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By Mike SpencerOf The Enterprise staff

Tantzi Snyder thought she got a bad break. Turns out it was a good one for the Leland senior and the rest of the Comets.

Snyder broke her index fi nger on her non-shooting hand and didn’t even miss a beat after her doctor said she could play with it taped for two weeks.

Snyder delivered eight points and grabbed seven boards in her fi rst game since the injury in Leland’s 56-33 Northwest Conference girls basketball win last Thursday over rival Suttons Bay.

Snyder also had another eight points in a 50-31 victory over visiting Buckley on Tuesday.

“I was pretty optimistic and so was coach, but I thought I’d be out for a while,” said Snyder, the team’s second-leading scorer who averages 8.4 points per game. “But the fi nger feels great.”

“It’s a broken pinky,” Leland coach Megan Munoz said. “But she went to a specialist who said it’s OK to play.

“It’s a big relief because Tantzi is usually good for eight-12 points.”

Leland (7-5 overall, 4-3 in the NW) hosts Benzie Central tonight in a big league battle and then hosts Mesick on Tuesday.

Snyder’s presence in the lineup was one of the story lines against Suttons Bay. Another was the hot-shooting of sophomore guard Caitlin McKee.

McKee dropped in a team-high 15 points, including three triples on the Norse.

“We gave Leland a good match inside, it’s just that their outside shoot-ers were the difference tonight,” Suttons Bay head coach Todd Hursey said. “We knew Caitlin could shoot it, but we picked our poison and said we’re going

to take away their inside game and hope that they are not shooting well.”

“They took away our inside game a bit, so we moved it around and got a lot of other people taking shots tonight,” Snyder said.

“We’re starting to get some outside shooting,” Munoz said. “And I think part of it is that our inside players are so good that everyone is trying to take that away and it’s opening things up for our outside shooters.”

The Comets shot off to a 9-0 lead in the inter-county rivalry match and

never looked back. Four different play-ers fi gured in the initial four-minute surge including McKee’s fi rst triple.

The Comets led 16-3 after one quar-ter, 27-17 at the half and 42-25 after three quarters

“The 9-0 start was a combination of us doing a lot of nothing,” Hursey said. “We weren’t ready to play.

“And we missed some easy shots. We battled back, but then just ran out of gas.”

0, Section 1Thursday, February 2, 2012

Norsemensurprise at midpointBy Mike SpencerOf The Enterprise staff

The Suttons Bay’s boys basketball team is 8-2 and co-leaders in the Northwest Conference boys race.

The performance of the Norse at the season’s midpoint continues to surprise some, if not all county basketball fol-lowers, including fi rst-year coach Ron Anderson. The Norse were scheduled to host Leland Wednesday before trav-eling to Mesick tomorrow.

“I’m happy with 8-2,” Anderson said after rebounding from a two-week lay-off with home victories over Frankfort on Friday and Onekama on Monday. “The kids are giving me more than I ever expected.

“And I’m not taking any credit. It’s our defense and the kids believing in what we’re trying to do.”

Monday’s 51-29 conquest of the Portagers paled in comparison to Friday’s overtime 59-55 thriller over the Panthers, but it was equally impres-sive as Anderson began the game with his “second unit.”

“It was fun,” said junior Guy Beachnau, who led the Norse with 10 points. “It would have been even better if I made a few more shots.”

The Norse led 11-7 after one quarter and 31-17 at the half. The second team played the entire third quarter and extended the advantage to 41-20.

“I don’t really see us as the second team,” said Beachnau, after matching his season-high for points. “We’re all

together and we all love to play.“It’s nice to be 8-2 because a lot of

people didn’t expect it and it’s nice to prove some people wrong. We’ve been pushing it down the fl oor and playing a lot of defense.”

Senior Greg Banks, who was one of

the heroes with 17 points against Frankfort, added eight against Onekama.

