Friday Freeze Flash

The Snow Freeze has carried over from Thursday and the weather got a little more extreme overnight with cold snow windy conditions which has wreak havoc on the thumb area roads. So there could be some postponements for Friday night basketball.
FRIDAY NIGHT BASKETBALL:
BOYS
Vassar 49, @ Bay City All Saints 48- Thumb Tailgater Webcast
Harbor Beach vs Sandusky - ppd to Saturday, Feb.27
Reese 69, vs Lakers 62
Ubly 70, @ Deckerville 49
Mayville @ Marlette - CANCELLED
USA 76, vs Essexville-Garber 51
Cass City 63, @ Bad Axe 50
CPS @ Caseville - ppd to Friday, March 5 at 4pm
Dryden @ North Huron - ppd to Monday, March 1st
Kingston @ Owen-Gage - Cancelled, make up on March 6th
Peck @ Akron-Fairgrove - ppd to tomorrow on Sat. Feb.27, 5pm
Cros-Lex vs Capac - ppd to Saturday, Feb.27 - 4pm
Yale vs Armada - ppd to Saturday, Feb.27 - 6pm
Imlay City vs Algonac
Millington 68, @ North Branch 64
Frankenmuth 49, vs Caro 46
Almont @ Richmond - ppd to Saturday, Feb.27 - 12 noon

GIRLS
Cros-Lex vs Capac - ppd to Sat.Feb.27 - 5:30pm
Imlay City vs Algonac
Yale vs Armada - ppd to Saturday, Feb.27 - 7:30pm

North Branch 35, vs Millington 17
Frankenmuth 61, vs Caro 40
Almont @ Richmond - ppd to Saturday, Feb.27 - 2pm
   Last night on Thursday was the end of the regular season for thumb area girls basketball in the NCTL & GTC.
   The Reese Lady Rockets blasted their way on as the lone holders and became the Queens of the west as the became the Greater Thumb West Champions with a victory over the Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Lady Lakers, 61- 41. The Lady Rockets finished the season at 18-2 overall, 9-1 in the GTW. This was also their second straight Greater Thumb West Title.
   Sandusky Lady Redskins had to fight hard to grab their share of the Greater Thumb East Title, with a comeback victory over the Harbor Beach Lady Pirates, 46 - 40. Sandusky are Co-Champions with the Brown City Lady Greendevils. The Co-Champs could possibly meet again in the District final at Brown City High School.
Thumb Tailgater Sports will covering all the games in that No.81 District.
   The Port Hope Lady Bluestars had claimed the NCTL North Title over a week ago as well as the Memphis Lady Yellowjackets who took the NCTL South Championship.

Which now brings the last Friday night game for most of the high school boys basketball teams in the Thumb area of the NCTL & GTC. Some major implications on tap for tonight in the GTC.
   First, in the Thumb Tailgater Sports Webcast game of the night that pits the Vassar Vulcans at the Bay City All Saint Cougars. This game tonight will still not decide who the front runner will be as the kings of west. Even if the Cougars win they still have games with Reese & Bad Axe. Both of those latter teams have to potential to play major spoiler for the All Saints at the end of the season next week. 
   If Vassar wins they can also hope to win outright or at least a share of the GTW title. Even the Lakers have an outside shot of winning a share of the title, even after three straight league losses! Now this is the "Wild West" I always been spewing about, and it is a delightful mess if it comes down to that! Tonight though could be the end of the road for the Lakers if they have a fourth straight loss to the Reese Rockets! That game will be broadcast on WIDL 92.1 FM.
   The Greater Thumb East Title could be claimed by the Harbor Beach Pirates with a victory over the Sandusky Redskins and a Deckerville upset over the Ubly Bearcats. Does that scenario seem likely? We have seen some strange endings in the Thumb area high school sports during the basketball season! Ubly just has to take care of business and I am sure they have been wishing upon the stars and saying their prayers for a Sandusky win.
  North Huron has already taken the NCTL North Title a couple of weeks ago, but the NCTL South championship has yet to be fully decided. Carsonville-Port Sanilac currently have a strong hold of the South, but must win out through the end of the season to claim the title. Peck also needs to win out and hope for a Carsonville loss in order to get a share of the title. It won't be easy for Peck as they have games against Akron-Fairgrove, North Huron & Kingston! 
  On a side note Ubly High School will have an Alumni Basketball Game, that is in turn a fundraiser this Saturday night. Check the right column of this blog for more info.
   **Now then again there could very well be some cancellations due to the cold, cold blowing wind freeze that the Thumb has been slammed with! So if you know that a game will be postponed post it in our blogger comments section, or email.


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