Northport's 5th Annual Y.A.C.apalooza at Braman Hill takes place on Saturday, May 22. There will be a live band playing and many fun games and events with many prizes, events such as; race to e top, karaoke, teacher dunk tank, 3 on 3 basketball, 3 on 3 volleyball and many other events... come join the fun!!!
Schedule of Events
12:00 to 1 3-on-3 b-ball tournament ($100 prize)
12:30 to 2 Twelve Year Reunion band (free hot dogs, pop & baked goods sale)
1:30 to 2:30 Dunk tank, volleyball tournament, kid’s games ($100 prize)
2:00 to 2:30 50/50 sumo suit wrestling
2:00 to 3:00 Washoos tournament
2:30 to 3:00 Race up Braman Hill ($25 prize)
2:30 to 3:00 Karaoke
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The Leland Educational Foundation presents Alisha Glass, tonight, Thursday, March 3, as she presents "Setting in Pursuit of a Dream" the journey of fulfilling her aspirations beginning as a Leelanau youth to her current position on the US Women's National Volleyball team. Enjoy as she shares how her leadership skills, commitment and innate attributes have led to the vigorous evolution of a youth athlete with nontraditional experience to obtaining a highly awarded collegiate career.
Tickets are $10 at the door or in advance from LPS Office, Pedaling Beans Coffeeshop or The Front Porch.
Student Admission- $5 or $4 in advance, Family Admission- $25
Leland Comets beat Central Lake in a three game sweep on Thursday for the Class D Regional Title. This is the first regional title since the Comets took the state title in 2006. Comets senior, Sarah Ruszel, told the Record Eagle:
"We're starting a new tradition of winning volleyball again." "We kind of faltered for awhile, but now we're bringing it back. We were just so excited. This is the first time any of us have been to regionals."
For highlights of the game, read the rest of the article at the Record Eagle site.
Leland now heads to Big Rapids on Tuesday, November 17, to face Beal City in the quarterfinals. Leland Public School will have a spectator bus for Middle School and High School students interested in attending the game. The cost to ride the bus is $5, and students must be registered by breakfast break on Tuesday morning. Parents are welcome to ride, please contact Leland School for more information.
Photo courtesy of Douglas Tesner / Record-Eagle.
Dec 21, 2008
Last night Penn State blanked Stanford for their second straight NCAA title (includes video) - get all the details (including photos and the post game press conference) from Penn State Volleyball.
Dec 18, 2008
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that the Penn State Nittany Lions, led by 1st All American and Leland graduate Alisha Glass (Alisha Glass's page at Penn State) have not lost a single set this season, let alone a match.
The Lions have won 109 consecutive sets, breaking the 105-set streak by Florida in 2003. Penn State also has won 62 consecutive matches, another NCAA record.
"It appears as though we have some history happening this year with Penn State and that we're all chasing them," Stanford coach John Dunning said. "We're all in a hunt chasing down the lion."
If they manage to continue this run through Thursday night's national semifinal vs No. 4 Nebraska (31-2) and the winner of No. 2 Stanford (30-3) who Penn State defeated for the 2007 national title or No. 3 Texas (29-3), they will cap the best season in college volleyball history.
They face Nebraska tonight at at 9 PM on ESPN 2 and the final is Saturday night (Dec 20) at 8 PM on ESPN 2 as well.
On Saturday night, Leland native Alisha Glass set her Penn State volleyball team to the national championship. From Nittany Lions lay it all on the line in NCAA title win at ESPN:
After losing two straight games, the second by 11 points -- letting Stanford tie the match at 2-2, Penn State simply regrouped, slapped on a happy face and took the championship. With Glass setting for Christa Harmotto and Nicole Fawcett, the Lions reeled off seven straight points in the deciding game to win 30-25, 30-26, 23-30, 19-30, 15-8.
You can also see a video report from the match right here (Alisha is #6 and you can see her in a lot of the action!)
In addition to seeing Alisha take charge in the final game with some key plays, I thought it was especially cool in the little video bits of players telling where they're from that ESPN does to hear Alisha say: "My mom was my high school volleyball coach and my grandpa was my high school basketball coach." Congratulations to Alisha and her team!
Photo credit: Breakwall Rocks II by Andy McFarlane
News from the Week
News from the week included a story about Leland grad Alisha Glass's success in college volleyball, including being names to first team all Big Ten and helping Penn State to a #1 ranking. Right now they are in the Sweet Sixteen, so look for her on TV! Other stories included a nice Enterprise piece remembering Leelanau historian Larry Wakefield and a photo of a storm building over the Manitou Passage.
