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The Elkton Pigeon Bay Port Lakers never trailed and defended their home court to defeat the Bad Axe Hatchets by 19 points, 62-43 on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. Lakers now returns to the district championship game for the first time since 2022 to face off with the Harbor Beach Pirates. For a complete game recap and box score, go to wlewsports.com/replays

The Harbor Beach Pirates survived a potential postseason upset via the offensive glass, defeating Cass City 56-49 in the District 95 Semi-Finals on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. Harbor Beach now returns to the district championship to face the Elkton Pigeon Bay Port Lakers on their opponent’s home floor. For a complete recap and box score, go to wlewsports.com/replays

Four Red Hawks finished in double digits propelling Cass City past the USA Patriots in the opening round of the MHSAA Tournament, defeating Unionville-Sebewaing 67-57 on Monday, February 24, 2025. USA began with a 6-2 in the first three minutes of the game, but that's when Cass City's offense was awakened, outscoring the Patriots 9-5 for the remainder of the first quarter to lead 12-11. The Red Ha...

The Lakers may have been without their leading scorer, but you wouldn’t know it as they rolled through the USA Patriots, 57-42 on Friday, February 14, 2025. The win snapped a two-game losing streak and evened the score with USA for the season, avenging a 13-point road loss in January. View the complete game recap at wlewsports.com/replays

The two top teams of the Big Thumb Conference took it to the twelfth round to decide a winner and it was Harbor Beach to take the first of two regular season matchups, defeating Millington 60-54 on Monday, February 10, 2025. For a complete game recap and box score, visit wlewsports.com/replays

For the second time this season, Harbor Beach jumped out early against the Ubly Bearcats and never looked back, defeating their BTC-Black foe, 57-45. Sweeping Ubly this season, Harbor Beach now takes a two-game lead in the Big Thumb Conference’s Black Division standings with three league games remaining. Read the entire game recap and view a complete box score at wlewsports.com/gamereplays

It was a tale of two halves with the Bad Axe Hatchets erasing a five-point halftime deficit, defeating the Cass City Red Hawks 48-43 on Friday, January 31, 2025. With the win, Bad Axe extends their win streak to six games and remains tied for first place in the Big Thumb - White division with a big week of basketball ahead of them. For a full game recap and a complete box score, visit www.wlewspor...

The Cass City Red Hawks secured their fourth victory in two weeks with a 51-42 road victory against the Reese Rockets on Friday, January 24, 2025. Most of the game was controlled by Cass City with a lead that approached double digits, but Reese responded each time with key shooting, even taking the lead with 6:14 left in the fourth quarter 38-35. The Red Hawks then went on a 12-0 run in 5:22 to ta...

The Lakers led through nearly the first three quarters, but it was the pesky squad of Bad Axe Hatchets that went home with the victory, 47-45 on Friday, January 17, 2025. With the win, Bad Axe remains tied for first place in the Big Thumb - White division with Millington and drops the Lakers one game back. The senior Hatchet duo of Michael Janssen and Grady Seltz scored all 20 points for Bad Axe i...

The Harbor Beach Pirates braved the roads and rolled through the Sandusky Wolves en route to a 60-32 BTC-Black victory on Friday, January 10, 2025. Benson Harper led all scorers with 24 points and surpassed 1,000 career points in just 53 games. With the win, Harbor Beach improves to 8-1 overall on the season and 3-0 in divisional play. Sandusky has now lost two in a row after winning their previou...

The Road to Ford Field came to a crashing halt for the Harbor Beach Pirates as they fell to the Fowler Eagles, 26-7 on Saturday, November 16, 2024. Fowler controlled nearly every aspect of the game, holding Harbor Beach to just one score and forcing two turnovers. With the win, the Eagles now improve to 12-0 and advance to the State Semi-Finals against Beal City. The Pirates were limited to just 1...

The Harbor Beach Pirates dominated the line of scrimmage, backfield, downfield and more, while defeating Everest Collegiate 37-7 to secure their first district championship since 2018. Harbor Beach connected for scores on each of their four drives in the first half to lead 30-0 at halftime. The Pirates did have two turnovers to start the third quarter; the ball was popped loose from Rogan Messing'...

The Harbor Beach Pirates scored through the air, on the ground and forced three turnovers while defeating the Ubly Bearcats 35-0 in the first round of the MHSAA Division 08 Playoffs. With the win, Harbor Beach now advances to the District Championship to take on Everest Collegiate in Clarkston, MI. Benson Harper led the way for the Pirates as the leading rusher, leading receiver and leader on defe...

