Thursday All Thumb Girls Regional Final

Thumb Tailgater Sports is back on a Thursday night for a Regional Championship Final between the two lone thumb area teams in high school girls basketball.
Coverage starts at 6:30pm.
This Regional Final at Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary School pits the NCTL North versus the Greater Thumb East! 
It's the Port Hope Lady Bluestars against the Deckerville Lady Eagles. (Live Game link)
Port Hope has been on a great roll - winning the NCTL North title and icing that cake with a District Championship, and moving on the regional final with a big win over Burton St.Thomas More on Tuesday. A big true test now comes for the Lady Bluestars who now face the Lady Eagles.
Deckerville played a tough competive schedule through the season in the GTC & BWAC Leagues, which have the Eagles battle tested. Especially after beating the #2 Class D state ranked Arenac Eastern Eagles on Tuesday night.
The Port Hope Lady Bluestars hope to keep shining bright as they have never backed down to any opponent and would like to make some Port Hope high school sports history with a regional championship.
Deckerville Lady Eagles feel the same way and wants to keep flying high and maybe catch a falling star. Good luck to both teams as this is a great moment for Thumb area sports fans. Whatever the outcome we will still have a thumb are girls basketball team going on to the Quarter Finals in the Class D State Playoffs!
**Some thumb area teams in boys basketball ended their season on Wednesday night in the District Semi-Finals. In Class B, Vassar lost a heatbreaker in overtime against the Yale Bulldogs, who will take on North Branch in the finals at Croswell-Lexington High School.
In Class C; USA & Cass City lost at the Bad High School Districts. At Memphis High School, Dryden lost to the host school, while Brown City made it to the finals against Memphis. 
At the Class D Districts: North Huron Warriors had their way in a tough game against Owen-Gage to take on Akron-Fairgrove in the finals on the Warriors homecourt. The Thumb Tailgater Sports coverage of the Kingston High School Districts had Peck eliminating the NCTL South Champs - CPS Tigers; out of the playoffs. The Pirates now move on against the Deckerville Eagles who got by the Kingston Cardinals.
All the boys district finals will be played on Friday starting at 7pm.


REGIONAL GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL - Thumb area teams:
Class D Regional No.28 @ Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary
Deckerville 41, Port Hope 30
Thumb Tailgater Webcast, 6:30PM


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Wednesday Round 2 Boys Districts

**First off - the Thumb Tailgater Sports webcast stream host is having some technical issues that arose on Tuesday night during the Regionals. So apologies out to the listeners who are trying to gain access to the archives. Our streaming host is currently at work resolving to fix that situation. But we still have the capability to bring games live on the internet with our audio webcast.
  **UPDATE: Found out that some of our streaming hosts playback servers are down and not working and they are working to fix that. So last night with the mishaps on the disconnections may because of them being in overload mode. 
Thumb Tailgater Sports will be back for an all Thumb area teams Regional Championship on Thursday between the Port Hope Lady Bluestars & Deckerville Lady Eagles. Both teams were victorious in their regional semifinal games played at Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary. At the Genesee Girls Regionals, Brown City & Harbor Beach were ousted from the playoffs.
Tonight starts the Thumb Tailgater Sports coverage of boys district playoff action. We will be covering all the games at the No.114 Class D District at Kingston High School.

Boys Districts Games - Thumb Area Teams:
CLASS D
No.114 @ Kingston High School
Peck 60, CPS 45 - Thumb Tailgater Webcast
Deckerville 58, Kingston 50 - Thumb Tailgater Webcast

No.115 @ North Huron High School
Akron-Fairgrove 64, vs Caseville 37
North Huron 58, vs Owen-Gage 46

No.116 @ Bay City All Saints School Gym
Saginaw Michigan Lutheran 62, vs Arenac Eastern 28
Bay City All Saints 58, vs Au Gre-Sims 41

CLASS C
No.81 @ Memphis High School
Memphis 73, Dryden 49
Brown City 48, New Haven 36

No.89 @ Montrose Hill McCloy
Saginaw Valley Lutheran 72, vs New Lothrop 64
Saginaw Buena Vista 73, Reese 49

No.90 @ Bad Axe High School
Harbor Beach 67, Cass City 35
Ubly 46, USA 37

CLASS B 
No.57 @ Croswell-Lexington School
North Branch 59, Caro 45
Yale 48, Vassar 47 - O.T.

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Tuesday Regional Girl Hoops

Thumb Tailgater Sports is back on with live internet audio stream webcasts! Tonight we are covering two Regionals.
Thumb Tailgater Sports Channel 1: Class C Regional No.22 @ Genesee High School. All thumb area team games will be covered. Adam Filkins & Mark "Mad Dogg" Dimon will be providing live play by play.
Thumb Tailgater Sports Channel 2: Class D Regional No.28 @ Saginaw Michigan Lutheran High School. All thumb area team games will be covered also. Eddie Fury & Special Guest Paul Adams, Sports reporter for the Huron Daily Tribune will be providing live play by play for the first game. JJ Particka will join the crew for the second game. Coverage starts at 5:30pm.


