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Here's the Match Ups for Saturday Morning:

Location: Eastern Michigan University's Rynearson Stadium, Ypsilanti, MI



8:00 AM (Michigan City time)

Jr. Pee Wee game

Michigan City Wolves
VS.
Memorial Park (IL) Spartans (based out of Hillside, IL, northwest suburb just south of O'Hare)

Pee Wee Game

10:00 AM (Michigan City Time)

Michigan City Wolves
VS.
Lee's Summit (MO) Titans (based out of the Kansas City area)

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According to wikipedia here's some demographic information about the 3 communities involved:

City of Michigan City Indiana:

Population: 32,900
Metropolitan area: Chicago
Feeder Schools: Michigan City High School Wolves, Marquette Catholic High School Blazers
Nearest Major Football College: Notre Dame Fighting Irish, South Bend, Indiana
Nearest NFL Franshise: Chicago Bears
Median Household Income: $32,800
Racial Make-Up: The racial makeup of the city was 69.45% White, 26.31% African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.51% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.10% from other races, and 2.36% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.15% of the population
Most Famous for: Lighthouse Place Outlet Mall, Washington Park Beach and Marina on Lake Michigan, Blue Chip Casino, Various Summer Festival Activities, NICTD South Shore Line Passenger Train, Mount Baldy
Most Notorious for: Heavy amounts of lake effect snow in the wintertime, NIPSCO Cooling Tower, Executions at the Indiana State Prison

Village of Hillside, Illinois

Population: 8,150
Metropolitan area: Chicago
Feeder Schools: Hillside Public High School District #93, Fenwick Catholic High School Fryers of Oak Park
Nearest Major Football College: Northwestern Wildcats, Evanston, IL
Nearest NFL Franchise: Chicago Bears
Median Household Income: $50,775
Racial Make-Up: The racial makeup of the village was 49.29% White, 36.89% African American, 0.17% Native American, 5.13% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 5.79% from other races, and 2.67% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13.10% of the population, including 9.8% Mexican.
The top five non-African American, non-Hispanic ancestries reported in Hillside as of the 2000 census were German (11.4%), Italian (9.3%), Irish (9.3%), Polish (5.3%) and English (4.1%)
Most Famous for: Memorial Park, Proximity to O'Hare Airport, Proximity to the City of Chicago, Proximity to Major Expressways, Diverse population
Most Notorious For: Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Burial place of Al "Scarface" Capone

City of Lee's Summit, Missouri

Population: 92,900
Metropolitan area: Kansas City
Feeder Schools: Three Public High Schools, Lee's Summit Community Christian School , Our Lady of Presentation Catholic School
Nearest Major Football College: Kansas Jayhawks, Lawerence, KS
Nearest NFL Franchise: Kansas City Chiefs
Median Household Income: $60,905
Racial Make-Up: The racial makeup of the city was 93.17% White, 3.47% African American, 0.36% Native American, 0.99% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.52% from other races, and 1.42% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.97% of the population.
Most Famous For: Early western pioneer town, 6th largest City in the state of Missouri, Proximity to Kansas City, several community and branch colleges
Most Notorious for: Hometown of former major league pitcher Rick Sutcliffe, 1979 NL rookie of the year and 1984 NL Cy Young Award winner for the Chicago Cubs

[Southsider2k12]

Any word yet on the results?

http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...ArticleID=27294

Two City Teams To Regional
Pop Warner
Two Michigan City Pop Warner football teams Saturday will vie for a spot at nationals in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., in two weeks.

Both regional championship games will be at Eastern Michigan's Rynearson Stadium, 2051 N. Huron River Drive.

The Junior Pee Wees (10-1) will play Memorial Park (Ill.) at 8 a.m. CST.

The Wolves are coming off a tightly-contested 6-0 victory over the Glenville (Ohio) Titans at last weekend's sub-regional.

The Pee Wees (10-1) will follow at 10 a.m. CST. The Wolves will play Lee Summit (Mo.). Last week, the Wolves came from behind to beat the Detroit Dolphins, 22-14, in the sub-regional.

The winners of the regional will advance to the national championships at Disney's Wide World of Sports, just outside of Orlando. Nationals run from Dec. 5 through 12.

