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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 B3
SPORTS THE BAY CITY TIMES
Prep Football Schedule Friday’s Games Atlanta at Au Gres-Sims Bay City All Saints at Laker Bay City John Glenn at Lapeer East Beaverton at Sanford Meridian Caro at Mt Morris Carsonville-Port Sanilac at Akron-Fairgrove Clare at Roscommon East Jordan at Grayling
Outside the huddle After two weeks, you would think the Outside the Huddle crew would have a clue. But they are as confused as Keith Olbermann at a Tea Party. “Olbermann and Dan Patrick were the best ever at ESPN,” Lee “T” Thompson said. “I wonder whatever happened to Olbermann? Did he die or something?” He was probably just
another Detroit Lions fan who, after years of frustration, went into hiding ... or to MSNBC, which is pretty much the same thing. Lee T. isn’t about to go into hiding, although he’s 0-2 on Detroit Lions picks, one of the reasons he’s tied for last place with “Stone Cold” Kyle Austin and Willy B. Wright. Still, Lee has made worse
decisions, like when he was a 12-year-old baseball player and tried to hide two chocolate bars by sitting on them or when he crashed a bachelorette party and left the seat up. Paul “The Professor” Neumeyer and Hugh “The Mad Bavarian” Bernreuter remain tied for first place after 8-7 records last week and own
a three-game lead over the three last-place contenders. “Don’t worry Lee,” the Professor said. “ESPN may not have Olbermann any more, but at least they have Matt Millen.” Lee smiled a little, knowing that Millen was now only dangerous to people who actually believed in his “expert” analysis.
Flint Northern at Bay City Central Frankenmuth at Essexville Garber Gladwin at Farwell Hale at Lincoln Alcona Hillman at Mio Houghton Lake at Harrison
Season record:
Paul “The Professor” Neumeyer
Hugh “The Mad Bavarian” Bernreuter
(19-10)
(19-10)
Lee “T” Thompson
“Stone Cold” Kyle Austin
Willy B. Wright
(16-13)
(16-13)
(16-13)
Jackson Da Vinci Institute at Owendale-Gagetown
Lions at Vikings
Vikings
Vikings
Lions
Vikings
Vikings
Kingston at Arenac Eastern
Falcons at Saints
Saints
Saints
Saints
Saints
Saints
Marion at Oscoda
Bengals at Panthers
Panthers
Bengals
Bengals
Bengals
Bengals
Peck at Kinde-North Huron
Steelers at Buccaneers
Steelers
Steelers
Steelers
Steelers
Steelers
Reese at Cass City
Cowboys at Texans
Cowboys
Texans
Texans
Texans
Texans
Saginaw Heritage at Bay City Western
Titans at Giants
Giants
Giants
Titans
Giants
Giants
Tawas Area at Standish-Sterling
Eagles at Jaguars
Eagles
Jaguars
Eagles
Eagles
Eagles
Redskins at Rams
Redskins
Redskins
Redskins
Redskins
Redskins
Raiders at Cardinals
Cardinals
Cardinals
Raiders
Raiders
Cardinals
Chiefs
Chiefs
Chiefs
49ers
49ers
Chargers
Chargers
Chargers
Seahawks
Seahawks
Ravens
Ravens
Ravens
Ravens
Ravens
Traverse City Central at Ogemaw Heights Unionville-Sebewaing at Bad Axe Vassar at Memphis Whittemore-Prescott at Pinconning All games 7 p.m. unless noted
Golden Helmet Award The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and The Bay City Times are in their 46th year of presenting the Golden Helmet Award, given weekly to four top performers throughout the high school football season. Each winner becomes eligible for the season-ending Golden Helmet Player of the Year honor.
Garrett Bowker, Bay City All Saints 6-0, 165, Senior, TE/DB It’s not too often an All Saints receiver gets a chance to shine, but Bowker is making the most of his opportunities. The senior gave the run-dominated offense a spark through the air, catching four passes for 136 yards and a touchdown in a 51-8 win over Bad Axe. “We’re not a spread offense by any means,” All Saints coach Eric Gust said. “But when we do pass, we know we can go to Garrett and something is going to happen.” Bowker also had five tackles and an interception on defense and booted a PAT.
Chris Guinn, Essexville Garber 6-0, 185, Senior, RB/LB The Dukes have suffered from some setbacks of youth this season, but they saw a glimpse of the benefits of experience Friday when Guinn helped Garber score 29 first-quarter points on its way to a 43-6 rout of Bridgeport. Guinn rushed for a team-high 104 yards and two scores, while adding seven stops on defense. “He’s what we call our bulldog, our dirtdog,” Garber coach Jake Coquillard said. “He gives everything he has, and he loves the contact of the game. He definitely means a lot to our offense as he’s one of our best running backs.”
