Kingsford’s Lakyn Wallis (2) hammers home a kill over a Marquette defender on Saturday at Kingsford High School. (Terry Raiche photo)

In this week’s Upper Peninsula high school volleyball poll conducted by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, Calumet took over the top spot in Divisions 1-3 in a surprise move after season-long No. 1 Kingsford suffered its first two losses of the season at its own Clash of the Divisions held Saturday.

Calumet, with a much more modest 18-10-1 record, did its job by defeating Negaunee and Westwood last week, then taking out the Flivvers and Marquette at the Kingsford event. The Copper Kings also lost to Division 4 No. 1 Forest Park at the Clash.

Kingsford, which still has an impressive 19-2 mark, took out Menominee and Gladstone in three sets apiece last week, then also downed Marquette while losing to FP and Calumet at its own tourney.

The Copper Kings got two first-place votes and the Flivvers one as Calumet also held a single point advantage in the voting, 14-13.

Negaunee (18-8-4) held onto its No. 3 position with nine voting points in Divisions 1-3.

Houghton (8-6) is No. 4 with six points.

Manistique (14-9-3) moved back into the No. 5 spot in D 1-3 after being out of the rankings for a week..

In Division 4, Forest Park (34-1) continues to be a unanimous No. 1 with all three first-place votes and a perfect 15 points after posting dual wins over Superior Central and Rapid River last week, then taking out Calumet, Kingsford and Marquette without losing a set at the Clash of the Divisions on Saturday.

And after voters cast their ballots, the Trojans also swept West Iron County on Tuesday.

FP’s only loss came back on Aug. 23 to Saginaw Valley Lutheran in the semifinals of the season-opening Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart Invitational after the Trojans had earlier swept the downstate team in the same event. VL has a 35-8-3 record playing in Division 3.

The rest of Division 4 also remained in the same order, with No. 2 Hancock (22-3-2) getting 12 votes after downing Westwood and Ishpeming last week and not even getting to count a win over No. 4 Lake Linden-Hubbell on Tuesday.

No. 3 Ishpeming (17-5-2) earned nine points after its impressive win over D 1-3 No. 3 Negaunee at the WIN meet Monday, adding in wins over Westwood at that event and a victory over WIC and loss to No. 2 Hancock last week.

No. 4 LL-H (22-4) got four points with wins in five sets over Baraga last week and in three sets over Jeffers on Monday.

And No. 5 Wakefield-Marenisco (18-7) got three points after taking out Dollar Bay and Bessemer last week.

Getting a single vote but missing the top five were Munising (14-6-1) and St. Ignace (22-7-5).