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Davison senior bowls consecutive 300s

DAVISON — Tylor Greene has bowled morethan a dozen 300 games in his life, but never twoin a row — until last Saturday. The Davison Highsenior rolled consecutive perfect games in theSaturday Strikers league at Rollaway Lanes,becoming the second bowler to accomplish the

feat in that house. BenSmock was the first in1992.

Greene started histhree-game series with a256, and his 856 series isthe second highest inRollaway history, behindthe 866 rolled by threebowlers. Bowling on lanes7-8, Greene said everyshot was in the pocketand there were no closecalls.

“My arm was feelingthe best it has all year,”he said. “I’ve been having

problems with it and wearing a brace, but it wasjust really smooth and loose.”

Greene has “10 or 11 sanctioned 300s” and sev-eral non-sanctioned ones, but he never thoughtabout two in a row.

“I wasn’t thinking at all,” he said. “I thought aboutit around the seventh frame, but I wasn’t reallythinking I was going to do it because it’s prettymuch impossible. When I got to the 10th frame, Iwas like, wow, I’ve got a chance.”

Greene averages 234 in the league and carriesa 220 average for Davison’s boys’ varsity team,which is ranked second in the state in Div. 1.— D.N.

Thomas aids Bruins’ OT winBOSTON — Tim Thomas made 19 saves during

regulation, then two more in a shoot out, to help theBoston Bruins take a sorely-needed, 4-3 victoryover the Nashville Predators last Saturday. TheBruins had lost their previous two home games andwere coming off their worst loss in four years, a 6-0defeat at Buffalo on Feb. 8.

“It’s our job to build on this,” said Thomas. “I thinkwe played a much better game and we found a wayto win again.”

The Davison native had relieved starter TuukkaRask at Buffalo after the backup goalie had surren-dered three goals on 10 shots to the Sabres in 22minutes. Thomas allowed the other goals on 19shots, but Rask took the loss.

Thomas is still fourth in the NHL in save percent-age at .931 and eighth in goals-against average at2.18 for the Northeast Division-leading Bruins.— D.N.

Elba baseball, softballsignups start Saturday

ELBA TWP. — The Elba Baseball and SoftballAssociation will take late signups on Feb. 25 andMarch 3 from 10 a.m.-noon at MC Sports in Lapeer,1776 DeMille Rd., in Kohl’s plaza. No registrationsafter March 10. For more information, visitwww.eteamz.com/ebsa — D.N.

Looking to fill rosterLAPEER — The Westside Panthers U-13 travel

baseball team has a few openings. The team willplay in the Greater Flint League and four to five

tournaments over the summer. Details: Don Bell at1-248-866-3659. — L.P.

Memorial race coming to Lapeer

LAPEER -- Derek Stone, Lapeer East grad andfounder of Milestone Racing Inc., will bring a newrace to the area in June. Dubbed the Beatty-Daleychallenge in honor of his best friend, ThomasDaley, and cousin Michael Beatty, whose liveswere cut short, Stone has set a tentative date forJune 2 at 9 a.m. His permit is still pending butexpected to be approved. The race will have threeparts, the Daley 5k and the Beatty mile (inviteonly) and a Beatty-Daley 5k walk. Online registra-tion is available at www.racemilestone.com. Stonehopes to bring a large portion of the communitytogether for the memorial races. — L.P.

Pro football coming to Flint area

FLINT — The Stars Football League hasannounced that its second season will be kickingoff in the spring. In addition to several new teams,one of the previously established franchises, theMichigan Coyotes, will be relocating from thePontiac Silverdome to Flint’s Atwood Stadium forthe 2012 season. The Coyotes will be coached byFlint Rampage general manager and University ofMichigan-Flint head coach Dan Pilgrim. For moreinfo on the league and the team, visit starsfootball-league.com. — B.P.

Jr. Generals tickets discounted for food drive

FLINT — The Flint Jr. Generals hockey team isreaching out to help feed struggling local familiesby hosting a canned food drive during their Feb. 29game with the Metro Jets at Iceland Arena, 1160S. Elms Rd. Faceoff is 7:20 p.m.

Fans will receive $1 off game-day admission foreach donated canned good, with a limit of twocans per person. Items collected will be donated toThe Salvation Army Beecher Corps pantry to pro-vide needed food for the approximately 150-180families who visit the pantry each week. The needis great in Genesee County as one in three chil-dren are living in povert —a 25 percent increasesince 2005—and more than half of local childrenare raised in low-income households that qualifyfor free or reduced-price school lunches, accordingto the 2011 Kids Count Data Book.

