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Petoskey boys cross country runs away with its Division 2 regional and heads to the state finals, as volleyball opens districts Monday

The Mitten Daily · November 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. ET · Petoskey

Spectators in hoods and hats watch from the edge of a grassy cross country course marked with flags, with trees behind it.
Spectators at a high school cross country championship in New Jersey in a 2019 file photo; it does not show Petoskey. Photo: Jonathan Schilling / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), cropped and resized; derivative shared under the same license.

PETOSKEY — Petoskey’s boys cross country team won the Division 2 regional at Remus Chippewa Hills on Friday, Oct. 30, by a wide margin and qualified for the state finals.

The Northmen scored 45 points. Fremont was second with 99 and Cadillac third, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported. Gaylord placed eighth, ending its season. In cross country, the lowest team score wins.

Senior Reeve Oberman led Petoskey in fourth place in 16 minutes, 27 seconds. Teammates Jack Frentz (16:29) and Garrett Lansing (16:33) were right behind him in fifth and sixth. Senior Carson Brey finished 12th, sophomore Tyler Royle was 19th in 17:15 and Owen Young was 23rd, according to the Record-Eagle.

Petoskey went in as the favorite. A Lansing State Journal playoff preview in early October called the Northmen boys a heavy favorite in the 16-team regional field.

The state finals are Saturday, Nov. 7, at Michigan International Speedway, the Record-Eagle reported. Petoskey’s athletic calendar lists a 1:30 p.m. time for the team’s state-finals event.

Other Petoskey teams are also still playing. The volleyball team opens the district tournament with a semifinal at Gaylord on Monday, Nov. 2, at 6 p.m., according to the school’s athletic calendar. A win would put the Northmen in the district final at Gaylord on Thursday, Nov. 5, against Marquette or Alpena, with regionals at Gaylord set for Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Football’s season ended Friday with a 35-14 loss at Mt. Pleasant in a Division 3 district semifinal, leaving the Northmen 6-4. The team had beaten Clare to close the regular season the week before the playoffs began.

Sources:
Traverse City Record-Eagle, “Prep roundup: Petoskey boys win regionals; Central falls to Mona Shores in 49-42 shootout” (Oct. 30, 2026; team scores, places and times, state-finals site), https://www.record-eagle.com/sports/prep-roundup-petoskey-boys-win-regionals-central-falls-to-mona-shores-in-49-42-shootout/article_a0811867-e7b6-4cc8-b990-cbb502b3cbc8.html
Lansing State Journal, “MHSAA playoff assignments for Petoskey-area volleyball, soccer and XC” (Oct. 6, 2026), https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports/high-school/2026/10/06/mhsaa-playoff-assignments-for-petoskey-area-volleyball-soccer-and-xc/92053931007/
Public Schools of Petoskey athletics calendar (volleyball district and regional dates, state-finals time), https://websites.eventlink.com/s/petoskey-high-school/Events
MaxPreps, Petoskey vs. Mt. Pleasant football box score (Oct. 30, 2026), https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/football/game/mt-pleasant-vs-petoskey/10-30-2026/?c=c98f8a55-ed8b-4fb2-bb5f-febb881bdfb4
Photo: Jonathan Schilling, “Holmdel Park cross-country NJSIAA group championships 2019,” Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holmdel_Park_cross-country_NJSIAA_group_championships_2019.jpg

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Tags: Petoskey Northmen · Cross country · MHSAA · Volleyball · High school sports · Running

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