MHSAA state individual wrestling championships, March 7, 2020, Ford Field. Photos by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. To order prints or downloads, click here. [ngg src="galleries" ids="689" display="pro_blog_gallery"]MHSAA state individual wrestling championships, March 7, 2020, Ford Field. Photos by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. To order prints or downloads, click here.
Students from the Jackson Area Career Center Team, The Jacktown Vectors, compete in the 2019 First Robotics Final Round Competition at Northwest High School. Photo by Patrick Gerweck, JTV. Hundreds of Michigan high school students pioneering the next generation of robotics will visit Spring Arbor University (SAU) on March 5-7 to compete in Jackson County’s second annual FIRST in Michigan District Robotics Competition. The Star Wars-themed competition is sponsored by Consumers Energy and is the first event of its kind for SAU. The FIRST robotics competition is a three-day event that is free to the public and located in the McDonald Athletic Center at SAU. “SAU is excited to partner with FIRST Robotics and Consumers Energy to bring high schoolers from across the state to this event. We see this as an excellent opportunity to help promote robotics and STEM programs,” says Ron Delap, Dean of the School of Engineering. “These students are building and competing with machinery that makes them stand out from their peers in our state and across the nation. This is a showcase for the next generation of scientists, engineers and problem-solvers right here in our community,” said Roger Curtis, Consumers Energy’s vice president for public…
A.J. Benn, left, of Northwest High School battles Trevor Baker of Western High School during the Michigan High School Athletic Association district tournament at NWHS. Photo by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. By Jeff Steers JTV Sports On a night of Michigan High School Athletic Association wrestling district action, points were hard to come by. Western High School scored just enough to upset Northwest in the Division 2 district final at NWHS on Thursday night. The Panthers tied the Mounties at 28, but won on criteria – most wins by a count of 8-6. Western joins five other area schools who will advance to regional semifinals in team wrestling on Wednesday of next week. Regional tournament winners advance to the MHSAA state team finals Feb. 28, 29 at Wings Event Center in Kalamazoo. Also winning district titles in Division 3 were Napoleon and Onsted High Schools. The Pirates will wrestle No. 1 ranked Dundee and Onsted will wrestling Monroe Jefferson at a yet-to-be-determined site in Division 3. Springport, Manchester, and Addison won Division 4 district titles. Addison will wrestle Union City in the regional semifinal in one Division 4 regional; and Springport will wrestle Byron and Manchester’s opponent has yet to…
MHSAA girls basketball East Jackson at Vandercook Lake High School, Jan. 24, 2020. EJ won 51-43 in overtime. Photos by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. To order prints or downloads, click here. [ngg src="galleries" ids="658" display="pro_blog_gallery"]MHSAA girls basketball East Jackson at Vandercook Lake High School, Jan. 24, 2020. EJ won 51-43 in overtime. Photos by Jeff Steers, JTV Sports. To order prints or downloads, click here.
