2011-2012 Offical MCHS Wolves basketball thread |
2011-2012 Offical MCHS Wolves basketball thread |
Oct 12 2011, 01:05 PM
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http://thenewsdispatch.com/articles/2011/1...17912474839.txt
QUOTE MCHS basketball team raises funds for freshmen uniforms By Deborah Sederberg Staff Writer Published: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 5:08 PM CDT MICHIGAN CITY — Some customers did a double-take as they entered Culver's Restaurant Monday evening, or as their servers delivered their food to their tables or as they approached a vehicle in line at the drive-thru window. The servers were junior and senior members of the Michigan City High School basketball team. Yes, said Coach John Boyd, the players were at Culver's from 5 to 8 p.m. to give back, to serve customers and to give thanks to Culver's owner Larry Fisher, who was making a donation to the basketball program. The basketball team had tickets to distribute to potential diners. Fisher donated 10 percent of the before-tax check for every diner who presented a ticket that had been handed out by the team. * "They're earning money to buy uniforms for the freshman basketball team," said Kathy Workman who, with her husband, Greg started a basketball parents' group. "The football team has had a group for years now," Greg said. "This kind of fund-raiser can save the parents out-of-pocket money," Kathy said. "And it's good for the kids to know they have something to contribute." A couple of players greeted diners at the door, holding the door for individuals or entire families of diners. Coach Boyd was happy to participate in the Culver's event. "It's good for the kids," he added. The team also was selling posters called "The Ball is in Our Court." The team is pictured in various parts of Judge Richard Stalbrink's Superior Court 2 courtroom, with the coach as judge. Posters are available from Michigan City High School for $5 each. |
Oct 13 2011, 07:42 AM
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It is nice to hear stories like this and know that the players are active in showing their appreciation. Kudos to the Workmans. They have been a part of the Michigan City sports family for years and have offered a lot of hours of time to this dedication. Wish the basketball team the best of luck this season. GO WOLVES !!! |
Oct 19 2011, 06:03 PM
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It is nice to hear stories like this and know that the players are active in showing their appreciation. Kudos to the Workmans. They have been a part of the Michigan City sports family for years and have offered a lot of hours of time to this dedication. Wish the basketball team the best of luck this season. GO WOLVES !!! With the NBA lockout becoming a reality I encourage everyone to get out to their local high school gym this winter. I plan on being a winter season pass holder for Michigan City Wolves athletics for the third straight season. I undersand that not only the Wolves but the Michigan City Marquette Blazers should have outstanding seasons. Marquette has a transfer student from Africa, an outstanding freshmen from Chesterton and a few voucher players from Michigan City and La Porte, I'm really excited getting back into the gym/ |
Oct 24 2011, 08:22 AM
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Blue Grey game will be November 17!
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Oct 24 2011, 08:35 AM
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http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/columnists/...ef16c0888a.html
QUOTE 3. Can Michigan City's youth continue to roll in the Duneland Athletic Conference? Despite having one of the younger teams in the DAC last season, Michigan City lost just twice in conference play, to Chesterton early and to LaPorte in double OT to end the regular season. The Wolves finished their year with a pair of close losses, hoping their young class of sophomores that dominated offensively learned from that heartbreak. If they did, the conference goes through M.C. If not, it's anybody's game and can be taken by ... 2. Can the three-way tie in the DAC be broken? Two of three teams that finished second in the conference -- Crown Point, Chesterton and Merrillville -- will return their top scorers. The Trojans lost the talent of Times Player of the Year Claire Holba. With a new coach at C.P. and rising talent at Merrillville, the three-way tie has the potential to remain the same, only at the very top and not for second place. Read more: http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/columnists/...l#ixzz1bi5CawZ3 |
Oct 24 2011, 08:59 AM
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The boys basketball team is doing a Port-A-Pit fundraiser to get uniforms for the freshman team. They will be playing a full 14 game schedule for the first time in years, and they are out raising funds to do it. You can help by purchasing tickets either through the school and Coach Boyd (head up to the high school and ask at the front desk for them), or by showing up on October 29th at the old box office video on Hwy. 20 between 10 and 3 PM.