Girls Basketball Regionals - Thumb Area Teams:


CLASS D
No. 28 - D @ Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary
Port Hope 53, Burton St.Thomas 22 - Thumb Tailgater Webcast
Deckerville 49, Arenac Eastern 35 - Thumb Tailgater Webcast

CLASS C
No. 22 - C @ Genesee High School
New Lothrop 50, Brown City 39 - Thumb Tailgater Webcast
Saginaw Nouvel 44, Harbor Beach 29 - Thumb Tailgater Webcast

CLASS B
No.13 - B Millington High School
Durand 54, vs North Branch 23
Goodrich 63, Frankenmuth 34 

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Monday March Magic Mania Gets Into High Gear!

Thumb area boys & girls basketball teams are now in high playoff mode. This week is girls regionals on Tuesday & Thursday. The boys basketball district playoffs tips off Monday night.
Thumb Tailgater Sports will be covering two Regionals for girls basketball. The No.22 Class C Regional at Genesee High School, that involves the thumb area teams of Brown City Lady Greendevils & the Harbor Beach Lady Pirates. 
And the No.28 Class D Regional at Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary School, that consist of thumb area teams of the Port Hope Lady Bluestars & Deckerville Lady Eagles.
Thumb Tailgater Sports will also cover the boys basketball No.114 District at Kingston High School. Thumb area teams involved are Kingston, Deckerville, Carsonville-Port Sanilac & Peck. The live internet coverage will not start until Wednesday. Schedule conflicts have made it difficult for available free time for the Thumb Tailgater staff.

Full listing of MHSAA Boys District Games

Boys District Monday - Thumb Area Team Games:
CLASS D Districts
No. 114 D - Kingston High School
Kingston 63, New Life Christian 48 

No. 115-D Kinde-North Huron High School
Kinde-North Huron 80, @ Port Hope 49 - Final 
Paul Adams, Huron Daily Tribune Sports, reporting

No. 116-D Bay City-All Saints Central - Starts on Wednesday


CLASS C Districts
No. 81-C Memphis High School
Memphis 52, Marlette 42
New Haven 57, vs Sandusky 30 - Final
Brown City 75, vs Mayville 26

No. 89-C Montrose-Hill McCloy School
New Lothrop 72,  Saginaw Arts & Sciences 60
Reese 61,  vs  Genesee 51
Saginaw Buena Vista 87, Montrose Hill McCloy 43

No. 90-C Bad Axe High School
Harbor Beach 58, vs EPBP Lakers 50
Unionville Sebewaing 60, vs Bad Axe 51
WLEW 102.1 FM - Sue Schrader Reporting

CLASS B Districts
No. 57-B Croswell-Lexington High School
North Branch 76, Millington 67 - 2 O.T.
Vassar 59, Croswell-Lexington 52

Full Listing of Girls Regionals

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District Championship Night - Thumb Area Teams

Thumb Tailgater Sports covered the No.81 District Championship game between two state ranked teams - #4 Brown City Lady Greendevils & #3 Sandusky Lady Redskins. The relentless defense and the hot shooting of the Greendevils clamped down on the Redskins where at one point late in the 2nd half, Brown City had a 14 point lead. Brown City came away with the victory 58 - 47. It was the first District title for the Lady Greendevils since 1998.

Brown City Lady Greendevils - District No.81 Champions

Brown City now moves on to the Regionals in Genesee where they are pitted against the #6 state ranked New Lothrop Lady Hornets, who defeated the Greater Thumb West Champions, the Reese Lady Rockets, 37 - 35.  Thumb Tailgater Sports will cover that whole Class C Regional No.22, that also includes Harbor Beach Lady Pirates taking on Saginaw Nouvel. Harbor Beach earned a second straight District title just edging a tough Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Lady Laker team, 40 - 37.

The Port Hope Lady Bluestars continued their great season in their "rubber" rematch over the North Huron Lady Warriors, winning with ease 50 - 30. Port Hope goes on to the Regionals to face off against Burton St.Thomas More Academy. That Regional also includes the great story book season of Twining Arenac Eastern who defeated Saginaw Michigan Lutheran 58 - 47. It will be Eagles vs Eagles in that Class D No.28 Regional as the Deckerville Lady Eagles won their District Title over CPS Lady Tigers in overtime 56 - 49.
At the Class B No. 57 Districts, the North Branch Lady Broncos eliminated Vassar Lady Vulcans 57 - 35. North Branch takes on Durand in the Class B No.13 Regional at Millington High School.

Monday, March 8th, is also the start of "March Magic" for boys high school basketball districts. Thumb Tailgater Sports at this point will be covering the No.114 Districts at Kingston High School. More info and last minute changes if any will be confirmed by late Sunday night.

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Friday Girls District Finale

Friday night is District Final Championship night for girls high school basketball! Many schools are trying to make a bid to go to the Regionals. This time the seedings worked out where we will find some of the elite teams of the Thumb, and with a couple of top ten state ranked teams to top it off!

