Can you believe that we are only three weeks away from the playoffs?!? Wow, this season has went by, but it is far from over for some Thumb Area teams.In the Greater Thumb East, Brown City, Deckerville, Sandusky & Marlette are all fighting for playoff survival!
With the Greater Thumb West, the road has gotten a little bumpy for the Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Lakers to get to the postseason. Lakers need just one more win to get in the playoffs. Vassar is also battling to bust their way into the playoffs. Reese got in by beating Lakers in Week 7, and causing a current three way for the GTW Title!
The North Central Thumb League the on the line for the Memphis Yellowjackets. They will take on the feisty Peck Pirates; both teams are 4-3 overall, so this is an important game for the schools to try to win out and make it in to the playoffs. Peck would also like a share of the NCTL Title as Memphis could leave with the outright championship and the league after this year. Dryden needs just one win as their record is at 5-2 and the North Huron Warriors are clinging to post season hopes also with their record at 4-3.
In the Blue Water Area Conference, four teams have the major case to make it to the playoffs! That's how competitive it is in that Class B league. Richmond, Capac, Yale, and Almont will battling it out this week in their league games with each other. Croswell-Lexington is at Yale this week; this game has lost a little luster as it could have been for the outright title for the Pioneers. But thanks to the Capac Chiefs victory who edged the Yale Bulldogs in Week 7- 14-13, the Pioneers can now breathe a little easier as they clinch a playoff spot and the BWAC Title. However Cros-Lex can't take it easy with Yale who will be coming into this game and take another bite towards the postseason! Croswell-Lexington by the way, is ranked #2 this week in the Tuscola County Sports Blog, Thumb Power Poll.
The Tri-Valley East League has a couple "slobber knockers", as Essexville-Garber & Millington have clinched their playoff spots. North Branch is on the cusp, needing one more win - but it is against 2nd place Millington Cardinals! And if the 3rd place North Branch Broncos don't get that win over Millington, they will have to contend with BWAC league opponent Yale Bulldogs in Week 9! Garber could win the outright Tri-Valley East title with a victory over Bridgeport this Friday night.
Huron Daily Tribune Sports Writer Paul Adams & Huron County Press Editor Chris Ogryski will be back for the Week 8 Edition of the Thumb Tailgater Sports Show. Our schedules were overloaded in Week 7 so that is why they were absent from this past week. That show will be ready to be posted very late Wednesday or the early hours of Thursday. Portions of the show will make it on our Live Stream Audio Cast on Friday night.
WLEW Sports Guy - Rick Glaza will also be my special guest once again this week also and that show will be ready also by Thursday, either on this blog or at our website - www.thumbtailgater.com
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