“I’m not going to lie, but sitting and watching stinks,” Banks said after watching the second unit bury Onekema. “But they did good and it’s a

big boost for them.”The Frankfort victory was a team

effort before a packed house. Senior Mason Darling added 13 points. Brandon Miller had 24 for Frankfort.

“It was see-saw, back and forth,” said Banks, who scored fi ve of his

points in overtime. “And it was really physical.

“But it felt really good to get the win because Frankfort somehow has become a rivalry game this year.”

Senior’s break not so bad for Leland


Jordan Peplinski used to stand out at a Glen Lake girls basketball game.

Now she is sidelined with a dislo-cated shoulder and that’s not sitting well with the 5-foot-11 sophomore.

Peplinski’s successful start to the hoop season came to an abrupt halt in what can only be described as a freak injury — during a jump ball to start the fi rst overtime against Kalkaska on Jan. 4. The two centers struck the ball simultaneously.

“I’ve played my whole career and offi ciated for 12 years and I’ve never seen someone dislocate a shoulder on a jump ball trying to tip it,” said Jason Bradford, Glen Lake’s head girls bas-ketball coach. “I knew it wasn’t good.

“I could see the shoulder had popped out.”

“I’ve had a bad knee and some ankle problems, but nothing like this,” said Peplinski, who was writhing in pain at the time. “It looked like I had football pads and it felt out of place.”

LIZ MCKEE (11) of Leland looks for an open teammate against defensive pressure from Suttons Bay’s Miranda Schaub last Thursday.

Photo by Shannon Scott

GLEN LAKE’S Jordan Peplinski poses in the gym after a recent practice. The sophomore gives support for her teammates while out with a shoulder injury.

Photo by Don Miller

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RON ANDERSON, right, head coach of Suttons Bay, talks to his players during a break Monday against Onekama. The Norsemen are 8-2 at the season’s midpoint, best in Leelanau County.

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Northport’s John Kalchik has gone from hawking race design T-shirts at the International 500 Snowmobile Race to being crew chief for the most successful driver.

The 42-year-old Omena business-man doesn’t boast about the little known fact, but he is proud to call Corey Davidson of Holt, Minn., his driver.

Davidson won his eighth I-500 a year ago, his seventh as the lead driv-er, and is back at Sault Ste. Marie qualifying for Saturday’s 44th annual looking for another victory.

Kalchik and Davidson fi rst met in 1996 after Davidson’s victory in a dif-ferent snowmobile race at the Soo. Kalchik sold him some T-shirts after the win.

“A lot of people don’t know what I do up there because I lay pretty low,” said Kalchik, owner of Clean Car Care. “And some don’t understand the signifi cance of this race. But it’s the Daytona 500 of snowmobile racing.”

Last year, Davidson and Travis Hjelle of Thief Rivers Falls, Minn., teamed up for their third I-500 victory. Davidson was on the XLT Engineering/Stud Boy sled when he took the lead for good with eight laps to go. There was a late caution fl ag that bunched the fi eld, but Davidson used the Polaris Liberty engine power to pull away in the fi nal laps and win by 4.2 seconds.

“Last year, our sled wasn’t fast, but attrition allowed us to win,” said Kalchik after back-to-back runner-up fi nishes.

Davidson’s other wins as a lead driver came in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2008. In 2005, after his sled was out of the race, Davidson helped the Gabe Bunke-led team win the race.

“We’re the Jimmie Johnson of the I-500,” Kalchik said. “I’ve had beer cans thrown at me at the fi nish line.

“And I’ve also had people stare at me and consider me a god. I’ve been yelled at and fl ipped off and even been told that I’m a cheating piece of what-ever.”

Kalchik said he’ll do whatever he can, within the rules, to help Davidson win.

“No matter what your job, you try to do the best you can,” he said. “I don’t go there to help Corey fi nish fi fth.

“I don’t go there to fi gure out how we can almost fi nish. I go there to win and that’s it.”

