams, Rochester, Oxford, St. Catherine Sienna Academy, and Groves.
The Dragons knocked off
Northville in the championship game. Lake Orion
was led by Paige Briggs (eight kills), Sydney Smith (12 kills), Wren McCauley
(25 assists), and Ciara Livingway (14 digs) for coach Tony Scavarda’s team.
But it’s early in the season and
danger looms.
Injuries happen in sports and it
hurt Lake Orion last season with injuries to Briggs, Kendall Robertson, among
others.
The Dragons won their own invite
last year but injuries as mentioned doomed them later in the season and was prevalent
in their five set loss to Seaholm.
It’s also important to know that
they are in arguably the toughest division in the State, the OAA Red.
The
league is very talented starting with the team that eliminated Lake Orion from
the State tournament last season in Clarkston. The Wolves have talented players
in Clare Nowicki and Sierra Kersten, among others for coach Kelly
Averall-Pinner. Stoney Creek is very good led by Stephanie Smith and Kate
Stration, among others, not to mention the Cougars head coach is former
Dragons coach Ross Talbott. Bloomfield Hills is led by Alexa Rousseau but they
are going through a coaching transition. Troy has Fran McBride and Jessica
Robinson for coach Tom Vigilant. Oxford has improved under coach Brian Kim.
Adams has a ton of talent back for coach Bridgette Harding. Seaholm is always
Seaholm.
It’s going to be an interesting
season, if this team can stay healthy throughout the season and improve very
similar to Clarkston then good things will happen.
Once districts come, the question
becomes is can this team beat the Wolves when it counts? It will always
be a war between Lake Orion and Clarkston, it always is and it won’t change.
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