MHSAA 2023 Junior Varsity A-AAA Volleyball Championships

MHSAA Girls A/AA Tournament All Star Team

#6 Camryn Oliver – Warren Wildcats; #9 Paige Sidel – Warren Wildcats; #15 Willow Murray – Rosenort Redhawks; #10 Jenna Falk – Rosenort Redhawks; #7 Reese Graham – Goose Lake Angels; #4 Breyannee Moore – St. Paul’s Barrons

MHSAA Tournament Girls A/AA MVP: #3 Torie Galbraith – Warren Wildcats

MHSAA Boys A/AA Tournament All-Star Team

Tucker Forbes (Glenboro Panthers); Chase Hnatuk (Warren Wildcats); Josiah Glaser (Carberry Cougars); Keaton Snaith (Carberry Cougars); Max Koscienly (Miami Marlins); Liam Dyck (Miami Marlins)

MHSAA Tournament Boys A/AA Most Valiable Player: Luke Swain (Miami Marlins)

MHSAA Girls AAA Tournament All Star Team

#21 Kyana Myall – Collage Beliveau; #25  Ava Hall – Leo Remillard; # 12 Kate Swatsky – WC Miller; #9 Isabella Peters – WC Miller; #6 Elli Pomehichuk – Neelinl # 11 Layla Desjarden – Neelin

MHSAA Tournament Girls AAA MVP: #9 Dana Linov – Neelin

MHSAA Boys AAA Tournament All Star Team

# 5 Henry Scarcello SJR; #11 Josh Barrett Louis Riel; #3 Marco Byfield – Linden Christian; #9 Isaak Buhler – Linden Christian; #3 Noah Vandenberg  Garden Valley; #9 Isaak Buhler  Garden Valley

MHSAA Tournament Boys AAA MVP: #11 Alfredo Enns – Garden Valley

MHSAA JUNIOR VARSITY 2023 A – AAA VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIP PARTICIPANTS

To all the teams who travelled north to our community… we know the road well and we know it’s a long one. We wish you all safe travels home and hope that you are leaving with lots of good memories of Flin Flon! Please come visit us again!

Rosenort – 806km; Somerset (P Mountain) – 802km; Île des Chênes(G-Roy) – 799km; Killarney – 783km; Winnipeg (I Christian)- 761km; Elie – 738km; Warren – 717km; Carberry – 708km; Forrest (Elton CI) – 671km; Roblin (G Lake)- 488km; The Pas (M Barbour) – 138km

Flin Flon

Neelin claims JV AAA provincial title

By: Thomas Friesen

The Neelin Spartans were completely unphased by an 0-3 start to provincials.

While they didn’t win a match in power-pool play, they saved their best for the ones that mattered most. The Spartans ran the table on Friday and Saturday in Winnipeg to capture the AAA junior varsity girls’ volleyball provincial title.

“They left it all out on the floor and it was so awesome to see,” said Neelin head coach Jen Dixon. “It was such a proud feeling as a coach to see that come out in them. The drive to want to win, it was so awesome.

“We started off kind of slow on our Thursday matches because we were playing some tough teams. We knew it was going to be tough competition and it says a whole lot about the group we had to be able to turn their mindset around.”

The 12-team event starts with three pools featuring the top four, next four and bottom four seeds. Neelin was in the top pool and knew it had a bye to the quarterfinals but losing three in a row meant a tougher quarterfinal.

Neelin gutted out a 2-1 win over Stonewall, then avenged an opening-day sweep against College Beliveau in three sets to reach the final.

They faced Altona’s W.C. Miller Aces, who thumped them in pool play. After dropping the first set 25-19, Neelin won 25-11 and thoroughly dominated the tiebreaker, winning 15-7 to secure gold.

“Quarterfinal, semifinal, final, all hard matches with tough opponents that did a lot on their side,” Dixon said.

“Something our girls did, I feel, that helped them achieve that third set was just control our side and give heart. Our girls really showed it in all three of those games.”

Spartans Elli Pomehichuk and Layla Desjardin were named to the tournament all-star team while setter Dana Linov earned MVP honours.

“Dana is a non-stop effort player. You can ask any coach, spectator in the gym,” Dixon said. “Multiple people come up to me after games, up to her after games and say she’s such a pleasure to watch because she is 110 per cent effort the entire game.

“Not only at provincials, every single game throughout the season she gives her all as a player.”

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The Vincent Massey Vikings are one win away from a Brandon sweep of the AAA and AAAA JV girls titles.

Massey dropped the Sturgeon Heights Huskies in straight sets in the AAAA semifinals on Saturday and plays Steinbach Regional on Monday at 6 p.m. in the gold-medal game at Winnipeg’s Investors Group Athletic Centre.

The AAAA boys’ final features Sisler and Gabrielle-Roy.

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The Viking varsity girls are headed back to the final four with a 3-1 (22-25, 25-20, 25-23, 26-24) win over the Fort Richmond Centurions.

Jersey Hansen-Young had a massive 24 kills and 20 digs for Massey, with Mackenzie Lyburn posting 17 kills and five aces.

Kypling Black chipped in four blocks.

The Vikings play the No. 1 seed Lord Selkirk Royals on Wednesday at IGAC at 6 p.m. Steinbach and Jeanne-Sauve meet in the second semifinal at 8 o’clock.

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Written by Clayton Drege

The Neelin Spartans are Provincial AAA Junior Varsity girls volleyball champions. Neelin defeated Altona’s Miller Aces 19-25, 25-11, 15-7 in the final. Spartans setter Dana Linov was named the tournament MVP. Neelin’s Elli Pomehichuk and Layla Desjardin were All-Stars.

The Vincent Massey Vikings will face the Steinbach Regional Secondary School in the final of the Provincial AAAA Junior Varsity girls volleyball championship Monday at Investors Group Athletic Centre on the campus of the University of Manitoba in south Winnipeg. The Vikings swept the Sturgeon Heights Huskies 25-18, 25-17, 26-24 in the semifinals Saturday night at Dakota Collegiate.

The Zone 9 champion Killarney Raiders lost out to Gabrielle Roy of Ile des Chenes in a play-in game at the Provincial Junior Varsity A/AA volleyball championship in Flin Flon. The Neelin Spartans will face College Beliveau in the girls semifinals at the AAA championships in Winnipeg. Virden were eliminated by Leo Remillard in the quarterfinals. Neelin boys lost out to St. John’s Ravenscourt in the quarterfinals.