Watching Davidson cross the fi nish line in fi rst is always a special moment, Kalchik said.

“For me there’s a tremendous satis-faction and not just for what we’ve accomplished, but for what I’ve done and all the people that have taught me things my whole life,” said Kalchik, who raced cars at the Cherry Speedway when he was 13. “All the way to the guys that taught me about welding and how to make a part strong.”

“It’s an unbelievable feeling being fi rst to cross the fi nish line,” Davidson said. “Just knowing that you worked hard for it all year and did it.

“You out-smarted those guys.Kalchik said every time Davidson

is about to race, even if it’s a new sled, the machine is rebuilt.

“There are certain areas that need to be strengthened and modifi ed,” he said. “The other reason is just to make sure that every nut and bolt and every rivet is right for qualifying.”

After qualifying, the crew spends 48 hours going over the machine again.

“We have a checklist,” Kalchik said. “If a hose is routed improperly, it’ll get redone. If a wire looks like it might chafe, it gets beefed up with a piece of some tape or wire tie.

“I’ll do that for an hour or so and then I’ll ask another crew guy to do the same thing.”

Having Davidson fi nish without the sled breaking down is satisfying, Kalchik said.

“To know, with 50 miles to go, that our main competition just blew a radiator hose and they are out of the race or their driver rode too hard because he was worried about some-thing he should not have been — it’s a satisfying feeling,” Kalchik said.

Although Davidson said the key to his success is simple — “Drive as hard as you can” — Kalchik sometimes has to harness the enthusiasm.

“I’ve never had to say, slow down, because Corey and I have talked about that ahead of time,” he said. “Now it’s almost unspoken because he trusts my judgement on that.”

Competing in the I-500 can be a long day at the track as most races take eight hours to complete.

“It just depends on what is going on,” Kalchik said. “If the machine is struggling like it was last year, 500 miles seems like forever.

“If everything is going smooth and not just for your team, but the race itself, sometimes it feels like time fl ies by.

Kalchik said his team’s strategy is a simple one — don’t pit on green and don’t go a lap down.

“Without exception, every time Corey has won, he’s been at least a lap down at one point and we’ve pitted under green whether we wanted to or not,” Kalchik said with a smile.

Kalchik said he has a good idea each year who the teams to beat are.

“I know this might sound cocky, but I can literally tell him that if he’s in 10th, I can pretty much tell him the fi ve guys in front of him that I don’t even have to worry about,” Kalchik said. “I hate to say that, but there’s only fi ve or six teams that are capable of winning that race.”

Kalchik said letting drivers go who

can’t win is better than burning one-self out.

Last year, Kalchik said it cost the frontrunners a victory.

“The guys in control of that race that were setting the pace, didn’t have that attitude or didn’t have someone telling them that,” Kalchik said. “They were racing each other when they didn’t have to race each other. They had the race won. Then they gave it away.”

Last year’s win was similar to the victory in 2003, when Davidson start-ed 33rd and worked his way to the top fi ve with 50 laps to go. The leader blew a belt.

“We have learned something every time out,” said Kalchik, including 2001 when the sled’s track heated up and Davidson dropped out of the race with 75 laps left. “The ice was just pure glass and the snowmobile needed lubricant.”

Some of the learning curve has been painful. A rookie crew member in 2009 unknowingly took the sled out for a spin after qualifying, costing Davidson a two-lap penalty. Davidson was on lap 502 when the checkered fl ag came out and fi nished second.

Kalchik, who fi rst started going to the I-500 in 1989, got involved in the largest single day snowmobiling event in the world in 1996 when he and Jerry Spears, also of Northport, went up to the Soo amidst worries that the race might have to be cancelled due to too much snow.

Kalchik and Spears brought their shovels and helped make a path for the board to meet that night. After two hours of labor, the pair were asked to come in to the board meeting.

