Volleyball Watch.

Written Friday June 9th at 12:30 AM

Hello all, this is my first Volleyball post of 2017. Anyway the Michigan High School Volleyball Insider released their top teams. Some of the teams ranked here, I agree with while others I don't agree with. Anyway here is the poll and insight on the poll. There are no OAA teams ranked in Class B, the balk of them are in Class A.

The Michigan High School Volleyball Insider Way Too Early Top 25.

1. ORION

2. Novi

3. Rockford

4. CLARKSTON

5. Farmington Hills Mercy

6. Birmingham Marian

7. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern

8. Portage Central

9. Macomb Dakota

10. Grand Haven

11. New Baltimore Anchor Bay

12. East Grand Rapids

13. Grand Rapids Christian

14. Mattawan

15. Saline

16. Richland Gull Lake

17. Utica Eisenhower

18. DeWitt

19. BLOOMFIELD HILLS

20. Temperance Bedford

21. Midland

22. Northville

23. Mount Morris

24. Monroe

25. TROY

Thoughts.

I’m not sure why Orion is ranked number one in this poll. The Dragons have Danielle Sargent and Wren McCauley coming back but they have questions everywhere else.

Novi is the back to back State Champs and have the balk of their team back led by Erin O’Leary, whom will be heading to Michigan next season. I would have had them ranked number one to start the season because of whom they have back and a quote from Ric Flair “To be the man, you have to beat the man.”

Right now, I would rank Clarkston ahead of Orion because of whom the Wolves have back. If Kayla Luchenbach comes back and not focus solely on basketball then she along with Abbey Malanowski could form a solid one-two punch.

I think Bloomfield Hills should be ranked higher, they return a ton of talent for coach Bob Hurdle’s team led by Alexa Rousseau and Julia Caravias,.

Troy is an interesting team and coach Tom Vigilant has Jessica Robinson back along with Fran McBride, and Kelsey Moeller but they will be moving back up from the White to the Red this season.

I’m not sure why coach Ross Talbot’s Cougars are not in this poll. They gave Utica Eisenhower everything they had in the District final last season. Stoney Creek will be very good this season with Stephanie Smith, Kate Stration, Lindsay Stration, and Molly Asmus. The Cougars should be ranked on here.

Another team to keep an eye on is Oxford, the Wildcats have a new coach and they could surprise some folks.