One in particular is the Thumb Tailgater Sports game of the night at the No.81 District final between two highly state ranked teams. #4 Brown City Lady Greendevils versus #3 Sandusky Lady Redskins; this is the "rubber match" of the season for the Greater Thumb East Co-champions. That District Championship is now a title that will not be shared! Coverage starts at 6:30pm.
The Reese Lady Rockets has a huge task against the #6 state ranked New Lothrop Lady Hornets.
Congratulations to the Vassar Vulcans boys basketball team on earning the Greater Thumb West Title. The first title in basketball in 20 years for Vassar. They did it by overcoming Reese with outside three point shooting and great defense, 64 - 42. Reese hung in there at halftime, only down 25 - 21. But Vassar came out of the halftime on fire right off the bat knocking the Rockets out of orbit at the end of the third period 48 - 30. It was a great regular season ender webcast for Thumb Tailgater Sports.
Another tip of the hat goes to the CPS Tigers boys team on winning the NCTL South Championship after defeating Dyden last night. According to CPS Head Coach Cliff Amey, this the first lone outright title in 30 years; and since the 1930's there has been only three league titles and one co-championship for Carsonville-Port Sanilac.
There are also some boys games left to wrap up the regular season through Friday weekend.
But tonight is all about "March Magic" in the Girls District Finals!

Girls Basketball District Finals - Thumb Area Teams:
CLASS C
No.81 @ Brown City High School
Brown City 57, vs Sandusky 48 - Thumb Tailgater Sports Webcast

No.88 @ Reese High School
New Lothrop 37, Reeese 35

No.90 @ Cass City High School
Harbor Beach 40, vs Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Lakers 37

CLASS D
No.114 @ CPS High School
Deckerville 56, CPS 49 - O.T.

No.115 @ Caseville High School
Port Hope 50, vs North Huron 30

CLASS B
No.57 @ Caro High School
North Branch 52, Vassar 35

Boys Basketball Games, Regular Season Ends:
Marlette 56, vs Mayville 27
CPS 69, Caseville 46
Kingston @ Owen-Gage - Saturday game

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Thursday Boys Basketball Final Scores

BOYS BASKETBALL:
Vassar 64, vs Reese 42- Vulcans win outright GTW Title! Webcast
Bay City All Saints 74, vs Bad Axe 52
Harbor Beach 68, @ Brown City 62 - Pirates end season undefeated in GTE as champions.
Sandusky 50, vs Mayville
Cass City 58, Deckerville 51
Ubly 50, Marlette 43
Lakers 60, USA 53
CPS 67, vs Dryden 33 - Tigers win and are lone NCTL South championship.
Peck 52, vs Kingston 46
North Huron 82, vs Port Hope 63
Akron-Fairgrove 63, vs Caseville 36
Owen-Gage 54, vs Arenac Eastern 34
Cros-Lex 55, @ Imlay City 50
Richmond 56, @ Yale 49
Capac 52, vs Armada 47

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Thursday Championship Night Wrap Up

Thumb Tailgater Sports is on the road again for a live internet audio webcast on Thursday to wrap up the regular season of boys basketball coverage. Tonights it is a championship game in Vassar as they hope to take the outright Greater Thumb West title, with a win over the Reese Rockets. It's not going to be easy though, as the Rockets played spoiler for the Bay City All Saints on their bid for a share of the GTW. Reese took down the Cougars on Tuesday night, ripping them 71 - 61.
However!! Would the West be in this position had it not been the controversy with the clock not running at the end of last Fridays game between the Vulcans @ Cougars game? You decide!

The Vassar Vulcans did it's job on Monday to take a hold of the West with a close victory over Unionville-Sebewaing 42 - 41. Will the Reese Rockets play spoiler again tonight at Vassar? Coverage at 7:30pm! 
Special guests tonight on Thumb Tailgater Sports will be WLEW FM Fall Sports color commentator JJ Particka & Sports Writer/Reporter, Paul Adams of the Huron Daily Tribune. 
Carsonville-Port Sanilac hopes to wrap it's claim to the NCTL South Title tonight over Dryden - but Peck still has thoughts of a share of the title as long as they win out and CPS loses two straight.
Just to note, there are a couple games to wrap the thumb area boys basketball season as a whole on Friday & Saturday.

BOYS BASKETBALL:
Vassar 64, vs Reese 42- Vulcans win outright GTW Title! T.T.S.Webcast
Bay City All Saints 74, vs Bad Axe 52
Harbor Beach 68, @ Brown City 62
Sandusky 50, vs Mayville
Cass City 58, Deckerville 51
Ubly 50, Marlette 43
Lakers 60, USA 53
CPS 67, vs Dryden 33
Peck 52, vs Kingston 46
North Huron 82, vs Port Hope 63
Akron-Fairgrove 63, vs Caseville 36
Owen-Gage 54, vs Arenac Eastern 34
Cros-Lex 55, @ Imlay City 50
Richmond 56, @ Yale 49
Capac 52, vs Armada 47

College Boys Basketball
Central Michigan 56, @ Eastern Michigan 55
Chippewas win outright MAC West title after Ball State loss to Western Michigan. Former Unionville-Sebewaing standout athlete Jordan Bitzer scores 18pt; Eastern Michigan had chance to take win, but missed two free throws and turning the ball over. All that happened in the last :18 seconds. CMU gets No.2 seed and first round bye in MAC Tournament that starts on Sunday in Cleveland, Ohio.