“I’m proud to been a volunteer in a race run entirely by volunteers,”

Kalchik said. “A lot of people bust their butts to make sure it happens.

“And they’ve been doing it since 1969.”

Kalchik joined Davidson’s team in 1998 by sponsoring him in the I-500. He got others to sponsor Davidson like Stihl in 1999 and became crew chief a few years ago.

“John had been at the Soo a long time and he wanted to help,” said Davidson, recalling Kalchik’s addi-tion. “John’s always keeping track of things like laps and mileage.

“And he tells me if I need to push it a little faster.”

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, Section 1 THE LEELANAU ENTERPRISE Thursday, February 2, 2012

By Chris OlsonOf The Enterprise staff

At the end of the first quarter of the Northport/St. Mary girls’ bas-ketball game last Thursday night, it was clear the Wildcats no longer deserved to be atop the Cherryland

Conference.The visitors, who entered the

game with a 1-0 league record, al-ready trailed St. Mary 28-5.

And the Eagles never let up, post-ing a 48-22 halftime lead before winning, 88-42.

“We didn’t know what to expect

with Northport,” Eagles coach Paula Korson said. “They had beaten GTA and they were the conference lead-ers.”

Now the Eagles, 1-0 in the league and the clear-cut favorite, host Ells-worth tonight in a non-league game and Manistee Catholic on Tuesday.

Northport is off until next Thurs-day, Feb. 9 when it will host St. Mary.

“We played them tough in the second quarter,” Northport coach Casey Wilcox said of the St. Mary showdown. “Eighth grader Morgan Collins hit three big shots to spark our second quarter run.”

Unfortunately for the Wildcats St. Mary’s talented duo of Rachael Thon and Taylor Moore had another big scoring night as Thon netted 26 points to go with nine rebounds and seven assits. Moore was right behind her with 25 points and 10 boards. Sarah Popp was the third Eagle in double-digit scoring with 17 points.

Nina Muller continued her of-fensive production as she netted 24 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and had five steals for Northport.

St. Mary collected its second win of the week at Boyne Falls Tuesday with a 60-35 win. The Eagles started its dominance of the Loggers when Moore scored the first eight points of the game.

“We moved the ball pretty well and we were fortunate to hit our shots,” Korson said. St. Mary shot 11-of-13 from the charity stripe and shot 40 percent from the floor.

Moore scored 19 points and had 12 rebounds while Thon netted 17 points, 11 rebounds and six assists.

Despite getting a career-high 29 points from Nina Muller Tuesday Northport lost at Baldwin 45-36.

“The game was neck and neck throughout, until they pulled away late in the fourth,” Wilcox said.

Muller finished with a triple-dou-ble, by also grabbing 13 boards and coming up with 10 steals.

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NORTHPORT’S NINA Muller (25) drives to the basket as St. Mary’s Sarah Popp tries to intercept.

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By Chris OlsonOf The Enterprise staff

St. Mary gave Leland a game and then some.

“It was a classic St. Mary-Leland battle,” said Leland coach Jon Kies-sel, summarizing the annual boys basketball game between the two intra-county rivals last week.

“We couldn’t get away from them,” added Kiessel of the Jan. 25 match-up at St. Mary in which the Comets prevailed 53-43. “We’d make a big play, then they would make a big play.”

“We had the lead after the first quarter,” St. Mary coach Bob Bruder said. “Then we relinquished it.”

The two teams will next meet at Leland on Wednesday, Feb. 15, and possibly in district play after the regular season ends. For the night, Paul Bardenhagen scored 19 points to lead Leland.

“I didn’t have anyone else in dou-ble figures for scoring. St. Mary was tough all night,” Kiessel said.

Nick Shaffran and Brandon Mc-Sawby each netted 10 points for St. Mary.

St. Mary will next play at the Grand Traverse Academy on Mon-day and at Manistee Catholic Central on Feb. 8. Northport will scrimmage with the Leelanau School today at 6 p.m., then will host T-C Christian in a make-up game on Monday.

