Tuscola County Sports

Imlay City Regional Fowlerville vs. Millington - Monday, March 03 at 6pm Flint Powers vs. Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, March 03 at 8pm Alma Regional Hemlock vs. Lakeview Frankenmuth vs. Belding Bad Axe Regional Flint Beecher vs. Unionville-Sebewaing Area - Monday, March 03 at 5pm Saginaw Nouvel Catholic Central vs. Brown City - Monday, March 03 at 7pm Deckerville Regional Genesee Christian vs. Bay City All Saints - Monday, March 03 at 6pm Peck vs. Aubrun Hills Oakland Christian - Monday, March 03 at 8pm

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from the Detroit Free Press: Robert Davis has accomplished a lot in his 28 years. Davis, a Highland Park school board member since 2002, holds the season record for rebounding at Michigan-Dearborn, where he earned NAIA academic All-America honors. He also has been a newspaper intern and AAU coach. But Davis' next undertaking might be the most daunting task he ever will attempt. Davis will announce next week the formation of an athletic association to rival the Michigan High School Athletic Association, which sanctions most athletic events statewide. The MHSAA has an operating budget of $8.4 million for 2007-08. It has been around for 84 years and has 767 member high schools. If even one school defected it would be news. But Davis plans to start the Amateur Athletic Association of Michigan this fall. It will offer football, girls and boys basketball and wrestling. He said he has received pledges of more than $2 million from individuals whom he declines to name because they want to r...

WIDL's (Mix 92.1) Game of the Week broadcast will be in Sebewaing this Friday to cover the district final of Cass City versus USA. USA (16-3) will be looking to defeat Cass City (11-7) for third time this season, all the while trying to repeat as district champs. USA beat Cass City 46-37 on January 04 (also a WIDL Game of the Week), and then repeated the task on February 04 with a 57-56 win. Cass City will be looking for their first district crown since 2000. Game time is 7:00 pm. Catch all the action starting at 6:30 pm with the pre-game show. We will be covering our thoughts on girls boys districts.

As voted on by our readers, the prestigous Team of the Year trophy for girls basketball goes to.....the Marlette Red Raiders. Marlette led won the trophy with 54% of the total votes. Runner-up Frankenmuth recieved 25% of the votes. Kingston and Reese rounded out the voting with 12% and 8% of the votes. Congratulations to Catherine, Kelsey, Kelsey, Caitlin, Jenna, Brittany, Chelsea, Kayla, Kasey, Kendra, Jenna, Amara, and Amber for a wonderful season. Browse by to download your trophy.

Here are my boys district picks for this week. Hopefully, I will get a few more correct than last week. District 57B - Millington Millington over Croswell-Lexington Vassar over Caro Millington over Yale Vassar over North Branch Millington over Vassar. They have played two close games with Millington coming out on top both times. I think the Frankenmuth win will propel Millington to their first district crown since 1999. District 58B - Essexville-Garber Frankenmuth over Bridgeport. Here I go again picking a team to win for the 3rd time this year, but I do not see Frankenmuth losing 3 games in a row. Freeland over Essexville-Garber Frankenmuth over Bangor-John Glenn Pinconning over Freeland Frankenmuth over Pinconning for a repeat district championship. District 81C - Marlette Burton-Bentley over Sandusky Brown City over Marlette Burton-Bentley over Dryden Brown City over Memphis Burton-Bentley over Brown City . This was a difficult pick, but Bentley has played a difficult sc...

Millington 55, Frankenmuth 44 Add to My Profile | More Videos Mayville vs. Harbor Beach basketball Caro Regional Wrestling Action Reese girls district semifinal versus Valley Lutheran Conference Realignment Click here for some talk about possible conference realignment in the Thumb Area. All speculative of course, but always fun to try to correct something. Low Scoring Night Check out these scores from girls district quarterfinals on Wednesday night. Yes, these are all correct scores, I have double checked all. Deckerville 56 - Kimball New Life Christian 6 Flint Hamady 65 - Genesee 5 Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes 49 - Burton Faith 5 Oakland Christian 66 - Auburn Hills Christian 4 Looks like a few schools should move to the Michigan Association of Christian Schools.