Wednesday night in the Districts for girls basketball thumb area teams set up some big match ups for the finals on Friday! 
State ranked teams, (#4) Brown City Lady Greendevils & (#3) Sandusky Lady Redskins, will meet in their "rubber match" of the season. The Greater Thumb East Co-Champs now have a title that can't be shared!
Another rubber match up of the GTC, is Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Lady Lakers facing off against the Harbor Beach Lady Pirates.
The Reese Lady Rockets made it to finals to take on the #6 state ranked New Lothrop Hornets. Rockets are ranked #12 in state.
Port Hope Lady Bluestars (#17 state) hope to make three wins in the season over the very dangerous North Huron Lady Warriors.
Vassar Lady Vulcans continue to tear it up as they will face off against former Tri-Valley East rival, the North Branch Lady Broncos.
Deckerville Lady Eagles hope to win a second straight District title against the CPS Lady Tigers.

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Wild Wednesday of March Magic

/March Magic is back for the second round of the girls highs school basketball districts. Thumb Tailgater Sports continues it's coverage of the No.81 Districts at Brown City High School. Coverage starts at 5:30pm!
Last night in boys basketball some titles were decided and others almost.
First off, congratulations to the Harbor Beach Pirates on winning the outright Greater Thumb East Title. The Pirates soundly defeated Ubly on Tuesday to take the championship.
The North Huron Warriors took down Peck Tuesday to give CPS a stronger grip on the NCTL South title. The Tigers have two more games to win and claim the championship.
In the Blue Water Area Conference, Cros-Lex pulled off an upset over Richmond throwing that title up in the air, however Algonac defeated Armada with an upset of their own and enabled Richmond to win the BWAC championship.
The "Wild West" of the Greater Thumb lived up to that motto. Vassar had an off night from league play as they beat Mayville in a cross conference game. In the back of their minds they were hoping for a Reese Rockets win over the Bay City All Saints. Well Vassar got it's wish - and now the Vulcans have a share of the Greater Thumb West title. Now the Bay City All Saints have to win on Thursday over Bad Axe and to hope and pray for a loss for Vassar who just happens to take on the spoilers of the West on Thursday night...yep, the Reese Rockets. That championship game decider will be webcast live on the internet on Thumb Tailgater Sports!


*Thanks to WEYI Channel 25 Sports for getting Thumb Tailgater Sports on TV - sort of..., start it at the 3:33 mark.
**And also thanks to WNEW Channel 5 Sports for getting a piece of Thumb Tailgater somewhat. It's on the Sports Xtra 2/26/10 video clip starting at the beginning of the video. 


GIRLS Thumb Area Team District Games: Semi-Finals
Class C
No.81 @ Brown City High School - Thumb Tailgater Webcast, 5:30pm
Brown City 65, @ Mayville 42
Sandusky 71, New Haven 30- 7:30pm

No.88 @ Reese High School
New Lothrop 44, Saginaw Valley Lutheran 41
Reese 73, vs Genesee 20

No.90 @ Cass City High School
Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port-Lakers 48,  Bad Axe 42
Harbor Beach 42, vs Unionville-Sebewaing 37

CLASS D
No.114 @ Carsonville-Pt.Sanilac High School
Deckerville 54, Kingston 42
Carsonville-Port Sanilac 48, vs Kimball New Life Christian 19

No.115 @ Caseville High School
Port Hope 46, Owen-Gage 25
North Huron 64, Caseville 21

No.116 @ Bay City All Saints School Gym
Saginaw Michigan Lutheran 63, Bay City All Saints 48
Twining Arenac Eastern 53, vs Au Gres-Sims 30

CLASS B
No.57 @ Caro High School
Vassar 42, Millington 15
North Branch 54, vs Croswell-Lexington 41

College Boys Basketball:
CMU @ Eastern Michigan - March 4th, 6:30pm 
At least a share of the MAC West title is on the line for former USA standout athlete Jordan Bitzer and the Chippewa team!

