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Read more HERE So what do you think? Rumor is to do this for basketball as well. Here is the NW v. SE breakdown by school: Caro will "float" Northwest All-Stars Akron-Fairgrove Bad Axe BCAS Cass City Kingston Laker Millington North Huron Owen-Gage Reese USA Vassar Southeast All-Stars Brown City CPS Cros-Lex Deckerville Dryden Harbor Beach Marlette Mayville Memphis Peck Sandusky Ubly

It looks like this has some legs. Here is the Free Press article: Reactions to the organization that hopes to rival the Michigan High School Athletic Association has been "very receptive." That's the message Amateur Athletic Association of Michigan founder Robert Davis was trying to project at Wednesday's news conference formally announcing the formation of the non-profit organization that hopes to sponsor postseason play in high school football, and boys and girls basketball in the fall. On hand for the announcement at the AFSCME building in Detroit was former University of Michigan basketball standout Jimmy King, who will serve as the executive director. "I have to credit Robert and Gary for standing up and going against the grain," said Southfield board of education secretary Darryle Buchanan, who stood alongside King and Davis at the conference. Besides Southfield, Davis said he has met with the school districts of Detroit, Saginaw, Ann Arbor, Harper Wo...

Free Press All-State girls basketball: Class B honorable mention Becky Albrecht, Caro; Nicole Bade, Frankenmuth ; Erin Bentley, Ida; Laura Boylan, Grayling; Molly Coldren, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep; Molly Collins, Houghton Lake; Sarah Davis, St. Clair; Dominique Dixon, Detroit Renaissance; Kayla Doshier, Millington ; Liz Ellis, East Grand Rapids; Chelsea Gaddis, Farmington Hills Harrison; Brittany Galloway, Lansing Waverly; Astynn George, Sturgis; Brooke Jastrzembowski, Chesaning; Clare Juengel, Midland Bullock Creek; Katie Knaffle, Cheboygan; Kristin Kotarba, Williamston; McKenzie Kudron, New Boston Huron; Jessica Nagy, Carleton Airport; Taelor Sanders, DeWitt; Kassie Snyder, Marine City; Emily Stewart, Brooklyn Columbia Central; Kayla Crockett, Stockbridge; Amy Veltkamp, Cedar Springs; Lindsey Yaklin, Almont. Free Press All-State girls basketball: Class C teams Second team Alicia Leipprandt-Ubly Dana Cook-Addison Marissa DeMott-Sandusky Emma LaBeau-Monroe St. Mary CC Brita Kuiper-Olive...

No Apologies necessary. Millington's Dustin Griesing has been named the 2007-08 All-Thumb boys basketball Player of the Year by the Thumb Sportswriters Association. Griesing now becomes the first ever athlete to claim the boys basketball and football Players of the Year trophies in the same year, quite an athletic accomplishment and the fact that this feat was done by a kid from Tuscola County makes it even more special. Being a born-and-raised Millington kid myself, I think that Dustin Griesing is a fine young man and good representative for the entire Millington community. We couldn't be more proud of everything he has accomplished throughout the 2007-08 athletic seasons. Being named All-Thumb Player is a big deal! There are 26 high schools in the Thumb Area, and if you factor in that each school might have anywhere from 12-15 kids on a high school varsity basketball team---that means that Griesing has been honored as the best boys basketball player out of perhaps 350-400 s...

The baseball and softball spring preseason rankings have just been posted by the each respective coaches association. While we do not have any baseball teams ranked by the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association , you have a chance to see in the #1 ranked team in Division 3 (Saginaw Nouvel Catholic Central) play a few Tuscola County teams this spring. The Pathers travel to Millington to take on Coach Dipzinski and the Cardinals on April 03. On May 22 Coach Beagle and the Patriots of USA travel to Saginaw. Lastly NCC will be in Vassar on May 27 to take on Coach Baldwin and the Vulcans. Sorry Wildcat fans, I missed you ranked at #9 in Division 3. You can check out Mayville's season schedule here . The Mayor is not going to like that omission. Speaking of the Patriots, Unionville-Sebewaing Area girls softball team begins the season ranked #1 in Division 3 by the Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association . Coach Houthoofd and his Lady Patriots are looking for a 3-Pe...

In breaking news from Tuesday night...Reese High School basketball coach Jeff Casler has announced his retirement from coaching the Rockets. Read more here (read the story at TuscolaToday.com ) Congrats to Coach Casler for leaving with a Class C Coach of the Year honor and a perfect regular season in the books. Also...this from the MHSAA... Joshua Campbell (center) of Kingston High School was honored as a recipient of the Michigan High School Athletic Association's Scholar-Athlete Award at the 2008 MHSAA Boys Basketball Finals at the Jack Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing on March 15. Shown with Campbell are: John E. "Jack" Roberts, executive director of the MHSAA (left) and Jim Robinson, executive vice-president of Farm Bureau Insurance. Campbell will receive a $1,000 scholarship from Farm Bureau Insurance to be used at the institution of higher learning he attends this fall. Farm Bureau Insurance awarded 32 scholarships, proportionately by school classif...

