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Can Boyd pull a Buzea?
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Mark Lazerus
on September 25, 2009 12:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I was talking over the phone with Michigan City athletic director Robert "Bear" Falls on Wednesday afternoon for this week's TimeOut Football cover story on the football team's turnaround when football coach Craig Buzea and boys basketball coach John Boyd walked into Falls' office, one after the other.

Can't be a much better feeling as an AD than that.

Michigan City went out and lured away two of the region's most successful coaches in Buzea (from Portage) and Boyd (from West Side). Both had perennial powers. Both reached the state title game. Boyd won a championship.

Well, it took Buzea a little more than two years to turn Michigan City from a perennial doormat into a conference title contender. The Wolves are disciplined, they're hard working and they're successful -- a far cry from the bad old days, which pretty much lasted from consolidation in 1995 to Buzea's arrival.

Can Boyd do the same? MC boys hoops has never won a sectional, has just one winning season in the last eight years, and is coming off a 3-18 campaign. Buzea, who has chatted with Boyd at length about the rebuilding process, has complete confidence in his newest colleague.

"He'll be just fine," Buzea said. "He's coming in here with a lot of the same ideas and goals I did, and he's got his own ideas and plans, too. He's a proven winner. People are excited, and I'm sure he'll be very successful."

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The Michigan City Wolves win their season high third game in a row with a 51-37 victory over Portage on Senior night. Three year letterman senior Adam Harmon led the way with a blistering 6 out of 7 performance from three point range to lead the Wolves with 22 points on the night. Harmon started the night off with with two triples right off of the bat to lead 6-0, and City never trailed. City opened a 31-14 lead with a 15-0 over the end of the first and beginning of the second quarters and the game was never a contest after that point. Also big on the night was Jabbar Washington who had 10 points and a team high 7 rebounds on the night. Washington was in the right place at the right time on defense all night, and created some great opportunities for his team. Seniors Grady Byrnes and James Patrick also got some solid minutes, Byrnes had a nice night rebounding the basketball as well. Michigan City did achieve a milestone with the victory ensuring at least a .500 regular season for only the 3rd time in the 21st century. MC improves to 10-7 on the season and 5-7 in Duneland play. Portage falls to 3-16 and 0-12 in the DAC.