Chippewa Hills improved to 9-2 overall and 8-2 in the CSAA with a 59-33 victory over Central Montcalm on Thursday. Hannah Guy scored 25 points for the winners while Kendall Boone had 10 points, Olivia Wolfe seven points and Emily Starck four points and five assists.
Big Rapids Crossroads is 10-1 overall and 7-0 in the West Michigan D League with a 55-15 win over Pentwater Thursday night. Alyssa Larson led Crossroads with 24 points and 10 rebounds while Malory Carlson had 12 points and five rebounds. Crossroads had a 44-8 halftime lead.
Big Rapids’ girls basketball team fell to 3-10 overall and 3-8 in the CSAA with a 44-29 loss to Reed City Thursday night. Reed City was up 8-4 after the first quarter, 21-12 at halftime and 32-17 after the third quarter. Kailey Hunt and Alexis Pylman had six points apiece for Big Rapids.
Saginaw Nouvel was ninth in the 11-team Reed City Invitational on Saturday. Nouvel got first places from Austin Hughes at 152, fourth places from Conner Lipinski at 125 and sixth places from Kane Bourbina at 189, David Trudell at 130 and Blake Drumhiller at 145.
Farwell took eighth place on Saturday in the 11-team Reed City Invitational. Farwell got first places from Glenn Beardsley at 112 and Tristen Zienkiewicz, and fifth places from Kurt Meister at 130 and Nate Carlon at 171.
Big Rapids’ wrestling team was fifth on Saturday in the 11-team Reed City Invitational. Big Rapids got first places from Nate Weckesser at 130 pounds Alim Muhammad at 140 pounds, and second places from Nick Worden at 125 pounds and Desean Griffin at 152 pounds.
Clare’s wrestling squad was fourth in the 11-team Reed City Invitational on Saturday.
The Pioneers netted two first places from Brandon Ayris at 189 pounds and Brenden Hensley at 215; one second place from Logan Emery at 160 pounds and three third places from Michael Evers at 119 pounds, Erick Litke at 171 pounds and Bob Green at 285.
Tri County’s wrestling team finished second in the Reed City Invitational on Saturday. The invitational featured the individual format.
Tri County netted a first place at 103 pounds from Nick McGahn who was 2-0. Austin Sprik was 2-0 at heavyweight. Taking third were Triston Briggs at 2-1, Tucker Martin at 125 pounds, Jesse Britton at 130, Justin Veneklasen, at 140 and Bryan Scott at 152. Jarrod Tague was fourth at 160. Parker Martin was fifth at 112.
Clare defeated Chippewa Hills’ B team 40-30. Zach Betzer, Eric Litke, Brandon Ayris, Brenden Hensley and Bob Green all pinned their opponents, while Logan Emery earned a major decision, to put Clare ahead 34-6. Forfeits at 103, and a loss at 112 for Clare, made way for Alyssa Boberg to pick up six points by void to put Clare ahead 40-18. This would be the last points scored for the night by the Pioneers.
Clare’s wrestling team lost 46-30 to Gladwin in dual match action on Thursday.
Down 12-0, Zach Betzer wrestled at 152 pounds against Owen Ritchie, but was pinned in the second period to put Gladwin up, 18-0. Logan Emery put the first points on the board for Clare at 160 after pinning Demetri Trice in the 2nd period. Eric Litke wrestled a tough match at 171 pounds but lost 14-4. Brandon Ayris pinned Tristan Mitchell at 189 pounds, and Brenden Hensley picked up six by void for Clare at 215 to make it 22-18. At heavyweight Bob Green of Clare was pinned by Nick Ritchie to tack on another six for the flying G’s. After a double void at 103, the hosts got two pins to put Gladwin ahead 40-18. Antonio Bastuba put another six on the board for Clare to bring the Pioneers within 10, 40-30. Six more points picked up for Gladwin by void at 140 ended the match.
“This was a really big night for our wrestling team, we had the table set to beat Gladwin and make a run at contending for the Jack Pine Conference title this year,” said Clare coach Kyle McKay. “Unfortunately, we dumped a couple matches that should have been definite wins for our guys, and it was just something that we were unable to recover from. Gladwin came out to wrestle and they got the job done.”
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