The Jr. Generals hosted a food drive inNovember, collecting nearly 350 pounds of foodand $163 in cash donations. — D.N.

Just to clarify....FLINT — Several high school and alumni hockey

tournaments taking place in the area have caused abit of confusion. On March 23-25, Flint IcelandArena, 1160 S. Elms Rd., is offering a High SchoolAlumni Hockey Tournament for those 18-30 and 30and over. Cost is $650 per team and there will alsobe T-shirts issued to the winning team. Because ofUSA Hockey rules, $100 of entry fee will go back toeach school’s athletic department. Details:www.flinticeland.com.

On April 20 at Ice Mountain in Burton, the secondannual Mid-Michigan High School AlumniTournament benefits the Food Bank of EasternMichigan and MI Youth Hockey Scholarship Fund.This tournament had 12 teams last year andbrought in upwards of 14,000 spectators. Details orto sign up for this tournament, Eric Lemieux at 810-223-2964 or Bryan Hall at 810-691-5686.— M.S./L.P.

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BY MICHAEL SELECKY810-452-2632 • mselecky@mihomepaper.com

MIDLAND — With the playoffs lay-ing just over the horizon for theDavison varsity girls’ basketball team onFeb. 27, coach TJ Fischaber has histeam peaking at just the right time andit showed on Monday, as the LadyCardinals took out non-conference rivalMidland Dow, 41-34.

While the confines were anything butfriendly, Tori Bellamy and Kolbie Browwere still able to get past the adversityto put up 11 points each for Davison,Mariah Ferris had eight points andMorgan Hitchcock scored four. KendallDensmore was also in the mix for theLady Cardinals with three points, scor-ing two apiece were Lauren Leach andBrooke Graham and playing solid

defense was Leela Leach, HayleyGabriel and Theresa Dray.

In what doubled as the LadyCardinals’ final home game of the2011-12 regular season, Flushing cameto town last Friday for Davison’s sec-ond-to-last Big Nine varsity girls’ bas-ketball contest ever and got beat, 49-39.

In a well-rounded effort that featurednine players making their way into thescoring charts, heading up this effortfor the Lady Cardinals was Brow with12 points, Lauren Leach had 10 pointsand scoring seven was Bellamy.Hithcock was also on her game forDavison with six points, BrookeGraham scored five, and comingthrough with a four-point showing wasMariah Ferris. That just left Densmoreand Gabriel with two points each andDray scored one.

Season winding downfor Davison girls

Photo by Beth Scott

Davison’s Mariah Ferris dribbles down low.

Tylor Greene

Last Friday was a completenightmare for many of us with theunexpected snow that blanketedthe area. School buses loaded withhigh school athletes headed off forbasketball games around 3 p.m.with the grass still very muchvisible and a very worry-freeprediction of a light dustingless than one inch of snow.

However, by tip off at 6p.m. whiteout conditionswere causing havoc on thefreeways and side streets,closing part of I-75 inBay County becauseof a 40-car acci-dent.

Unbeknownst tothe various girls’basketball teams, coaches and ref-erees tucked inside warm gymnasi-ums, Old Man Winter had comeknocking with a vengeance, kickingand screaming at the door.

As I shared space with an ABC12cameraman at the Lapeer Westgym, a Genesee Area County reffrom Swartz Creek asked us what itwas like outside, seeing our headsfull of snow and damp-shoulderedcoats. The cameraman said it allwhen he replied, "it’s not pretty’.The surprised ref, replied, "oh,really, I came from SwartzCreek..." We both shook our headsand I relayed to him that one ofour reporters had said it was a nearwhiteout between there andFlushing because of all the blowingsnow.

It dawned on me at that point,that had the schools known whatwas in store, they surely wouldhave called off a great number ofthe games. Imlay City was at Yale,Fenton was at Lapeer West, LapeerEast was at Linden, and many ofour hockey teams were in Chelseataking part in the Public HighSchools Showcase. Added to that,every high school wrestling teamthat hadn’t beaten the weatherwere going to be in for rude awak-ening come daybreak, as they head-ed out in the wee hours of themorning for the IndividualWrestling District tournaments onSaturday.

