Area senior players net one last chance
Nearly 200 show their skills in fron of college coaches at fourth annual foundation event
A couple of hundred Metro Detroit senior boys basketball players got one final opportunity to impress college coaches Saturday at the Horatio Williams Foundation’s fourth annual Second Chance Basketball Games held at Detroit Renaissance High School.
The event was designed to highlight the skills of area seniors who have not yet received college scholarship offers in front of Division II, Division III, junior college, and community college coaches from around the state. Division I coaches cannot participate due to NCAA recruiting restrictions.
The majority of players participating came from
Nearly 200 boys played ins front of 27 college coaches during the event.
Senior girls will play next Saturday, April 17, at the
"The idea was to give a kid an opportunity to play who might not have that opportunity," Williams told the Detroit News. "The key thing is to have college coaches have a look at these players. Maybe they hadn't seen them before. They get a chance to watch them compete and meet them, one on one."
Last year, 16 boys and six girls received college scholarships after the event.
Madison Heights Bishop Foley continued their hot start sweeping a baseball doubleheader Tuesday over Catholic High School
League C-D Division foe Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, 6-3 and 12-2.
The Ventures improve to 9-3 on the young season. Jeff Schalk
got the win in the opener, striking out seven. Daniel Zuchowski had a single, triple, home run and two RBI in game one. Zuchowski
picked up the win on the mound in game two, striking out seven. Brad Schalk had a double and two RBI in the six-inning nightcap.
Bishop Foley looks to make a run at their first-ever CHSL C-D baseball title with only three seniors graduated from last year’s team.
Notre Dame Prep falls to 3-7 on the year.
The final matchups are set.
No. 1-ranked Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice will battle No. 2 Novi Detroit Catholic Central for the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 1 boys lacrosse championship on Saturday, June 12 at Birmingham Seaholm.
Brother Rice will be looking for their sixth straight title. Rice downed
Catholic Central will attempt to break Rice’s near decade-long
Catholic Central lost to Rice in the 2007 and 2006 title games.
In the Division 2 finals, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central and Pontiac Notre Dame Prep will both be looking to earn their first lacrosse championship.
Forest Hills Central ended the three-year title run of
Notre Dame Prep topped Warren De La Salle 11-5 Wednesday to reach the final.
Neither Central or NDP have played in a lacrosse championship game.
The Division 2 final will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday. The Division 1 final starts at 4:30 p.m.
2010 MHSAA Boys Lacrosse Playoffs
Semifinals
Wednesday, June 9
Division 1
Bloomfield Hills Brother
Rice 17, University of Detroit
Novi Detroit Catholic Central 10, Birmingham
Division 2
Grand Rapids Forest Hills
Central 17, East Grand Rapids 9
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 11, Warren De La Salle 5
Finals
Saturday, June 12
At Birmingham Seaholm High School
Division
1
4:30 p.m.
Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice vs. Novi Detroit
Division 2
2 p.m.
Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central vs. Pontiac
2010 SEMIFINALS
Thursday, June 10
Division 1
Grosse Pointe South vs.
Wednesday, June 9
Division 2
Okemos 16, Bloomfield Hills
2010 FINALS
Saturday, June 12
At
Division 1 (2 p.m.)
Division 2 (4:30 p.m.)
Okemos vs.
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