November 11,2007 - Westland Public Library

Sunday, November 11,2007
The Observer S Eccentric Newspapers
Brad Emons, editor. (734) 953-2123. bemons@hotnetownlife.com
www.hometownlife.com
Boles sentenced
Franklin's israel Woolfork heads up the fiei
Field goal settles Region 4 championship game
BY BRAD EMONS
STAFF WRITER
Thanks to its stellar defense, Livonia
Stevenson survives to play another day in
the state football playoffs.
Before an overflow crowd Friday night,
the undefeated Spartans improved to 12-0
with a hard-fought 10-7 victory over rival
Livonia Franklin for the Division 1-Region
4 championship.
The Spartans took advantage of one
of Franklin's four turnovers as Jonny
Myshock's 27-yard field goal with 6:01 left
in the third quarter proved to be the difference.
Stevenson also earned its first state
semifinal berth since 1979- That's when
quarterback Dave Hall called the signals
and led his team into a matchup against
Escanaba.
BY BRAD EMONS
STAFF WRITER
It took awhile, but the kid who
grew up in Westland and attended
Franklin High School is now the
National Hockey League's all-time
leading scorer among American-born
players.
Wednesday night in San Jose, the
Dallas Stars' Mike Modano passed
former All-Star defenseman Phil
Housley when he scored a pair of
goals in the first 4:24 of the opening
period in the Stars' 3-1 win over the
Sharks.
The 37-year-old Modano now has
1,233 career points, including 511
goals and 722 assists.
Karen and Mike Modano, Mike's
parents, have rarely missed a game
during his 18-year NHL career,
whether in person, or from afar.
But on this historical occasion,
mom apparently knows best. She also
had a premonition.
Karen witnessed the record-breaking
achievement from her TV set in
Westland home along with her daughter
and sister.
Mike, Sr., ironically, was away in a
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Stevenson stymied Franklin's offense
much of the night, limiting the Cinderella
Patriots, who entered the playoffs as a 5-4
at-large team, to 162 total yards.
The host Spartans also contained
Franklin junior running back David
Fortin, who had rushed for 238 and 188
yards, respectively, in playoff wins over
Monroe and Dearborn Fordson.
Fortin, who missed eight regular season
games with an arm injury, was held to 44
yards on 14 carries.
"Tonight we got bailed out with our
defense," said Stevenson coach TimGabel,
whose Spartans face 10-2 Troy in a 1 p.m.
Saturday semifinal at Southfield-Lathrup.
(Troy defeated Warren Cousino, 34-0).
"It's a team game and we've won other
games on our offense, but we made plays
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PHOTOS BY BILL BRESLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Stevenson sophomore Austin White accounted for the Spartans' lone touchdown in Friday's 10-7
regional championship win over Franklin.
TOM HAWLEY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Westland native Mike Modano, hitting the ice in a 2006 game against the Red Wings,
became the NHt's ail-time reading American-born scorer with two goals Wednesday night
in the Dallas Stars' 3-1 win over the host San Jose Sharks.
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The Madonna University men's soccer team made
history Wednesday night, going on the road and
defeating Goshen (Ind.) College 1-0 to claim their
first NAIA Region VIII men's soccer championship.
The 14-3-2 Crusaders advance to the NAIA
National Championships, which begin Wednesday
at the MidAmerican Nazarene's College Boulevard
Activities Center in Olathe, Kan. MU, the 14th-seed
in the 20-team field, will take on 19th-seed Embry-
Riddle (Fla.) at 2:15 _ M ^ _ — _ _ _ .
P^.CCST). Patrick COLLEGE SOCCER
Moore will provide
the play-by-play
beginning at 2 p.m. in the Crusader Internet Radio
Network.
Doron Drai scored the game-winning goal 11:30
into the match when he received a Makesi Lewis pass
near the front of the Goshen goal box and deposited
it into the top-left corner of the net.
The Crusaders' defense would bunker down and
hang on through a flurry of Goshen shots down the
stretch, including a great opportunity by Maple Leaf
forward Tony Janzen, who misfired on a shot with
under four minutes to play that would have tied the
match.
MU senior goalkeeper Kristofer Lyons stood tall
during the final five minutes, making a pair of critical
saves to help cement the victory.
Goshen keeper Brad Graber made four saves as the
Maple Leafs bowed out with a 12-8-2 overall record.
Former Westland
John Glenn High and
University of Michigan
football standout Tony
Boles was sentenced to
prison for a second time,
Nov.l, in Washtenaw
County Court.
According to a report
in the Ann Arbor News,
die 39-year-old Boles
was arrested Sept. 9 on
Ypsilanti's east side for
blocking traffic. There
was also an arrest warrant
forviolating his
parole, police said.
Officers also learned the
car he was dViving was
reported stolen from
Detroit Boles, of Detroit,
also gave officers false
identification.
Boles pled guilty on one
count of receiving and
concealing stolen property
last month.
The MLive report
also said Boles served
six months in prison for
unarmed robbery before
being paroled in 2005.
The formerGlenn
All-State running back
rushed for2,247 career
yards, including 1,408 in
the '88 season. He had 10
100-yard or more rushing
games. He was named
All-Big Ten twice (1988-
89) before going down
with a knee injury.
Boles was drafted in
the 11th round of the
1991 NFL Draft by the
Dallas Cowboys and had
a brief stmt with the San
Antonio Gunslingers
of the World Football
League.
Lions play-by-play
Scott Sieron, 16, of
Livonia, was one of 10
randomly selected finalists
(ages 9~l6) for the
3-A Day of Dairy ~ Lions
Junior Broadcaster contest
held Tuesday at the
Meijer store in Warren.
Competitors demonstrated
their skills by
reading a play-by-play
script while watching
avideo broadcast of a
Detroit Lions game.
Judges included Lions
tackle Jeff Backus, Lions
play-by-play man Dan
Miller, radio analyst Jim
Brandstatter, 2006 winner
Marian Harrison and
a Meijer representative.
Sieron, an llth-grader,
wants to be a programmer
of weather modeal.
He plays trombone in the
wind ensemble at school ,
and enjoys computer technology
and meteorology.
Two grand prize winners
receive fourtickets to
the Nov. 18 game at Ford
Field between the Lions
and New York Giants.
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