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Tight Title Race Tuesday

BOYS BASKETBALL GAMES:
Reese 71, Bay Cit All Saints 61 - Rockets plays spoiler in GTW title battle!
Harbor Beach 46, vs Ubly 33 - Pirates are GTE Champions!
Brown City 70, @ Deckerville 42
North Huron 52, Peck 45 - Pirates loss helps CPS get closer to claiming NCTL South.
USA 60, vs Cass City 55
Vassar 64, @ Mayville 25 - Vulcans have share of GTW from last night win over USA and tonights All Saints loss.
Lakers 69, @ Bad Axe 53
Marlette 45, Sandusky 36
Memphis 75, @ Port Hope 41
Arenac Eastern 56, vs Akron-Fairgrove 43
Owen-Gage 74, Caseville 34
Croswell-Lexington 51, vs Richmond 48 - Pioneers pulls upset but Bluedevils still win BWAC Title due to Algonac upset over Armada!
Imlay City 53, vs Yale 52
Capac 64, Almont 55
Algonac 46, Armada 42 - Muskrats upset the Tigers & enables Richmond to win BWAC.

March Magic began for the girls basketball districts on Monday, and there is a day off before things heat up and tip off again in the second round on Wednesday.
The regular season continues however for boys basketball. In a make up game that had implications, the Vassar Vulcans got another boost towards the Greater Thumb West title with a league victory edging Unionville-Sebewaing 42 - 41, with a free throw to win on Monday night. A tough NBA like schedule for Vassar continues Tuesday night in a non league match up at Mayville. The Wildcats have not won a game this season and unfortunately against a good team like Vassar, that may continue.
Another team that stays in the hunt in the "Wild West" of the Greater Thumb are the Bay City All Saint Cougars. They have a huge task at the Reese Rockets who would love to play the spoiler role in the GTW. Reese wants to avenge their earlier season loss to All Saints much like they did against Unionville-Sebewaing on Friday night evening the league series. Bay City All Saints simply cannot afford to lose, much like Vassar cannot also. It could either come down to a tie for the Greater Thumb West or one of these teams will walk away as teh lone champions. Thursday is the season ender with Bay City All Saints hosting Bad Axe, and Vassar taking on Reese, which will be heard live on Thumb Tailgater Sports starting at 7:30pm.
Over in the Greater Thumb East - here it is in simple terms. If the Harbor Beach Pirates defeat the Ubly Bearcasts tonight, they are the Greater Thumb East Champions.
Another team that needs to win in order stay in the NCTL South title hopes are the Peck Pirates who hosts the North Huron Warriors, who played last night with a victory over a resilient Dryden team 67-52.
The Croswell-Lexington Pioneers take on the Richmond Bluedevils who hope to keep a least share of the BWAC title by the end of the week. Cros-Lex would like to spoil that party!

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Mighty Monday March Starts!

March Magic has begun for the high school basketball playoffs! Be sure to log on to the internet for the live audio webcast of all the games played at the No.81 Districts in Brown City, presented on Thumb Tailgater Sports. 
Coverage starts at 4pm!!
While the girls districts are tipping off, there are still a couple of boys basketball games that is also the last week of the regular season, with still some Thumb area league titles not yet decided! Vassar has a big game against Unionville-Sebewaing. The Vulcans cannot afford a loss if they still want a share or sole claim to the Greater Thumb West title. The Patriots are out of the title picture but will play hard all the way through and would like to play spoiler.

Monday Thumb Area Team Basketball Games:
GIRLS DISTRICTS
Class C  @ Brown City High School - Thumb Tailgater Webcast
Brown City 57,  Memphis 35 
New Haven 69, Dryden 30
Sandusky 60, Marlette 55

Class C @ Cass City High School
Bad Axe 37, Cass City 30 -
Harbor Beach 41, Ubly 31

Class C @ Reese High School
New Lothrop 49, Montrose 24
Reese 53, vs Saginaw Buena Vista 44

Class D @ Carsonville-Port Sanilac High School
Carsonville-Pt Sanilac 48, vs Peck 35

Class D @ Caseville High School
Caseville 49, vs Akron-Fairgrove 39

Class B @ Caro High School
Vassar 55, vs Yale 46
North Branch 63, Caro 49

BOYS Basketball, Regular Season
Vassar 42, @ Unionville-Sebewaing 41
North Huron 67  Dryden 52 - Final

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March Magic Begins!

Thumb Tailgater Sports has a big day Monday on the first day of March as it will kick off "March Magic" for the high school girls basketball districts all across the state of Michigan! Thumb Tailgater Sports will be covering every single game of the No.81 Brown City Girls District. Coverage starts at 4pm!

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Thumb Area Team Girls District Games:

