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2 days ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
The best Major League Baseball teams show patience at the plate. That’s a skill that works at the high school level, too. Brother Rice forced Stevenson’s pitchers to throw strikes when the teams met Wednesday in a Division 1 regional semifinal game at Birmingham Seaholm.
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3 days ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
Anna Booms isn’t like a lot of little sisters. She listens to her older sister — at least she does on the soccer field. The Booms sisters — Anna and Kate — along with Nia Guess and Mia Mollicone and goalkeeper Lily Hansen led a defensive effort that protected a one-goal lead for most of the second half Tuesday and helped Regina edge Ann Arbor Greenhills 1-0 in a Division 3 regional soccer game at Detroit Country Day. Anna Booms, a freshman, joined her older sister on the back line this season.
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6 days ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
Morgan Thimm appears ready to take her place among the long line of outstanding pitchers in Regina softball history — and she’s only a freshman. Thimm pitched the first no-hitter of her high school career, struck out 13 and broke a scoreless tie with a home run in the fourth inning Saturday to lead the Saddlelites to a 9-0 victory against Warren Woods Tower in the championship game of the Division 1 district hosted by Regina.
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1 week ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
It takes an efficient battery to make a high-powered machine run smoothly. Lake Shore’s softball team, which breezed to a Division 2 district championship Friday, gets that charge from junior pitcher Sophia VanDenstorm and sophomore catcher Kendra Damm. In the Shorians’ 19-0 win against Center Line in the championship game, VanDenstorm retired all nine batters she faced, including eight on strikeouts. She and Damm also led the offensive attack.
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1 week ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
There’s only one thing the opposition can do when Lamphere’s Jordan Terbrueggen lines up for a free kick —start praying. That’s about the only defense against the senior defender’s booming and accurate kicks. Terbrueggen scored one goal and set up another with free kicks Thursday to help the Rams edge Lake Shore 2-1 in a Division 2 district championship game at Grosse Pointe North.
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1 week ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
The rousing rendition of “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by the Lake Orion lacrosse team when it huddled after defeating Dakota 9-4 on Wednesday in the Division 1 regional championship game had a special significance. “It’s become the thing after every big win,” coach Ron Hebert said of the tradition that started three years ago when one of the dads started playing the John Denver classic after wins. “We all made fun of it. One of my captains and I started singing it as a joke.
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1 week ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
Armada’s Ellie Ryzyi took only one shot in the first half of the Tigers’ Division 3 district semifinal game with host Richmond Tuesday but it was a game-changer. Ryzyi’s goal with 23 seconds remaining in the first half snapped a scoreless tie and got Armada rolling to a 2-0 victory against its Blue Water Area Conference rival. “I got a stop and I just stuck to it,” Ryzyi said. “I kept my head up, made a few moves and decided to take a shot. If it goes in, it goes in.
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2 weeks ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
If Romeo’s lacrosse team is in a close game in the fourth quarter — watch out!“We’re a fourth-quarter team for sure,” said senior captain Joey Zyrek, who scored two of his four goals in the final quarter Friday to lead the Bulldogs to an 11-8 victory against Rochester Adams in a Division 1 regional semifinal at Troy Athens. “We make adjustments and they’re very prevalent in the fourth quarter,” Zyrek said. “I think we have more energy, too. One of my roles as captain is to get the boys rowdy.
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2 weeks ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
Tessa Brown hadn’t played goalie for several years, but she was up to the task when she was pressed into duty in the most important game of the year for Lakeview’s soccer team. Brown turned in a solid performance and the Huskies got first-half goals from Vanessa Parker and Alexa Stonik to edge host L’Anse Creuse North 2-1 in a Division 1 district quarterfinal game.
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2 weeks ago | 
voicenews.com | Chuck Klonke
Ten Macomb County Golf Championships in 11 seasons don’t just happen. De La Salle’s players work all year to achieve that excellence. “Most people don’t see the amount of work they put in,” said Pilots coach Dennis Koch after his team posted a 307 total Monday at The Orchards Golf Club. “They love golf. They play golf morning, noon and night. They play at The Orchards. They’re in the simulator in the winter. They’re in the weight room. They do yoga.
