Tecumseh Herald Sports

By MICKEY ALVARADO

It was cold, getting darker by the second and play had been suspended for at least 20 minutes before visiting Lincoln's varsity girls soccer coach decided his girls had taken enough punishment. He conceded the victory to Tecumseh with more than eight minutes remaining in the contest.

The Railspliters had a player collide violently with Tecumseh senior Hanna “Hat Trick” Hall with the Indians leading 6-2 and the accident essentially ended the contest. Hall had already scored three goals for a hat trick but looked to possibly add several more with her momentum still peaking in the second half.

Lincoln had taken the initial lead in the first half with a goal that slipped past Tecumseh's Rachael Ries just two and a half minutes into the game but Hall evened the score with a netter from the right side just seven minutes later. Tecumseh's defense stiffened up and began shutting down the Railsplitters, which allowed Hall to make several hard offensive runs at Lincoln, but was held to the outside and easily blocked. Hall finally booted the ball right in front of the Railsplitters goalie and her teammate, Ashton Lacelle, was right where she needed to be to send it flying to the back of Lincoln's net.

Hall charged right again and scored another netter at the 6:53 mark, placing the ball just over the Lincoln goaltender's outstretched hands.

The Railsplitters tightened the match to 3-2 just under three minutes later and the teams left the field at halftime to plot out their second half attacks.

Britton-Deerfield opened its baseball tournament at Deerfield on Saturday, May, 10, with a 16-5 mercy ruled win against Waldron but lost 8-1 to Summit Academy to end the day.

Jason Case won the opener for B-D after pitching all five innings. He allowed five hits and walked one while striking out five.

B-D's Mike Burman, Mike Smith and Justin Holubik each had multiple hits and scored runs for the win.

Burman was handed the pitching loss against Summit Academy. He pitched six innings, allowed six hits and walked two while striking out eight.

Paden Sampsel and Brandon Keller recorded B-D's only hits in the game.

The other half of the tournament was played out at Britton High School where Madison opened with a 10-0 loss to Dundee and then finished its day with a 15-4 loss against Manchester.

Just the day before, Friday, May 9, B-D lost 7-4 at Madison.

Madison benefited from a couple early errors in the first inning to score four unearned runs.

Brandon Keller pitched six innings for B-D and gave up five hits and six walks while striking out 11.

B-D was led offensively by Matt Bailey and Brandon Keller who each had two hits and scored runs.

Chase Mann led Madison, going 2-for-4 at the plate and also earning the win on the mound.

B-D lost 7-4 against Clinton on Monday.

Case took the loss, pitching five innings and allowing eight hits, seven runs (six earned), three walks while striking out four. Brandon Keller pitched the sixth inning and hit a batter.

Offensively, B-D was led by Cameron Taylor and Case who each had two hits. Keller had a double while Holubik scored two runs.

BD is now 2-14 overall and 1-9 in the Tri-County Conference.

Clinton claimed five first places during its Thursday, May 1, varsity boys track meet with visiting Morenci but lost by a score of 93-59.

Two of the Redskins' athletes earned a pair of first places with Spencer Krauss winning both the shot put and discus while Rick Smith placed first in the high jump and 400-meter dash. Krauss earned first in the shot put with a throw of 46'6” and first in discus with a toss of 153'8”. Smith leapt 5'10 for first in the high jump and ran a time of 54.2 to finish just ahead of the Bulldogs in the 400-meter dash.

Clinton sophomore Kenny Cooper won the 3200-meter run in a time of 11:28 and finished second in the 1600-meter run in 5:12. Aaron Newsted also placed second for the 'Skins in the long jump (17'1”) and finished third in the 100-meter dash (12.2). Ryan Reineck placed second in the 200-meter dash (24.9) and was fourth in the 400-meter dash (56.9).

Kyle Bevier placed third in the long jump (16'10” while Chet Albee was third in both the shot put (36'6”) and discus (1`05'5”). Tyler Bevier finished third in the 300-meter hurdles (50.1) while Steve Kurowicki was third in the 800-meter run (2:35).

Fourth places were recorded by Clinton's Jody Gerber, in the high jump (5'2”); Aaron Tice, in the shot put (35'2”) and discus (102'3”), Jeremy Levi, in the 110-meter hurdles (20.9), Kevin Reineck, in the 300-meter hurdles (56.9), Desmond DeGood, in the 800-meter run (3:17) and Matt Kurowicki, in the 3200-meter run (14:57).

At the Stockbridge Invitational on Friday, May 2, Clinton finished 10th out of 15 teams with 21 points. Williamston won the meet and was followed by Albion.

With Jessie Manwaring and Autumn McMillin attacking visiting Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard from all sides of the lacrosse net on Monday evening, the varsity Indians, as well as a few JV girls, easily finished off the Fighting Irish with a generous 15-5 final.
The Indians have had an up and down season but with balanced play on both sides of the net evened their record to 5-5 overall with the win.

Nine of the Indians' netters came from Manwaring and McMillin with one passing to the other on the run at the net. Manwaring totaled six of the goals and had two assists while McMillin added three goals and two assists.

The score at the half was tight at 5-2 with Tyler McCrate in goal for the Indians, but after returning to the field Tecumseh's offense went on a terror and quickly took control.
Samantha McMillion was placed in goal for the second half and she limited the Fighting Irish to just thee netters as many of the Indians' JV players were given some varsity playtime.

“It was good to see many different players get goals,” said Tecumseh coach Cindy Hill. “The girls moved the ball around well, and many JV players got to see some playing time. Katelynn Braunschneider caught many feeds tonight and the girls were able to move the ball around much more efficiently.”

Chelsie Gray added two goals for the Indians while Braunschneider had a goal and an assist. Niki Hedges, Nicole Palm and Kacie Blayer each added a goal. Key defensive players mentioned by the coach were Heather Major and Brittanie Rice.
Tecumseh tagged 10 goals to beat Haslett on Friday, May 4, with the Indians winning 10-7 on the road.

Aaron Wielfaert had a great day on the track last Thursday, April 24, as Britton-Deerfield hosted Manchester's Flying Dutchmen but despite his efforts the Blue and Red lost by a score of 83-44.

Wielfaert was a triple winner during the day. He placed first in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 43.71, turned in a personal best in the long jump with a distance of 19' 7” and cleared 6' 5” in the high jump with another personal best effort. His high jump would have set the new school record but it wasn’t officially measured.
Braxton Collins was B-D's only other first place runner with a time of 12:26.3 in the 3200-meter run.

Second places were recorded by B-D's R.J. Pickell in the discus, Matt Rau in the long jump and 800-meter run, Sam Branscum in the high hurdles, Collins in the 1600-meter run, Doug Wylie in the 300-meter hurdles and Landon Forche in the 3200-meter run.
Pickell placed third in the shot put, Jared Pirkle placed third in the high jump and Raymond Root placed third in the high hurdles.

With the loss B-D fell to 0-5 overall and 0-3 in the Tri-county Conference.
At Whitmore Lake on Saturday in the Trojan Relays B-D finished fourth out of seven teams with 73 points.

Manchester won the event with 110 points while Whitmore Lake was second with 108. Summerfield finished third with 88 points and was followed by Allen Academy (22), Bishop Foley (17) and Roeper (16).

B-D's boys won the following relays for the second year in a row: the discus relay, the high jump relay and the middle distance relay.

B-D's girls finished fifth with 45 points. Whitmore Lake won the event with 112 points while Manchester placed second with 110. Roeper was third with 100.