Tuscola County Sports

Kingston trips on way to finals. The Cardinals season was ended last night, when they lost to Parkway Christian in the State Quarterfinals, 60-55. After 24 straight wins, the only loss of the season for the Cards is the one game thay they will all remember for the rest of their lives. I wasn't there (I was in the office putting the paper together) but I listened to the game on the radio and I spoke to Jon, who called the game on 92.1. The general consensus about the game appears to be this...Parkway was too quick for the Cards and Kingston committed around 22-24 turnovers in the game, which is uncharacteristic for the Cardinals. But, with that being said, Kingston's stats were built against the slower players they faced in the NCTL, so we really had no idea what their ballhandlers were capable of doing until last night. Truth be told, the Cardinals went up against their first quality opponent of the year last night, a team that was probably similar in talent to the Cards, and...

Kingston wins Regional title. Yes, it's true...I don't know everything. After I boldly predicted that Kingston would not make it out of the Regionals, the Cardinals went and proved me wrong last Thursday with a 57-53 win over Fowler. The Cardinals and coach Mike Rea made a point and came away with the school's first Regional title since 1998, so congratulations to every kid on the team and to all the Kingston fans who kept their cool and resisted the temptation to punch me in the face. Now for the problems.... On my way out and in the following few days, I spoke to numerous people who were either there or listened to the game on the radio and one common concern was present in everyone's comments: that Kingston is now 24-0 and they have still not played their best game. Is it good that they have ran through this many games without peaking? It could be, since they do have to win at three more games to win the State title, and the fact that they have not peaked could wo...

Time to man up . Tonight is the night when we see what the Kingston boys basketball team is made of. The Cardinals play Fowler tonight at 7 pm at Saginaw Heritage for the Class D Regional title. Apparently Fowler has been known as the "Cardinal Killer" for the last few years, but by the looks of their record, it would appear that the Fowler team is not as strong as they have been over the last few years. That doesn't mean that the Cards will not have their work cut out for them--any team still alive at this point is obviously a quality team. Kingston is going to have to play their best game of the season to get this one done. They need to play a lot better than they did the other night when they barely broke a sweat in eliminating Owen-Gage from the playoffs. From the sounds of his post game comments, coach Mike Rea was not pleased with his teams shooting performance in the game against the Bulldogs. They shot poorly from the free throw line, but they ran out to a 20-...

Yes it's been a while since I wrote anything on here, but we've been busy at work with all the winter sports in the playoffs and other things. Here's some thoughts on what's happening. It must be the water. We had the All-Thumb meeting yesterday and the basketball team voting was interesting. It has nice balance and it goes to press on March 28. There are some surprises, at least I think so. I think our player of the year choice is a little confusing, but with no clear cut choice for POTY, I guess it was anyone's award to get. The problem was, that once the vote got to me, the POTY who was chosen already had secured four of the six votes that were present, so nominating a player at that point seemed like a waste of time. Speaking of awards. We released the TCA all-area dream teams this week, and we have gotten nothing but flack from area coaches. We put them together a little early because I have organized a dream team picture at Caro high school for both ...