BRONSON, MI (WTVB) – In Branch County high school sports, the wrestling season opened last night with Bronson, Union City and Quincy each competing in quad meets. Bronson picked up a pair of wins at home, defeating Homer 66-13 and Jonesville 65-12. Going 2-0 on the night for the Vikings were David Erwin, Chase Gibson, Arias Alexavier, Nathan Caudill, Thomas Littlefield, Jacob Butters, Landon Gould, Ruger Ranney, Isaac Robertson, and Gavin Alger.
Union City started out with 2 losses at Constantine with the Chargers falling 37-32 to Kalamazoo Loy Norrix and 46-32 to Constantine. And Quincy went 1-1 at Vandercook Lake with a 39-24 win over Pittsford and a 48-25 loss to Vandercook Lake. The wrestling season for Coldwater begins Saturday at the Brooklyn Columbia Central Invitational.
Wednesday night in girls basketball, Union City earned its first win of the season in their home opener, beating Tekonsha 61-37. Rachel Wing had 22 points and 9 rebounds in the victory while Emma Hoppe added 11 points to help the Chargers improve to 1-2. Freshman Jordynn Lloyd had 17 points for Tekonsha.
Tonight in high school sports, in Boys basketball, Quincy tips off its season on the road against Napoleon while Union City hosts Hanover-Horton. And in girls basketball, Bronson has a home game against White Pigeon.
In middle school sports yesterday, in Boys basketball, Coldwater lost all 4 of its games against Marshall. In the 8th grade action at Marshall, the Cardinals A team fell to the Redhawks 52-40 with 15 points for Dylan Targgart and 12 for Damon Beckhusen. Coldwater dropped the B game 58-19. Kyle Foulk had 4 points and 7 rebounds. In the seventh grade contests in Coldwater, the A team went down to defeat 54-36 with 15 points for Bradey Moore. And the B team lost 35-17 with 4 points and 7 rebounds for Luke Larr.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association has disclosed that two percent of over 100,000 high school student/athletes experienced concussions in games or practices during the just-completed fall sports season, with 27 percent of responding schools reporting no concussions and 52 percent had either one or two. The average number of concussions was 3.2 per school. Not surprisingly, 79 percent of concussions came in football, with 11 percent coming from boys’ soccer. The MHSAA became the first state association to offer pilot sideline concussion testing this fall.