CLASS B

No. 57 - Caro 

A -Yale vs Vassar: March 1st, 6pm  

B - Caro vs North Branch : March 1st,  7:30 pm  

Millington vs A :  March 3rd, 6pm  

B vs Croswell-Lexington : March 3rd, 7:30 pm 

Final: March 5th, 7pm

CLASS C

No. 81 - Brown City 

A - Brown City vs Memphis: March 1st, 4:30 pm 

B - New Haven vs Dryden : March 1st, 6pm    

C - Marlette vs Sandusky : March 1st,  7:30 pm  

Mayville vs A : March 3rd, 6pm  

B vs C : March 3rd,  7:30 pm

Final : March 5th, 7pm  

No. 89-C Reese 

A - Montrose Hill McCloy vs New Lothrop: March 1st, 4:30 pm

B - Reese vs Saginaw Buena Vista: March 1st, 6pm  

C - Saginaw Arts & Sciences vs Genesee: March 1st, 7:30 pm 

Saginaw Valley Lutheran vs A: March 3rd, 6pm

 B vs C 3/3 7:30 pm

 Final 3/5 7:00 pm

No. 90 - Cass City 

A - Bad Axe vs Cass City : March 1st, 6pm

B - Ubly vs Harbor Beach : March 1st, 7:30 pm  

Elkton-Pigeon Bay Port-Laker vs A: March 3rd, 6pm 

B vs Unionville-Sebewaing : March 3rd, 7:30 pm

Final: March 5th, 7pm

CLASS D

No. 114 - Carsonville-Port Sanilac 

A - Carsonville-Port Sanilac vs Peck : March 1st, 6pm

Kingston vs Deckerville : March 3rd,  6pm 

A vs Kimball-New Life Christian Academy: March 3rd, 7:30 pm

Final: March 5th, 7pm

No. 115 - Caseville 

A - Akron-Fairgrove vs Caseville : March 1st, 7pm 

Owendale-Gagetown vs Port Hope : March 3rd, 6pm

A vs Kinde-North Huron : March 3rd, 7:30 pm 

Final: March 5th, 7pm

No. 116 - Bay City A ll Saints 

Bay City All Saints vs Saginaw Michigan Lutheran : March 3, 6pm

Twining-Arenac Eastern vs Au Gres-Sims : March 3rd, 7:30 pm

Final: March 5th, 7pm

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Saturday Make Up

Saturdays are always a good day to make up with your loved one...that is your love of high school basketball!
Tonight is also the Ubly Alumni Basketball game at Ubly High School. Tip Off is set for 6pm.  Adults $3 Kids 5 & Under Free.The concessions will be open to help the 8th graders! Featuring Referees: Ubly Head Football Coach Bill Sweeney, Ubly Athletic Director Dan Delamarter, & Jim Becker. All Proceeds to benefit the Basketball Team. For More Info: Contact Brandon Deacons brandondeacons@hotmail.com or on Facebook.


Wrestling:
The Richmond Blue Devils team won the Division 3 State Title. They defeated Dundee 24-23. Get the Sunday Edition of the Port Huron Times Herald for the full report.


Saturday Make Up Basketball:
BOYS
Harbor Beach 54, vs Sandusky 31
Peck 43, @ Akron-Fairgrove 38 - O.T.
Cros-Lex 57, vs Capac 49 
Yale 71, vs Armada 69 - Double O.T.
Richmond 68, @ Almont 62 


GIRLS
Cros-Lex 59, vs Capac 27
Yale vs Armada - 7:30pm
Almont 38, vs Richmond 34 - O.T.


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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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Championship Thursday Night

Thursday Basketball Games:
GIRLS

Reese 61, Lakers 41 - T.T.S. Webcast, Rockets GTW Champs
Sandusky 46, Harbor Beach 40 - Redskins Co-Champs GTE w/ Brown City
Vassar 45, @ Bay City All Saints 40
Marlette 56, @ Mayville 45
Deckerville 57, @ Ubly 40
Essexville-Garber 69, @ USA 67 - O.T.
Cass City 49, vs Bad Axe 33
CPS 47, vs Akron-Fairgrove 35
Caseville 31, vs Dryden 29
North Huron 29, vs Kingston 27
Memphis 58, @ Owen-Gage 28 - Memphis NCTL South Champs
Port Hope 63, vs Peck 30 -  Port Hope NCTL North Champs 

Tonight marks the end of the season for the NCTL & GTC girls basketball teams. It also features two title championship games on the line!
Thumb Tailgater Sports features one of those games live on the internet! In the Greater Thumb West. It's the Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Lady Lakers hosting the Lady Rockets. The Lady Lakers must defeat the Reese Lady Rockets for at least a share of the GTW Title. If they do not - Reese will be the undisputed Greater Thumb West champions. Vassar Lady Vulcans will be pulling for the Lakers to beat Reese to create a three way tie for the GTW title, but Vassar also has to beat Bay City All Saint Lady Cougars. What "Wild West" end of the season.

It's not over there! Harbor Beach Lady Pirates may have some fans from Brown City in the stands at the Thumb Dome tonight! Sandusky Lady Redskins hosts Harbor Beach in both teams season ending game, where if Sandusky wins they will share the Greater Thumb East Title with the Brown City Lady Greendevils. If Harbor Beach wins, the GTE title will be in "soul" possession of the Lady Greendevils.
Last year was a crazy end of the season in the East where Brown City took the title due to some minor upsets. Let me rehash your memory again, back in the year 2009....
On Tuesday, February 22nd, 2009: It looked like the Ubly Lady Bearcats would have at least a share of the title by beating Brown City 51-47. That created a three way tie for the title with Sandusky & Brown City. Sandusky had won that night over Deckerville to keep it's share.
But then later that week on Thursday the final night of the regular season of the GTC - Deckerville Lady Eagles and Harbor Beach Lady Pirates pulled off huge upset wins. Deckerville beat Ubly in the final minutes with a big comeback win 47-40. Harbor Beach shellacked the Sandusky Lady Redskins 43-35. Those upset wins enabled the Brown City to claim the GTE Title.

