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LudingtonDaily NewsTHURSDAY, DEC. 4, 2014

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By DAVID BOSSICKDaily News sports eDitor

CUSTER — Turnover seems to be the key word again for Mason County Eastern’s girls basketball team for 2014-15.

The Cardinals welcome Kate Chaney as the new girls basketball coach, re-placing Ben Knizacky. Chaney is the third coach in as many seasons for East-ern and will try to guide the Cardinals back toward the top of the Western Michi-gan D League.

“I’m ready for this year,” Chaney said. “(I’m looking forward to) guiding a pro-gram and helping the pro-gram along the entire way.”

Chaney is the sister of former girls coach Matt Millspaugh and her father, Woody, will be back on the sidelines of the junior var-sity team.

“What’s nice is that for most of these girls, I’m fa-miliar with them because I was the (junior varsity) coach. So I’m familiar with all of them, except for Emily (Knizacky) because she was up on varsity when I start-ed coaching JV,” she said. “They are very familiar with me and with my JV coach, Woody (Millspaugh).

“We had a camp this sum-mer. We’ve started to do some things to really put a program into place and they’re all realizing that. They like it, and that’s nice.”

Turnover isn’t the only is-sue on the bench, either. It’s also within the lineup, too. Eastern returns only a few players from last year’s team that finished 5-16 last sea-son overall and 3-13 in the league. Much of last year’s roster was composed of for-eign exchange students to help the gaps left by a lack

of girls.Still, the Cardinals bring

back their two leading scorers from a year ago, Knizacky and Dani Schultz.

“Absolutely looking at (Emily) to be my leader, and some of my seniors that are returning,” Chaney said. “Ryann Oomen and Marisa (Kist) and Dani Schultz are all returning, and that’s nice. I coached them and they’re familiar with me, but I’m definitely leaning Emily to be the leader this year.”

Eastern’s roster:

SeniorS: Ryann Oomen, Emily Knizacky, Marissa Kist, Dani Schultz, Malin Sarnes, Tu Anh Vu, Carolina Aquino and Bry-ana Weber.JuniorS: Lauren McCumber

and Tammy Campbell.SophomoreS: Brooke Lee and

Jordan Goodman.

The Cardinals will add some depth up from the junior varsity this season along with Chaney.

“We have three coming up off of JV from last year, all sophomores. We have Mad-isyn McCormick, we have Brooke Lee and we have Jor-dan Goodman, so I’m look-ing forward to watching them this year.

“They’ve played some varsity games last year when Ben (Knizacky) brought them up at times. And they did a great job of being on that team. Every-thing seems to be moving smoothly with each of them up on varsity.”

Eastern tipped off the sea-son Tuesday on the road against Hesperia and opened the Western Michigan D

League campaign against the defending league champion, Big Rapids Crossroads, on the road.

The Cardinals won’t play their first home game until Dec. 12.

And the Cougars very well

could be the team to beat again this year.

“I would say that Cross-roads and maybe Oneka-ma, those two will be at the top of the league,” Chaney said. “I think the rest will be pretty evenly matched. So, I

think we could have a good season. It’s going to come down to some close games for us.

“We’re hoping to improve upon last season’s wins and that’s where we’re going to start.”

Mason County Eastern girls basketball

Chaney takes over reins

DAVID BOSSICK | Daily NewsMembers of the Mason County Eastern varsity girls basketball team are, from left, Tu Anh Vu, Carolina Aquino, Tammy Campbell, Brooke Lee, Malin Sarnes, Emily Knizacky, Ryann Oomen, Lauren McCumber, Madisyn McCormick, Jordan Goodman, Bryana Weber, coach Kate Chaney and assistant Woody Millspaugh.

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CUSTER — Mason Coun-ty Eastern’s boys basketball team faces quite the conun-drum when it opens the sea-son.

