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JACKSON - Erik Jacobson has been named Vandercook Lake's varsity baseball coach. Jacobson has 17 years of coaching experience at Vandercook Lake and is a science teacher at the district.

Grass Lake's Lexus Bargesser has had an incredible summer of basketball. The Warrior underclassmen has received several college scholarship offers as a result of her play during this summer's travel season. Here's more: https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2020/07/grass-lakes-lexus-bargesser-scorching-the-nets-as-college-recruitment-heats-up.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=jacksoncitpat_sf&utm_medium=social  

The Grass Lake athletics program is getting ready to re-start. Here's a link to the story.

Recently MLive.com completed a series of stories that listed the five greatest athletes since 2000 from high schools across the state. Here are the links to the stories involving the Cascades Conference schools: Napoleon Grass Lake Hanover-Horton East Jackson Michigan Center Vandercook Lake    

Michigan High School Football Coaches Association Executive Director Scott Farley provides some updates on the upcoming prep football season and more with this month’s blog post, here: http://www.mhsfca.com/for-coaches/executive-directors-blog/

The MHSAA has announced its 2020-21 school classification list, based on enrollments for schools across the state. Here's the enrollment breakdown of the eight Cascades Conference schools, divided into the divisions for football. Division 6 Michigan Center 396 Napoleon 376 Division 7 Manchester 332 Grass Lake 363 Hanover-Horton 337 Division 8 Addison 227 East Jackson … Continue reading MHSAA announces enrollments, classifications for 2020-21

Here's a link to the 2020 Cascades Conference All-Conference bowling teams: https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2020/03/meet-the-cascades-all-conference-boys-and-girls-bowling-teams-for-2019-20.html

The 2019-20 Cascades Conference Girls Basketball team: Abrie Cabana, Grass Lake Lexus Bargesser, Grass Lake Gabrielle Lutchka, Grass Lake Lauren Pongracz, Grass Lake Natalie Bargardi, Manchester Shealyn Tripp, Michigan Center Morgan Morris, Michigan Center Teagan Haynes, Michigan Center Kaycee Shannon, Michigan Center Alize Tripp, Michigan Center HONORABLE MENTION Ally McLouth, Addison Brynn Mericle, East Jackson … Continue reading All-Conference Girls Basketball team named

NAPOLEON -- The 2019-20 All-Cascades Conference boys basketball team as selected by the league's coaches: FIRST TEAM 2019-20 Player Class School Devon Poole 12 East Jackson Xavier Bargesser 12 Grass Lake Trae Ruggles 12 Grass Lake Jack Brockie 12 Hanover-Horton Luc Laketa 12 Hanover-Horton Rhett Laketa 12 Hanover-Horton Mitch Sauber 12 Hanover-Horton Tyler Horky 12 … Continue reading All-Conference boys basketball team selected

Here are the final leaders list from the Cascades Conference in boys basketball this season - counting league games only: PLAYER SCORING TEAM 2FG 3FG FTM FTA PTS Tyler Horky Manchester 79 50 115 138 423 Luc Laketa Hanover-Horton 73 12 27 37 209 Xavier Bargesser Grass Lake 54 23 28 35 205 Devon Poole … Continue reading Final boys basketball leaders – conference games only

BROOKLYN -- Michigan Center got past Jackson Lumen Christi Tuesday, 61-28, to advance to Thursday's Division 2 Girls Basketball Regional final. The Cardinals will play at 7 p.m. Thursday in Brooklyn against Bryon (23-1). Leading the way in the scoring column Tuesday was Kaycee Shannon (17) and Shea Tripp (15).

DIVISION 3 At Concord Monday: Homer 89, Reading 81, 2OT. Wednesday: Concord (11-9) vs. Homer (16-5), 5:30 p.m.; Jonesville vs. Hanover-Horton, 7 p.m. Friday: Finals, 7 p.m. DIVISION 3 At Stockbridge Monday: Leslie 51, Springport 35. Wednesday: Jackson Lumen Christi vs. Leslie (16-5), 5 p.m.; Stockbridge vs. Napoleon, 7 p.m. Friday: Finals, 7 p.m. DIVISION … Continue reading Scoreboard: Boys district pairing updates