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Oct 24 2011, 09:26 AM
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Also, only $5! Get them from either Coach Boyd, one of the players, or the parents. All funds go to buy jerseys.
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Oct 24 2011, 01:03 PM
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This must have been inspired by the early '80s Nike NBA "Supreme Court" poster with Artis Gilmore standing in the middle that they used to sell at Foot Locker.
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Nov 6 2011, 10:04 PM
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http://midamericabroadcasting.com/files/November_MAB_1_.pdf
QUOTE Michigan City Wolves The Wolves tied for fourth with Lake Central with a .500 conference re-cord last season, 12-10 overall. The team has made progress in the first two years un-der head coach John Boyd, with a combined record of 23-20. Although they lack the proven players that teams likes Lake Central and Merrillville have, Michigan City will have an opportunity to finish above .500 and compete for a slot in the top half of the con-ference standings. Taylor Lavery and Jabbar Washington lead the senior class for Michigan City. The Wolves had a flare for the dramatic last sea-son, winning three games in overtime. They pulled off a 55-54 upset over Valparaiso on Feb. 25, and went a combined 7-0 against LaPorte, Chesterton and Portage. The 2011-2012 campaign cranks up with five straight road games before they finally come home on Dec. 16 against Crown Point. |
Nov 6 2011, 10:15 PM
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http://midamericabroadcasting.com/files/November_MAB_1_.pdf
QUOTE Michigan City Wolves The Michigan City Wolves are the defending conference champions after going 12-2 in the DAC and 19-3 overall during the 2010-2011 season. The Lady Wolves were upstaged in the sectional opener at the hands of Chesterton 61-58. Last year‟s team thrived on its lock-down defense, allowing a conference fewest 45.5 points per game. Last year‟s leading scorer, Toni Murphy, will return for her junior season. Murphy, who averaged 14.7 points per game, leads a talented junior class that also includes fellow guard Jameka Collins (10.6 ppg), forward Keshyana Cooper (8.1 ppg) and guard/forward Abria Clifton (7.8 ppg). With the damage that this class was able to do as sophomores last year, it is clear that Michigan City will be a Duneland front-runner for the next two years. Head coach Mike Megyese is 34-12 in his first two years with the school. The Wolves open the season on Nov. 11 by hosting South Bend Adams, with conference play starting on Nov. 18 at Lake Central. |
Nov 7 2011, 08:08 AM
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Mark my words, this is going to be a good year for basketball in Michigan City.
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Nov 10 2011, 08:37 AM
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http://heraldargus.com/articles/2011/11/09...9e526175561.txt
QUOTE Junior core gives Wolves big hopes Michigan City’s Jameka Collins goes up for a layup during a game with La Porte last season at the Wolves Den. Collins, along with classmates Tica Murphy, Keshyana Cooper and Aubria Clifton have the Wolves thinking big things this season. Photo by Robb Quinn By Drew White Staff Writer Published: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 5:06 PM CST MICHIGAN CITY – A year removed from 19 wins and a Duneland Conference championship, Michigan City High School head coach Mike Megyese wants more out of his Wolves this season. As a coach who already has a state championship on his coaching resume, Megyese has lofty aspirations. “If they work hard, do their job everyday, and listen to what we tell them, have no excuses, and just believe that they can do it – this team can go a long way,” Megyese said. “They just have to play basketball with no excuses and give 100 percent everyday. The sky is the limit.” City lost a pair of frontcourt regulars in Gee Gee Moore and Maggie Gondeck, but return four regular starters from last year’s 19-4 squad. * The Wolves will likely feature a three-guard line up led by junior tandem Toni Murphy and Jameka Collins, along with freshman newcomer Michal Miller. Murphy averaged 14.3 points per game last season, including a 30 point effort against Chesterton. Collins is one of the Wolves’ top defenders and and averaged 11.2 ppg a year ago. Miller is expected to make an immediate impact on the City lineup. “She’s got some work to do on defensive execution and fundamentals, but she’s got really good offensive skills,” Megyese said. “She can get to the basket and she’s not afraid. “She’s got the basic skills, now it’s just a matter now of refining everything. She listens, pays attention, and does what we ask her to do.” Junior Keshyana Cooper, City’s leading rebounder from a year ago, will team up with classmate Aubria Clifton to form the City frontcourt. Cooper averaged 9.5 ppg a year ago. The junior quartet, once considered young, provide a solid City nucleus for the next two campaigns. “You’ve got a shooting guard, you’ve got a guard that powers to the basket, you’ve got a shooting forward from the left side, and you’ve got