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Hockey fans need to embrace Red Wings streak of 25-consecutive playoff appearances   By Mike Moore Staff Writer   It begins tonight, a tradition bordering on ridiculous, yet one any hockey fan needs to embrace.   For the 25th consecutive season, the Detroit Red Wings are a part of the NHL’s postseason tournament.   Try and put that into context, or find a similarly staggering streak of consistency.   Good luck.   Some will say the Red Wings backed in this year, playing slightly less worse than the Boston Bruins in the season’s final week, but to that I ask, so what?   If the NHL has proven anything since the most-recent lockout, it’s that any team that makes the Stanley Cup playoffs has a shot at ending up on top.   Sure, that’s a long shot for this group of Winged Wheelers, who spent the better part of the season searching for a consistency that never truly arrived.   The team’s leading goal scorer is a 19-year-old, and some of the key pieces still remaining to the last championship in 2008 are approaching the end of their careers.   According to just about every national expert, the Wings begin…

MARION, Ind. – Junior Tyler Reed blasted a first inning grand slam and the Spring Arbor University baseball team cruised to an 11-1 victory in the opening game of a doubleheader against Indiana Wesleyan University on Tuesday. However, the Wildcats took the second game 8-3 to avoid the sweep.   The first two batters of the game reached base on Indiana Wesleyan (27-12, 10-4 CL) errors, and three batters later, Reed made it hurt crushing the first offering he saw over the left field fence to stake Spring Arbor to a 4-0 lead.   That was how the score stayed until the bottom of the fourth when IWU’s Caleb Eder led off the frame with a solo home run, but the Cougars responded immediately with five runs in the fifth to put the game out of reach. With the bases loaded and only one out, Reed singled to left to drive in Chris Triplett and Conner Lengerich. Nate Sitkiewicz and Jack Driscoll would also record RBI hits in the inning.   Reed finished the game going 2-for-3 with six RBI and three runs scored. Sitkiewicz also picked up two hits, including a triple, while driving in three. Lengerich crossed the…