The Cardinals are what coach Ed Knizacky called a “work in progress.” That’s fine, but the problem is that Eastern opens the season right smack dab in the mid-dle of the Western Michigan D League race with no let-up until midseason.

“I have 12 ballplayers on my team and they want to play on varsity and we’re going to go with what we’ve got,” he said.

Mason County Eastern graduated five players from last year’s team, including big man Jimmy Appledorn. The Cardinals, though, will be returning four players from last year’s team. But, even with the returnees, there are some problems.

“Travis (McCormick) tore a tendon in his ring finger, I believe, so he’s unable to do anything until Christmas,” Knizacky said. “He will be back, but I don’t know in what shape-wise, and will be available to play on Jan. 6.”

It doesn’t get better, ei-ther.

“And I have another player out until Jan. 8. So, I poten-tially have two starters out until the second week of Jan-uary.”

Hunter Hofmann is back, which is a good sign for the Cardinals. The slasher will be paired with Jonathan Stewart. Stewart will learn a new role as the team’s point guard this winter.

Eastern’s roster:

SeniorS: Brent Swain, Hunter Hofmann, Cody Smith, Jona-than Stewart, Travis McCor-mick, Dylan Sorensen, Frank

D’Asaro.JuniorS: Greg Bender, Dylan

Petersen, Joel Englebrecht and Austin Rader.There are several newcom-

ers to the team and they’ll be looking to find their way.

“The other people I’m try-ing to bring into the pro-gram include a kid named Austin Rader. He’s got one or two years experience in organized basketball. He’s a good young man that will develop into a good ballplay-er,” Knizacky said.

“I’ve got four kids coming up off the (junior varsity) program. Gregory Bender is

going to help out probably the most of the four.”

Dylan Sorensen is also coming back to basketball after taking his junior year off away from the team.

“They’re all a work in prog-ress. They hustle and they work, and we’re going to do the best we can with what we got.”

Eastern kicks off the sea-son with games in the West-ern Michigan D League right away on Dec. 9 at Manistee Catholic. The Cardinals, in fact, don’t play a nonconfer-ence game until the middle of January when they travel

to White Cloud.“We’re playing Catholic,

(Big Rapids) Crossroads, Brethren and Baldwin. I would like to go 2-2 in that,” Knizacky said. “I believe with these kids, we can come out 2-2 and go into Christ-mas break. Then we will be getting Travis McCormick and Frank D’Asaro back.

“These kids will be get-ting a substantial amount of playing time before those two kids come back. Again, we will have to wait and see.

“It’s good to have these teams in the conference, but then you don’t have games

where you can learn with-out having to win. I want to win all the ballgames, but you learn how to play up on varsity in nonconference games, but we have six or eight in a row before a non-conference game.”

Beyond the league slate, Eastern plays three other non-conference games, at McBain Northern Michigan Christian and winding up the season with games at home against Hesperia and Hart.

Eastern’s first home game is against Brethren, Dec. 16.

Baldwin was tabbed the fa-vorite, but Knizacky has oth-

er teams to be watchful for.“Brethren and Onekama,

but mainly Brethren, will be the next top teams,” he said. “Bear Lake, they lost seven seniors, so they’re starting over like us. Manistee Cath-olic is starting over like us. Crossroads is starting over again. Walkerville is starting over again. By going on what happened by graduation last year, I’m looking for us to finish in the upper half to the top five.

“Maybe even three or four. We’ll see how the kids will gel together here in the next month or two.”

Mason County Eastern boys basketball

‘Work in progress’ gets tests early

DAVID BOSSICK | Daily NewsMembers of the Mason County Eastern varsity boys basketball team are, from left, Josh Pomorski, Joel Englebrecht, Jonathan Stewart, Dylan Petersen, Travis Mc-Cormick, Austin Rader, Dylan Sorensen, Gregory Bender, Cody Smith, Frank D’Asaro, Hunter Hofmann, Brent Swain and coach Ed Knizacky.

