Dwyer takes volleyball title

The Dwyer Middle School sixth-seventh-grade boys’ volleyball team won three matches last week to claim the end-of-the-season middle school volleyball tournament title.

The tournament featured middle school squads from Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Costa Mesa.

Dwyer, coached by Scott Bradbury, opened the tournament on Nov. 2 with a victory over Huntington Beach rival Sowers and came back Friday to eliminate Harbor Day. The Jr. Oilers took on Corona del Mar in the division final and earned the title with a 25-15, 25-17 sweep.

In the first game, strong serving by Matt Butler, Tyler MacLeod, Tyler McGinnis and Dallas Heyden, catapulted Huntington toward a 25-15 win. In game two, the defensive play of Harly Ruder, Wyatt Anderson and Jacob Caron, helped pave the way in a 25-17 win.

In the eighth-grade boys’ tournament, Dwyer finished in third place.

In other youth sports action:

AYSO

Girls’ Under-12 Division

Blew By U 6,

Purple Piranhas 1

Blew By U of Region 55 bolted to a 4-0 halftime lead and went on to defeat the Purple Piranhas.

Makenna Neal scored off a double-assist by Amira Shweyk and Kerry McDonald in the first quarter to give Blew By U a 1-0 lead. In the second quarter, keeper Natasha Mangham came up with a save to protect the lead. A goal by Simone Corkett, set up by a pass from Mangham, made it 2-0 and McDonald posted two more goals in the quarter, with assists going to Jessica Johancsik, Amanda Garske and Jennifer Lucas, to make it 4-0 at the break.

Neal scored her second goal of the match when she planted a shot into goal off a pass from Corkett in the third quarter and McDonald scored off a feed from Neal in the fourth quarter to make it 6-1.

Defenders Erica Fox and Natalie Martz, sweepers Micaela Hernandez and Jaclyn Escobar and forward Brianna Kutinsky, turned in key performances for Blew By U.