Football
King football coach suffers heart attack
Detroit – Detroit King head football coach Dale Harvel suffered a heart attack on Saturday. Harvel collapsed shortly after King’s 28-17 victory at Detroit Mumford and was taken by ambulance to Sinai Grace Hospital on Detroit’s west side. Terel Patrick, King’s assistant head coach and now the acting head coach said Harvel had surgery at ...
Football
Lumen Christi wins third consecutive title, 42-28, over Montague in D6 final
Detroit – Jackson Lumen Christi has one of the most storied football programs in the state and the Titans added to that lore on Friday. Lumen Christi wore down Montague in the MHSAA Division 6 final and won its third consecutive title, 11th overall, with a 42-28 victory at Ford Field. Lumen Christi ...
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Kingsley rushes for 333 yards, wins first district title since 2005 with a 44-14 victory over Beaverton
Kingsley – Ian Sousa of Kingsley couldn’t have imagined a senior season like this. Sousa, a two-year starter at defensive end and tight end, endured a 1-8 season a year ago and his spirits were down. Enter Tim Wooer. Wooer’s homecoming is just what Sousa and his teammates needed as the Stags ...
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Lakeview’s Evan Rochon switches to quarterback, powers Huskies to a 41-32 D2 playoff victory over Roseville
St. Clair Shores – A month ago Macomb County rivals Roseville and St. Clair Shores Lakeview played an entertaining game that featured a Roseville touchdown on the game’s final play that gave the Panthers a 26-24 victory. The MAC Blue Division members paired off in a Division 2 predistrict at Lakeview on ...
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Griggs’ second TD gives TC West a 21-14 victory over previously unbeaten TC Central in Patriot Game
Traverse City – Greg Vaughn was hired as head coach at Traverse City West and brought with him an extensive background as an offensive line coach. Perhaps it is apropos that West’s offensive line was the dominant unit when the 7th Annual Patriot Game reached a crossroad in the fourth quarter. West and rival ...
Basketball
Lasha Petree returns to Arbor Prep lineup; Gators are good to go with state tournament a month away
Ypsilanti – When making predictions for the state tournament or simply assessing a team’s strengths, often the overall record is not the place to start. Some teams don’t play a particularly strong schedule so their record could be inflated. The teams that do play a strong schedule will often have multiple losses and in the ...
Basketball
The Glass family of coaches continues at Caledonia and Leland
Caledonia – Mike Glass is in his sixth season as the girls basketball coach at Caledonia and though the Fighting Scots have done well under Glass he knows he has much to live up to with respect to the family name. Caledonia, which lost to Class A finalist East Kentwood in a district ...
Basketball
Rushed into coaching at Ann Arbor Huron, Waleed Samaha has the River Rats playing inspired ball
Ann Arbor – The athletic department at Ann Arbor Huron received quite a surprise on Nov. 6 when Lindsey Klemmer, for personal reasons, resigned as the varsity girls basketball coach. That day was the official start of practice for the season for a young and inexperienced Huron team. Opportunities take many forms but the last ...
Basketball
Trevion Williams, a dark horse in the race for the 2018 Mr. Basketball Award, is ready to take on more responsibilities
Detroit – Belleville, Clarkston, Detroit East English Village Prep, East Lansing and Grand Rapids Catholic Central are all well-known and, most often, formidable boys basketball programs. Detroit Henry Ford Academy School for Creative Studies, not so much. The assumption can be made that many, likely most, who follow high school basketball don’t know where the ...
Basketball
Marcus Bingham of GR Catholic Central could be a diamond in the rough for MSU coach Tom Izzo
Grand Rapids – The sky is the limit for Marcus Bingham, Jr., of Grand Rapids Catholic Central. Bingham, who said he’s 6-9½ inches tall but looks like he’s 6-11 and plays like a 7-footer with the ball handling skills of a wing, has started fewer than 20 games at the varsity level and won’t turn ...
Basketball
The race for the 2018 Mr. Basketball Award will likely feature a 6-player field; here are the front runners and the longshots
This season’s candidates for the Hal Scram Mr. Basketball Award appears to be limited to six players with Clarkston’s Foster Loyer and Brandon Johns of East Lansing representing the frontrunners as December nears its end. The other four – Marcus Bingham, Jr., of Grand Rapids Catholic Central, Gabe Brown of Belleville, David Dejulius, Jr., of ...