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Donald Lierman Sports Editor I nearly changed the name of the column to Rah Rah’s Rant. Because O.D. is excited. Pending Wednesday’s outcome with Oakland Community College, the 11 nationally ranked SC4 men’s basketball team could be playing for a slice of the MCCAA Eastern Conference pie. Saturday, February 20, the 5 ranked Mott Bears…
Aaron Tomlinson Copy Editor The Lady Skippers basketball team let it rain against the Kirtland Firebirds, 67-52, on Feb. 6. The floor was dry in the first five minutes, however, with the score resting at 7-3. Toward the middle of the first half, the Lady Skippers picked up the slack with points from turnovers and…
The SC4 women’s basketball team defeated Delta College, 75-69, in a Saturday afternoon game. The Skippers maintained a lead throughout the game, but they never managed to pull away. Their biggest lead came at the fifteen minute mark in the second half, when they were up 49-38. Delta managed to whittle the lead down to…
Support your local Skippers athletics! ‘Twas a big day Saturday for both the men’s and women’s basketball athletic programs. The men’s team knocked off number one in the nation Henry Ford Community College, 76-72. This was the first singeing of the Hawks’ feathers all year. Henry Ford had won 19 consecutive games until that night.…
“There were a lot of bodies flying in different directions,” said men’s basketball coach Dale Vos. Bodies tossed, scrambled, and sliced in a conference clash with Oakland Community College with the Skippers reigning victorious 80-73. In the first half, the action was hot enough to peel the new paint off the gym walls. Both teams…