Feb 28, 2007
On the Cusp of March Madness in Michigan
My nephew Sam Eberhard (son of Susie Q. Kilpela) starts on the Hancock Bulldogs varisity basketball team. During our visit to Copper Harbor a week ago, I insisted that all the family take the 45-mile jaunt to Hancock to see Sam play one of his final high school games. Here's a shot of Sam handling the ball on a drive from outside the three-point line. Hancock lost this game in overtime against Ontonogan, which appears to be a very fine team. But as the winter blues begin to set in, thousands of Copper Country folk also begin feeling that unbidden yet irresistable surge of enthusiasm for their kids and relations striving and refusing to yield in basketball and hockey tournaments all around the district. It's a great time for basketball down here in Okemos, too, where we have a fine high school team again this year (Class A state runners-up last year) under the always capable, steady, and exemplary coaching of Dan Stolz. Good fortune to all! Enjoy it, Sam! For you shall sooner than you think be an old athlete of only past glories like me.
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Thanks for the great picture, Ben. I really miss being home during these last games of Sam's HS career. If he works hard enough, who knows, for he certainly has the grit.
He will be in the playoffs soon where, if they beat Ironwood, he gets the dubious honor of facing top-ranked (2nd in the state) Houghton HS.
Thanks for the great picture, Ben. I really miss being home during these last games of Sam's HS career. If he works hard enough, who knows, for he certainly has the grit.
He will be in the playoffs soon where, if they beat Ironwood, he gets the dubious honor of facing top-ranked (2nd in the state) Houghton HS.
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