Cass City came out firing, scoring on the opening kickoff and staved off a Cardinal push to finish the regular season with a victory, 35-12 over Michigan Lutheran Seminary. Mason Gniewek returned the game's opening kick for 85 yards in the endzone and set the tone early. It would become a 20-0 lead quickly into the second quarter before MLS was able to score for the first time. Just when it felt t...

The Harbor Beach Pirates connected for five touchdowns to upend the Elkton Pigeon Bay Port Lakers 38-6 and concluded their regular season schedule with an undefeated record. Pirate playcaller Caden Bucholtz ran for two scores and threw for two more, but it was Benson Harper who stole the headlines with back-to-back touchdown catches for 41 and 79 yards, as well as being the game's leading rusher w...

A scoreless first quarter made way for a Laker drubbing, scoring on five of their last six possessions and defeating the Sandusky Wolves 44-16. Sandusky moved the ball well to begin the game but the Laker defense kept them out of the endzone, forcing three turnovers on downs all inside of the 30-yard line. Lakers were paced by Colt Talaski with 25 carries for 219 yards and two scores. Talaski also...

The Ubly Bearcats came out a new team to start the fourth week of the season and shut out the Marlette Red Raiders, 30-0 despite a two-plus hour weather delay. With the win, it gives Ubly their first victory of the season and Anthony Sweeney’s first career win as head coach. Ubly scored just three minutes into the ball game with a Colton Oswald touchdown and tacked on two more scores before halfti...

It had been 1,456 days since the Harbor Beach Pirates had last taken down their archrival. All of that ended on Friday, September 13, 2024 as Harbor Beach took command early and never looked back, defeating the Ubly Bearcats 45-6. It took just two plays before Harbor Beach found the end zone for the first time when Benson Harper broke multiple tackles on his way for a 49-yard touchdown run, his fi...

It was a night where everything clicked for the USA Patriots, defeating and shutting out the Caro Tigers 36-0. Honoring the 2004 State Champion USA Patriots, the 2024 version allowed just over 100 yards of total offense, while accumulating 339 yards on 54 plays for five touchdowns. Brady Green led the way on both sides of the ball, rushing for 149 yards on just 12 carries and a score, while leadin...

Despite Cass City controlling a majority of the game, it was Harbor Beach that came out victorious in overtime, defeating the Red Hawks 24-22 on Thursday, August 29, 2024. At the end of every quarter, it was a tied ballgame with the score never exceeding one score in either team's favor. With the score tied 16-16 in the waning moments of the 4th quarter, Harbor Beach came up with a defensive stop...

The defending state champions showed their true pedigree as the Beecher Bucs shut down Cass City in the regional championship to defeat the Red Hawks 46-35 on Thursday, March 07, 2024. Cass City hung tough with Beecher through the first half, even tying the ball game 16-16 halfway through the second quarter, before the Bucs would finish the second quarter on a five-to-zero run to lead at halftime...

Cass City entered regional play and never trailed the Brown City Green Devils, sailing to a 50-31 victory on Tuesday, March 05, 2024. With the win, the Red Hawks advanced to their first regional final appearance since 2000 against Flint Beecher. The Red Hawks scored 16 points in each of the first two quarters to take a 32-16 lead at halftime and extended that lead out to 19 by the end of regulatio...

The District 95 Championship lived up to its hype and was capped off by Cass City's Carter Patrick hitting a game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer to lift the Red Hawks to a 51-48 victory over Harbor Beach on Friday, March 01, 2024. Cass City avenged their only blemish on their record this season in a game that saw six lead changes, four ties and massive swings of momentum in both teams' favors...

It was the best of times and it was the worst of times, all in about a half-hour's time. The Lakers were shot out of a cannon to start the game against Harbor Beach, even leading by double digits partway through the first quarter and sinking a circus-like and acrobatic buzzer-beater. But from the last second of the first quarter through the first two minutes of the third quarter, the Lakers were u...

The Cass City Red Hawks completed their three-game sweep of the Caro Tigers on Wednesday, February 28, 2024 with a 43-32 district semi-final victory in Harbor Beach. The Tigers led at the end of the first quarter, 12-8 with balanced scoring but it was Cass City that would lead entering halftime 23-18. Cass City was once again led by Carter Patrick, who ended up with 20 points, part in shooting 17...