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DAVID BOSSICK | Daily News

Mason County Eastern cheerleadersMembers of the Mason County Eastern cheerleading teams are, front row, from left, Malin Sarres, Shelby Carver, Carolina Aquino and Taylor Grimm; back row, Zaressa Cregg, Danielle VanHeck, Chelsea Gage, Hannah Manier, Lauren McCumber, Alex VanSledright, Harley Smakal, Kaitlyn Maciag and Ambriel Peters.

DAVID BOSSICK | Daily News

Pentwater cheerleadersMembers of the Pentwater cheerleading team are, kneeling, from left, Brianna Adams, Liliana Rodriguez and Rita Panozzo; standing, coach Andrea Gallie, Jordan Lucas, Carrie Griffis, Jordyn Guetzka, Summer Mitter, Chris-tina Cormany, Cheyenne Drechen and Brandi Coulier-Pierce; on mounts, Jaclyn Varela and Lilly Knudsen.

SuBmItteD phOtO

Mason County Eastern bowlingMembers of the Mason County Eastern bowling teams are, front row, Katrina Hinzman; middle row, from left, Casie Mickevich, Hannah Smakal and Sarah Hart-ley; back row, Dustin Pickard, D.J. Busch and Preston Lara.

Mason County EastErn WintEr sChEdulEs |for tHe 2014-15 seasoN

GIrlS BASKetBAllDec. 2 at HesperiaDec. 5 at Big Rapids CrossroadsDec. 10 at Manistee CatholicDec. 12 BrethrenDec. 17 BaldwinDec. 19 Bear LakeJan. 7 at PentwaterJan. 9 WalkervilleJan. 12 White CloudJan. 16 at OnekamaJan. 20 HartJan. 22 Big Rapids CrossroadsJan. 27 Manistee CatholicJan. 29 at BrethrenFeb. 3 at BaldwinFeb. 5 at Bear LakeFeb. 10 PentwaterFeb. 12 at WalkervilleFeb. 16 McBain N. Michigan ChristianFeb. 26 Onekama

BOyS BASKetBAllDec. 9 at Manistee CatholicDec. 11 at Big Rapids CrossroadsDec. 18 BaldwinJan. 6 Bear LakeJan. 8 at Pentwater

Jan. 13 WalkervilleJan. 14 at White CloudJan. 23 at OnekamaJan. 28 Manistee CatholicJan. 30 Big Rapids CrossroadsFeb. 4 at BrethrenFeb. 6 at BaldwinFeb. 11 at Bear LakeFeb. 13 PentwaterFeb. 18 at WalkervilleFeb. 24 at McBain N. Michigan ChristianMarch 4 HesperiaMarch 5 Hart

COeD BOwlInGDec. 6 Mason Co. Central at BaldwinDec. 13 Hart at Country LanesDec. 20 Baldwin at FOE in HartJan. 10 West Central Michigan Bowling Conference positional round at FOEJan. 17 MCC at Country LanesJan. 24 Hart at FOEJan. 31 Baldwin at Country LanesFeb. 7 WCMBC positional at BaldwinFeb. 14 WCMBC singles tournament at Country LanesFeb. 21 WCMBC singles tournament at Baldwin

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PENTWATER — Pentwater’s boys basketball team is going through a makeover of sorts as the Falcons are looking to meld just a hand-ful of returning players from last year’s team with some newcomers from within and outside the school this year.

The Falcons return just two play-ers from last year’s team — Sam Wagner and Jared Visger.

“We’re going to lean on our re-turners a lot,” Pentwater coach Ashley Wojtas said.

But Pentwater isn’t exactly with a bare cupboard. The Falcons wel-come in Ian Rutledge, who suited up for Mason County Eastern’s var-sity team last season. And back in Pentwater after a two-year move to Ludington is Joe Myaard.

“Those are two pieces where we’re trying to figure out our chemistry with.”