Log on tonight with Thumb Tailgater Sports with updates on the Harbor Beach @ Sandusky game and of course on the internet for the live audio webcast of the Lady Lakers versus the Reese Lady Rockets!

*Congratulations does need to go out again to the Port Hope on winning the NCTL North Championship, and also to Memphis Lady Yellowjackets on claiming the NCTL South Title.

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Wednesday Whiplash!

Thumb Tailgater Sports was out Wednesday night making some stops in Huron County at some Greater Thumb West boys basketball games with implications. No webcasts though - just catching up on some teams and coaches as we get closer to the end of season.
Some big clashes were on tonight. In particular was the Vassar @ Lakers game. The Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Lakers are still stinging from their two defeats last week against the Bay City All Saints. They have to forget about that and shake it off and get back into their hopes of a share of the GTW. It will be tough against the Vulcans as they have reloaded with the return of some players who were on a long suspension from basketball play. Vassar just needs to win to also stay in the hunt for the title. It is definitely the "Wild West" of the GTC.
And even after tonight the season is far from over...unlike the Greater Thumb East where the Ubly cannot afford a loss against a resurgence of improved play from the Brown City Greendevils. If the Bearcats win, they have some hopes of for a share of the GTE title with the Harbor Beach Pirates. But the Bearcats will need a lot of help from the team that beat them last week pretty handedly - the Sandusky Redskins. Sandusky takes on Harbor Beach on Friday night. But Ubly must help themselves first by beating the soul stealing Greendevils!
*Also another special announcement for the Thumb Area fans. Thumb Tailgater Sports will have some special guests on Thursday & Friday night.
Thursday at our coverage of the girls basketball game for the GTW title between the Lady Lakers & Reese Lady Rockets, Sports Writer Paul Adams of the Huron Daily Tribune will take part in the pre-game & halftime shows with the Thumb Tailgater Sports Crew, Eddie Fury, Adam Filkins & Mark "Mad Dogg" Dimon.
Friday is a real treat - joining Eddie Fury & Mikey Smith will be special guests, WLEW Fall Season Sports Announcers, Rick Glaza & Jason "JJ" Particka at the Bay City All Saints versus the Vassar Vulcans boys basketball game, that has the GTW title still up for grabs.
**Congratulations to the Carsonville-Port Sanilac Tigers on at least getting a share of the NCTL South League title by beating Memphis on Tuesday. Peck is still in the lurch hoping to pull off victories for a share to. It will be tough for the Pirates as tonight they must defeat Dryden, then next week against North Huron & Kingston. The Tigers meanwhile have Caseville & Dryden to end the season.
Over in Girls Basketball things got very interesting and once again the Greater Thumb "Wild" West lived up to it's billing as the Lady Vulcans defeated the Lady Lakers by one point on Tuesday night to force and hope for a three way tie towards the end of the season this Thursday night in girls basketball. Vassar has to defeat the feisty Bay City All Saints, while the Lady Lakers hold their destiny and must win for a share of the GTW title against Reese.

Wednesday Basketball Final Scores:
BOYS
Ubly 61, Brown City 49
Vassar 55, @ Lakers 49
Harbor Beach 59, @ Mayville 39
Reese 83, @ Cass City 52
Unionville-Sebewaing 72, vs Bad Axe 43
Peck 51, Dryden 40

GIRLS
Saginaw Arts & Sciences 50, Owen-Gage 45 (make up from Mon.)

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Tuesday Title Battles

Thumb Tailgater Sports is back live on the internet with an audio webcast of high school boys basketball action on a Tuesday night!
The NCTL South Title is on the line with the Carsonville-Port Sanilac Tigers at the Memphis Yellowjackets. In the first meeting of these two teams Memphis came from behind to defeat the Tigers 39 - 36. The Tigers were able to attempt a last second shot to no avail.
There are many games all this week also that have major title battle implications.
***The Peck Pirates hope to have a piece of the NCTL South to. But they have to get through the Dryden Cardinals first!
Girls basketball has some big games to, as this is the final week of the girls basketball season. 
Vassar Lady Vulcans host the Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Lady Lakers in a poignant game where if Vassar wins, that would force the Lakers to play for a three way tie in the Greater Thumb West. But the Lady Lakes are looking to win themselves and set up a end of the season title fight with the Reese Lady Rockets. The Lady Rockets of course can't look past Cass City.
In the GTE, the Brown City Lady Greendevils cannot get caught sleeping against the last place Ubly Lady Bearcats. At this point for Ubly they have nothing to lose and would like to play spoiler against Brown City and rip away the Greendevils share of the East.

