Tuscola County Sports

Here we are...another week down and we inch closer to the end of the winter sports season. I for one am looking forward to it. It's the most wonderful time of the year . Pitchers and catchers reported for the Tigers last Thursday and I believe that the rest of the supporting cast join them tomorrow. It doesn't seem like that long ago that the Tigers were generating buzz by making the World Series last fall, but since it has been extremely cold since then, all the days kind of blend in together, so a week really only feels like a day or two when its cold (if that makes any sense). But with the Tigers reporting to Lakeland, it just means that spring is right around the corner and with it, warmer temperatures and bright blue skies and the return of the sun. It also means that softball is almost here. Kingston--paper champions . I don't care what anyone says...Kingston's basketball team will not make it out of the regionals. They waste their whole season playing what b...

Why would they do that? Another story to file under the heading "What the hell were they thinking..." Apparently last Friday night, three Akron-Fairgrove varsity basketball players and one junior varsity player were caught drinking an unspecified alcoholic substance in the back of the school bus while the team was traveling to Kingston for a game. That's right...they were drinking on the bus...while going to a basketball game. Reports that surfaced today stated that the players snuck the alcohol onto the bus in Gatorade bottles, and then began to pass the substance around while the team was on the road. The team bus driver is the town sherriff, and I don't know yet if he smelled the booze or if someone else turned the young men in, but they were busted, given a breathalyzer when the bus stopped in Kingston, and then all hell broke loose. Nine playes from the varsity squad were held out of the game. Two players from the JV were brought up so the team would not have to...

Who's #1. The race for supremacy in the GTW continues to be the best story in the area. After Friday night, there area three teams with two league losses (USA 5-2, Reese 4-2, Lakers 3-2), one team with three losses (Cass City 4-3) and one with four (Bad Axe 2-4). BCAS is the only team in the league that I would say is, as of right now, officially out of the race for the title. Things should get start to clear up next week. On Tuesday, Cass City plays at USA and Reese is at Lakers; Friday night Reese is at Cass City and BCAS is at Bad Axe. This is the only suspenseful conference race in the area involving more than two teams. Brown City is slowly pulling away in the GTE; the Green Devils are 13-1, 7-0 in conference play. The closest team is Harbor Beach, two games back at 5-2 in the league. The NCTL North is close, with North Huron just one game back of Owen-Gage. (I won't even mention the South). And in the TVE, Bridgeport all but has that wrapped up. So the GTW, and the three...

I know, I know, I need to try to write more. My goal was everyday, but I was sick for the last week. Between working way too many hours at work, I'm also foolishly taking nine credits this semester at UM-Flint, all in a vain effort to try and finish my Master's Degree by May, so my time has been a little tight. Redford blows up . I went to the North Branch-Frankenmuth game tonight, and it was a great game. Bred Redford had the hot hand, as the junior guard dropped in 48 points, yet saw the Broncos pull out a 91-82 victory. Redford scored 20 in the first half, 28 in the second; he was 17-of-18 from the free throw line and nailed seven three-pointers for the Eagles, but when the game was on the line, Redford was on the bench. With 47 seconds left, and with North Branch's Zac Heuter made the first half of a one-and-one, making the score 84-80 in favor of the Broncos. On the miss, Redford was going for the rebound and he ended up rolling his ankle on Heuter's foot. Re...