Pentwater’s roster:

SeniorS: Sam Wagner, Ian Rutledge, Mike Naughton, Joe Myaard and Jared Visger.JuniorS: Semaj Collier, Jacob Emick

Free and Connor Lipski.SophomoreS: Damon Martz and

Dayton Gibson.

That also means there are sev-eral other new faces for Pentwater. Wojtas is especially excited to see what Damon Martz can do.

“Dayton Gibson and Damon Mar-tz are both quality players on the (junior varsity) level and they’ve re-ally stepped it up,” she said. “I really don’t know what to expect really.

“We’re working a lot on team chemistry and getting used to Sam’s speed because he (passes) quick and a lot of these guys aren’t used to that,” she said. “The nice thing is that Sam doesn’t have all the pressure on him. I have several guys that can bring the ball up the floor.”

But it still comes back to melding the team together. The Falcons will need to do it quickly as the Western Michigan D League race tips off on opening night when they host Big Rapids Crossroads, Dec. 9.

In fact, Pentwater plays seven consecutive league games to open the season. Wojtas wouldn’t have it

any other way.“I like it being front-loaded heavy,”

she said. “We have to see where we have to compete and where our misses are.”

She believes Baldwin, with All-Stater Brandon Childress leading the way, is the team to beat. And Brethren will likely be very good.

But after that…“We found ourselves either win-

ning districts or in the district fi-nals the last three years,” Wojtas said. “I think Brethren will be the frontrunner as well… Bear Lake is always tough, but I’d put us in the top three or top four.”

Pentwater boys basketball

Falcons finding ways to soar

DAVID BOSSICK | Daily NewsMembers of the Pentwater boys basketball team are, from left, Joe Myaard, Damon Martz, Ian Rutledge, Connor Lipski, Semaj Collier, coach Ashley Wojtas, Sam Wagner, Jared Visger, Jacob Emick Free, Dayton Gibson and Mike Naughton.

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BOyS BASKetBAllDec. 9 Big Rapids CrossroadsDec. 11 at BaldwinDec. 16 at Bear LakeJan. 6 WalkervilleJan. 8 Mason County EasternJan. 13 at Onekama

Jan. 15 BrethrenJan. 20 at Muskegon CatholicJan. 23 Manistee CatholicJan. 28 at BR CrossroadsJan. 30 BaldwinFeb. 4 Bear LakeFeb. 9 at Hart

Feb. 11 at WalkervilleFeb. 13 at Mason Co. EasternFeb. 18 OnekamaFeb. 20 at BrethrenFeb. 24 at Fruitport CalvaryFeb. 27 at Manistee CatholicMarch 3 Hesperia

GIrlS BASKetBAllDec. 5 at BaldwinDec. 10 at BR CrossroadsDec. 12 Bear LakeDec. 19 at WalkervilleJan. 7 Mason County EasternJan. 9 at Onekama

Jan. 14 at BrethrenJan. 16 Manistee CatholicJan. 19 MontagueJan. 22 BaldwinJan. 27 Big Rapids CrossroadsJan. 29 at Bear LakeFeb. 5 Walkerville

Feb. 6 HartFeb. 10 at Mason Co. EasternFeb. 12 OnekamaFeb. 17 at Kent City AlgomaFeb. 19 BrethrenFeb. 24 at HesperiaFeb. 26 at Manistee Catholic

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PENTWATER — Pentwa-ter’s girls basketball team has just one senior, Savan-nah Slikkers.

But the Falcons are load-ed with experience as they look to continue their climb up the Western Michigan D League ladder in 2014-15.

“I’m no longer using the ex-cuse that we’re young, even though we average at 10th grade,” Pentwater coach Jeff McDonough said. “We’re on our third year of varsity now. Every one of these girls has pretty much been there, and done that.”

