Alisha Glass scored 20 points but it wasn’t enough as Frankfort held off Leland for a 37-27 victory to advance to the Class D semifinals at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. It also marked the final game of Larry Glass’ coaching career. Congrats on a great season Comets!

Read Next stop: Breslin in the Record Eagle

The Traverse City Beach Bums first game will be May 26, 2006, when they open Wuerfel Park by hosting the Kalamazoo Kings.

View the entire 2006 Schedule

Leland’s Alisha Glass earned All-State first team honors for the second straight year and will help lead her Comets into quarterfinal action tonight against the Frankfort Panthers. Glass averaged 16 points, 10 rebounds and 3.7 blocked shots per game.

Read Bankston, Glass, Loney earn all-state in the Record Eagle
Read 4 area teams in quarters in the Record Eagle

The Detroit Insider just emailed me…

1:14 PM - Lions Press Conference at 4:00 PM. Dick Jauron has not accepted the interim head coach position. Stay tuned.

11:55 AM - Jay Glazer of FoxSports.com is reporting that Steve Mariucci has been fired by the Lions. No confirmation yet.

Read Team official says Lions have fired Mariucci at Yahoo! Sports

My View: I wouldn’t be suprised. The team needs a major shakeup.

Alisha Glass led the way with 16 points and Erin Sneed added 12 leading the Leland Comets to a 37-31 win over Gaylord St. Mary to claim the Regional crown. Leland improves to 18-6 and will now face Frankfort on Tuesday (Nov. 29) at Traverse City Central. Frankfort (23-2) defeated Leland back in September by a score of 47-19.

Read Prep Basketball: Frankfort, Leland win in the Record Eagle

Hey Leelanau Sports fans! I have changed the program that runs the site to allow for easier posting of comments and organization. Let me know what you think of it by sending me an email at sportsguy@leelanausports.com.

I hope to move some of the past content over to the new site over the holiday weekend.

Have a safe and happy holiday weekend!

The Leland Comets defeated Ellsworth last night in the regional opener 43-35. They face Gaylord St Mary at 7 PM tomorrow night (Nov 23) at Boyne Falls.

Most of the time, that is true, but this weekend it was great. Why you ask? Because I didn’t have to watch much of the weekend that was Detroit sports. I didn’t have to watch the Spartans lose another game. I didn’t have to sit while the Lions offense stumbled down the field and penalty flags were flying all over. I didn’t have to watch Michigan fall in the final seconds to the hated Buckeyes, or MSU hoops fall to Hawaii. The Red Wings & Pistons also couldn’t escape the bad vibe that was Michigan sports.

At least for some of them there is hope…

Michigan - Will be going to a good bowl and still get a big payday. Sure they hate not winning the Big Ten and losing to Ohio State, but the Wolverines are still a young team. They will use this season as a stepping stone for next year.

Pistons - The 82 game season schedule makes it impossible to play at a high level every night. Games like that will happen. Nothing to worry about, move along.

Red Wings - See above. Although they make me more nervous than the Pistons, because they have been in a funk for a few games.

Michigan State Hoops - Izzo will let them have it, but I don’t think it’s anything long term to worry about. The four stars were all bothered by cramps and should rebound with a nice showing against Chaminade.

And no hope…

Michigan State Football - 1-6 after there 4-0 start is a horrible way to end your third season if you are John L. Smith. If he survives he had better deliever 9 wins or it will be the end.

Lions - Where do you even begin. This team finds new ways to lose every week. This week it was penalties, on Thanksgiving, my guess is…Fumbles.

Have a good holiday weekend everyone!

The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that in the Class D District Final Friday night, never trailed en route to a 44-20 victory over the Traverse City Christian Sabres for its fourth straight district title. The Comets (16-6) will play Ellsworth (16-6) tonight in the regional at 7:30 PM at Boyne Falls.

Read Leland captures district title in the Record Eagle

It doesn’t get much better than this, A Love Letter to Sparty by the Sports Dude.

In Class D last night at Lake Leelanau St Mary, Leland defeated Northport 46-21 while St. Mary lost a 59-53 heartbreaker to Traverse City Christian. Leland will face TC Christian Friday (Nov 18) at 7 PM. In Class C action at Suttons Bay, both Leelanau teams fell. Traverse City St. Francis topped Glen Lake 63-32 while Kingsley beat Suttons Bay 69-32. The final is Friday at 7 PM.

Read Sabres to face Comets in Class D district final in the Record Eagle
Read Kingsley, St. Francis vie for title in the Record Eagle

Leland Comet star Alisha Glass made it official on Monday, and signed a letter of intent to play volleyball at Penn State University. She is joining a program that loses only two players and just clinched it’s third consecutive Big Ten Title. The Nittany Lions are currently ranked #3 in the nation. Glass is getting ready for her senior season and already holds the national high school record for career kills with 2,686, among other records.

Read Leland’s Glass becomes a Lion in the Record Eagle

Jeff Isom has been named the first manager of the Traverse City Beach Bums. He brings a career record of 262-226 in parts of six seasons as a manager. Isom spent the last two seasons with the Joliet Jackhammers of the Northern League. Prior to that he spent two seasons managing in the Frontier League with the Washington Wild Things.

Isom played college baseball at Purdue and was a 13th round pick in 1993 by the Pittsburgh Pirates. He pitched for six seasons in the Pirates and Padres organizations.

Read Beach Bums hire Manager in the Record Eagle
Read Beach Bums Hire Isom at TraverseCityBeachBums.com

Even with how well the Lions played it wasn’t over until Cory Redding knocked down a Kurt Warner 4th down pass in the final seconds as the Lions held on for a 29-21 win over the Arizona Cardinals. Joey was the man, as he finished with his second highest quarterback rating in his career as he found Roy Williams for three touchdown passes. Kevin Jones ran well and the defense was solid despite injuries the the top three cornerbacks. This was a much needed win, with games at Dallas and against Atlanta on Thanksgiving looming. I don’t see any way Harrington isn’t the starter in Dallas, but we shall see.

They remain two games behind the Bears who used an NFL record 108 yard return on a missed field goal to beat the 49ers, and tied with the Vikings who managed to win despite not scoring an offensive touchdown. The Packers even held on in Atlanta. That’s why you just have to love the NFL, any team can beat any other team on “any given Sunday”.

Read Detroit 29, Arizona 21: It’s about time in the Freep

Class C District at Suttons Bay
Monday, Nov. 14th
Forest Area vs. Suttons Bay at 7 PM

Wednesday, Nov. 16th
Glen Lake vs. T.C. St. Francis at 6 PM
Kingsley vs. Forest Area/Suttons Bay winner at 7:45 PM

Friday, Nov. 18th
District Final at 7 PM

My Pick: Kingsley

Class D at Lake Leelanau St. Mary
Wednesday, Nov. 16th
Leland vs. Northport at 6 PM
T.C. Christian vs. Lake Leelanau St. Mary at 8 PM

Friday, Nov. 18th
District Final at 7 PM

My Pick: Leland