Utica has little time to dwell on a disappointing ending to its soccer regular season.
The Chieftains, who lost in a bid for the MAC White Division championship Tuesday night, play rival Ford at 3 p.m. Friday at Stevenson in a Division 1 district opener.
“We know them very well,” coach Carl Territo said, referring to the Falcons. “It’ll be exciting. Once you get into that phase of the one-and-done kind of stuff, anything can happen.”
Nicholas Litsas scored with Grosse Pointe South down a player and 4:15 left in the second half to break a 1-1 tie and lift the Blue Devils to a 2-1 victory over visiting Utica and the White championship.
Grosse Pointe South finished with 22 points from a 7-2-1 division record for its first crown since 2006. Romeo and Grosse Pointe North wound up tied for second with 21 points. Utica, which could have won the championship with a victory, instead finished 6-3-1 and fourth with 19 points.
“It’s hard,” Territo said. “So many of our players were emotional. They really wanted it.
“I know that they care and they are still striving to be as good as they can be and get the results they want.”
Litsas scored from about 10 yards out after making a run toward the net and receiving a pass.
“I took a touch and buried it,” the senior said.
“It’s the first league title since ’06 for South, so it’s a special one for all of us,” Litsas added. “I thought it was a really good performance from us (after being down a player), just keeping our heads in the game.”
Senior Michael Adams was the winning keeper.
“We had some spectacular defense back there,” he said, referring to the stretch when the Blue Devils played with 10 men. “We kept the pressure up and we got a goal.”
The Blue Devils played the final 19:38 shorthanded after they were called for a handball in the penalty box, an infraction that led to Jack Mahoney’s penalty-kick goal that tied the match.
Grosse Pointe South’s Stefan Smolinski scored the first goal when he intercepted a pass about 35 yards from the goal and broke in for a shot that found the mark with 34:29 left in the second half.
“It was a battle,” Territo said. “A tie didn’t do either of us any good. You have to win (the game) to win (the championship).
“One-one, we’re up a player, we’re going for it. We finished fourth out of the whole deal, which is really crazy.”
The Chieftains might have used a different strategy if a tie would have lifted them to the title, Territo said.
“Maybe you still play your own game and you see what can happen,” the coach said. “Our goal from the beginning of the year was to win the MAC White championship. We decided not to sit back; we committed another guy forward.
“We went for it, we went for our goal. It might not go your way in the end, but at least you know you did everything you could to try to accomplish that goal.”
Utica and Grosse Pointe South tied their first meeting 2-2. If they had tied Tuesday, Romeo and Grosse Pointe North would have been co-champions.
The Blue Devils open district play against Dearborn Heights Crestwood on Thursday.
“We hope to keep this momentum going into the playoffs,” Litsas said.
Volleyball
EISENHOWER 3, L’ANSE CREUSE NORTH 1: Katie Smith had 14 kills, Nina Tabaka nine and Santa Kalaj eight to lead Eisenhower’s 25-23, 25-13, 22-25, 25-19 victory. Ava Wolfe made 35 assists, 15 digs and four kills, Isabel Biermann had 18 digs and Santina Fioritto had 15 digs as the Eagles improved to 4-4 in the MAC Red. Ike is 14-15-1 overall. Smith also had nine digs and three aces.
Leading the Crusaders offense were senior outside hiitter Brooke Kulik, senior right side hitter Kendra Guitar and sophomore middle hitter Brooklyn Lewis with six kills each. Riley Fisette recorded four kills while Lily Richter tallied three kills and five blocks. Setter Jordan Edleston had 11 assists and freshman Jade Bisdord had nine. Libero Marrissa Baaso had 36 digs and Bryce Ross 16.
UTICA 3, FRASER 1: Kendyll Paul served nine points, Katie Witkowski and Alyssa Pulizzi eight apiece and Mikayla Paul and Abby Kochanowski seven apiece in Utica’s 25-19, 25-18, 24-26, 25-20 MAC White victory. Mikayla Paul also had 16 assists and Kochanowski had 22 receptions as Utica won its second straight match. Bri Rowoldt made nine kills and 15 assists and Sydney Rissman had six receptions and seven digs.
Fraser’s Paige Slone made 14 kills and was 14-of-14 serving with six points. Ava Fuller was 17-of-17 serving with eight points and Megan MacLeod 13-of-14 with seven points. Catherine Barnes made 14 digs and Marissa Gutow 28 assists.
LAKEVIEW 3, LAKE SHORE 1: Stella Mulrenin and Irene Osagiede had nine kills apiece as Lakeview won the St. Clair Shores city championship for the sixth consecutive year under coach Tom Pfeifer. “We came out very flat today, and Lake Shore took advantage of that in game one,” Pfeifer said after the 22-25, 25-15, 25-12, 25-15 victory. “We finally came around and played the way we should in games two, three and four. We are just trying to get back into a rhythm. Tonight we enjoy the win and tomorrow we go back to work.” Autumn Wirick made six kills and Allie Hill had 37 digs and 15 receptions.
Swimming
EISENHOWER 112, L’ANSE CREUSE NORTH 71: 200 medley relay: Eisenhower (Olivia Bowman, Sophia Franz, Grace Schutter, Grace Pontzious) 2:05.66. 200 freestyle: Cassidy Lease, E, 2:10.46. 200 IM: Franz, E, 2:30.0. 50 freestyle: Emma Bauer, LCN, 26.94. Diving: Lauren Tomaszewski, E, 147.90. 100 butterfly: Schutter, E, 1:05.76. 100 freestyle: Pontzious, E, 1:02.96. 500 freestyle: Lease, E, 5:50.93. 200 freestyle relay: Eisenhower (Franz, Pontzious, Cadenn Clower, Lease) 1:56.01. 100 backstroke: Bowman, E, 1:09.17. 100 breaststroke: Franz, E, 1:19.18. 400 freestyle relay: Eisenhower (Lease, Bowman, Clower, Schutter) 4:10.33.
Football
SCHEDULE
WEEK 8
ALL GAMES START AT 7 P.M. UNLESS NOTED
FRIDAY, OCT. 15
Almont at Richmond
Anchor Bay at Eisenhower
Center Line at Fitzgerald
Clintondale at New Haven
Croswell-Lexington at Armada
Dakota at L’Anse Creuse North
Detroit University Prep at Parkway Christian
Detroit Voyageur at Mount Clemens, 7:30 p.m.
Eastpointe at Lake Shore
Grosse Pointe North at Fraser
Grosse Pointe South at Warren-Mott
Harper Woods at De La Salle Collegiate
Hazel Park at South Lake
Lakeview at St. Clair
L’Anse Creuse at Warren Woods-Tower
Lutheran North at Ann Arbor Richard, 4 p.m.
Marine City at Lincoln
Memphis at Sandusky
Merritt at Bay City All Saints
Michigan Collegiate at Detroit Leadership
Port Huron Northern at Romeo
Roseville at Port Huron
Sterling Heights def. Cousino (forfeit)
Stevenson at Ford
Utica at Chippewa Valley
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