The unsung heroes of the nighthad to be all the school bus drivers,left in the cold, dark parking lots to

watch the increasingly worseningweather, no doubt fretting abouthow they’d get those kids back totheir schools safely. Many likely settheir books and radio aside andrecalled from their recent busrodeos, just how to deal with the

slippery slopes that lay ahead ofthem. They were kept occupiedplanning out alternate routes asthey listened to the countlesstraffic accident reports com-

ing across the airwaves.Earlier in the nightbefore I had headed

over to LapeerWest, yet anotherreporter called toreport a blowntire on I-69 near

Davison. Beautiful. What a nastynight to have to deal with thatordeal.

By 9:30 p.m. when our by-thenvery skeleton crew headed back tothe office, a 10-minute drive hadturned into a 25-minute drive anda trek from Goodrich to Lapeertook over an hour.

My thoughts, as I waited for bas-ketball scores to be called in, wentback to the bus drivers. By now,they were experiencing conditionsthey hadn’t seen since earlyJanuary. Mayville’s boys’ basketballteam was at Sandusky. Not only didthey not get back to the schooluntil well after midnight, they alsomissed the copy deadline, puttingthe kids’ safety first as they shouldhave.

Ours is sometimes not an easyjob, nor for the refs, coaches,administrators and fans, caughtunaware if they were part of thegirls’ games and likely late, if theywere attending boys’ games. Thesteady trickle of fans well after thesecond tip-off told that tale all toowell.

There’s no hazard pay for any ofus, nor the dedicated refs, coachesand school administrators, just lotsof worry and relief once everyone’sback home safe and sound.

We salute all of you for yourheroics and efforts in keeping thekids and coaches safe in the dark ofnight; especially last Friday.

lpaine@mihomepaper.com

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SPORTS VIEW

LISA PAINE810-452-2626 • lpaine@mihomepaper.com

MIDLAND — The Davison boys’basketball team swallowed a two-point,61-59 loss against Midland Dow on theroad Tuesday. Davison remains at 4-1Big Nine, 10-7 overall in second placebehind Carman-Ainsworth, 5-0, 11-5.Flint Powers is 1-4, 5-10 and Flushingis 0-5, 1-15, in the last season of the BigNine.

Midland led by six, 20-14, after thefirst quarter, but Davison cut the deficitto 33-31 at the half. Midland Dowreturned the favor in the third, though,regaining the lead, 50-45. The twoteams battled hard with Davisonoutscoring Dow, 14-11, in the finalframe, but still came up just short.

Lance Arnold led wtih 26 points,while JC Carrizales and Jacob Morenoeach had nine points.

Last Friday, the Cardinals edged outFlushing, 47-43, with Arnold leadingthe charge with 16 points, Carrizalesreached double figures with 11 andMoreno had seven.

Davison led, 13-6, after the first quar-ter and 21-11 at the break. An even 10-10 third quarter left Davison with acomfortable 10-point lead, 31-21,which it would need as Flushing stageda late comeback charge with a 22-16fourth quarter, but it just wasn’tenough.

Davison is back in action on Feb. 24when it takes on Carman-Ainsworth atCarman-Ainsworth.

Davison boys hold tight tosecond place in Big Nine

Photo by Dan Nilsen

Davison’s Lance Arnold went for a perimeter shot against Flint Powers earlier this season.

The Pebble Beach National Pro-Amprovided some awesome golf byPhil "lefty” Mickelson. Big Philpaired with arch rival TigerWoods and provided the highesttelevision ratings in 15 years atPebble Beach. The dramatic fin-ish never did materialize betweenPhil and Tiger. Phil providedthe dramatic golf onSunday, when he trailedby six strokes. Hemade up eightstrokes in just sixholes and ended upwinning by twostrokes. Charlie Wi opened up theflood gates by hitting the green in fourstrokes on hole number one. That wasthe demise of Mr. Wi and Phil's run toPGA title number 40 on tour. It wasone of Phil's best performances shoot-ing a 64, a solid eight strokes underpar. Tiger Woods, whom we allthought might be ready for his returnto the winner's circle, couldn't make aputt. Tiger had to miss five putts fromfive feet or less. He ended up firing a75 on the final Sunday at PebbleBeach. Tiger's miss on hole 18 waspainful for all golf fans to watch. Philhad a look of pain on his face as well.Tiger looks to be close to back to win-ning on the PGA Tour. He hasn't wonsince late 2009, a long drought forTiger, for sure. Phil played lights outand Tiger didn't! Phil, for now, has theupper hand on Tiger in the world ofgolf. Will it last? Time will tell. Onemore thing, Tony Romo might need toquit playing quarterback and become aprofessional golfer. He is pretty goodon the golf course.