The Week's Weather
We had some stormy, windy weather last weekend and though the winds have died down, we've been getting steady snow and cold temps. Great news for area ski resorts!
November 29, 2007: Breezy & low 30s (33°/19°)
November 30, 2007: Snow, wind & 20s (24°/16°)
December 1, 2007: Windy & low 20s w/ heavy overnight snow (24°/15°)
December 2, 2007: Wet snow & low 30s (34°/24°)
December 3, 2007: Light snow & low 30s (32°/24°)
December 4, 2007: Light snow & 20s (27°/19°)
December 5, 2007: Snow & teens (21°/17°)
Click for the Leelanau news archive from December 2006!
The Record-Eagle reports that Penn State setter and Leland graduate Alisha Glass was named first team all-Big Ten in volleyball. This is a great followup to her selection to the all-freshman team last season.
CSTV.com adds some details on Alisha's accomplishments:
Glass earns her first career All-Big Ten award as she was named to the All-Freshman team a year ago. She was named the Sports Imports/AVCA National and Big Ten Player of the Week on Nov. 19 after leading the Nittany Lions to a combined .350 hitting percentage in wins over No. 9 Wisconsin and Illinois, having three players average 4.10 kills per game. Glass is setting the Nittany Lions to a Big Ten-best .337 hitting percentage, also good for second in the nation, is averaging 12.97 assists per game and has five double-doubles for the year. She set a new school record with 14 blocks at Illinois.
Penn State is ranked #1 in the nation this year and opens the NCAA tournament tonight.
The Suttons Bay volleyball team captured the regional volleyball trophy for the 3rd year in a row. They beat Rogers City 25-10, 25-16, 12-25, 25-23 in the semifinal and then bounced back after losing the opener to Kingsley 20-25 to take the match 25-15, 25-13, 25-10. They take a 54-12-2 record into a Tuesday quarterfinal meeting at Kalkaska at 6 PM vs. Iron Mountain (30-1). Read Prep Volleyball Roundup: Norse claim 3rd straight region in the Record-Eagle.
The defending State Champion Leland volleyball team didn't fare quite as well. The Comets started strong with a sweep of Central Lake but fell to a tough Marion squad in 5 games. They finished with a record of 47-16-1, and you can read more and see some photos from the Record-Eagle.
In boys basketball action, the lone county team playing, Leland, crushed Traverse City Christian 80-32 to capture the district crown (RE article). The Comets play Tuesday night at 6 PM at Traverse City Central vs. #3 Bellaire.
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that the Leland Lady Comets captured their 9th straight district volleyball crown. They cruised over Northport 25-16, 25-13, 25-11 and powered through the final 25-13, 25-21, 25-7 over Traverse City Christian. The Comets are 47-15-1 and will move on to the Class D regionals next Saturday at TC St. Francis. Competition starts at 10 AM and Leland plays in the second match which will begin around 11 AM.
In Class C, Glen Lake fell in a tough match to Mesick 25-18, 25-19, 22-25, 25-22.
UPDATE: Contrary to what I read (or misread) Suttons Bay's spikers battled past Kalkaska 25-21, 25-10 & 25-22 in the opener and then swept Traverse City St. Francis 25-13, 25-13, 25-16 to win their third straight district title. The Norse will face Rogers City on Saturday at the Class C Regional in Gaylord (app. 11:30 AM).
Girls Volleyball
In the Class D District Draw for volleyball, Leland will play Northport in first round action starting @ 11 AM this Saturday (March 3rd). Championship match will be after the first game with the winner playing TC Christian for the District Crown.
In Class C at Kalkaska, Suttons Bay faces Kalkaska in the opening game at 10 AM.
Boys Basketball
District play for Boys Basketball will start Monday March 5th at Leland with Leland taking on Northport @ 7 PM. On Wednesday St Mary’s and TC Christian will play and Friday will be the championship game @ 7 pm.
In Class C action at Kalkaska, Suttons Bay faces Kingsley at 6 PM on March 5 and Glen Lake follows at 8 PM vs Kalkaska. If victorious, Suttons Bay would face Traverse City-St Francis and Glen Lake, Forest Area on Wednesday with finals Friday.
Great Indoor Folk Festival ~ Feb 12, 2012
