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.
Four state champions were crowned Saturday, June 12, at the Michigan High School Athletic Association Lacrosse Finals.
In the girls finals,
Okemos finished their second-straight perfect season, beating Flint Powers Catholic in the Division 2 final. The final score was 20-6. The two teams also met in the 2009 final. The Chieftains are 54-0 the past two seasons under head coach Bill Prahler. Kristen Hull scored eight goals to led Okemos. Allison Crites earned the win in goal.
In the boys finals, Bloomfield Hills Brother
Rice won their sixth straight MHSAA title, beating Novi Detroit Catholic Central 16-10 in the Division 1 finals. Rice (22-1) has won
eight straight state championships. The MHSAA began sanctioning the sport in 2005. Lukas Jackson scored four goals to lead Rice. The
Warriors have not lost a game in
Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central earned their first lacrosse title, downing Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 14-8. Jack Turcotte led Central with six goals. Danny Kransberger got the win in goal.
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