Winged wheels rolling on The Detroit Red Wings tied the

record for consecutive home victoriesat 20 with a victory over thePhiladelphia Flyers. It was one of themost entertaining hockey games I havewatched all season long. Action toaction up and down the ice, with bothteams skating hard and striving for the“W”. The “Mule” Franzen notchedthe game-winner at the beginning ofthe third period. All this has been donewith goalie Jimmy Howard on theshelf with a hand injury. He is dueback here this week sometime. The jobback up journeyman goalie JoeyMacDonald has done has been fabu-lous, if not spectacular, since Jimmy'sinjury. Heck, Ty Conklin can't evenget on the ice, as he just sits in the cor-

ner of the Wings’ bench. Who sawthat coming? Not me, I can tell you

that. Yesterday, the Dallas Starswere the opponent trying not tobe entered into the record books.The Red Wings were looking forhome victory number 21. If theybeat the Dallas Stars, it will make

21 straight home victories,an NHL record. The

“Joe” will be rockingand I feel as thoughit will be a playoff-type atmosphere.My prediction is,Wings will own

the NHL record for consecutive homevictories after defeating Dallas.

Sparty on!The Fat Guy has to tip his fork to

the Michigan State basketball team.The Spartans went down to Columbus,Ohio and knocked off the Big Tenleaders, the Buckeyes. MSU boys heldOSU to 24 percent shooting from thefloor, while they shot 40 percent fromthe floor. The victory pulled MSU intoa tie for the Big Ten title. How bigcould that last game of the year atMSU be between the two schools?Huge, I say! Coach Izzo has the MSUboys playing good basketball right nowand a possible Big Ten title looms forthe Spartans.

Michigan defeated Illinois on Sundayand only trails MSU and OSU by agame. Maybe Michigan will win it,who knows. What we do know is theBig Ten race is wide open and will be agreat finish coming down the stretch.

Spring in their stepIs it spring training time already?

Yes, this Sunday the pitchers andcatchers head to Lakeland, Florida.The expectations in Tiger Town aresky high this upcoming season. A newPrince is coming to the Tiger king-dom. A smaller version of MiguelCabrera is some 25 pounds less thanlast season. The third base experimentfor Miggy is getting closer for scruti-nizing by Tiger management and fans.Can he play the position withoutembarrassing himself? I don't know, tobe totally honest. All teams, like theTigers, feel like they have a shot at theWorld Series (except Houston) here in2012. I say bring on spring trainingand the 2012 season. Go Get'emTigers!

thefatguy@mihomepaper.com

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JJeeffff DDaayy — Sports Columnist

BY MICHAEL SELECKY810-452-2632 • mselecky@mihomepaper.com

CHELSEA — In preparation for ahost of season-ending challenges thatincludes playing Flushing/Carman-Ainsworth at Iceland Arena thisSaturday for the final Big Nine varsityhockey title ever, Davison took part inthe Michigan Public High SchoolHockey showcase last weekend at theArctic Coliseum. While being the 23rdranked team in the state for Div. 2according to the United States HighSchool Hockey Organization wouldhave seemed to bode well for theCardinals coming into this event, therest of the field was just and talentedand instead sent Davison home with apair of losses.

Last Friday, this two-day event startedfor the Cardinals against 24th-rankedWest Bloomfield, which took early con-trol by jumping out to leads of 2-0 and3-0 at the end of the first and secondperiods on its way to defeating Davison,6-1. It was at 15:17 and 5:17 of theopening session that West Bloomfieldgot things going offensively, setting upthe squad’s third goal at 6:31 of the sec-ond. Things didn’t get any better for

Davison in the third, either, as WestBloomfield scored at 13:38 before post-ing a power-play goal at 10:24 to makeit a 5-0 game.

That’s when Steven Stull finally gotthe Cardinals on the scoreboard at the9:28 mark with a little help from AlexDunckel, but instead of launching acomeback, West Bloomfield answeredat 5:56 to go up 6-1 and never lookedback. On the other side of the equationfor Davison David Arterburn startedthe game in net and made 15 saves on20 shots before getting pulled at 6:36 ofthe third, allowing Jake Rye to step inand swat down four of the five shots hefaced in a little over 10 minutes of play-ing time.

What that set the stage for was amatchup last Saturday with EastKentwood, the 23rd-ranked team inDiv. 1, and while the Cardinals did playa strong opening stanza, they stillwound up getting downed, 6-3.Opening the scoring for Davison at13:36 of the first period unassisted wasJosh Hill, setting up Brandon Pirtle tomake the score 2-0 on passes from Stulland Dunckel at 5:38. It was a much dif-

Davison competes atPublic League showcase

Photo by Lisa Paine

Davison’s Kyle Workman (15) clears the puck away as David Arterburn (30) and Bobby Crawford(7) protect the net.

