Big Nine - After another week against a big conference rival, Davison again stood out from the pack. The Cards took care of the Bobcats with a 18-7 victory and claimed first place all to themselves. The Bobcats were averaging 38 points a game before their struggles on Friday night. Davison is now halfway to their [...]
Week 4 - This Week On The Gridiron
The Hottest Ticket In Mid-Michigan - Ithaca @ Merrill
The Hottest Ticket In Flint - Goodrich @ Montrose
The Hottest Ticket In Lansing - Grand Ledge @ Everett
The Hottest Ticket In The Tri-Cities - Chesaning @ Freeland
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The Big Nine - Flushing is coming off of a disappointing loss to Davison while Carman-Ainsworth topped Powers last week in [...]
Week 3 - Friday Night Flashback
Friday night saw football fields across the state get doused with large amounts of rain. It’s always interesting to see how teams react in conditions that may alter their style of play or gameplan, especially the teams that rely on a lot of passing and spread the field out. It’s in these conditions that we [...]
Week 3 - This Week On The Gridiron
The Hottest Ticket In Mid-Michigan - Sexton at St. Johns
The Hottest Ticket In Flint - Fenton at Linden (FNT) tied with Davison at Flushing
The Hottest Ticket In Lansing - Portland at Williamston
The Hottest Ticket In The Tri-Cities - Bay City Western at Saginaw High
The Big Nine
This is a huge week for every team in the Big [...]
Nouvel over St. Charles in OT Thriller
In a tale of two halves, it was the third one that made the difference in Nouvel Catholic Central’s overtime victory over the St. Charles Bulldogs.
In the first half, the Bulldogs could do no wrong. Senior Ryan Humpert put the Bulldogs on the board early with an 80 yard touchdown run. The 2-point conversion attempt [...]
St. Charles escapes Marlette
The St. Charles Bulldogs entered their first play-off game with an undefeated record and ranked 2nd in the final Associated Press Division 6 poll.Marlette wasn’t intimidated. Their big-play offense was able to keep pace with the vaunted Bulldog run game, but the Red Raiders still fell in a heart-wrenching 36-34 loss.After a scoreless first quarter, [...]
St. Charles handles Hemlock
The St. Charles Bulldogs wrapped up their first undefeated regular season since 1999, but Hemlock made sure that it didn’t come easy. The winless Huskies were able to stay in the game and even threaten a late-game rally, however a comeback never materialized.
It was St. Charles’ senior quarterback Brian Halas who opened the scoring with a pass, uncharacteristic [...]
Knights Slip by Chemics
The Midland Chemics dominated the first half and kept Mark Ingram, Flint Southwestern Academy’s star runningback, contained to 77 yards. However, that wasn’t enough to prevent from Midland dropping a 1-point decision to the visiting Knights.
The game started out as well as Midland might have hoped. Michael Albrecht put the first touchdown on the board after a 6:00+ drive [...]
In Praise of SWA
Despite what the headlines might suggest, the players on the Flint Southwestern football team have as much pride and character as any team in the state.
They endured headlines about the integrity of their program after it was discovered two of their players were convicted felons. They endured a suspended head coach.
Last Friday, they discovered they [...]
The Mentor’s Mentor
When I wrote my first commentary piece since Friday Night Titans has existed in the ‘Friday Night Flashback’ on Wednesday night, I had no idea how much the title on the homepage ‘Coming Home’ really summed up the game between Bay City Western and Arthur Hill tonight. The title had so many meanings, my return to Arthur Hill [...]