Friday night.
Here it is. Another Friday night of high school football is here. Can it already be week six? This is a big week for all of our teams in the TCA area....we have three that can clinch a playoff spot tonight with wins (Millington, Frankenmuth, and Reese).
I'm going to be at the Bad Axe-USA game on Friday night. I'm really looking forward to this one...I haven't yet been to a game at USA and I have not seen a Bad Axe team since my junior year of football at Millington (we lost to the Hatchets big. Final score was 44-28).
It should be a good game....the Hatchets, outside of a 55-12 blowout loss to Reese, look like the real deal. The Patriots have a lot to overcome, including only having 14 players on the sidelines, but in the end, I like the Pats in this one.
It could happen again. Two teams, both undefeated, and playing each other in the last league game of the season. Millington is 7-0 and ranked in the state....Frankenmuth is 7-0 and ranked in the state. The game is in Millington with the winner taking home the Tri-Valley East title. This could all happen in two weeks, if both teams win their next two games, but guess what... it's all happened before!
The year was 1991, which just so happened to be my senior year at Millington. We ran through our first seven games of the season, with the majority of the games decided before halftime (check out www.michigan-football.com to see the full results of the 1991 Cardinals.) Frankenmuth did the same....and by the Friday of October 25, 1991, were ranked number three in Class C. We were ranked somewhere around 8 or 9 in Class B.
In front of the roughly 4,500 fans who piled into the old Alumni Field in Millington, we won the game 6-0 on a quarterback sneak from Matt Hoard, who scored with about 3:00 minutes left on the clock. It was one of the best games I ever played in. I came close to scoring the winning touchdown...I broke a draw play (I was the starting tailback for Millington) free from the 20 yard line on the winning drive, and took the ball to where I thought was inside the endzone. The refs claimed my knee was down on the half-yard line, so two plays later, Hoard took the ball in and we won. It was the first time Millington had defeated Frankenmuth in more than ten years, and it was the first time Furno had ever led a Millington team to a Tri-Valley conference championship.
Ofcourse, in the years since, Millington has established themselves as one of the strongest teams in the Mid-Michigan area.
And now, 16 years later, we could be lucky enough to see another final game showdown between Milllington and Frankenmuth. Let's just hope that in the next two weeks, both teams do their parts and win their games.
I'm going to be at the Bad Axe-USA game on Friday night. I'm really looking forward to this one...I haven't yet been to a game at USA and I have not seen a Bad Axe team since my junior year of football at Millington (we lost to the Hatchets big. Final score was 44-28).
It should be a good game....the Hatchets, outside of a 55-12 blowout loss to Reese, look like the real deal. The Patriots have a lot to overcome, including only having 14 players on the sidelines, but in the end, I like the Pats in this one.
It could happen again. Two teams, both undefeated, and playing each other in the last league game of the season. Millington is 7-0 and ranked in the state....Frankenmuth is 7-0 and ranked in the state. The game is in Millington with the winner taking home the Tri-Valley East title. This could all happen in two weeks, if both teams win their next two games, but guess what... it's all happened before!
The year was 1991, which just so happened to be my senior year at Millington. We ran through our first seven games of the season, with the majority of the games decided before halftime (check out www.michigan-football.com to see the full results of the 1991 Cardinals.) Frankenmuth did the same....and by the Friday of October 25, 1991, were ranked number three in Class C. We were ranked somewhere around 8 or 9 in Class B.
In front of the roughly 4,500 fans who piled into the old Alumni Field in Millington, we won the game 6-0 on a quarterback sneak from Matt Hoard, who scored with about 3:00 minutes left on the clock. It was one of the best games I ever played in. I came close to scoring the winning touchdown...I broke a draw play (I was the starting tailback for Millington) free from the 20 yard line on the winning drive, and took the ball to where I thought was inside the endzone. The refs claimed my knee was down on the half-yard line, so two plays later, Hoard took the ball in and we won. It was the first time Millington had defeated Frankenmuth in more than ten years, and it was the first time Furno had ever led a Millington team to a Tri-Valley conference championship.
Ofcourse, in the years since, Millington has established themselves as one of the strongest teams in the Mid-Michigan area.
And now, 16 years later, we could be lucky enough to see another final game showdown between Milllington and Frankenmuth. Let's just hope that in the next two weeks, both teams do their parts and win their games.
Comments
Isaac Zimmer is the heart and soul of that team. His return abilities are astonishing. He has nice hands and speed as a reciever, and plays a very good safety (as seen by his hitting ability and interceptions). Reese will go as far as Isaac Zimmer takes them this year.
The only concern I have with Reese coming from a one game obseravation is that the offense seems to have a hard time scoring when they have a long field. The defense and special teams continue to give them a short field the majority of the time and if that continues, then Reese will continue to win many games.
Christian, if what you said is true abut Reese's struggles with a long field, that may not bode well for the Rockets against the Pirates.
Part of me wants to see this game, but the other part wants to see Reese go to 6, so we can have two GTC teams make long runs.
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