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Khari Willis named JTV Sports Offensive Player of the Year

Story by Larry Jacobson, JTV  Sports   Shocked and disappointed was how Lumen Christi junior Khari Willis described his emotions when the Titans lost in the first round of the playoffs to Parchment this year. “It still hasn’t hit me that the season is over,” said Willis, JTV’s High School Football Offensive Player of the Year for 2013. “I was ready and prepared to be playing all through November, right up until Thanksgiving. I’m still shocked that it ended the way it did.” The end came for the Titans, for the second year in a row, in the first round of the playoffs – this time to Parchment 40-35. “We had so much fun this season – the whole team – and it was great to just be out there with the guys,” Willis said. “Even the practices… I just enjoyed being with my teammates and working with them and getting better. We had a great regular season but just didn’t get it done in the playoffs.” Getting better and better is what Willis did, starting with a 200+ yard game in the season opener at Buchanan – a game that was called at halftime due to a lightning storm…

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Drew Dowding named JTV Sports Defensive Player of the Year

Story by Larry Jacobson, JTV Sports     For Drew Dowding, JTV’s 2013 High School Football Defensive Player of the Year, Michigan Center’s 8-2 record this year was ‘good, but not great.’ And while individual honors will come his way now that the season is over, the team’s fate is what matters the most to him. “It was a pretty good season, but not a great one for us,” Dowding said. “Winning a share of the Cascades Conference championship was amazing and we’re proud of that, but the year as a whole didn’t turn out like I’d hoped.” One of the most decorated football players to ever take the field for Michigan Center, Dowding’s senior season got off to a rough start when he missed practice time in August with a wrist injury. “The wrist injury slowed me down some and I had to deal with that, and then during the season I got mono (mononucleosis),” Dowding said. “It seemed like, for a while there, it was one thing after another, but you just have to push through it.” And push through it he did – to the tune of 104 total tackles (82 of them solo shots) for an…

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Chucky’s Week 2 Playoff Picks

Chucky Buckles is having a tough time this week. He’s questioning everything now. He spent Saturday afternoon watching his beloved Michigan Wolverines get de-pantsed by Michigan State, and yet UM Coach Brady Hoke said – other than an assignment or two – the Wolverines were ‘right in there.’ Chucky knows what it’s like to have his hat handed to him and had his nose broken in a boxing match once. Coach Hoke is either doing his best to keep his team up and energized, or someone tonked him in the head with an errant pass. Anyway, here’s how the playoffs look for week #2-   CONSTANTINE (6-4) @ HILLSDALE (7-3): It’s not fair that Constantine loses all those regular season games (4 this year!) and then rolls into Michigan Center and ends the Cardinals season. Just for that, Hillsdale is going to exact some revenge for their Cascades Conference friends to the northeast. Wait, no… hold on a second… that won’t happen. PICK: CONSTANTINE GRASS LAKE (9-1) @ CLINTON (10-0): Chucky visited Grass Lake for the first time last week. The actual lake, not just the village, and he was awed by its’ beauty. He was also given a stern…

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Schedule: Cross Country State Finals at MIS

Cross Country State Finals, Saturday November 2nd Division 4 Girls - 10am Division 3 Girls - 10:30am Division 4 Boys - 11am Division 3 Boys - 11:30am Division 3 & 4 Awards - 12pm Division 2 Girls - 1:30pm Division 1 Girls - 2pm Division 2 Boys - 2:30pm Division 1 Boys - 3pm Division 1 & 2 Awards - 3:30pm Note: MIS Opens at 8am

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District Playoff Schedule

Division 5 - Parchment (6-3) at Lumen Christi (9-0) Friday 7pm Division 6 - Manchester (7-2) at Grass Lake (8-1) Friday 7pm Division 6 - Hillsdale (6-3) at Jonesville (7-2) Friday 7pm Division 6 - Constantine (5-4) at Michigan Center (8-1) Saturday 1pm Division 7 - Reading (6-3) at Homer (8-1) Friday 7pm Division 7 - Springport (6-3) at Lawton (8-1) Friday 7pm    

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Michigan Center ready for tough matchup with Constantine

  By Larry Jacobson, JTV Sports It’s Halloween season, a time to dress up in costume and pretend you’re something that you’re really not – like a werewolf or a zombie or a super hero. And like a costume, the Constantine Falcons’ pedestrian regular season mark of 5-4 doesn’t reveal who they really are. The Michigan Center Cardinals know it. Since 2002 the Falcons have been one of the most successful programs in the state- rolling up an overall record of 117-21 (85%), making the state playoffs each year, advancing to the state championship game at Ford Field four times (including the last two years) and winning it all in 2004. This year Constantine reloaded and stumbled along the way, losing four regular season games – albeit to four playoff teams. Still, they come in to Saturday’s matchup averaging almost 41 points per game, and remain a very dangerous team. “It’s a bit of a double edged sword for us,” Michigan Center Coach Troy Allen said. “We are very excited to host a playoff game, but when we found out it would be Constantine coming in that turned it up a notch. We obviously know of their playoff history and…

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Chucky’s Playoff Picks

The 2013 high school football playoffs are here and Chucky Buckles, a sage of predictions and many, many irrelevant things, congratulates all the local teams that made the cut!   That being said, predictions must be made….   PARCHMENT (6-3) @ Lumen Christi (9-0): The actual definition of ‘parchment’ is quite disturbing. It’s ‘skin of a sheep or goat one uses on which to write.’ So from this, we can deduce the town was named after bizarre skin-writing goat herders. The Titans survived the big scare at Howell, and look forward to a plain ‘ol matchup with the Panthers, who may or may not have uniforms made out of goat skin. PICK: LUMEN CHRISTI   CONSTANTINE (5-4) @ MICHIGAN CENTER (8-1): Keanu Reeves, who played Constantine in the movie Constantine based on the comic book called Constantine, is on hand to root for Constantine. The Cardinals pull a fast one and bribe him with 23 root beer floats from Rudy’s. The ploy works. PICK: MICHIGAN CENTER MANCHESTER (7-2) @ GRASS LAKE (8-1): The Flying Dutchmen beat Grass Lake earlier this year, but that sort of thing generally just angers the Warriors and makes them quite surly. A catapult hurls soft,…

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Playoff Broadcast Schedule

Saturday 1pm and 7pm and Sunday 3:30pm Manchester at Grass Lake   Saturday 3:30pm and 9:30pm and Sunday 9:30pm Parchment at Lumen Christi   Sunday 1pm and 7pm Constantine at Michigan Center

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Final Regular Season Results – Cascades Conference

Grass Lake                              8-1 (6-1) Michigan Center                      8-1 (6-1) Manchester                             7-2 (6-1) Hanover                                   4-5 (3-4) Vandercook                             4-5 (3-4) Addison                                    3-6 (3-4) Napoleon                                 2-7  (1-6) East Jackson                           1-8 (0-7)

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Today on JTV Sports

10am and 12pm - The Locker Room featuring Spring Arbor Men's Basketball Coach Ryan Cottingham, High School Football Highlights and Jackson Rec Department Youth Football Highlights 1pm and 7pm - Homer at Grass Lake in the Big  8/Cascades Championship Game 3:30pm and 9:30pm - Lumen Christi at Howell

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