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Sand Creek’s baseball and softball teams started the season Wednesday with losses to Manchester.
I believe its the first games of the 2009 season for any TCC team.

My newest project with the TCC is putting together a more complete and thorough history and record book for girls basketball.
I have a pretty complete book for the TCC boys basketball and football (all box scores, all scores, complete records) and nearly everything when it comes to final standings, all-TCC teams, etc. for the rest of the sports. Now, I’m doing more research on girls basketball. If anyone can help out with stats, please let me know (doug@monroenews.com).

The Monroe Evening News will be publishing the final overall statistical leaders in its Sunday paper this week. Find out who the region leader is in scoring, rebounding, assists and free throw percentage.

Someone asked me if I knew how many times one team has beaten another in TCC boys basketball. I figured I’d answer all of that at once. Here is a look at each teams’ all-time (1974-2009) win-loss record in Tri-County Conference games against all other TCC opponents:

Some notes: Ann Arbor St. Thomas was a member of the league from 1974-1976; Whiteford and Sand Creek joined in 1975-76; Morenci joined in 1981-82; Whitmore Lake did not field a basketball team in 1982-83; Whitmore Lake and Morenci canceled a 1990-91 game; Clinton joined the TCC in 2007-08.

TCC BOYS BASKETBALL SERIES RESULTS

Britton vs. W-L
Clinton 0-4
Deerfield 35-37
Madison 34-38
Morenci 14-42
Sand Creek 17-51
Summerfield 29-43
Whiteford 19-49
Whitmore Lake 43-27
St. Thomas 0-6
TCC 191-297 (.391) (more…)

The Class C All-State team was announced today by the Associated Press. No TCC players made the list.:
ALL-STATE
Michael Talley III, Melvindale Academy for Business and Technology, 5-10, Jr. (Player of the Year)
Holden Greiner, Traverse City St. Francis, 6-7, Sr.
Kolin Kazen, Saugatuck, 6-3, Sr.
Jack McPhail, Brown City, 6-4, Sr.
Marshawn Norris, Napoleon, 5-10, Sr.
Jason Pratt, Merrill, 6-7, Sr.
Jamar Ragland, Detroit Loyola, 6-4, Sr.
Kaleb Thelen, Pewamo-Westphalia, 6-0, Sr.
Taron Boose, Flint Beecher, 6-2, Jr.
Dwaun Anderson, Suttons Bay, 6-3, So.
COACH:
Dave Ginsberg, Traverse City St. Francis (Coach of the Year)
SPECIAL MENTION (nominees receiving two or more votes from the 11-member panel):
Cody Kater, Montague; Weston Bryan, Charlevoix; Devin Patton, Detroit City; Desmond Barnes, Detroit Consorium Prep
COACH:
Jim Dutton, Napoleon
HONORABLE MENTION (nominees receiving one or no votes from the 11-member panel):
Shiron Williams, Bangor; Martell Drew, Detroit Consortium Prep; Troy Robertson, New Buffalo; Travis Schuba, Kalkaska; Thomas Parrish, Charlevoix; Steven Kolb, Indian River Inland Lakes; Tyler Denike, Fife Lake Forest Area; Kyle Aho, Gwinn; Gerrit Mortensen, St. Ignace; Creed Stapleton, Ithaca; Zach Schutte, Grandville Calvin Christian; AJ Burton, Brown City; Derek Pyles, Bronson; Collin Ward, Potterville; Ryan Hopson, Albion; Steve Harrison, Kent City

I’ve done some additional research on the Britton-Deerfield series. From 1974 to date, Deerfield has won 40 of the 79 meetings.
So, from 1960-61 to the present season, Britton won 61 and Deerfield won 49 games in the 110 meetings between the two teams.
Does anyone know how far back the rivalry goes? When did the two schools start playing basketball?

I’ve started the research: From 1960 to 1973, Britton and Deerfield met 31 times on the basketball floor and the Tories won 22 of those meetings, dominating the Minutemen through a good stretch early in the decade, the same time the Tories were collecting back-to-back state championship trophies.
Some highlights:
On March 9, 1963, Britton’s 6-foot-8 Phil Benedict  (pictured in the above photo during a jump ball in a state tournament game) scored 34 points in the District final for a Britton win.
On March 6, 1964, Ron Mastie scored 31 as the Tories won the District title with a 77-73 win over Deerfield. It launched a second-straight state title for Britton.
On Feb. 5, 1964, the Tories won a 4 overtime matchup.
On Dec. 10, 1965, Deerfield beat Britton 39-37 in the first game played in the new Deerfield gymnasium.
On Feb. 28, 1969, Britton scored 37 points in the fourth quarter en route to a 101-72 win.
And, on Dec. 19, 1971, Sam Bates of Britton scored 44 points as the Tories won.

Britton and Deerfield will combine basketball teams next season, ending a great rivalry in the TCC.
Randy Salisbury from Britton has asked if I might know what the all-time record between Britton and Deerfield is. I’m researching that info now and plan on having an answer to him – and on this blog – soon. I do know that in TCC games only, each team won 37 games in the series.
I hope to post all of the results between the two teams soon.

Bankhoops.com released its Class C All-State team today.
Whiteford’s Jake DuPree was included on the 10th team.

Here is the 2008-09 All-TCC boys basketball team, as chosen by the league’s coaches.

FIRST TEAM

• Eric Cogan 11th grade, Summerfield (unanimous)
• Jake Dupree 11 Whiteford (unanimous)
• Jamison Webster 11 Madison (unanimous)
• Nic Greenwood 10 Clinton
• Clayton Wolf 11 Morenci (more…)