GVMS!
5th thru 8th Grade Dodgeball Tournament
Friday, March 20, 2026 from 6-8:00pm
GVMS Gym
See Mr. Mailach to sign up.
All proceeds benefit GV Girls Varsity Soccer
$25.00 per team
$1 per student spectator
$2 adult spectator
Concession stand will be open!
Friday, March 20, 2026 from 6-8:00pm
GVMS Gym
See Mr. Mailach to sign up.
All proceeds benefit GV Girls Varsity Soccer
$25.00 per team
$1 per student spectator
$2 adult spectator
Concession stand will be open!
Congratulations to our boys and girls All NAC team selections!
Congratulations to our boys and girls All NAC team selections!
🎉Congratulations to our State Qualifiers🎉
The following have qualified to the State Indoor Track & Field Meet which will take place on Saturday, March 7 at SPIRE.
State Qualifiers
Jocelyn Cozad- Long Jump
Luke Giddings- 400m Dash
Girls 4x200m Relay
Maddie Freeman
Lily Ross
Kylee Portzer
Brooke Tolla
Boys 4x200m Relay
Lane Gallagher
Mason Demshar
Lukah Mramor
Luke Giddings
Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen. Your donations have given our athletes an opportunity they may not have had without your help.
⚡️SPEED is our Stampede⚡️
Boys Basketball will host Columbia Station tonight in the District Semis! Game time 7:00 pm. This is the boys last home game so please come out and support them as they compete for an opportunity to advance to the District Finals!
Mustangs slam Open Door, set sights on district tourney
There was no wild celebration on Monday when the Grand Valley boys basketball team won a Division V sectional championship with a 72-43 win over Elyria Open Door Christian. There was no net-cutting ceremony either.
That's because Coach Justin Turk's team has much bigger goals than to win a sectional title.
With the dominating win over Open Door, the second-seeded Mustangs advance to the district tournament. Grand Valley (19-4) will host 14th-seeded Columbia in a district semifinal on Monday, with the winner advancing to next Saturday's district championship game.
No basketball team from Grand Valley has ever won a district championship.
"It felt good to be here at home for a tournament game," Solomon Schultz said. "Now it's on to the next game. We don't want to fall short in districts like we did last year. That's our goal - to win districts."
The Mustangs left to doubt from the get-go against visiting Open Door, blitzing the Patriots with full-court pressure from the opening tip and holding a double-digit lead from the first quarter. Open Door never led and spent most of the evening trying to keep the deficit to less than 20 points.
Grand Valley led, 32-12, at the half, with Carter Turk scoring 12 of his game-high 22 points in the first quarter and Schultz scoring 13 of his 18 prior to intermission. The big lead electrified the large home crowd.
"That's the enjoyment of playing well all year," said Turk, who's team has now won six in a row. "You get the opportunity to host playoff games. We certainly wanted to bring the energy for our home fans."
GV didn't let up at all in the third quarter, putting up 24 more points to take a commanding 56-32 lead into the fourth. Carter Turk dished out impressive assists to the Plizga brothers in the third, with Payton scoring nine of his 11 in the third quarter and brother Cooper hitting a pair of inside buckets.
"A lot of talk about Carter is his scoring, but he'd rather pass the ball to his teammates," Coach Turk said. "We certainly need him to score at times, but he's a really good passer."
Of Payton Plizga's big game, Turk said, "He's been a beast all year. He's the heart of our team."
Most of the fourth quarter was played with the starters on the bench. All 14 of the Mustangs in uniform played, with youngsters Parker Zupancic, Sam Mazzei, Hunter Doing, Alex Chudzik and Liam Hart all scoring points. In all, nine different players scored.
"What people don't realize is most of the time these (younger) kids don't get that playing time in tournament games," Turk said. "We were fortunate to get the lead early so we could get those players tournament experience. You never know when you're going to need them down the road."
Next up is a Columbia team that is 13-10 after its 64-46 win over East Canton on Monday.
"We're certainly motivated," Turk said. "The next game is going to be a good one. They might be the best team we've played all year. We're happy that we're going to be playing at our place again."
BOX SCORE
Grand Valley 72, Open Door 43
Grand Valley - Turk 22, Schultz 18, Chudzik 1, Hart 2, Doing 3, C.Plizga 6, P.Plizga 11, Mazzei 5, Zupancic 3.
Open Door: Sqegulak 3, Benoik 24, Hanrahan 6 Patten 4, Coughlin 4, Geyer 2.
Gr.Valley 18 14 24 20 - 72
Open Door 9 12 20 11 - 43
Free throws: GV 11 of 11, Open Door 6 of 12; 3-pointers: GV 9 (Schultz 3, Turk 2, Doing, P.Pizga, Mazzei, Zupancic), Open Door 3 (Benoik 2, Swegulak).
There was no wild celebration on Monday when the Grand Valley boys basketball team won a Division V sectional championship with a 72-43 win over Elyria Open Door Christian. There was no net-cutting ceremony either.
That's because Coach Justin Turk's team has much bigger goals than to win a sectional title.
With the dominating win over Open Door, the second-seeded Mustangs advance to the district tournament. Grand Valley (19-4) will host 14th-seeded Columbia in a district semifinal on Monday, with the winner advancing to next Saturday's district championship game.
No basketball team from Grand Valley has ever won a district championship.
"It felt good to be here at home for a tournament game," Solomon Schultz said. "Now it's on to the next game. We don't want to fall short in districts like we did last year. That's our goal - to win districts."
The Mustangs left to doubt from the get-go against visiting Open Door, blitzing the Patriots with full-court pressure from the opening tip and holding a double-digit lead from the first quarter. Open Door never led and spent most of the evening trying to keep the deficit to less than 20 points.