Pentwater’s roster nearly stays intact as the Falcons lost one player to gradua-tion, Jennie Bromley. A few other girls decided to not try out for the team this year, but all in all, it’s an experi-enced crew coming back.

Pentwater’s top scorers, Taylor Wilkinson and Lin-nea McDonough, return to the team as does the team’s point guard, Emily Gebhart. Slikkers, who had been out with an injury, figures to fit in where the Falcons need a post player.

“Really, you’re looking at a full squad from last year, al-most,” Jeff McDonough said.

The Falcons’ roster:

Senior: Savannah Slikkers.JuniorS: Chyanne Smith and

Emily Gebhart.SophomoreS: Linnea Mc-

Donough, Anna Hoffman, Crystal Bromley and Grace Alvesteffer.

FreShmen: Taylor Wilkinson, Desirae Coronado and Kylie Patterson-Skuse.

Pentwater does add two new players to the rotation to the team. Freshmen De-

sirae Cornado and Kylie Pat-terson-Skuse come up from the middle school ranks to join classmate Taylor Wilkin-son on the varsity team.

McDonough said the com-petition has been fierce for

playing time already in the preseason.

“I told them when we start-ed practice that there is no starting roster,” he said. “They all have to battle for spots again this year.”

For the third straight sea-son, Pentwater will not have a junior varsity team.

“We decided to go with ninth through 12th, so that we can help build up that pipeline,” McDonough said. “Hopefully, we’ll have a junior varsity next year. We’ve got some girls at the eighth grade who have the skills and abil-ity to maybe come up and be a bench player, but we don’t want to do that.”

When it comes to this year, Big Rapids Crossroads is the team that’s the favorite. Be-yond the Cougars, then who?

“Onekama has a group of seniors, and they’ve had this group together for about six years. They’ve been fluid to-gether,” he said. “Then I see us and Manistee Catholic. Our goal is to get through districts this year.”

Pentwater opens the sea-son with Baldwin on the road Friday night and plays the first eight games within the Western Michigan D League. The Falcons play at Cross-roads Dec. 10 and play their first home game Dec. 12.

The Falcons also are hop-ing their final game of the season is away from home. Pentwater hosts the Class D district this season, so a win for the final time on the home floor would mean a district title.

Pentwater girls basketball

Falcons have loads of experience in ’14-15

DAVID BOSSICK | Daily NewsMembers of the Pentwater girls basketball team are, from left, Linnea McDonough, Desirae Coronado, Anna Hoffman, Kylie Patter-son-Skuse, coach Jeff McDonough, Emily Gebhart, Crystal Bromley, Grace Alvesteffer and Savannah Slikkers. Not pictured: Chyanne Smith and Taylor Wilkinson.

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By GreG GIelCZyKDaily News sports writer

MANISTEE — Of the three seniors Manistee Catholic girls basketball coach Terry Walker has on the varsity, only one of them is actual-ly a returning veteran, with Jenny Pieczynski having played on the junior varsity last year while the other is a Chinese foreign exchange student.

The foreign exchange stu-dent, Theresa Li, has never played basketball before. Walker also has one fresh-man on the varsity.

Experience will be in short supply for the Sabers this season. Renee Seymour is the only senior who played on the varsity last year. She’s joined by returning junior Kaytlin Heck, Mia Hogan, Jodi Janowiak and Meghan Miller.

Juniors who played ju-nior varsity ball last year as sophomores include Lauren Golembiewski, Shelby Papes, Paige Picardat, Maegan So-renson and Meghan Miller. The only freshman on the varsity is Liz Nelson, who was an eighth grader on the junior varsity.

Catholic won’t be fielding a junior varsity team this season because of a lack of numbers.

Although the Sabers grad-uated four seniors, three of whom were starters, off last year’s district champion-ship team, and are counting on a handful of experienced players to lead the way this season, Walker is confident they’ll be competitive.