Austin Pichiotino, Bay City Western 6-1, 175, Junior, QB When it comes to dream games, it’s difficult to even imagine a better night than Pichiotino’s 500-yard, nine-touchdown performance. The reigning Golden Helmet Player of the Year accounted for 56 points in Western’s 57-27 win over Saginaw. Through the air, he completed 13-of-19 passes for 175 yards and five touchdowns. On the ground, he was good for 326 yards and four TDs on 17 carries. “We see it every day in practice, so it really didn’t take our breath away,” Western coach Bruce Mann said. “But then when you see the numbers, you see that it was a big deal.”
Cody Somerville, Reese 6-0, 185, Senior, RB/LB In a battle of Greater Thumb West unbeatens, Somerville emerged as the difference-maker in Reese’s 41-20 victory over Vassar. He rambled for 169 yards and four touchdowns on 26 carries on one side of the ball and rang up seven tackles with a pair of sacks on the other. “He’s been a darn good player for us,” Reese coach Bob Saylor said. “He’s got decent size and great speed, so when he breaks into the open, he might be gone.”
New sports contact info • Game Results: (989) 894-9641, or (800) 219-9919 from 7-11 p.m. Monday-Friday, 5-11 p.m. on Saturdays. • General info: (989) 671-1205 from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. • Sports Editor Paul Neumeyer: (989) 372-2503. • Sports Coordinator Lee Thompson: (989) 895-3542. • e-mail: sports@bc-times.com. • Fax: game results, (989) 893-0649
49ers at Chiefs Chargers at Seahawks Browns at Ravens Colts at Broncos
Colts
Colts
Colts
Colts
Colts
Bills at Patriots
Patriots
Patriots
Patriots
Patriots
Patriots
Jets at Dolphins
Dolphins
Jets
Jets
Dolphins
Jets
Western boys soccer team tops Central, 3-1 THE BAY CITY TIMES
Boys Tennis
BAY CITY — Bay City Western coach Jeff Swears was nervous. With fifteen minutes left in the game, his team was clinging to a 2-1 lead, but he could feel the momentum of the game shifting over to Bay City Central. Central’s Connor Lemiesz had just missed scoring the tying goal with a shot that bounced off the post. But with about six minutes left, Western moved the ball into Central’s end of the field. That’s where Tyler Gilbert found Alex Dardas about 15 yards out, and he buried a shot to take some of the pressure off of the Warriors. With the win, Western moves to 9-32 (3-0-2 Saginaw Valley League) while Central falls to 5-2-2 (3-1-1 SVL). Central got on the board first when Connor Lemiesz battled off a Western defender and put one past Western’s Taylor Schumann. Western came back ten minutes later when HOLLYN JOHNSON | THE BAY CITY TIMES Brandon Awad put home a rebound. Western’s Briton Ott takes the ball down the field against Bay City Central on Boys Soccer Clio 5, Bay City John Glenn 2: Mike Rayl Wednesday at Handy Middle School.
Bay City Western 7, Flint Southwestern 1: Jack Leach, Andrew Balzer and Diego Calvo each won their singles matches while Bridger Badour/Matthew Bailey, Jake Penkala/Daniel Schindler, Solomon Champagne/Dan Hamm and Jamison Perdue/Joe O’Dell won in doubles for Western. Bay City All Saints 4, Saginaw Nouvel 4: Tyler Martin and Paul Kuczynski won singles matches for All Saints while Brandon Donajkowski/Ryan Gysin and Kirby Burns/T.J. Bullock won in doubles.
assisted on two goals by Connor Windiate. Nate Seifferly registered 12 saves.
Girls Swimming Bangor John Glenn 121, Ogemaw Heights 62: Kristen Tobin, Kali Hartt and Sara Hamme each won four events to power Glenn to the ISC victory. Brianna Williams and Emily Rousse each claimed three wins.
From B1 —
Volleyball USA 3, Bay City All Saints 1: Sami Eisengruber tallied 19 kills and Chelsey Ewald 36 assists. Stephanie Sutton had 32 assists and Jill Gerulski 11 kills for All Saints. Bay City Western 3, Flint Northern 0: Kia Groya’s 26 assists, Maddison Sebald’s 11 aces and Mallory Sebald’s 10 digs spirited Western the Valley victory. Bay City Central 3, Flint Southwestern 0: Katy Iannacchione tallied seven kills, Marissa Charbonneau had 10 assists and Emily Schell seven aces.
