 Photos by Bobbi Cruzan Girls Grant 44 White Cloud 32 The Tigers kept pace in the conference race with a win on the road but the Cloud didn’t go down easy. Many of the current players on the WC team recalled the season opener last year when Grant dominated first year Coach Caleb Wilk’s young team running away with a 60-15 win. Friday’s game showed how far they’ve come since then. Coach Wilk: “Tonight was a ball game, and that is what I wanted. Last year Grant put it to us, and our girls didn’t want a repeat of that. We may not have won, but we fought to the end. I was very happy with our effort tonight. This loss came down to turnovers, and unfortunately we had 12 more than Grant. Our goal was to hold Grant to 40 points or less, and we came very close to accomplishing that feat. Grant has some very talented players, and our defense held them in check.” The hosts took a 6-5 lead after one as the teams went through a cold spell to start the game. By the half Grant had edged ahead 17-15 but a huge third quarter saw the visitors extend the lead to 11 points and the teams played even down the stretch. Coach Delamater: “The story of the game was our inability to put the ball in the bucket. I won't have stats until we get the film but I'm wondering how many more shots we took than them. Credit to Jayci (Hance)and Jocee (Pleune) for the awesome defense they played tonight on Jaden Gomez holding her to 4 points, all free-throws. They never really let the WC guard get comfortable and it completely disrupted the WC offense. “ I'd like to see us get into a rhythm, but we’re looking at another three game week starting with a tough Ludington team on Monday.” Gaby Reeve led the Cloud with 14 points and 9 boards white Annie Feldpausch hit for 8. Laura Ashbaugh continues to pile up the points for the Tigers finishing with a game high 20 with Pleune and Hance adding 6 apiece. Grant (4-1, 7-3) will follow up Monday’s game in Oriole Country with a Tuesday home contest against Ravenna. White Cloud (1-3, 5-4) will head to Shelby to take on another Tiger team. Hart 63 Holton 36 The Pirates not only own sole possession of first place in the WMC Rivers, this past week they moved into the D3 top 20 landing in the #11 slot. With a stifling press defense they have held 4 teams below 20 points and kept a potent Mason County Central team to under 40. So it was no small feat when the Red Devils stayed with the Hart girls staying within 4 points by intermission. Coach Jordan: “We probably played one of our better halves of the season. and battled foul trouble all night. Two of my starters picked up their 3rd early in the second and then each were called for a 4th early in the third, eventually fouling out in the fourth. “I was very pleased with the fight we put up, we all know how great of a team Hart is and to be able to compete with them for a half is something I'm hoping we can build some confidence off. Their pressure, especially in the third, busted the game open. They have been shutting teams down for most of the year so for us to put up 36 on them is something we can be happy about. We had 30 turnovers combined with the foul trouble but we kept fighting and that was all we could ask for. They’re a great team and it's hard to keep up with them for an entire game. They wear on you.I can't say enough of how proud I was of the fight we put up. If we can find a way to duplicate this I feel we can go on a good run to close out the season. “Abbie Fowler played a great game putting in 1 and Ryann Robins did her part on the boards with 16 to go with 6 points.” Holton (2-4, 5-6) will be at home Tuesday when they welcome in Whitehall.
 Boys Tigers Outlast Cloud Grant 65 White Cloud 50 The Tigers were able to halt a 4 game skid Friday with a win on the road while delivering White Cloud’s 4th loss in a row. Coach Jones: “We were down just 3 points after three but we just simply ran out of steam. We will look to right the ship on Tuesday Coach Schuitema: “Balanced scoring and team defense led to the win.” Oakley Obenauf paced the Tiger attack with 15 points, Austin Whitney hit for a dozen, Blake Rider and Lucas Swanson dropped in 11 apiece and Zak Barnhart added 9. Kevin Strait knocked down a game high 18 for the Cloud and Jared Watson reached double figures with 11. Grant (2-2, 4-5) will travel to Ravenna Tuesday to take on the Bulldogs while White Cloud (2-2, 4-4) will visit Pentwater.
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