St. Mary improved to 4-7 overall with its win at home Monday over the Traverse City Bulldogs Athletic Association, 62-40.

Richard Herman scored 16 points to lead St. Mary. McSawby netted 14 points and had nine rebounds. Shaf-fran netted 11 points and nabbed seven steals.

On Friday, the Eagles hosted Bear Lake and lost 67-58.

“We got off to a bad start,” Bruder said. “Our defense wasn’t as good in the first quarter, but we picked it up,”

Caleb Korson netted 18 points, Shaffran scored 13 and McSawby had 10.

Northport played at T-C Christian Friday night in an important Cherry-land Conference game. The Sabres came out on top 71-49, but that was after Northport posted a slim 10-9 lead after the first quarter.

“We were in this game in the second quarter,” said coach Todd Huck. “Then Armando (Hernandez) got into foul trouble and I had to sit him.” Hernandez had three fouls by the end of the first half and Christian had a 32-16 advantage.

“We only had 16 fouls for the game, which is pretty good,” Huck said.

As a team the Wildcats shot 41 percent from the floor and had 45 percent free-throw shooting.

“T-C Christian shot 73 percent from the floor and 70 percent for free-throws,” Huck said. “It’s hard to win when your opponent is shoot-ing like that.”

For the night Bill Stowe had 19 points, with Sheldon Brown and Hernandez each netting nine points.

On Jan. 23, the Northport boys basketball team showed up in the middle of the fourth quarter against the Traverse City Bulldogs Athletic Association.

By then victory was out of reach for the Wildcats, who rallied from a 24-point deficit to within single dig-its before bowing 54-44.

“It was obvious that our defense

laxed for the first three quarters,” Huck said. “We decided to show up at the end.

“We just needed a couple more minutes.”

The Wildcats got 20 points from Stowe and a dozen from Hernandez. Stowe got half of his points in the final eight minutes and Hernandez netted eight of his in the final frame.

The visiting Bulldogs took a 13-9 lead after one quarter and expanded the margin to 24-13 at the half. Richie Friske was the big man for the Bulldogs and coach Shane Miller. Friske had eight of his team-best 14 by intermission.


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Connor Bradley forced the Norse to play overtime, nailing a three-pointer to beat the fourth quarter buzzer.

Anderson said there was a missed assignment on the big shot and he didn’t even consider fouling Frankfort before it could shoot.

“I’ll take my chances,” Anderson said. “I believe if he’s going to hit that shot, he’ll hit that.

“Bradley was Johnny-on-the-spot.”The Norse outscored the Panthers

9-5 in the extra four-minute period.“We kept our composure,” Anderson

said. “And that’s been a key for us.

“We may start a game with butter-fl ies, but we’ve been able to keep calm and relax.”

Against Onekama, Jacob Anderson added seven points and Aaron Orban had a half dozen.

Glen Lake kept pace with Suttons Bay at 4-1 in the Northwest by beating Leland 53-39 on Monday.

Mike O’Brien had 24 points and had eight rebounds for the Lakers, who outscored the visiting Comets 22-12 in the second quarter and 13-5 in the fi nal eight minutes. Carter Lee also chipped in 19 points.

“I don’t compliment Mike enough, but I don’t have to worry about him

showing up and he’s steady all the time,” Glen Lake coach Todd Hazelton said. “But Carter’s a nice shooter and we just need a little more consistency from him.”

The victory came after an 18-day layoff for the Lakers.

“It’s a big win,” Hazelton said. “It keeps us in the hunt and that our goal.”

The 6-4 Lakers, 4-1 in the NW, were scheduled to play Frankfort last and then host Mesick on Monday.

Leland went 1-2 in the last week, beating St. Mary 53-43 on Jan. 25 but bowing to Kingsley on Friday, 64-52.