“We’ve got a pretty good core of players back from that team last year, and we’ve got some quickness,” Walker said. “Right now we’re battling some injuries and some sickness. If we can get that straightened out,

we’ll be O.K.“I haven’t had a full contin-

gent at practice for the first few practices. Hopefully we can get everybody healthy here soon.”

The Sabers’ roster:

SeniorS: Jenny Pieczynski, The-resa Li and Renee Seymour.JuniorS: Lauren Golembiews-

ki, Maegan Sorenson, Jodi Janowiak, Kaytlin Heck, Mia Hogan, Shelby Papes, Paige Picardat and Meghan Miller.FreShmAn: Liz Nelson.

Big Rapids Crossroads Academy was the class of the Western Michigan D League last year, followed by Bear Lake while the Sa-bers were fourth. Gradua-tion has taken a lot away from everybody this year, though.

The Lakers in particular lost two of their tallest play-ers, including Emeleigh Fer-guson who is now playing college ball. Onekama might just be the team to beat with pretty much all of its team returning intact.

Catholic scrimmaged the Portagers this summer, and Walker came away im-pressed. They have a group of girls who have been play-ing together since they were sophomores, and will give everyone in the conference fits. Pentwater was very young last year, but compet-itive, so the Falcons should be better.

“I felt like we made some improvement and made some strides during the summer,” Walker said. “I think it was an opportunity for the girls to get a little bit more comfortable with our offenses and defenses. I saw growth in a number of girls.

“We got about 27 games in this summer, and I thought the juniors coming up from the JVs showed a lot of im-

provement. We’re prob-ably going to have aver-age height. Miller, who’ll be starting at our post, has de-cent size but she’s not big by any stretch of imagina-tion.

“So we’re going to have to rely on our quickness, and our ability to run, I think. We did a lot of pressing last year, and we’ll certainly be working on our presses again this year. I think that’s

going to have to be a big part of our game.”

The Sabers really strug-gled with their shooting last year, and shot a very poor percentage as a team. Walk-er admits that is something

that needs to be corrected, and in that regard is work-ing with the players on their shooting form.

He says it’s getting better, but admits the Sabers have a long way to go.

Manistee Catholic girls basketball

sabers to lean on big junior class

GreG GIelCZyK | Daily NewsManistee Catholic Central girls basketball team, front row, from left, Lauren Golembiewski, Renee Seymour, Maegan Sorenson, Jodi Janowiak, Kaytlin Heck and Mia Hogan; back row, Theresa Li, Shelby Papes, Jenny Pieczynski, Paige Picardat, Meghan Miller and Liz Nelson.

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By GreG GIelCZyKDaily News sports writer

MANISTEE — Since he didn’t have the summer to work with the team, and learn about them and their skill set as individuals, first-year Manistee Catholic Cen-tral boys basketball coach Phil Kroll was counting on the pre-season scrimmage to help him in that area.

Once he got a look at the players against a different team, rather than simply in practice, Kroll — who played basketball and football and ran track at Catholic before graduating in 1970 — could better talk about the team.

But he found himself fac-ing this reporter more than a week before the scrimmage, and he was a little nervous about providing any specif-ics on any of the players. The Sabers had only been prac-ticing a week, and were just starting in on their second.

Kroll was named the coach after school started, and met with the team two weeks be-fore he had to go in for eye surgery. He didn’t see them again until the first official day of practice. It left his head spinning.

Despite his limited per-sonal knowledge of the play-ers, he received a solid run-down from his assistant coach, Mike Feliczak, so he could form a rather sketchy opinion on what each of

them brought to the table.What he was counting on

most, though, was learning from the early regular sea-son games and then sitting down over the Christmas break — few teams compete in Christmas tournaments any more — going over his notes with his assistants.

“As we get a few games un-der our belt early, and then we can make adjustments and stuff like that,” Kroll said. “Going through those games, maybe then we can learn to look for weaknesses in the other team and man-age the games that way af-terward.

