Alim Muhammad was first at 140 pounds for the Big Rapids at the Ovid Elsie Invitational on Saturday. He was in a weight class in which three wrestlers came into the tournament without a loss. Nate Weckesser grabbed second place at 135 pounds after losing in overtime. He bumped up to 135 pounds from 13.
Big Rapids wrestles in the Shepherd Invitational on Jan. 4.
The Saginaw Heritage varsity boys bowling team won the 2013 Pinconning Invitational Tournament held Sunday at Bay Lanes in Bay City. The 16-team tournament consisted of a qualifying round of 6 Baker games and three peterson games (5-man team games), then a head-to-head match play bracket to the championship. Heritage had a 3,504 for third place in the qualifying round, plus
Baker games of 166, 149, 184, 188, 189, 175; Peterson games of 845, 790 and 815
High games were Tyler Scott (211), Travis Taylor (188, 198), Morris Pruitt (188), Brandon Southworth (173).
In the round of 12: Heritage defeated Bay City Western JV, 2-0 (187-130, 163-157). In the Round of 6, Heritage defeated Bay City Western Varsity, 2-1 (168-160, 146-155, 166-157). In the championship match: Heritage defeated Hartland, 2-0 (198-172, 198-160).
“Pinconning had the Middle Road Oil Pattern on the lanes and it was difficult to score throughout the tournament,” said Heritage coach Peter Ryan. “We just tried to stay out of trouble and make spares all day, but that proved very difficult to do. The scores were relatively low across the board, so we just kept grinding out games and ended up with the third seed following the qualifying round. “The top two seeds were defeated in the match play rounds and we survived to move up to the No. 1 seed in the stepladder finals. That put us in the championship match where we bowled our best two baker games of the day, two 198 games to win the tournament. It was one of those days where we weren’t necessarily at our best, but we just kept grinding through the tough conditions and made quality shots when we needed them. In the end, we bowled our best when it counted and found a way to win. I’m really proud of the team for keeping their focus and heads up during a difficult and long day on the lanes.”
The Heritage bowlers that participated in the tournament Tyler Scott, Morris Pruitt, Travis Taylor, Adam Clauss, Robert Henne, Brandon Southworth and Shane Carlson.
The Clare wrestling team was fifth overall behind Shelby, Tri County, Chippewa Hills and Bullock Creek Saturday at the Joe Loren Memorial Invitational at Chippewa Hills High School.
“With 19 teams scheduled for attendance, this tournament was a glimpse into the individual district for Division 3,” said Clare coach Kyle McKay.
Clare entered 13 wrestlers on the day, with double entries at 152, 160, 171 and 189. Eight out of the 13 entrees ended up walking out with a medal at the end of the day.
Zach Betzer (152) went 3-2 on the day and finished in sixth place. Logan Emery (160) took first and Steven Bentley took eighth place. Brandon Ayris (171) lost a nail biter in the finals, 8-6, and finished with a second-place medal on the day. Eric Litke (171) took fifth, his only loss coming to his teammate Ayris in the first round. Freshmen Hart Smalley (189) come in seventh place after going 3-2. Brenden Hensley (215) finished in third, and Bob Green also finished in third place at 285, both going 2-1 on the day.
The Pioneers finished in fifth place overall behind Shelby, Tri-County, Chippewa Hills and Bullock Creek.
“Without entering wrestlers at 103, 112, 125, 135 and 140, this was a pretty remarkable feat for this wrestling team to pull off,” McKay said. “We wrestled some really tough matches and have a great deal of insight as to what we need to improve on in the upcoming year.”
The Pioneers are at St. Louis on Saturday.
Freeland’s girls basketball team got off to a quick start and held back Alma Tuesday night in a 61-49 victory. Freeland was up 13-9 after the first quarter, 27-16 at halftime and 45-30 after the third quarter. Freeland is 3-1.
Breanna Short scored 19 points and had seven shot blocks for Freeland while Taryn Taugher had 18 points and four assists, Sofia Guterrez had 10 points and Hannah Foy scored nine points and added four assists. For rebounds, Short had 10, Taugher eight and Foy four.
Freeland’s girls basketball team got off to a quick start and held back Alma Tuesday night in a 61-49 victory. Freeland was up 13-9 after the first quarter, 27-16 at halftime and 45-30 after the third quarter. Kenzie Seeley drained five 3-pointers and scored 19 points to lead Alma. Maddy Seeley followed with 16 points while Kendall Vedrode had nine points and Lexi Morton four points. Alma fell to 2-3.
Clare improved its record to 5-1 with a 75-17 victory over Harrison on Thursday night in girls basketball action. Clare was up 25-4 after the first quarter, 49-6 at halftime and 63-13 after the third quarter. It was 9-4, Clare, in the fourth quarter.
Lindsay Winter led the Pioneers with 25 points, 10 steals and four assists. Mackenzie Phayer added 12 points, Corrine Wezensky contributed 10 points and five rebounds, Morgan English added eight point and Alex Stark had five points, seven steals and five rebounds.
Ithaca’s girls basketball team lost 53-48 Thursday at Ithaca in girls basketball action to Saginaw Valley Lutheran. Ithaca fell to 1-5 while Valley Lutheran is 1-4. Lacie Mates led Ithaca with 10 points and 12 rebounds while Mikayla Borrows contributed nine points and two steals, Liz Bentley had nine points, two steals and eight rebounds and Kyle Hafin had six points, 10 rebounds, four assists and one steal.
St. Louis entered Tuesday’s game with Ithaca at 2-1 but fell to 2-2 with a 53-20 loss to the Yellowjackets. For St. Louis, Dakota Latoski scored six points, followed by Zach Mizer with five, Collin Shaw with four and Noel Bailey and Eddie Jackson with three apiece. Ithaca was up 10-2 after the first quarter, 23-10 at halftime and 39-19 after the third quarter. Ithaca had a 15-8 scoring advantage in the final quarter.
Ithaca improved to 3-0 on Tuesday with a 53-20 boys basketball victory over St. Louis. Ithaca was up 10-2 after the first quarter, 23-10 at halfitme and 39-19 after the third quarter. Ithaca had a 15-8 scoring advantage in the final quarter. Josh Hafner scored 12 points to lead Ithaca, followed by Logan Hessbrook with 11, Travis Smith with 10 and Eli Villalobos with eight.
Crossroads boys basketball team celebrated a 51-36 victory over Onekama on Tuesday night. Crossroads, 2-1 overall and 2-0 in the league, was up 15-4 after the first quarter, 27-20 at halftime and 44-23 after the third quarter. Aron Garland led the Cougars with 22 points with five field goals, two 3-pointers and six free throws. Justin Thorne scored nine points for the winners.
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