J.R. Duvall led the Comets against Kingsley with 15 points. Dylan Jolliffe added 14.

Against Glen Lake, Duvall had a dozen points, all on three-pointers and Jolliffe added 10. The Comets played without their leading scorer A.J. Whittaker, who was suspended for two games. School offi cials declined to comment on the suspension.

Whittaker was expected back in action last night. The Comets, who host Buckley on Friday, were 5-4 overall, 3-3 in the NW.

The Norse held Liz McKee to a season-low 13 points, but it was little consolation.

“I still feel like we’re moving in the right direction,” Hursey said. “We’re just struggling to score some points.

“And in this game, it’s a tough road to overcome.”

Liz McKee led the Comets victory over Buckley. She had 24 points and nine steals.

Hanna Schaub, who had three assists, and Caitlin McKee each added seven points and four steals. Bailee Kuhn led Buckley with 20 points.

The Comets led 20-13 at the half, but then went on a 17-10 run to start the second half.

“We went to a half-court press and got them in foul trouble and got some easy points off the turnovers,” Munoz said. “And we were much more patient.”

Against Leland, the Norse (3-9 overall, 2-5 the NW) got nine points

from Koraima Guillen and eight from St. Mary transfer Elsa Finch.

Suttons Bay ended an 0-for-January with a 48-39 victory at Mesick Tuesday night. The visitors led 34-33 after three quarters and won it on the free throw line as Finch was 4-for-4 and Miranda Schaub was 3-for-4. Schaub fi nished with a team-high 16 points. Guillen, who had fi ve steals, and Finch, who nine boards, each added 10 points.

Jordan Smith also had 10 boards and seven points.

“I was proud of the way we fi nished at the end,” Hursey said.

The Norse host Glen Lake tonight and play Kingley on the road Tuesday before hosting Benzie Central next Thursday.

Glen Lake slipped into a second place tie in the NW race after losing to Benzie Central, 63-36 on Tuesday.

The Lakers, who are now 8-5 over-all and 5-2 in the league, also host Buckley on Tuesday.

Taylor Martin and Scotlyn Brengman each had 11 points. Sophie Ewing led in rebounds with six.

Jordan Nye led Benzie with 19 points and Sauer netted 18, including fi ve triples.

“We struggled defensively,” Glen Lake coach Jason Bradford said.

Glen Lake did beat Frankfort last Thursday, 50-39, as Martin scored 24 pionts and Brengman had 20. Martin had seven steals.

The Lakers outscored the Panthers 26-14 in the middle two quarters.

“It started out slow on both ends,” Bradford said. “We struggled shooting in the fi rst half, but made up for it in the second.”

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Scoring LeadersPlayer, School GP Pts. AveTaylor Martin, Glen Lake 12 266 22.2Liz McKee, Leland 12 233 18.3Scotlyn Brengman, Glen Lake 12 217 17.7Nina Muller, Northport 11 194 17.6Taylor Moore, St. Mary 12 208 17.3Rachael Thon, St. Mary 12 189 15.8Molly Plamondon, TCBAA 13 173 13.3Casie Plamondon, TCBAA 13 121 9.3Sarah Plamondon, TCBAA 13 119 9.1Jordan Peplinski, Glen Lake 8 71 8 8.9Tantzi Snyder, Leland 12 101 8.4

Scoring LeadersPlayer, School GP Pts. AveBill Stowe, Northport 11 232 21.1Mike O’Brien, Glen Lake 10 210 21.0Greg Banks, Suttons 10 139 13.9A.J. Whittaker, Leland 5 79 15.8Nick Shaffran, St. Mary 11 137 12.5Forest Rogers, Northport 9 83 9.2

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KORAIMA GUILLEN of Suttons Bay dribbles in the backcourt against defensive pressure from Leland’s Hanna Schaub last Thursday.

Photo by Shannon Scott

RON ANDERSON, head coach at Suttons Bay, appears to be hold-ing up the peace sign as his signals a play for his offense Monday night.

