Thursday Night Football & Friday's Freaks on Thursday

Marlette 52 Mayville 20
Laker High 26 Cass City 7
Reese 54 All Saints 21
Millington 45 Macomb Lutheran North 6
North Branch 30 Frankenmuth 13
Caro 42 Bridgeport 6
Dryden 50 Kingston 12
Brown City 40 USA 12
Vassar 42 Bad Axe 16

Marlette - Dee Sanchez 8-62 2TD & INT return for a TD, Donnie Thomas 3-17 TD & INT return for a TD, Brandon King 12-103 2TD, & Brent Speer 7-7 PAT with a 32 yd FG, also 7 out of 8 kickoffs resulted in a touchback.

Mayville - Aaron Mercer 13-23 pass 137 2TD 2INT & Kyle Perkins 11-115 TD

Reese - Josh Pickell 5-7 pass 128 4TD 3-26 rush TD, Caleb Gnatkowski 2 TD rec, & Travis VanAlst 9-57 2TD, Kyle Yaklin 2-89 rec TD

Millington - Justin Stutler 14-83 4TD, Noah Moore 9-12 156 TD, Cam Wilson 2-70 rec

North Branch - Doug Griffin 20-137 3TD & 2-7 pass 11 yds, Kyle Cline 3-4 PAT with a 34 yd FG, & Ron Jones 3 INT

Caro - Mike Daniel 22-138 3TD 3 2PAT & Brant Miller 20-178 TD

Kingston - Joe Straul 5-15 137 2TD 12-46 rush, Taylor Nicol 5-140 rec 2TD

USA - Tim Canfield 70 rush yds TD 2-23 rec, Tyler Masse 22-123 rush 3-97 rec TD

Vassar - Tyler Best 12 tck, Kyle Auernhamer 12-17 156 2TD pass PAT, Keif Vickers 12-129 2TD 88 yd KO ret for a TD, Madison Harper 6-87 rec

This week's Freak Nasty Player of the Week was an easy choice. The man who accounted for five touchdowns - Reese quarterback Josh Pickell. Pickell threw for four touchdowns while running for another in his team's 54-21 victory of Bay City All Saints.

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