COLDWATER (WTVB) - In Branch County high school sports, the tee box is the starting point today for the beginning of the fall schedule as the Coldwater girl’s golf team gets the new season going for county schools with the Lady Cardinals competing in the Gull Lake Invitational. The Michigan High School Athletic Association has designated girl’s golf and boy’s tennis as the two sports that schools are allowed to put on the schedule today to launch the 2012-2013 fall season. The Coldwater tennis team is the next local squad that will open play with the Cardinals competing Friday at the Vicksburg Invitational. Practices continue for the other fall sports with the athletes getting tuned up with a number of scrimmages happening this week in football, boy’s soccer, and volleyball.