SAM KELTY of Suttons Bay looks to pass the ball Monday night against Onekama’s Drew Slevin (33).

Now Peplinski’s season and possibly basketball career is on hold until Tuesday, Feb. 14.

That’s when the 15-year old, two-sport athlete will learn whether she’s healing OK or surgery will be required.

“I’m anxious and worried because I just don’t know how bad it is. They’re going to do an MRI to see if I need surgery,” Peplinski said. “But it all depends on the doctors. I’m hoping I can play again this season.”

Peplinski has had her right shoulder in a sling since going to the emergency room after the double overtime loss.

“I can’t really move it, but it feels like it is getting better,” she said.

Although Peplinski went down in a painful heap after the jump ball, she may have done some damage to the shoulder earlier in the same game going for a rebound. The arm may have popped out of place.

Peplinski was averaging almost nine points and seven boards a game for the Lakers, who were 6-1 at the time of her mishap. The team’s leading rebounder at the time had a single-game high of 16 rebounds against Benzie Central.

“I was having a good year,” said

Peplinski, who cared more about grab-bing rebounds than scoring points. “I counted each rebound as four points — two the other team didn’t get and two that we got for me getting a rebound.”

The Lakers, who lost the Kalkaska game in double overtime, are 2-4 with-out Peplinski.

“The girls are handling it pretty well,” Peplinski said. “I’m proud of the way they are battling.

“They are putting up a good fi ght.”Hannah Schweikart, a 5-8 junior, has

taken over Peplinski’s spot in the start-ing lineup.

“We miss Jordan’s inside presence a lot,” Bradford said. “The other girls have adjusted.

“Hannah doesn’t have the height, but she’s got a nice 15-foot jumper.”

Peplinski, who is used to being the center of attention, can only be a cheer-leader now.

“It’s hard just to sit and watch because I love the sport and it has always been a part of my life,” said Peplinski, who started on the varsity midway through her freshman year. “All I can do now is support my team-mates and help them by talking to them when they can’t see the defense.

“It’s defi nitely a different perspec-tive.

“Now I get to see things from a coach’s view. It’s different.”

And it’s one she hopes she doesn’t have to see again.


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Co-op ski teams dominate leagueBy Amy HubbellOf The Enterprise staff

Glen Lake’s cooperative ski team continued its dominance of the Lake Michigan Ski Conference last week with wins for female and male skiers.

Led by Christina Rennie, the Laker cooperative team swept fi rst through sixth places in the giant slalom (GS) and were one and two in the slalom. Leelanau girls won the meet with 22 points. Benzie had 74 and Onekama had 130.

The girls and the boys squads have won all four of the LMSC meets which could have lead to a little complacency going into yesterday’s conference fi nals at Schuss Mountain. But don’t bet on it.

“We don’t ever want to be over con-fi dent,” said coach Mark Fisher, explain-ing that anything can happen from run to run. “Skiing is a tremendous mental game.

“It’s you against the hill ... we have them focus on one thing that can pro-duce a better performance.”

In last week’s fourth conference meet of the season, Rennie had the fastest GS time of 42 seconds after two runs. Amanda Lodge was second with a time of 42.31; Flanny Johnson, third, 42.60; Madison Fink, fourth, 44.90; Katie Pershinske, fi fth, 45.07 and Kaitlin Gaudard, sixth, 45.31. Teammates Emma Velis and Olivia Pierce-Bluhm were ninth and 10th, respectively, with times of 45.91 and 47.54.

Rennie and Gaudard were numbers one and two in the slalom. Rennie burned down the slopes twice for a combined time of 49.08. Gaudard was second with a time of 55.10.

Onekama’s Bailey Nugent edged in at third with a time of 55.45, but the Lakers swept fourth through eighth place.

The cooperative boys’ team topped the competition with 42 points. Benzie had 65; Onekama, 77 and Bellaire, 110.