Boys Cross Country
• Steven Wysocki (19:05) took third and Alex Jones (21:09) was sixth to lead Ogemaw (39) to the NEMC Jamboree win in a title battle with Standish-Sterling Essexville Garber 131, Standish-Sterling (41) and Pinconning (44). Ben Hemstreet 39: Olivia Schultz won four events, post(18:29) took first for Pinconning while ing a state qualifying time in the 500 free- Ben Lentz (19:30) led Standish in third. style (5:24.20) in the ISC win for Garber.
Girls Cross Country
Girls Golf Midland Dow 188, Essexville Garber 200: Sara Spencer shot 45 to lead Garber while Alyssa Warner carded 49, Clare Christie 52 and Erin Campau 54.
FOOTBALL Seasoned Dukes face Eagles
and rushing against Saginaw High and the Warriors will program, for the kids and need another strong showing their confidence level,” to reach 5-0 for the first time Coquillard said. “It was a since 2005. Heritage’s defense great feeling for our offen- has struggled the past two sive guys, almost a sigh of weeks, including a loss to Flint relief for them to help the Northern last Friday. • Bay City Central (2-2, 2defense out. We’ve been in every game because of our 2) is looking for a three-game defense. Hopefully we can winning streak when it hosts Flint Northern (1-3, 1-3). The continue that success on Wolves have found a spark on Friday.” offense with Brennen Gohr Now Garber football fans and Sean Daugherty hooking get to see a more seasoned up for three TDs in last week’s football team than the one 44-0 win over Flint Southwestern, the program’s first shutthat last played at home on out since 2006. Aug. 26. • All Saints (2-2, 1-2) hopes With a lock-down to string together wins when it travels to Laker (1-3, 0-2). The defense, and an offense Cougars got healthy with a that’s beginning to show romp past Bad Axe a week ago some promise led by senior when QB Drew Janer accounttailback Chris Guinn and ed for more than 400 yards. emerging sophomore signal But defending co-champion caller Mason VanSumeren, Laker is another matter, even the Dukes are ready to face though the Lakers have tallied just 36 points on the season. a dangerous Eagles team. • Bangor John Glenn (4-0) In other Bay County has a marquee matchup with action: Lapeer East (4-0) in a battle • Front-running Bay City of unbeatens. Fresh off a win Western (4-0, 4-0) revs its over Ogemaw that assured at offense back up for another least a share of the North East key Saginaw Valley League Michigan Conference title, the game, hosting Saginaw HeriBobcats now gun for their third tage (2-2, 2-2). The Warriors quality win outside the league. have hit the 50-point mark in • Pinconning (0-4) hasn’t all four outings, already surbeen 0-5 since 1972 and hopes passing last season’s scoring to dodge that mark against vistotal with 217 points. iting Whittemore-Prescott (4-0). Junior quarterback Austin The Spartans have won the last Pichiotino is coming off an 12 meetings, dating back to incredible 500-yard, nine1976, including last year when touchdown night passsing they handed W-P its lone loss.
• Ogemaw (25) rattled off six straight finishers between third and eighth place to score 25 points and top StandishSterling (45) and Pinconning (65) in the NEMC Jamboree.
Bay County Football Leaders PASSING Player (School)
Austin Pichiotino (W) Travis Bryant (JG) Mason VanSumeren (G) Drew Janer (AS) Brennen Gohr (C) Collin Lorenz (P)
Comp. Att.
42 23 20 13 7 12
65 38 51 29 18 33
Yards
TD
706 491 349 339 150 103
13 8 3 2 4 0
RUSHING Player (School)
Att.
Yards Avg.
TD
Drew Janer (AS) Austin Pichiotino (W) Josh Alba (W) Devin McCulloh (JG) Darion Lopez (C) Tanner Kain (JG) William Daniels (AS) Chris Guinn (G) Mason VanSumeren (G) Cameron Sullivan (C)
64 50 67 58 42 48 51 49 36 40
732 591 568 443 283 276 270 244 218 196
11.4 11.8 8.5 7.6 6.7 5.8 5.3 5.0 6.1 4.9
7 8 10 6 3 2 3 3 3 5
RECEIVING Player (School)
Rec.
Yards Avg.
TD
Tanner Kain (JG) Charles Proctor (W) Carter Harris (G) Garrett Bowker (AS) Tyler Ellis (W) Tyler Kuch (W) Ryley Henika (G) Nick Vachon (W)
15 12 11 9 9 7 4 4
343 117 167 258 232 73 102 53
6 4 2 2 4 2 0 1
22.9 9.8 15.2 28.7 25.8 10.4 25.5 13.3