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By MICKEY ALVARADO

A perfect game was bowled by Tecumseh’s Jordan Richard on Monday at Ten Pin Alley as the varsity Indians took on visiting Adrian in a big way, defeating the Maples 26-4 to remain undefeated this season.

Tecumseh varsity girls coach Ken Richard expected to have an emotional meet against rival Adrian, with the Maples’ girls looking to give a big win to coach Frank Kirkendall, but was confident his Indians would respond accordingly. Respond they did with Jordan putting an exclamation mark on the Indians’ win with her first ever perfect, 300, game. Her career high game and a 248 gave her a 548 series for the evening.

The rest of the Indians’ also turned in respectable scores with Jordan’s twin sister Haley rolling games of 247 and 199 for a 446 series: Atlanta Roberts, 211 and 204 for a 415 series and Lauren McKowen tagging on a high game of 211.

“We’re looking good,” said coach Richard of his team. “We went to Bay City and bowled a tournament and won there. We beat Davison, who’s number one in Division one.”

The Indians followed with a second place at the Battle of the Baker in Battle Creek and were again ranked number one in Division 2.

“The girls are getting better every week,” said coach Richard. “I’m excited about the four that I leave in all the time, Atlanta [Roberts], Lauren [McKowen] and the girls [Jordan and Haley]. One of them is always putting a good game up. But we’re always fighting for that fifth bowler and are juggling two back and forth right now. We’re waiting to see, but we’re very excited.”

The Indians’ varsity boys also defeated Adrian with a 29.5 to .5 final.

Andrew Sokal’s ball blew up dozen’s of pins for a 477 series (266-211) while Spencer Hite followed with a 457 series (244-213). Tecumseh’s Taylor Pate had a 236 high game while teammate Taylor Jardine had a 229.

Tecumseh junior varsity girls lost 21-9. Courtney Herron had a high game of 179.

A pair of wins were picked up by Britton Deerfield’s varsity girls basketball team last week with the Patriot’s defeating both Clinton (51-34) and Whitmore Lake (57-31).

The wins improved BD to 6-6 overall.

Against Clinton on Tuesday, Jan. 24, BD coach Craig Tanis said, “We played very well defensively. Our defense is getting better and that was definitely the difference tonight. We also had another balanced scoring attack and we finally hit well from the free throw line. All in all, it was another great team effort. I am extremely pleased with how we are progressing.”

Breanne Tanner led BD with 16 points, nine rebounds and two steals. Tanner also scored 16 points in BD’s win over Whitmore Lake and added 14 rebounds.

By DEB WUETHRICH

THS graduate Carlee Hollenbeck learned about a student teaching opportunity abroad in Australia while she was a student studying for a teaching degree in math, with secondary emphasis, at Grand Valley State University. She was just a freshman then and wasn’t sure how she would finance her portion of the trip. Later, she received a prestigious Knowles Fellowship award from the John Knowles Foundation, based in Philadelphia. The honor came with funding that helped finance tuition and professional development experiences.

“I used some of the funding for a 10-day conference in Seattle, a spring conference in New Jersey, and one in Ohio,” said Carlee. “Recipients also received summer stipends, and I saved mine for the trip.” She saw the chance to go “down under” as the opportunity of a lifetime, and traveled more than 7,000 miles from the U.S. in November.

“That was the longest plane ride I’ve ever taken,” she said of the 14 and-a-half hours from Los Angeles to Sydney. From Sydney, she took a shorter flight to Darwin, which is in the northern part of the country. It was in Darwin that Carlee taught 7th grade math as part of a six-week stint.

She said it was an interesting experience because it allowed her to differentiate from the traditional style of teaching in America.

“We got to do more interactive hands-on math activities there,” she said. One teaching activity she recalls involved going outdoors — which the classes did a lot because they don’t really get winter there and the students wore uniforms consisting of light shirts and shorts. “We were doing time conversions so we went out and did races using a stop-watch and converted minutes to seconds and vice versa.” She said the students eat in the courtyard and get “tea” mid-morning, which is primarily a snack time. “That actually provided a nice break-up for the day,” Carlee said.

After picking up its first win of the season last week against Adrian, Tecumseh’s varsity girls basketball team lost 57-19 at Dexter and fell to 1-11 overall.

Tecumseh didn’t score a single point in the opening quarter and all seven points scored in the third quarter came from the free throw line.

“They outworked us,” said Tecumseh coach Jamie Mossburg. “We didn’t have a very good game, decent effort just executed poorly.”

Mattie Wright led the Indians’ offense with five points while Haven Shaffer added four points. Hannah Galloway chipped in three points for Tecumseh.

The Indians were scheduled to play at home against Ypsilanti on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Results from the contest will be reported in next week’s Herald.

Tecumseh’s varsity boys basketball team picked up a 48-40 victory at home against Dexter on Friday, Jan. 27.

Tecumseh followed with a 52-34 loss at Ypsilanti on Tuesday, Jan. 31.

Ben Kasper led the Indians against Ypsilanti with 11points while Brad Vannatter added eight points. Jacob Britt recorded six points and seven rebounds for Tecumseh (3-8 overall