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Calling
allPioneerfans
Photo by Burrill Strong/A2 JOURNAL
Pioneers Reilly Quigley (2) intercepts a Brian Paulsen pass late
in the game Friday night against Chelsea as teammate Matt Bolgos
(1) tries to make a play.The interception gave the ball back to
Pioneer and basically sealed the win for the Ann Arbor team.
Pioneers tame Bulldogs
PIONEER FOOTBALL
The Pioneer football teamsucks. The players haveno heart and the
coach-ing staff is incompetent.
Got your attention?Got your blood boiling?Got you ready to fire
off some
hate email my way?Good.The above was just an experi-
ment. I didnt mean any of it.In fact, I believe the opposite
is
true of all three of those open-ing statements of this
column.
But like I said, it was anexperiment.
Were you affected by thosewords? Did they make youdefensive or
angry?
Because if they did, it meansthat you are a fan of
Pioneerfootball. It means that the pro-gram or the school or the
play-ers and coaches, or all of theabove mean something to you.
It means you owe it not onlyto yourself, but you owe it to
theprogram to be at Hollway Fieldon Friday night.
Maybe you havent been toa game yet this season, and ifyou
havent, Friday is the nightto go.
Pioneer is fighting for a play-off spot, and the teams
postsea-son dreams are all teetering onthis weeks game against
Holt.
If the team wins, they willadvance to the playoffs.
If they lose, the season isover.
This team needs your sup-port.
But more than that, this teamdeserves your support.
The Pioneers have workedtheir collective butts off for thepast
few weeks, and after start-ing the season at 1-2, the teamhas won
four of its last fivegames and three in a row as itis making a push
for a secondstraight playoff appearance.
But if you look in the stands,there isnt much support.
Last week against Chelsea, itwas almost like it was a homegame
for the Bulldogs. Theirfans came out in droves. Therewere students,
parents and peo-ple from the community who
just came out to see the game.On the Pioneer side, a tiny
student section, some parentsand rows and rows of
emptyseats.
This team deserves better.Hey Gabriel Richard fans.
Yeah, Im talking to you. Yourgame isnt until Saturday. Gotplans
Friday night?
Sure, I know its not yourschool. But Ann Arbor is AnnArbor. So
trade in your greenfor a night and find somethingpurple.
I know a lot of you probablyhave friends at Pioneer. So callthem
up and make plans to meetat the game.
But the stands need to befilled with more than just
stu-dents.
How about the rest of yousports fans in the community?Where have
you been?
This is home to one of themost storied college footballprograms
in the country. Areyou trying to tell me that therearent any people
out there that
just like to take in a footballgame?
Yeah, I know Ann Arbor is abig place, full of great restau-
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By Mike LarsonA2 Journal
They say that fortune favorsthe bold.
On Friday night, that oldadage proved to be true for theAnn
Arbor Pioneers.
Trailing Chelsea 21-20 latein the fourth quarter follow-ing a
51-yard Drake Johnsontouchdown, Pioneer coachJeremy Gold elected to
take achance and try to complete atwo-point conversion to takethe
lead.
And the decision proved tobe a good one.
Quarterback Andy Crealtook the snap and immediate-ly fired a
bullet to Kyle Fosteron a slant route.
Foster laid out to make thecatch and Pioneer took its firstlead
since the first quarter,going up 22-21.
Our game plan was, whenwe scored, we were going to gofor two,
Gold said.
Pioneer was then forced to goon defense, giving Chelsea theball
with 3:04 left in the game.
The Pioneer defensestepped up in a big way.
Chelsea quarterback BrianPaulsen started to orchestratea drive,
but it was stopped bythe Pioneer secondary.
The Bulldogs ran 10 playsand moved 25 yards down thefield before
Pioneer defensiveback Reilly Quigley snatcheda Paulsen pass out of
theair and effectively ended thegame.
After the interception, thePioneers knelt on the ball andran the
clock out for the vic-tory.
We got it done for ourseniors, Creal said. All ourguys battled
adversity thisweek. It was nice to see theseguys play with some
passionand heart.
The game started well for
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Playoffs still alive for Pioneerafter 22-21 win over Chelsea
Greenhills tennis takes third straight title
Photo by Burrill Strong/A2 JOURNAL
Pioneers Freddy Munoz takes down a Chelsea ball carrier last
Friday at Pioneer. The AnnArbor team won the game 22-21.]
Photo courtesy of
Eric Gajar/A2
JOURNAL
The Greenhillstennis teamposes with itsthird straightDivision 4
StateChampionshiptrophy.
October 21, 2010Heritage Newspapers
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By Mike LarsonA2 Journal
The Greenhills tennis teamcontinued its dominance atthe state
tournament.
On Saturday in Holly theGryphons won their third con-secutive
state championshipin Division 4.
In fact, the Gryphs were sodominant, the team really onlyhad to
play on Saturday as a
formality.Greenhills had advanced
to the semifinals in seven oftheir eight flights, buildinga lead
that would have beenalmost impossible to lose.
And the Gryphons didntlose it.
On Saturday, Greenhillsplayers won state champion-ships in three
of the sevenflights to give the team a score
Pioneer and Huron also placewell at state championships
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GENERAL
ADMISSION
MIKE
LARSON
