Eric Cogan’s grand finale against Ubly (11 receptions, 208 yards) gave him 1,219 receiving yards on the season, which is a single season Monroe County Region record.
It also cemented his choice as The Monroe County Region Offensive Player of the Year for 2009. The All-Region offensive team, player of the year and coach of the year appears in today’s Evening News. Coming tomorrow: All-Region defense.
Cogan is the fourth Bulldog to win the award. The others were Scott VanHuysen (1985), Mike Crots (1986) and A.J. Prebula (1992).
Division 7 State Playoffs Ubly 42, Summerfield 20 (FINAL) Mike Hewitt threw touchdown passes of 20, 60 and 45 yards to Eric Cogan as the Bulldogs put up 20 points against undefeated Ubly. The final Bulldog score made it a 36-20 game with less than three and a half minutes remaining but thats as close as Summerfield could get.
The Bulldogs bow out of the 2009 season with a school record 10 wins and a 10-2 final record.
Clinton’s volleyball team lost last night in the Class C Regional volleyball final.
That leaves Summerfield’s football team as the last TCC hope in fall sports. The Bulldogs play Saturday night at Ubly in the Division 7 prep football playoffs.
Watch www.monroenews.com Saturday night for score updates and final results.
Here are the details on the girls basketball preseason scrimmage scheduled for Saturday at Bedford High School. Whiteford, Britton-Deerfield, Sand Creek and Summerfield are all going to be there at some point during the day. Teams will play three sets of 14 minute quarters then rotate to another court.
1 p.m.: Mason vs. Summerfield, Sand Creek vs. Carlson, Bedford vs. Grosse Ile, Manchester vs. Ida
1:50 p.m.: Grosse Ile vs. Ida, Erie Mason vs. Manchester, Bedford vs. Sand Creek, Carlson vs. Summerfield
2:40 p.m.: Manchester vs. Bedford, Ida vs. Carlson, Grosse Ile vs. Summerfield, Mason vs. Sand Creek
4 p.m.: Bedford vs. Blissfield, Monroe vs. Britton-Deerfield; Whiteford vs. Grosse Ile
4:50 p.m.: Grosse Ile vs. Britton-Deerfield; Whiteford vs. Bedford; Blissfield vs. Monroe
5:40 p.m.: Monroe vs. Whiteford; Grosse Ile vs. Blissfield; Britton-Deerfield vs. Bedford
I started collecting Whiteford sports information when I was about eight or nine years old. It started with newspaper clippings.Over the years, that collection expanded to include everything I could get my hands on (programs, stat sheets, scorebooks) and, eventually everything I could find from the TCC. That’s how the TCC record book was born – that and I had to figure out something to do with all of the data I have.
This week, one of the Whiteford assistant football coaches, Aaron Winslow, sent me an e-mail saying he was doing some cleaning and found an old three-ring binder that he thought I might be interested in. I picked it up last night. After literally dusting it off (really … it was incredibly dusty), I found a treasure of information inside. It was just about every scorebook in Whiteford’s short-lived wrestling program.
Whiteford started wrestling in the early 1970s and went into the early 1980s. Although the TCC never has sanctioned wrestling as an official sport, several teams have had big success in the sport. Madison was a state power when the league began, winning several state championships and having 22 state champions between 1974 and 1982. Morenci has added to that impressive list of TCC champs since it joined the league while Whiteford and Whitmore Lake also have had individuals make it through the state tournament. Clinton has long had a wrestling program and joined the TCC in 2007. Several schools have meets in which they call it a TCC meet, but, officially it is not.
I’m still removing the dust and looking through those wrestling books that Aaron found for me. Essentially, I probably now can tell anyone who asks the W-L record of every Whiteford wrestler ever. So, if anyone ever asks that question – I’m not expecting a big onslaught, but who knows – I’ll be more prepared to answer.
I’m glad Aaron chose to save that binder and not toss it. And, it reminded me, again, of a previous plea of mine — don’t throw away those scorebooks! No matter what sport, I hope coaches and athletic directors are saving the information because some day, someone like me will come around asking something like ‘Who scored the most points for the team in 1987?’ and without scorebooks and related-data sheets, that information will be lost.
Clinton’s volleyball team (TCC champs) advanced to a Class C Regional final Tuesday by defeating league foe Adrian Madison in the Regional semifinal at Hudson.
The Redskins will face Bronson, which beat Monroe St. Mary CC.
Clinton beat Madison in a thrilling 25-22, 25-22, 18-25, 22-25 and 20-18.
The Monroe Evening News’ annual All-Region team has been picked and will appear in the newspaper next week.
The very first All-Region team came out in 1972 and has been an annual thing except for one year – 1978 – in which just Players of the Year were chosen. The team is chosen by Evening News sports writers, based on recommendations from coaches.
Area girls basketball teams aren’t wasting anytime this preseason. A scrimmage with about a dozen or more schools will take place Saturday at Bedford High School. I’ll post more details later as I get them.