Grand Valley led, 32-12, at the half, with Carter Turk scoring 12 of his game-high 22 points in the first quarter and Schultz scoring 13 of his 18 prior to intermission. The big lead electrified the large home crowd.
"That's the enjoyment of playing well all year," said Turk, who's team has now won six in a row. "You get the opportunity to host playoff games. We certainly wanted to bring the energy for our home fans."
GV didn't let up at all in the third quarter, putting up 24 more points to take a commanding 56-32 lead into the fourth. Carter Turk dished out impressive assists to the Plizga brothers in the third, with Payton scoring nine of his 11 in the third quarter and brother Cooper hitting a pair of inside buckets.
"A lot of talk about Carter is his scoring, but he'd rather pass the ball to his teammates," Coach Turk said. "We certainly need him to score at times, but he's a really good passer."
Of Payton Plizga's big game, Turk said, "He's been a beast all year. He's the heart of our team."
Most of the fourth quarter was played with the starters on the bench. All 14 of the Mustangs in uniform played, with youngsters Parker Zupancic, Sam Mazzei, Hunter Doing, Alex Chudzik and Liam Hart all scoring points. In all, nine different players scored.
"What people don't realize is most of the time these (younger) kids don't get that playing time in tournament games," Turk said. "We were fortunate to get the lead early so we could get those players tournament experience. You never know when you're going to need them down the road."
Next up is a Columbia team that is 13-10 after its 64-46 win over East Canton on Monday.
"We're certainly motivated," Turk said. "The next game is going to be a good one. They might be the best team we've played all year. We're happy that we're going to be playing at our place again."
BOX SCORE
Grand Valley 72, Open Door 43
Grand Valley - Turk 22, Schultz 18, Chudzik 1, Hart 2, Doing 3, C.Plizga 6, P.Plizga 11, Mazzei 5, Zupancic 3.
Open Door: Sqegulak 3, Benoik 24, Hanrahan 6 Patten 4, Coughlin 4, Geyer 2.
Gr.Valley 18 14 24 20 - 72
Open Door 9 12 20 11 - 43
Free throws: GV 11 of 11, Open Door 6 of 12; 3-pointers: GV 9 (Schultz 3, Turk 2, Doing, P.Pizga, Mazzei, Zupancic), Open Door 3 (Benoik 2, Swegulak).
In the inaugural season of Grand Valley’s all-girls wrestling team, Sophia Thirion made program history by becoming the first female wrestler to qualify for Districts, earning a 3rd place finish at Sectionals.
Jenna Poyer and Ava Crouser also had strong performances, each earning 5th place finishes and securing positions as District alternates.
A historic milestone season for Grand Valley girls wrestling.
Congratulations to all of our District qualifiers! Shout out to Joe Montgomery for being Sectional champ!
Joseph Montgomery - Stoltz
(138) 1st
Luke Giddings
(215) 2nd
Dexter Plott
(HVY) 2nd
Zeal Waldo
(113) 3rd
Jesse DeLisle
(175) 3rd
Ashton Lampman
(190) 4th
100th day of school!
GV!
Your Junior Class Officers are working hard on making this year's PROM a walk through an Enchanted Forest!
GRAND VALLEY 72
OPEN DOOR 43
The Mustangs defend home court and are sectional champs for the 2nd year in a row!19-4 overall. Carter Turk leads with 22 points followed by Solomon Schultz with 18 and Payton Plizga with 11. Hunter Doing earns the DIFF for his two-way contributions.
Next game is Monday at HOME vs Columbia in a district semifinal match up!
Celebrating National FFA Week together, our HS AG students read AG related trade books to our elementary school students in the Kindergarten classrooms!
Grand Valley is currently having a lockdown drill. This is a DRILL only.
All is safe.
Thank you!
All is safe.
Thank you!
The Mustangs will host Open Door Christian tonight for the OHSAA Sectional Championship! Game time 7:00 pm.
OHSAA TICKET PRICES:
Adult $10.00
Students $5.00
No passes or Sr discounts
Thank you to the Students of the Month for coming to the Board of Education meeting to be recognized!
This is a friendly reminder for all our GV juniors to continue reviewing the materials presented by Mrs. Brumit for the upcoming FREE state ACT test.
This assessment will be held on Tuesday, March 10th.
Students should get a good night's sleep, eat a healthy breakfast, dress in layers, and bring a calculator and pencils to the testing session held in the high school study hall.
(Students at ATECH will test at ATECH.)
Please see Mrs. Brumit's google classroom (pgvvwec) for additional practice test materials, but paper practice tests were distributed at our pre-testing session.
Keep working hard to prepare for this upcoming session!
This assessment will be held on Tuesday, March 10th.
Students should get a good night's sleep, eat a healthy breakfast, dress in layers, and bring a calculator and pencils to the testing session held in the high school study hall.
(Students at ATECH will test at ATECH.)
Please see Mrs. Brumit's google classroom (pgvvwec) for additional practice test materials, but paper practice tests were distributed at our pre-testing session.
Keep working hard to prepare for this upcoming session!
From Coach Sirrine
GV - 48
Mapleton - 67
Came up short tonight against a very good Mapleton team. Cloe Turk led scoring with 25, Riley Rowland added 9, and Jocelyn Cozad chipped in 7.
There aren’t enough words for how proud I am of this team and their accomplishments. Can’t wait to run it back!
I love my team!
Dear Grand Valley Nation... teachers, parents, students, alumni, and community members,
The Lady Mustangs broke the school record for most wins in a season with a record of 20-3, are conference champs and sectional champs! On and off the court they represent our school, community and their families with pride and excellence and I am extremely proud of them. So come out tonight and support them in their final home game for the season in the District Semi-finals game starts at 7:00 pm. Don't forget to wear blue. Go Mustangs!
