Lumen Christi defeated Northwest, 60-39 Friday night in a battle of unbeatens. Junior Khari Willis scored 19 points and Senior Matt Bullinger notched 17. The Titans are now 4-0. Photos by Ryan Kerwin, JTV Sports. Click above photo to launch gallery.
Northwest defeated visiting Lumen Christi Friday night, 61-43. Lexi Khon and Ashley Bunker led the Mounties with 15 points apiece. Photos by Ryan Kerwin, JTV Sports. Click above photo to launch gallery.
Lumen Christi defeated Lansing Catholic Central in overtime, 55-50 Tuesday night. The Titans are 3-0 on the season. Senior Matt Bullinger led Lumen Christi with 15 points and was 75% from the line. Junior DeMarian Snellenberger recorded a career high 13 rebounds. Photos by Noah Baker, JTV Sports. Click on above photo to launch gallery.
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…
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…
The Division 7 State Semifinal game between Homer (11-1) and Detroit Loyola (12-0) will air on JTV Sunday at 1pm and 7pm. The Trojans defeated Decatur 26-15 last week, while Loyola knocked off Southfield Christian 50-7. Homer is making its first trip to the semifinals and is the first Big 8 Conference team to advance this far in the playoffs since Reading made it to the Division 7 semifinal in 2008.
Homer captures Division 7 Regional Championship with a victory over Decatur, 26-15. The Trojans (11-1) advance to the Division 7 State Semi-Final game vs. undefeated Detroit Loyola, Saturday at 1pm at Chelsea. The game will air on JTV Sunday at 1 and 7pm. Photos by Andy Hawley, JTV Sports. Click above photo to launch gallery. Homer (11-1) 70.111 vs. Detroit Loyola (12-0) 106.667 - S 1:00 PM at Chelsea
This weekend on JTV Sports we replay some of the best games from the 2013 year. Saturday 1pm and 7pm - Homer at Grass Lake Saturday 3:30pm and 9:30pm - Lumen Christi at Howell Sunday 1pm and 7pm - Napoleon at Hanover-Horton Sunday 3:30pm and 9:30pm - Holt at Jackson
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…
Photos from the MHSAA State Cross Country Championships at Michigan International Speedway, Saturday, November 2, 2013. Photos by JTV Sports. Click above photo to launch gallery.