“I’m trying to impart to these guys that you need to work. Winning is fun, but be-ing a good competitor is the key. You really want to be a good competitor, because that’s what teams are built on.”

Kroll came away from the first week of practice im-pressed with the aggressive-ness he saw from the Sabers, even though it was only in practice and not competing against another team in a scrimmage.

The Sabers will need to be aggressive this year, espe-cially in the sense of going inside and battling for the ball off missed shots.

“Our size isn’t on our side,” Kroll said. “We don’t have anybody (6-foot, 5-inches) or 6-6, or anything

like that. We’re going to be need to be aggressive, we’re going to need to be tough. It goes 45 years. The old MCC toughness is what we’re go-ing to need this year.

“Some hard-nosed bas-ketball, let’s put it that way. We’re going to try to re-es-tablish that. I hate to single guys out.”

He then added that re-turning veteran Justin Felic-zak, a junior, has been look-ing strong under the boards while senior guard Blake Vargas is also coming back and possesses a better than average shot from outside.

The Sabers’ roster:

SeniorS: Joe Nelson, Nathan Fortier and Blake Vargas.JuniorS: Blake Robke, Chad

Robke, Julian Nier, Marc Swidorski, Cameron Toczyn-ski, Justin Feliczak, Joe Slivka, Michael Deising and Jordan Kuenzer.

Also back to give Kroll that all important experience are juniors Blake and Chad Robke as well as senior Na-than Fortier.

“We’re coming along,” Kroll said. “I’m looking forward to seeing the im-provement, but I’m looking forward to seeing the ag-gressiveness. I think we’re going to give everybody as good a run as we can.

“Blake Vargas and Blake Robke, I think we’ll concen-

trate with those guys at the guard spots right now. De-fensively, we’ll go with a man-to-man probably from the start, but we’ll probably do some pressing.

“I’d like to experiment a lit-tle bit and put in some trap-ping defenses, maybe a 1-3-1 trap, something like that. We’ll see what we can come up with. That’s going to de-

pend how well your person-nel can adapt to it. We’ve got to get the quickness into the defense. We’ll see how much of that 94 feet we can play defense.”

Manistee Catholic boys basketball

Kroll takes helm at alma mater

GreG GIelCZyK | Daily NewsManistee Catholic Central boys basketball team, front row from left: Blake Robke, Nathan Fortier, Chad Robke and Julian Nier; back row, Mike Swidorski, Cameron Toczynski, Justin Feliczak and Blake Vargas. Not pictured: Joe Nelson, Joe Sliva, Michael Deising and Jordan Kuenzer.

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GIrlS BASKetBAllDec. 5 at BrethrenDec. 10 Mason County EasternDec. 17 at Bear LakeDec. 19 Big Rapids CrossroadsJan. 7 at WalkervilleJan. 9 BaldwinJan. 14 Onekama

Jan. 16 at PentwaterJan. 21 Traverse City HomeschoolJan. 22 BrethrenJan. 27 at Mason County EasternFeb. 4 Bear LakeFeb. 5 at Big Rapids CrossroadsFeb. 10 WalkervilleFeb. 12 at Baldwin

Feb. 19 at OnekamaFeb. 26 Pentwater

BOyS BASKetBAllDec. 9 Mason County EasternDec. 11 at BrethrenDec. 12 MesickDec. 18 at Bear Lake

Jan. 6 Big Rapids CrossroadsJan. 8 at WalkervilleJan. 13 BaldwinJan. 15 OnekamaJan. 20 Traverse City HomeschoolJan. 22 at Traverse City ChristianJan. 23 at PentwaterJan. 28 at Mason County Eastern

Jan. 30 BrethrenFeb. 6 Bear LakeFeb. 11 at Big Rapids CrossroadsFeb. 13 WalkervilleFeb. 18 at BaldwinFeb. 20 at OnekamaFeb. 23 at MesickFeb. 27 Pentwater

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