Top Bowling Teams have “New” Head Coaches
Vandercook Lake High School bowler Shelby Miller rolled a 391 series for the Jayhawks during a match at Suburban Lanes on Wednesday. Photo by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. By Jeff Steers JTV Sports Two of the top Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 4 bowling programs have new coaches at the helm. Only a couple of the coaches have been around for a while. Napoleon and Vandercook Lake high schools met Wednesday in a bowling match at Suburban Lanes in Jackson. Vandercook Lake edged Napoleon in boys’ bowling in overtime, 16-15. Napoleon was too much for the Jayhawks in the girls’ match, 25-5. The Cascades Conference match was a debut for VCL girls’ bowling coach Anthony Crabtree and boys’ coach Mike Abbey. Crabtree takes over a program that has won seven state team bowling titles by Todd Reichard. Five bowlers have won individual state titles including Crabtree’s daughter Nicole – who was named the top bowler in Michigan in 2009. Crabtree was an assistant coach at VCL for nearly a decade before becoming the head coach at East Jackson for a couple of seasons. He said nobody wanted to follow Reichard and that success. “I think maybe people were intimidated…
Napoleon, Grass Lake and Vandercook Lake Bowling 12-11-19 | Photo Gallery
Grass Lake, Napoleon, Vandercook Lake Bowling. Suburban Lanes. December 11, 2019. Photos by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. To order prints or downloads, click here. [ngg src="galleries" ids="620" display="pro_blog_gallery"]Grass Lake, Napoleon, Vandercook Lake Bowling. Suburban Lanes. December 11, 2019. Photos by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. To order prints or downloads, click here.
East Jackson vs Jackson Christian Boys Basketball 12-11-19 | Photo Gallery
East Jackson vs Jackson Christian Boys Basketball, East Jackson High School. December 11, 2019. Photos by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. To order prints or downloads click here. [ngg src="galleries" ids="619" display="pro_blog_gallery"]East Jackson vs Jackson Christian Boys Basketball, East Jackson High School. December 11, 2019. Photos by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. To order prints or downloads click here.
Columbia Central vs Western Boys Basketball 12-10-19 | Photo Gallery
Columbia Central vs Western Boys Basketball, Western High School. December 10, 2019. Western 68 Columbia Central 27. Photos by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. To order prints or downloads, click here. [ngg src="galleries" ids="616" display="pro_blog_gallery"]Columbia Central vs Western Boys Basketball, Western High School. December 10, 2019. Western 68 Columbia Central 27. Photos by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. To order prints or downloads, click here.
Defense, Cottingham Lead Western to Opening Win
Columbia Central High School basketball player Sam Lyke takes the ball to the hoop as Western High School player Ryan Cottingham guards on the play. Photo by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. By Jeff Steers JTV Sports If Wilbur “Shooter” Flatch from the movie “Hoosiers” was describing the Western High School boys’ varsity basketball team this season, he may mention that they didn’t have any tree toppers, but were scrappy, and could chuck it from the cheap seats. Columbia Central High School found out the hard way. The Panthers created more than two dozen turnovers in a 68-27 win at home on Tuesday to start the season. Junior Trey Cottingham finished with 26 points and six steals for Western (1-0). “Our energy level was good tonight,” Cottingham said. “We are small, but we have a lot of heart and intensity.” Western had the opportunity to play the entire bench because of the score. The Panthers went hard until the last whistle of the contest. “We have to speed up the game and take advantage of the other team’s guard play,” Coach Ryan Mulnix said. “We aren’t very big, but we are asking our 6-foot, 2-inch guys to play 6-5 or 6-6.”…