an extremely athletic center/forward,” Megyese said. “We’ve got four kids that just give us different things. If a couple of our freshmen live up to the potential that I think they can, you’ve got to stop five.” The first two off the bench will include junior Aubria Smith and freshman Cheyanne Gerron. The Wolves went 12-2 in winning the DAC last season, three games ahead of a second place logjam of Chesterton, Crown Point, and Merrillville at 9-5. Their postseason lasted just one game, falling to eventual sectional champion and regional finalist Chesterton in the Portage Sectional quarterfinals, 61-58. Megyese believes the quick exit won’t rest in the minds of his returners during the regular season, but should provide extra motivation come sectional time. “I don’t think they’re going to worry about it over the first half of the season,” he said. “When that drawing comes, they’re going to say, ‘We don’t want a repeat.” With no seniors on the roster, Megyese has his eyes set on immediate results but knows that the next two years should be pretty exciting at the Wolves Den. “The roster isn’t going to change too much next year,” Megyese said. “We don’t plan on waiting for next year.” |
Nov 11 2011, 05:01 AM
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Lady Wolves basketball season opener tips off tonight at the Wolves Den tonight against South Bend Adams Eagles J.V. at 5:30pm Varsity at 7pm. Since NBA season is going to be locked out every go out to their favorite teams gym and support you local boy and girls high school teams. GO MICHIGAN CITY!!!
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Nov 17 2011, 08:36 AM
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Coaches Poll
Top 10 Girls Teams The Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association Top 10 basketball teams, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 13, and previous rankings: Class 4A W-L Pts Prv 1. Hamilton SE (6) 2-0 132 2 2. Penn (8) 1-0 131 1 3. Brownsburg 2-0 93 7 4. Elkhart Memorial 1-0 81 6 5. Carmel 1-0 77 T4 6. Indpls N. Central 1-0 39 NR (tie) Warren Central 0-0 39 8 8. Columbus East 1-0 37 NR 9. McCutcheon 1-0 27 T9 10. Indpls Ben Davis 0-1 26 3 (tie) Indpls Roncalli 1-0 26 T9 Others receiving votes: Terre Haute South 10, Jeffersonville 8, #13 Michigan City 8, Bedford North Lawrence 7, Homestead 7, Mooresville 7, Fort Wayne Snider 4, Greenwood 3, Warsaw 3, Bloomington South 2, Merrillville 2, Martinsville 1. |
Nov 19 2011, 08:55 AM
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#13 Michigan City Lady Wolves wins DAC opener 70-59 over Lake Central. They were led by Toni Murphy's 28 points.
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Nov 21 2011, 08:19 AM
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http://heraldargus.com/articles/2011/11/19...6e322627018.txt
QUOTE Wolves roll to road win at Lake Central Michigan City’s Tica Murphy puts up a shot over a Lake Central defender during Friday’s game in St. John, Ind. Photo by Robb Quinn By Drew White Staff Writer Published: Saturday, November 19, 2011 5:06 PM CST ST. JOHN, Ind. — Typically, having an opponent go on an 18-2 run to end a game would be reason for concern. For the Michigan City girls basketball team Friday night, it was just the matter of winning by 27 or 11. The Wolves opened their defense of the Duneland Conference championship with a 70-59 win over Lake Central in St. John in impression fashion. “The bottom line is, everybody that was at the game knows this wasn’t an 11-point game,” Michigan City coach Mike Megyese said. “It became a good, old-fashioned butt whipping. I’m glad that we were on the up side of that.” The Indians rallied against an emptied City bench, scoring many of their points from the foul line. Wolves sophomore Toni Murphy scored a game-high 28 points, including an 11-for-12 effort from the free throw line. She was a perfect 5-for-5 from the field in the second half. “Tonight, Toni Murphy showed why she is one of the best guards in the area,” Megyese said. “You saw how she controlled the game out there. We wanted the ball in her hands and she got it done.” City held an 11-point lead at halftime at 30-19 and slowed down the tempo of the game in the third quarter, building the lead to 14. The Wolves went on a 9-0 run to start the fourth quarter and had outscored the Indians 22-7 to build the lead to 68-41. “We took it back a little bit and then we went pedal to the metal,” Megyese said of the second half. “We just kind of went for it.” The Wolves received balanced scoring from the rest of its lineup as Aubria Clifton, Jameka Collins, and Michal Miller each scored 10 points. Keshyana Cooper scored six points, had five blocks, and grabbed six rebounds before fouling out in the fourth quarter. Lake Central’s Jessica Bell scored 12 and Jordan Horan added 8. Michigan City (2-0, 1-0 DAC), which is ranked 13th in the state in Class 4A, won its DAC opener for the second straight year. “Lake Central is a team that is going to challenge some teams,” Megyese said. “I’m always worried about the first conference game. “When you can go on the road and do that in the DAC, you’ve done something.” |
Nov 21 2011, 11:07 AM
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Happy Birthday coach John Boyd.
