Entering the District Three 2A boys' volleyball, playoffs Lower Dauphin was the most upper team in the playoff brackets.

The top-seeded Falcons (18-1) soared to a 3-0 victory over fourth-seeded Garden Spot in the district semifinals on Tuesday, May 24 at Lower Dauphin, sending the Spartans to the consolation match instead of the title match.

The Falcons posted winning sets of 25-21, 25-18, 25-16 over the Spartans. Tanner Laukhuff gave Garden Spot another great effort, pouring in nine kills while also recording one service ace. Chris Wehn, who also had 10 digs, and Tyler Martin, the team leader in assists with 14, also had one service ace each. Tristin Sadowski led the Spartans with two solo blocks.

Garden Spot (13-4) was coming off an impressive victory in the quarterfinals where they topped fifth-seeded York Catholic at New Holland on Saturday afternoon, May 21. It was impressive not so much in the sense of dominance, but rather how nicely the Spartans held on for victories in the first two sets of this 3-0 victory.

The Spartans won each of the first two sets by the score of 26-24 before finishing off the Fighting Irish 25-16.

Contributing to the plethora of points was Laukhuff with 20 kills. Laukhuff, who also came away with six digs, was helped by Tyler Martin's 29 assists. Martin also posted two blocks as did Sadowski and Jethro Martin.

Wehn tied Laukhuff for the leading total of digs - six each.

TRACK

At the District Three 3A track & field championships, held on May 20-21 at Shippensburg University, Garden Spot's Bryna Kelly, who dominated the hurdling events during regular season dual meets, posted a third-place time of 15.15 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles - only a stride behind York Suburban's Olivia Kay.

Kelly also joined the 4 x 100 relay team with Chloe Grady, Kathlyn Davis, and Angela Nuse, helping that quartet finish seventh with a time of 49.74 seconds.

In the boys' track events, senior Finn Wenrich was 16th (52.33) in the 400-m and 20th (23.38) in the 200-m and sprinted to a 26th-place finish (11.78) in the 100-m dash.