Here are my picks for this weeks district games. I have the brackets up (click the title above for the link). District 57B - Millington Millington over Caro (a change of heart since Becky Albrecht is hurt) Yale over Croswell-Lexington Millington over North Branch Yale over Vassar Millington over Yale for their first ever district crown. District 58B - Frankenmuth Freeland over Bridgeport Frankenmuth over John Glenn Freeland over Pinconning Frankenmuth over Garber (hard to beat a team 3 times) Frankenmuth over Freeland for first district title since 2001. District 81C - Sandusky Dryden over Bentley Sandusky over Brown City Dryden over Memphis (Bentley over Memphis) Sandusky over Marlette (this time the team will not win 3 times) Sandusky over Dryden for repeat district championship. District 89C - Carrollton Mayville over Buena Vista Valley Lutheran over Carrollton Nouvel over Mayville (BV) Valley Lutheran over Reese Nouvel over Valley Lutheran (change of mind following...

As chosen by the readers of this blog, Frankenmuth senior Brad Redford is the boys high school Player of the Year. Redford garnered 58% of the vote. Brandon Bitzer of USA finished in 2nd place getting 30% of the vote. Dustin Griesing (12%) of Millington rounded out the voting. Brad, feel free to browse by the blog and download your trophy.

Brad is on a roll. This stat line from the last week deserves a double-take. Brad Redford is definitely tuning up for the playoffs. Last Tuesday, he dumped in 50 points against Caro. Then on Friday night, Redford dropped 52 points on Vassar. In a makeup game on Saturday night in North Branch, his state-record 102 consecutive free throws made came to an end as the senior racked up 38 points on the Broncos. Then, Tuesday night against Garber, Redford set a school record by scoring 53 points on the Dukes. That's 193 points in his last four games, an average of over 48 points a game. Also, Redford just set a state record on Tuesday night, when he connected on his 116th three pointer of the season in the win over Garber. He's closing in on an average of 40+ points a game, which is almost unheard of in this era of the defensive dominated style of play that everyone employs. And yet, there are still those in the media who oppose Redford as the easy choice for Mr. Basketball. The Sagin...

Here are some local wrestling teams competeing in team districts next week. Division 2 & 4 districts will take place on Wednesday, February 13. Division 1 & 3 districts will take place on Thursday, February 14. District 136-2 - North Branch Flint Beecher (Flint Hamady) Flint Kearsley North Branch District 171-3 - Cass City Caro (#7 in Division 3) Cass City Essexville-Garber District 189-3 - Vassar Frankenmuth Millington Birch Run Vassar District 205-4 - Laker High Laker Mayville Sandusky District 206-4 - Marlette Brown City Marlette Memphis

As chosen by the readers of this blog, Marlette senior Kelsey Hall is the girls high school Player of the Year. Hall garnered 71% of the vote. Kayla Doshier of Millington and Dani Gremel of USA finished in a tie for 2nd place each getting 9% of the vote. Nicole Bade of Frankenmuth (6%) and Whiney Fox of Kingston (3%) rounded out the voting. Kelsey, feel free to browse by the blog and download your trophy.

Relive the excitement of the high school basketball season through audio. At the top of this blog I have an audio player that has podcasts of some of the games as orginally heard on Mix 92.1 WIDL. There is a link for a RSS feed as well as being able to download the games for your Ipod or mp3 player. I will be adding games as the days go on so make sure you check often.

The following athletes will be at the Class C boys finals regardless if their team is there or not. They have been awarded a $1,000 scholarship for their athletic and scholarly achievements. The student athletes are Jenna Lange of Marlette, Jordan Alexander of Carsonville-Port Sanilac, and Joshua Campbell of Kingston. Congratulations to these three athletes. The following from the MHSAA webiste (or click the title for the pdf): EAST LANSING, Mich. – Jan. 29 -- The 120 finalists for the Michigan High School Athletic Association's Scholar-Athlete Award for the 2007-08 school year have been announced. The program, which has been recognizing student-athletes since the 1989-90 school year, will honor 32 individuals from MHSAA member schools who participate in at least one sport in which the Association sponsors a post-season tournament. Farm Bureau Insurance underwrites the Scholar-Athlete Award, and will present a $1,000 scholarship to each recipient. This year, 1,965 applications were...