Thomas Waning, Pete Kerby-Miller and Ian Hood had three of the top times of the slalom course. Waning won the event in 46.18. Kerby-Miller completed two runs in 49.36 for third place. And Ian Hood was fourth in 54.96.

Waning was tops in the GS with a combined time of 39.75. Kerby-Miller was fourth in 40.34 and Noah Kelly, sixth in 41.90.

JORDAN PEPLINSKI of Glen Lake puts up a shot against St. Mary in early season action. The sophomore center, who averaged nearly nine points a game, has been out with a shoulder injury.

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No school, no extracurricular activities or practices. Seems like that should be the rule, not the excep-tion.

In Leelanau County, only Northport has a policy that is that simple. No school, building closed. Keep out, stay home.

Being involved in high school athletics as a player, writer, parent, coach and a Michigan High School Athletic Association offi cial, I can’t for the life of me understand why playing games or practices is even an option for many a school around the state. Here Glen Lake, Suttons Bay, Leland, and Lake Leelanau St. Mary may make a decision to play or practice long after the call to cancel school.

Is not the safety of students bigger than any game? And optional prac-tices, are they really optional?

Although I have yet to hear of a tragedy — let’s hope there are none — involving a Leelanau County stu-dent/athlete trying to get to a practice or a game when there was a snow day, it seems like risky business.

I talked with the county athletic directors last week about the issue. Those who don’t automatically close the window on extracurriculars said pretty much the same things. They discuss the current and forecasted weather with school offi cials and the opposing school’s athletic director and then make a decision.

Sometimes that call isn’t made until the early afternoon.

Meanwhile, players, fans, volun-teers and game offi cials wait in limbo.

If the weather or roads conditions appear to be improving and are expected to improve, it’s game on.

If athletic offi cials had their dru-thers, games would be played when-ever possible to avoid the hassles of rescheduling events and event work-ers so as to not confl ict with other school functions.

While all the local ADs are ada-mant that safety is their bottom line, there still are games that get played and practices on snow days.

It happens in other parts of the state, too. John Johnson, the MHSAA’s communications director, said snow day policies are matters of local control and vary from district to district. The MHSAA has no clue as to how many schools have poli-cies like no school-no athletics or wait-and-see. Johnson is also unaware of any situations where lia-bility issues come up because a school decided to play.

Just last month when more than 100 schools were closed in northern Michigan, Cadillac and Alpena

agreed to play on, putting fi ve refer-ees and a busload of kids in harm’s way.

It isn’t just the games that are played occasionally when school is

cancelled that both-ers me, it’s schools having practices or even thinking about the idea.

ADs are trusting coaches decide to hold practices if they think it’s safe enough. The need to practice

should not be a factor in deciding the issue, but I’ll bet it has.

If I had kids playing today in Leelanau County, I wouldn’t want the burden of deciding if it was safe for my son or daughter to get to school for a non-mandatory practice on a snow day.

How do you “just say no” to kids. I’d rather have the boards of educa-tion do that.

While it may be easy to say ‘game on” when your opponent is only fi ve or 10 minutes versus an hour away on a weather-related day off, the question remains “Is it really safe?”

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BOTH SQUADS posed for a team photo before last Thursday’s girls basketball fundraiser. Photos by Don Miller

GLEN LAKE’S girls basketball team lines up for a group shot while the junior varsity game was in progress in the Coaches vs. Cancer game.

SOPHIE EWING of Glen Lake dribbles around a Frankfort girl last Thursday during the Coaches vs. Cancer game.

Pink rules this night

The Glen Lake girls basketball team along with Frankfort put on their best pink attire last Thursday to raise money and awareness for cancer research.

The Lakers won the Coaches vs. Cancer battle on the hardcourt, 50-39.

“There was a pretty decent show-ing,” Glen Lake coach Jason Bradford said.

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