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Photo by Rob Picken

Davison’s Trammel Mensing lays out for a backwards dive attempt.

BY BRANDON POPE810-452-2651 • bpope@mihomepaper.com

FLINT— The Cards swim team real-ly has some momentum rolling now.After continuing to improve all season,the Cardinals really flexed their musclesagainst Kearsley on Thursday, 116-53,before falling to Lapeer, 89-85.

Davison took first place in the 200-yard IM relay with Mick Schwerin,David Rohrbeck, Michael Spears andStephen Button finishing in 1:56.07.Mellissa McDougall earned the top sotin the 200-yard freestyle in 2:11.69, andZach Vaughan came in second in thesame event in 2:14.28.

Spears then claimed first place in the200-yard IM in 2:26.81, and Schwerinfollowed him in second. The 100-yardfreestyle was won by Rohrbeck, with

Nick Benjamin taking second place.Vaughan came in second in the 500-yard freestyle, while third place went toButton. The 200-yard freestyle relaywas won by Schwerin, Rohrbeck,McDougall and Spears.

McDougall took first yet again, thistime in the 100-yard backstroke, withJonathon Beaty coming in second.Rohrbeck took top honors in the 100-yard breaststroke, and the Cardinalscapped off the day with a win in the400-yard freestyle relay by Benjamin,Vaughan, McDougall and Button.

“My kids continue to grow in experi-ence and improve greatly in theirtimes,” said coach Jennifer Redumski.“I am really looking forward to a greatshowing in the league meet on Feb.23.”

BY ERIK HOHENTHANER810-452-2641 • ehohenthaner@mihomepaper.com

MACOMB —The Davison boys’team competed in the Eisenhower HighSchool Doubles Championships atImperial Lanes last Sunday.

The field consisted of over 90 boys’doubles teams and Tylor Greene andGrant McNally finished in third place.

Last Saturday, the boys’ varsity teamwrapped up the final Big NineChampionship with a 29-1 victory overPowers Catholic.

McNally led the way with a 222game, Steve Cozart rolled a 221, ChaseSmith bolwed a 220, Blake Harman hada 215 and Greene came through with a213.

The Cardinals, 10-0 overall, areranked second in Div. 1 behindWestland John Glenn.

GIRLSThe girls’ team also competed in the

Eisenhower Doubles Championships a

last Sunday and entered five teams intothe field of 58.

All five teams finished in the top 24and advanced to matchplay. BrittneyGroulx shot a 299 BAKER game duringqualifying and qualified first and fin-ished fourth overall. Erin Brown andBrooke Wood qualified fourth and fin-ished eighth, Katlin McNally and AlexaModonas finished ninth, BrooklynGreene and Emily Brown took 11thand Ashley Griffin and Jennifer Phillipswere 22nd.

Baur and Wood made the All-Tournament Team with 684 and 652series’, respectively.

Last Saturday, the Lady Cardinalsdefeated Powers Catholic, 29-1, andimproved to 10-0 on the season.Greene led the way with a 207 game,Wood had a 206 and Groulx rolled a202.

The Lady Cardinals, ranked No. 1 inDiv. 1, face Carman-Ainswoth onSaturday at Richfield Bowl.

Boys’ squad locks upBig Nine crown

Davison swim knocksoff Flint Kearsley

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ferent game after that, because EastKentwood stepped up the tempo in thesecond and held the Cardinals in checklong enough to hit nothing but net at13:37 and 7:00 to tie things up at 2-2.

In the third, Davison continued toskate hard, but poor defense and toomuch individual offensive play led toEast Kentwood going up for good at16:19 and 15:26 unassisted. While theCardinals did answer back after Hillconneceted at 6:28 to make it a one-

score contest at 4-3 on the assist byDrew VanDePutte, East Kentwood’sresponse was to light the lamp at 6:06and 4:46, the second of which camewith a man advantage.

Defensively for Davison, Arterburnonce again got the starting nod andstopped 19 of the 24 shots he was facedprior to getting yanked at 1:34 of thethird in favor of Rye, who saw nineshots and stopped seven.

The Cardinals, 11-9-1 overall, 1-1-1Big Nine, hosted Swartz Creek atPerani Arena in Flint yesterday and areat Brighton on Wednesday.