Here we are the Tuscola County Crew. Sicotte, The Mayor, Christian, Coach Bassett, and Andrew may not be on the radio with pre-game shows again until the fall, but you can catch us on-line right here. Last night, we recorded 3 short episodes (reviews of girls baseketball, boys basketball and Mr. Basketball). Through out the spring and summer we will recording shows and posting them here. You can download them to your mp3 player or play them right from the website. If you have iTunes you can subscribe to the show with the following RSS link - http://www.blogamp.com/clientfiles/blogamp_free/1201888477976/rss/feed.xml BREAKING NEWS In iTunes, search for keyword Tuscola and you can subscribe to the Podcast feed as well. Doing it this way will ensure you get the most up to date podcast downloaded directly to your iPod. Thanks for listening

The MHSAA spins their own version (and of course in a BS PC way) of how they strongarmed the coaches to stop play. My main beef...if they KNEW what they were going to do, why not announce it after the 7th OT? Maybe the kids would have played all out and not so defensively in the "final" period. And if there is this "no game on Sunday rule", fine, play til midnight then...it was 11:35 when they called it. Plus if you listed to this guy, he admits he "told" not asked the Marquette and OLSM administrations and coaches on what was going to happen. I really need to get a hold of my buddy's little bro and get his take. He plays for the Redmen. UPDATE: A fine story by the Time Herald's (Port Huron) Matt Schoch. Story here:

MR. BASKETBALL Frankenmuth's Brad Redford wins award Voting results Here are the results of the 28th annual Hal Schram Mr. Basketball award, given by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan, in conjunction with the Detroit Free Press. Only BCAM members are permitted to vote. 1. Brad Redford, Frankenmuth 1,402 points 2. Draymond Green, Saginaw 1,245 points 3. Paul Williams, Detroit Renaissance 547 points 4. Dominique Buckley, Romulus 349 points Points are awarded on a 5-3-1 basis.

UPDATE!!!! MSHS Coach Joe Papin responds on NMU hockey broadcast Sunday night. OK, first off: This has NOTHING to do with Tuscola Co. But it has EVERYTHING to do with high school sports. Saturday night, after 8 overtimes in the MHSAA Division 1 State Finals for hockey, the game was called a tie (1-1) between Orchard Lake St. Mary's and Marquette Senior High. Yup, co-champions! What the truck is that about? What if this was a semi-final game? Would they have stopped it? No. It was the easy, "Bud Selig" way to do it. And forget about a shootout. That is an NHL regular season thing to do. This is the playoffs. You play to see who is the best. Heck, why have playoffs? Let's just award every kid a medal and a state championship trophy at the end of the season for every sport. Forget next weekend at the Breslin. Congrats to all the teams that made the quarterfinals. The season is over. You all win. Hang a banner now! Disgusting. Regardless, congrats to the Redmen and Eaglet...

As voted on by our readers, the prestigous Team of the Year trophy for girls basketball goes to.....the Reese Rockets. Reese won the trophy with 50% of the total votes. Runner-up Frankenmuth recieved 23% of the votes. USA and Millington rounded out the voting with 15% and 10% of the votes. Congratulations to Chris, Greg, David, Josh, Matt, Mike, Dan, David, Isaac, Ty, Brad, Morgan, and Taylor for a perfect regular season. Browse by to download your trophy.

The Millington Cardinals defeated Fowlerville on Monday night to move into the Regional Final game against the Powers Catholic Chargers . Powers moved to the final game by defeating Ponitac Notre Dame Prep by a score of 75-57. The Chargers compete in the Big Nine Conference in Genesee County. The Big Nine comprises of Davison , Carmen- Ainsworth , Flushing, Powers Catholic, Grand Blanc , and Kearsley . Yes, only six schools in conference called the Big Nine, obviously counting problems like the Big Ten. Tim Herman has coached this team to an overall record of 17-7, along with a 2 nd place finish in the Big Nine. The Chargers have scoring average of 69.2 points per game, while giving up 56.4. Powers has been primarily led all season by the Moreland brothers. Younger brother Shane (#2), a 6'2" junior guard, leads the team in scoring with an average of 19.2. Older brother Tyler (#1), a 6'3" senior guard, is 2 nd on the team scoring 16.3 points per game. Roundi...

We will be in Imlay City this Monday covering the Class B Regional Semi-Final between Tuscola County's Millington Cardinals and the Fowlerville Gladiators from Livingston County. The Gladiators led by Coach Fred Hackett play in the Capitol Area Activities Conference (CAAC). Fowlerville (18-5 overall) finished in 2nd place in the CAAC Gold Division with a record of 7-3. The purple and gold Gladiators have been led all season by 6'2" senior guard/forward Sean Romsek (#12), with a scoring average of 17.6 points/game. Also averaging double figure in points per game, are 6'4" senior forward/center Joe Lane (#30) with an average of 11.9 and 5'8" senior guard Ryan Ross(#14) with an average of 11.5. Fowlerville advanced to the regionals by winning 3 games in District 46B at their home gymnasium. They defeated Perry 76-55 last Monday in the district quarterfinal. Last Wednesday, they defeated the Lake Fenton by a score of 83-69. In the district final on Frid...

Cardinals Rule. Faced with a 10-point deficit as the game entered the fourth quarter, Millington staged an amazing comeback on Friday night. Led by Dustin Griesing's nine fourth quarter points, the Cardinals erased the deficit against North Branch and won, 52-49, taking the Class B, District 57 championship as well. The District title is the first boys title for the school since 1999. Griesing was 'Mr. Clutch' down the stretch. The senior calmly was 6-for-6 in free throws within the game's last minute of play, giving his team the title over the Broncos. It was obvious that Griesing was not going to allow his team to lose, as he put them on his back and carried them to the title when they needed it most. Millington, down by as much as 12 in the third quarter (34-22), was in desperate need of an offensive spark when the game entered the fourth. Griesing, as much the general on the court as he was on the football field, took over at the point and directed the comeback. Nor...

Click here to hear the exciting finale of the Cass City vs. USA Class C District Final. Tim Holland's buzzer beating 3-pointer proved to be the difference as USA moves to the Bad Axe Regional. I have also added the link for download in the player above. Enjoy USA.