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1 week ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
Whenever Armada’s baseball team needed something from Adam Sauer, he was there to deliver. Sauer moved from second base to the mound to tame Richmond’s booming bats in the second inning, then hit a walk-off single in the seventh to lift the Tigers to a 10-9 victory in the Blue Water Area Conference baseball game. He also drove in Armada’s first run with a sacrifice fly. The winning rally started with Lucas Pratt’s two-out single to right.
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1 week ago | 
voicenews.com | Chuck Klonke
Whenever Armada’s baseball team needed something from Adam Sauer, he was there to deliver. Sauer moved from second base to the mound to tame Richmond’s booming bats in the second inning, then hit a game-winning single in the seventh to lift the Tigers to a 10-9 victory in the Blue Water Area Conference baseball game. He also drove in Armada’s first run with a sacrifice fly. The winning rally started with Lucas Pratt’s two-out single to right.
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1 week ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
Lilian Nguyen and Marley Podolak took a unique path in preparing for their senior seasons on the Warren Mott girls tennis team. Last fall they signed up to be student managers on the Marauders’ boys tennis team. That gave them a chance to see different styles and learn ways in which they could improve their skills. It seems to be working.
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1 week ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
It’s no surprise that goals were at a premium when Ford and Regina met Friday night in a non-league soccer game. The Saddlelites’ offense is still evolving and the Falcons’ defense had its best game this season. When the 90 minutes were up, the teams were tied 1-1. “We couldn’t put the ball in the back of the net,” said Regina coach Stefano Moraccini Sr. “We’ve got to fix that.
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3 weeks ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
There’s no substitute for experience. Romeo’s lacrosse team proved that Thursday night when it rallied for four goals in three minutes late in the fourth quarter to edge Dakota 7-6 in the Macomb Area Conference Red Division opener for each team. The Bulldogs’ burst came shortly after the Cougars had scored three goals in 13 seconds to take a 6-3 lead.
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3 weeks ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
The thermometer read 37 degrees at the end of Armada’s 10-6 softball victory against L’Anse Creuse North Tuesday, but the 1-2 punch at the top of the Tigers’ lineup was hotter than a day in mid-July. Freshman center fielder Lily Piconke, making her varsity debut, and sophomore third baseman Laney Fettue combined for eight hits. Three of Piconke’s four hits were doubles. Fettue had a pair of doubles and drove in four runs. “Both are really good ballplayers,” said Armada coach Rob Girvin.
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2 months ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
Regina combined youth and experience to record one of its most impressive basketball victories of the season. The all-around brilliance of senior Sara Wilking and the scoring of freshman Emerson Holder and junior Samantha Thomas carried the Saddlelites to a 71-18 victory against Fitzgerald Tuesday in a non-league game. “Sara’s having a great senior year,” said coach Joe Charrette. “She rebounds. She directs traffic. She saves me a couple timeouts a game because she gets the young kids organized.
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2 months ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
Dakota and L’Anse Creuse North started the competitive cheer season at opposite ends of the spectrum. Today they’re headed to the Division 1 regional round as the top two finishers in the district hosted by Stevenson. Dakota finished first Saturday with an overall score of 785.96. LCN was close behind with 783.66. Ford had a strong third round to overtake Cass Tech for third place with 753.8 points, and the Technicians got the final regional qualifying berth with a score of 755.28.
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2 months ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
Thirteen weeks ago, Luis Garibaldi was getting his first taste of wrestling. Today the Warren Woods Tower senior and his teammates are going to the state Division 2 finals in Kalamazoo for the first time since 2021 and Garibaldi had a lot to do with it. Garibaldi held on for a 7-5 decision over Mateo Pesaros of Brother Rice for one of the Titans’ key victories in their 40-27 win against the host Warriors Wednesday in the regional championship match.
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2 months ago | 
macombdaily.com | Chuck Klonke
New Haven’s defense appears to be ready for the state basketball tournament when it starts in a few weeks. “Tonight we played good defense,” Rockets coach Tedaro France II said Monday after New Haven defeated Mount Clemens 78-29 in a non-league game. We’ve been real good at times and real bad at times. We’re trying to find consistency. The offense will come but we can never have an off-day defensively. We have to be accountable for our actions each day on the defensive end.
