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www.hometownlife.com LOCAL SPORTS Observer & Eccentnc I Sunday, December 18, 2005 (cP)
Ladywood coach Blazes new trail
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BY BRAD EMONS
STAff WRITER
Andrea Gorski's 10th season
as Livonia Ladywood's girls
basketball proved to be special
in more ways than one.
Gorski guided the Blazers to
a 22-2 overall record \ lll).!,
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in which they had no chance of
winning a meet due to the
scarcity of competitors.
"I'm very excited about t~
season," said Hadur, who
excelled in club gymnastics at
Eastern Michigan University
after graduating in 2000 from
Dearborn Heights Crestwood.
"They want to learn. They
want to be at practice. I don't
have to tell them to give 100
percent because they're selfmotivated.
I can't wait until
the regionals and the league
meet at the end of the year
after we've added some difficulty
to their routines.
'Tm trying to find the players
who want to step up and play;'
Brodie said. ''I'm not trying to
rotate everybody in. 1 want to
see who is going to step forward
and show me they're deserving
ofp18ying time-."
Sophomore forward Grant
Stone paced the Rocks with 17
points. Kevin Burleigh and Billy
Leddy were next with six each
for Salem.
Junior center Brian
They provided a lot of energy
in practice. They were highly
motivated and competitive.
"Sometimes practices would
get so intense I'd have to break
things up and we'd have to go
into some kind of shooting
drill."
Gorski, who has a career
record of 144-91 at Ladywood,
is no stranger to success on the
basketball court.
The Dearborn Divine Child
High guard played four years
at Bradley University (II!.)
where she started three seasons
and earned All-Gateway
Conference honors. as a senior.
She was later inducted into
Bradley's Hall of Fame.
The former Andrea
Hodur remembers a few of
her current gymnasts from her
days as a competitor at MAG.
"I'd help them out when I
was competing there;' she said.
"They were just little peanuts
back then, but even then, you
could tell they were going to be
talented."
Hodur's top returner is sophomore
Jordan Brodehl, who
was limited by injuries to performing
in just the uneven
bars in Wednesday's seasonopening
141.325-119.450 loss
to powerful Livonia Unified.
"Even though she has a couple
of injuries, she still got an
8.55, which was great;' Hodur
said. "Jordan has a lot of desire
and she's probably the hardest
worker on the team, which is
Baumgart had a strong night on
the boards, ripping down a
team-high 11rebounds.
Sophomore Bernard led the
Patriots by snatching 12 missed
shots.
Both teams launched 60
shots from the field. Cousino
connected on 26 while Salem
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McAllister began her coaching
career as a graduate assistant
at her alma mater before
returning home and going into
the Catholic Youth
Organization and AAU youth
ranks.
When she's not coaching
girls basketball, Gorski is a
full-time mom. She and her
husband Marcus have two children,
Kiley, 10, and Luke, 7.
Gorski may be hard-pressed
to duplicate LadyWood's 2005
season, but the notion is not
far-fetched.
"We're bringing nine (varsity)
players back," she said. "We
had some sophomores on this
team that will definitely help
out next season:'
Plymouth's gymnastics team is beaming with optimism
BYEDWRIGHT
STAff WRITER
The size of the Plymouth
gymnastics team's roster is not
the only thing that has grown
by leaps and bounds since last
season.
So has the level of optimism
that surrounds the Wildcats'
program.
First-year coach Diane
Hodur, a former standout
gymnast at the Michigan
Academy of Gymnastics
(MAG) in Westland, takes over
a team that has expanded from
four gymnasts to 18.
More importantly, the
Wildcats have the stuff it takes
to be competitive this season
following a 2004-05 campaign
Patriots 42-21.
During the intermission,
Nettles cautioned his team
against getting over-confident.
"The first thing 1told them
was that we hadn't won anything
yet;' Nettles said, recounting
his lockerroom message. "I
let them know they needed to
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