13th Memorial VB Tourney raises $4,500; Sunbury’s Kiss My Ace wins Rec Division

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Janet Lehman said this year’s 13th Annual Memo­r­ial Vol­ley­ball Tour­na­ment, held on Wednes­day, July 4, was the hottest tour­na­ment ever with teams play­ing in 100-degree temperatures.

Each year the tour­na­ment is held on or near Inde­pen­dence Day in mem­ory of Corey Lehman and Steve Mor­gen­stern and in honor of Erin Smith, with tour­na­ment pro­ceeds going towards a memo­r­ial schol­ar­ship fund.

“We had 23 total teams this year — five in the Recre­ational Divi­sion, 10 in the BB Divi­sion and eight in the Open Divi­sion,” Lehman said. “Erin Smith started the tour­na­ment by serv­ing a vol­ley­ball over the net. Erin looks great and is improv­ing every time we see her.”

The First Place win­ners of the Recre­ational Divi­sion was “Kiss My Ace” from Sun­bury. Team mem­bers were Anthony Zarcone, Joe Swys­good, Johnny Can­nell, Kelsey Zim­mer­man, Jor­dan Zak and Jamie Zak.

The Rec Divi­sion Sec­ond Place team was “Old Shoes”, also from Sun­bury. Team mem­bers were John Wei­th­man, Missy Wei­th­man, Kim Mason, Mark Mason, Saman­tha Zuber and Shayla Pierce.

The First Place win­ner in the BB Divi­sion was “Dream Team” from Cen­tral Ohio. Team mem­bers were Miles Den­ovchek, Chris Pow­less, Marinda Rod­er­ick, Amanda Wag­ner, Evan Amstutz, Cory O’Brien and Josh Mason.

The BB Divi­sion Sec­ond Place win­ner was “Out Of Bounds” from Cen­tral Ohio. Team Mem­bers were Kim Doran, Julia Gillum-Galilei, Bill Wil­son, Brian Wash­burn, Rich John­son and Regina Fred­er­ick James.

“I’d Hit That” from Cen­tral Ohio won the Open Divi­sion. Team mem­bers were Shan­nen Rook, Jeni Kip­ker, Dave Dow­den, Scott Thomas, Mar­cus Imawalle and Brian Lemaster.

Cen­tral Ohio’s “Patriot Act” took home Sec­ond Place in the Open Divi­sion. Team mem­bers were Jay Blis­tan, Kevin John­son, Abbey Loy, Katie Hoeper, Justin Wong and Daniel Quintana.

This year’s schol­ar­ship recip­i­ents, Grant Beam, Tyler Beam and Emma Swys­good who received $1,000 each, were present for the tournament.

“It was another great tour­na­ment,” Lehman said. “Besides play­ing a vol­ley­ball tour­na­ment, we had a Silent Auc­tion too. All together we made $4,500, our best money mak­ing tour­na­ment so far.

“Thanks to all the tour­na­ment par­tic­i­pants, vol­un­teers and donors,” Lehman added. “We could not have had such a suc­cess­ful Memo­r­ial Vol­ley­ball Tour­na­ment with­out you. We’re look­ing for­ward to next year.”

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