On the sunny afternoon of August 4, the Grovettes, under Captain Sue Panzer and Coach Andy Porzio, beat the Suffolk County Copettes, the police team under Captain Rich, in the Cherry Bowl Volleyball Tournament once again. The teams played two 21-point games and a 15-point game. The Grovettes bested the Copettes, 21 to 15, in game one; the Copettes beat the Grovettes, 21 to 13, in game two; and the Grove team won the deciding game, 15 to 10, and won the tournament.

Mark Atten, who was in the first games in 1984, continued to play for the Grovettes and Steve Baldassare returned to play for the team. Sal Piro and Paul Jablonski called the games and Doreen Rallo served as referee.

After the opening parade of teams, cheerleaders, band, and colors, Porsche kicked off proceedings on the volleyball court by singing the "Star Spangled Banner," assisted by DJ Chuck McTague, and Cherry Queen Dallas Dubois threw out the first ball. Between the first and second games, the cheerleading Cherry Tarts relieved several of the Copettes of their shirts and convinced them to dance; Lavinia Draper sang "Let's Hear It for the Boy;" and the Suffolk County Emerald Society Pipe & Drum Corps played patriotic songs and "Amazing Grace." Between games two and three, Dallas offered "Dance Ten, Looks Three" and Ariel Sinclair, head Tart, confided, "My Vagina is Eight Miles Wide."

After the games, a collection was taken up for absent Grovette Fran Reinhardt, whose father died earlier in the week, and a poolside victory party, complete with complementary hotdogs and hamburgers, was held at the Grove Hotel/Ice Palace.