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  1. I just called him. WO-S will scrimmage LC-M  (Rivalry) instead of Dayton. Coaches wanted these teams to play again even if it was just a scrimmage. Dayton coach didn't mind at all since it was their turn to drive to Orange.
  2. Baseball and softball is well underway now, i feel trhey should be above Girls BB, just my opinion. Maybe Jordan feels different but in the past he hasn't.
  3. FENNVILLE, Mich. -- A Michigan high school's star basketball player collapsed on the court Thursday and later died after making a game-winning layup in overtime to cap his team's perfect season. Wes Leonard of Fennville High died Thursday night, Holland Hospital spokeswoman Deb Patterson said. A cause of death has not yet been determined. Paramedics performed CPR on the 16-year-old before he was pronounced dead at the hospital, Patterson said. "It's tough to take in," his teammate, Shane Bale, told The Holland Sentinel. "It's like somebody from your family, you know?" Leonard, a junior who also excelled as the quarterback of the Blackhawks football team, was "by far the best player on that basketball team -- outstanding athlete," said coach Mike Miller, whose Bridgman team lost 57-55 in overtime to Fennville Thursday night. "All of Bridgman's thoughts and prayers are going toward Fennville right now," Miller told The Associated Press Friday morning. Chad VanHuis, a 21-year-old Fennville High graduate who once umpired Leonard's middle school baseball games and was his camp counselor, heard before heading into work that Leonard had collapsed. During his break at about 1:30 a.m. ET, VanHuis, an assembly line worker at an auto glass factory in nearby Holland, logged on to Facebook and learned of his friend's passing. "I couldn't believe it," said VanHuis, who remembered opposing baseball coaches asking to see his birth certificate, not believing a 12-year-old could be so big and skilled. "He was very courteous. He was the nicest kid. You'd think with his star potential, because he's so gifted, he'd be cocky, but he never really was that way." On Thursday, Leonard -- who earlier this season eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for his high school career -- scored with less than 30 seconds remaining. Bridgman wasn't able to score during the ensuing trip down the court, giving Fennville a 20-0 regular season. Leonard fell to the ground after teammates and fans rushed the court. "We are all hurting now," coach Rocky Johnson, whose Bangor High team faced Fennville three times this season, told the Grand Rapids Press. "My son and Wes played AAU in different programs, but we saw each other all summer, all spring, and he's the kind of kid that I would make sure to say hi to him and he would go out of his way to say hi to me," Johnson said. "He always had something good to say, all positives." Leonard is the second Fennville athlete to die in 14 months. Wrestler Nathaniel Hernandez, 14, died in January 2010 after suffering a seizure at home following his participation in a high school wrestling match. In an interview with the Sentinel at Tuesday's practice, Fennville coach Ryan Klingler talked about how Leonard had a great drive to succeed and that he saw the "bigger picture." "That's what makes him a little different. He takes care of his body better than probably anybody I've ever coached," Klingler said. "Spends a lot of time on his own in the weight room. He's a special kid." Fennville, about 200 miles west of Detroit, is scheduled to begin district play in the state playoffs Monday.
  4. At the Vidor Pirate Relays, BC's Mary Nguyen set a new school record in the 3200 with a time of 12:12, beating the previous mark of 12:17 held by Erica Garza in 2004.
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