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LISA PAINE810-452-2626 • lpaine@mihomepaper.com

GRAND BLANC — Any time anindividual suffers a debilitating injury,their first reaction is denial, then cogni-tive/emotional hurdles set in that oftenlead them to think that the activitiesthey had enjoyed inside and outside areno longer an option.

Adaptive equipment, training andrehabilitation can put them back on theski slopes, onto sled hockey teams andback out hunting and fishing. Golf, ten-nis, kayaking, track and field, swimming,biking, hiking and running are all stillvery much a possibility thanks to thespecial equipment that makes it possibleto become active again.

“Integration is huge in getting them torealize that they can still take part,” saidSophia Bongo of STARrehab. “There isa lot of cognitive and emotional recov-ery that happens along with the physical.This weekend alone, we had so manydifferent events going on with the SledDogs ice hockey, I myself was refereeingthe quad rugby in Chicago, and we alsohad weightlifting, powerlifting, lacrosse,running, and all kinds of sports eventstaking place.”

Bongo explained that throughout thearea—and state—disabled athletes areactively taking part thanks to the pro-grams available.

“We have coaches and refs throughthe Paralympics and there are really nolimits as to what they can do indoor tooutdoor and winter to summer,” Bongosaid. “When people first get hurt, theydon’t want to accept that the injury maybe permanent. Then we can start toaddress the options available to themonce they recover emotionally.”

Several examples are an avid hunter

who used his scholarship monies to goboar hunting. Bongo noted that theyalso have several staffers on multipleboards including William Bickers on theboard for Michigan Sports Unlimited, asa spinal cord injured individual. Othersare involved with the Michigan AdaptiveSports Coalition and Thunder in theValley, a well-renowned athletic compe-tition. Tim Davis is a double amputeeveteran, who is now refereeing for USParalympics.

“It’s not just the sports, but the leader-ship roles that are also available,” Bongosaid. “A lot of people don’t realize thatafter the emotional hurdle and bodyimage is concurred, you have to over-come the physical and financial obsta-cles.”

“For many, finances are limited, but iffinances is the issue, we take that out ofthe equation,” added Bongo. “SharinaJones, Ms. Wheelchair Michigan, is apower lifter. Hunting, refereeing, pag-eants, we support all opportunities.”

Another adaptive athlete grabbing thebull by the horns is Adam Rose, soon-to-be 18, who is the youngest competi-tive hand cyclist and now competing fora spot on the United States Olympicteam.

The scholarship monies, $3,600 givento each client, makes a big difference inhelping get them back into the main-stream. Special golf and hunting chairs,golf guns, modified fishing, compoundbow and firearms equipment, along withsporty wheelchairs, adaptive runningprosthetics and more are just a fractionof the gamut available that is puttingindividuals back in the game of life.

To learn more about adaptive sportsequipment and therapy contactSTARrehab at www.STARrehab.info or810-344-9810.

Adaptive therapies and equipment put disabled back in action

Photo courtesy STARrehab

Jim Munson gets a little help reeling in his big catch of the day.

OUTDOOR CALENDARNOW-MARCH 1Squirrel hunting season.

NOW-MARCH 31Rabbit Hunting Season.

FEB. 17-19Michigan Deer and Turkey Spectacular, Lansing Center,

Lansing. Trophy deer contests, merchandise prize draw-ings, demos, seminars and 250 vendor booths and muchmore. Details: www.deerinfo.com

FEB. 18Handgun Steel Fun Shoot at Lapeer County Sportsmen’s

Club. 1213 North Lake George Rd.$5 members, $10 non-members.

FEB. 25Wild Game Dinner at Lapeer County Sportsmen’s Club, 1213

North Lake George Road, Attica. 6:30 p.m.. Bring a largedish to pass. Table service coffee and soda provided.Doors open at 6 p.m. Cash bar. $10 each, $5 for those 13and under. Raffles and auctions. Details: Dick Schalau 810-724-8707.

FEB. 26 Monthly 3-D archery shoot at Lapeer County Sportsmen’s

Club, 1213 North Lake George Rd. 9 a.m - 3 p.m.

FEB. 1-MARCH 31Crow hunting season.

MARCH 182012-Registered NSSA Skeet shoot at Grand Blanc

Huntsman’s Club. Details: Len Smith (248) 884-4257

MARCH 18Winter Cowboy Shoot at Lapeer County Sportsmen’s Club.

9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Note: third Sunday, not second.Details: Lapeer County Sportsmen’s Club 810-724-6579.