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Nov 21 2011, 11:24 AM
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Nov 22 2011, 08:28 AM
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http://www.thenewsdispatch.com/articles/20...da173754550.txt
QUOTE They can win it all By Drew White Unwritten No More Published: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:25 PM CST The Michigan City girls basketball team can win a state championship in the next two years. I make that declaration knowing that there are many criticisms that can ultimately come my way as the result of saying it. I’m not saying they will. I’m not saying they should. I’m saying they can. * Yes, technically any team that enters the Indiana High School Athletic Association’s 20 tournaments throughout the course of a school year can win a state championship. There are just some teams that hold an infinitely better chance of winning a state title than others. I’m all in on the idea that the Class 4A No. 13 Wolves are among the teams in that group this year. Without a senior on this year’s roster, they should be even more dangerous next year. Head coach Mike Megyese has been emphatic in his belief that his team is capable of going deep in the tournament. Winning last year’s Duneland Conference championship meant little to Megyese. He knows that the ultimate measure of a high school basketball team in the state of Indiana lies in postseason success. He knows what a state championship team looks like. He coached one in 2005. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate what the DAC championship meant to the girls on the team or to the school. He just believes that conference titles are the result of doing what you’re supposed to be doing — winning basketball games. Winning basketball games is something the Michigan City girls basketball program has been doing for the past six years. Over that time, the Wolves have averaged over 18 wins per season. In 2008 and 2009, they reached the regional and both times they ran into South Bend Washington and star Skylar Diggins. Those City teams included some pretty spectacular players — Ta’Kenya Nixon, Bianca McGee, and Essence Robinson just to name a few. Unfortunately, they couldn’t clear the hurdle. This year’s team is deeper and has as much, if not more, talent than those teams. The potential is there. There are probably going to be a few people that will tell me it is unfair to place such expectations on a group of high school girls. If City loses again in the sectional, I’ll be subjected to the, “So what were you saying about the Wolves winning a state championship?” from colleagues at other newspapers and coaches at other schools. I’m prepared to deal with whatever comes along. My greatest fear for this team is based on a column I wrote over the summer regarding an inspirational quote I saw on a sign outside Krueger Middle School. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right,” read the board. The girls on this team have to believe they can. These are good kids that have the chance to do something special. I really hope that each and every one of them realizes just how important they are to one another — and the community. It’s not a matter of having the talent and ability. They have it. It’s about them — and Michigan City as a whole — recognizing it. I don’t think that I have to emphasize just what a basketball state championship could mean to this community. Believe me. |
Nov 22 2011, 09:18 AM
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City boys ranked #10 in preseason NWI Times basketball poll
http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/high-school...bde1964ddb.html QUOTE 10. Michigan City (12-10) Is this the year the John Boyd hiring finally make sense? All the Gary transfers have now graduated except for Taylor Lavery. Another move-in, Ryan Taylor from Crown Point, is getting D-I looks. This could be a make-or-break year in the little city by the lake. Read more: http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/high-school...l#ixzz1eRp1gJcR |
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