Tuesday Night Basketball
BOYS
CPS 47, @ Memphis 36 - Thumb Tailgater Webcast
CPS Tigers clinch share of NCTL South Title

Dryden vs Peck - PPD to Wednesday.
Owen-Gage 43, vs Akron-Fairgrove 40
Port Hope 58, @ Caseville 42
Croswell-Lexington 45, vs Sandusky 34
Saginaw Buena Vista 73, Imlay City 49

GIRLS
Vassar 41, vs Lakers 40
Brown City 56, vs Ubly 13
Deckerville 57, vs Marlette 50
Harbor Beach 59, vs Mayville 27
Reese 60, vs Cass City 18
Bad Axe 54, vs USA 42
Bay City All Saints, 53, Bay City John Glenn 30
Arenac Eastern 57, Akron-Fairgrove 29
Cros-Lex @ Imlay City
Armada 49, @ Capac 29
Yale 64, vs Richmond 56
**Flint Hamady 50, New Lothrop 38

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Monday Snow Blast

The Monday high school sports schedule was a light one and thankfully so as the snow fall has bombarded the thumb area again. That resulted in the cancellations of games.

Monday Basketball Schedule
BOYS
Imlay City vs Buena Vista - Cancelled
USA vs Vassar - POSTPONED

GIRLS
CPS vs Memphis - POSTPONED, Rescheduled to Wednesday, Feb.24
Akron-Farigrove & Arenac Eastern ? According to the school website schedule there was suppose to be a game.

This Weeks Webcast Schedule

Thumb Tailgater Sports has this weeks live internet webcast schedule.
*This Tuesday, Feb.23rd features an NCTL South battle for the title in boys high school basketball with the Memphis Yellowjackets hosting the Carsonville-Port Sanilac Tigers.
*Thursday, Feb.25th brings high school girls basketball action with the Greater Thumb West title up for grabs or to share. The game of the night is the Reese Lady Rockets at the Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Lakers.
*Friday, Feb.26th keeps Thumb Tailgater Sports in the "Wild West" of the Greater Thumb with high school boys hoops play. Another potential title decider with the Vassar Vulcans at the Bay City All Saint Cougars.

*Plus we are covering every single game at the Girls Class C Districts in Brown City, that starts March 1st. Any business or entity wishing to advertise on our webcasts can email us.

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Friday Freak Out Of Hoops!

Thumb Tailgater Sports is back with a live internet webcast of boys basketball action on a Friday night!
It is the Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Lakers (10-5, 6-1) hosting the Bay City All Saint Cougars (11-5, 7-1). All Saints & Lakers already met just two days ago on the Cougars home floor, with the All Saints winning 75 - 69.
The Greater Thumb West title is still up for grabs, as the Vassar Vulcans are also in the mix. There is a couple games that have implications on who will have the upper hand for the title. It will be another "Wild West" coming down to the wire!
In the NCTL, Carsonville-Port Sanilac has a chance to at least get closer to the NCTL South title with a win over the NCTL North Champions - the North Huron Warriors. The Warriors edged the Tigers in the first meeting 68 - 65.
In second place of the NCTL South are the Memphis Yellowjackets who have an "NBA" like schedule in the next week. Memphis has a game tonight on Friday, Saturday vs Kingston , and then on Tuesday against Carsonville-Port Sanilac.
In the Greater Thumb East Harbor Beach has to get past the pesky Marlette Red Raiders in order to have a strangle hold on the GTE Title. Ubly Bearcats hopes Marlette can pull off the upset and then pray for another upset for the Sandusky Redskins over the Harbor Beach Pirates next week. Sandusky has already pulled their upset over Ubly this past week, and also look to avenge their earlier season loss to Brown City tonight, who by the way, Ubly will face on Wednesday.
This late in the season anything can happen at this point! Look at what the Brown City Lady Greendevils did on Thursday night - they defeated the #1 Class C State ranked Sandusky Lady Redskins, 41- 31!
**Paul Adams, Sports Reporter for the Huron Daily Tribune; will be the special guest for the pre-game & halftime shows on the Thumb Tailgater Sports live game webcast tonight.

Friday Night Basketball:
BOYS
Bay City All Saints 54, @ Lakers 52 - Thumb Tailgater Webcast
Sandusky 61, @ Brown City 58 - O.T.
Harbor Beach 57, @ Marlette 35
Deckerville 42, vs Mayville 29
Vassar 58, vs Cass City 46
Reese 77, vs USA 46
North Huron 63, @ CPS 53
Owen-Gage 57, @ Dryden 46
Kingston 82, vs Port Hope 46
Memphis 46, vs Akron-Fairgrove 21
Peck 57, vs Caseville 30
Armada 62, vs Croswell-Lexington 44
Yale @ Almont
Capac 57, vs Imlay City 49
Richmond 47, Algonac 44

GIRLS
Cros-Lex 48, @ Armada 40
Imlay City 42, @ Capac 30
Almont 50, vs Yale 34

Saturday Games:
BOYS:
Memphis 48, vs Kingston 41
Bad Axe 72, Reese 55

GIRLS
Reese 51, @ Bad Axe 29

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