Out of 11 local games, we had nine winners. Even one of the losses, SMCC’s 32-26 heart-breaker in the final seconds against Detroit Crockett, was a pretty solid performance against a good team.

The most impressive teams to me in the opening week were Airport and Ida.

Airport beat what should turn out to be a pretty good Bedford team and Ida dominated on both sides of the ball against Huron League foe Flat Rock.

And kudos to New Boston Huron coach Dan Kalbfleisch, who showed a lot of class by emptying his bench after building a big lead against Erie Mason.

I can’t wait for Week 2.

I am sitting here at the Division 1 state softball semifinals watching Monroe play New Baltimore Anchor Bay. In previous trips here, the wireless connection would not work at the press table. I was pleasantly surprised to get a signal this time.

Monroe’s Amber Rafko was safe on an error in the top of the first, but the Trojans did not score.

I will be updating the progress of the match via comments on this blog. Readers are welcome to add their comments or questions.

I will keep you updated on the match in this blog. The new entries will be listed as comments under this item.

Readers are welcome to add their own comments or questions.

Dundee just completed its warmups and yielded the mat to Richmond.

The Division 3 coaches are meeting now. I should know today’s starting weight soon.

And the chat was lively.

My boss, Ron Montri, takes his turn this Sunday with a discussion on boys basketball. It will begin at 8 p.m. Watch for details in the next few days in The Evening News sports section or at www.monroenews.com .

When Airport and Adrian tipped off around 5:30 p.m. in the Class A District Tournament at Monroe, there were maybe 100 people in Bill Bunkelman Memorial Gymnasium, including the players, coaches and officials.

By the time Monroe and Bedford took the floor around 7 p.m., the place was nearly full. It was a great atmosphere with enthusiastic fans on both sides really getting into the action.

These two teams deserved a big crowd. Bedford brought a 20-0 record into the game and Monroe was 17-3 with all three losses coming to state-ranked teams.

The game turned out to be pretty much what I expected. Both teams played terrific defense, contesting every point.

It’s a shame that this wasn’t the District championship game on a Friday night. It might have drawn even more fans then. But that’s just the luck of the draw.

Monroe came up on the short end of the scoreboard, but the Trojans have nothing to hang their heads about. They represented their school and their community well all season.

Make sure to pick up a copy of The Evening News and honor these talented young ladies on a fantastic season.

The Monroe Evening News will announce the All-Region football team next week.

The offense will be revealed on Monday (Nov. 17) and the defense the next day. The Coach of the Year will be announced along with the offense.