3 cheerleading teams at nationals

Cheerleading teams from Michigan City and La Porte are on their way to Disney World.

The Michigan City Pee Wees, and the La Porte Junior Pee Wees and Pee Wees advanced to the national championships, Dec. 5-12, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

In the regional competition Nov. 15 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., the Wolves' squad took first place. The Junior Pee Wee squad finished second for La Porte, and the Pee Wees won the regional championship.

The Junior Pee Wee squad will compete Dec. 7, while the Pee Wees will compete Dec. 8.

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I just returned from Ypsilanti, MI, Here's the results:

Good News:

Jr. Pee Wee Game

Michigan City 20
Memorial Park (Hillside, IL) 6

Aryuan "Buck" Cain-Veasey scores all three City touchdowns as the Wolves cruise to victory and to the national tournament next weekend in Florida.

Bad news:

Pee Wee Game

Lee's Summit (MO) 6
Michigan City 0

Lee's Summit scores the only points of the game with a one yard touchdown plunge with only :07 left in regulation.

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I want to give a special shoutout to Pee Wee Assistant Coach Kevin "Cookie" Woods, he's a really great coach for Michigan City, and a really nice, big hearted and emotional kind of guy and does a great job working with our young people. He's basically the team's defensive coordinator. I overheard some of the parents talking saying that after the game he took the loss yesterday really hard.

Also, last night when we go back to City I was showing Aryuan some of the video I shot, we were talking about how nice of a facility Eastern Michigan has and I was telling him about some of the other MAC colleges and some of the great players that had played in the MAC. He had confided in me that he would have much more preferred to have played in The Michigan Wolverine's "Big House" which is just a stones throw away in Ann Arbor.

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http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?Sectio...ArticleID=27338

Falling Just Short
Lee Summit (Mo.) 6, Pee Wees 0

Nick Dettmann
Staff Writer

YPSILANTI, Mich. - This is the hardest part of coaching 11- and 12-year-old boys.

After the Wolves' 6-0 loss to Lee Summit (Mo.) on Saturday morning at Eastern Michigan's Rynearson Stadium, City coach Craig Foerg lined up his players next to each other - shoulder to shoulder - and gave them their runnerup medals.

As he put each medal around the kid's necks, he embraced them and said thank you for their hard work and effort. He did this 19 times.

The look of sadness, disappointment and heartbreak on each of their faces made it harder as he went down the line.

"Probably one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do," Foerg said. "I think of every one of these kids like they're my sons. I love them to death. I'd do anything for any one of them."

The Titans, who are from the Kansas City area, scored a 1-yard touchdown run with nine seconds left to defeat the Wolves. The loss sends the Wolves home for the season, while the Titans advance to next week's Pop Warner Super Bowl in Orlando, Fla.

"It just wasn't our day," Foerg said. "Not much else that you can do."

Foerg told his boys after the painful medal ceremony to make sure he doesn't have to do this again. Instead, next time around, he wants to hang a champion medal around their necks - not the runner

up one.

Last year, these Wolves lost in the sub-regional. So Foerg is banking that two straight years of disappointment to get so far but come just short sticks with them. Plans for next year are already underway.

"We knew how good we were," Foerg said. "Nobody else may have known it, but as a group, we knew how good we were and how hard our kids were willing to work. It wasn't a surprise to us as far as we made it.

"... Next year our goal is going to be to make it all the way (to nationals). We've got another year or so together with these kids. ... I can't wait to see them back next year to go at it again."

In the previous two games, the Wolves were a second-half team. They trailed Tri-Town three weeks ago at halftime, and trailed the Detroit Dolphins last week at the sub-regional. But both times, the Wolves rallied to win.

On Saturday, it just never got going.

The Wolves (10-2) struggled to move the ball all game long. The Titans struggled just as much.

"It was just two really good defenses playing," Foerg said. "Our defense played phenomenal today. Offense tried their hearts out."

The game-winning drive began with 6:05 remaining in the fourth quarter on City's 49-yard line. It started after a blocked punt by the Titans, who remain undefeated.

It was all running plays - 13 of them. But only two of them were dives up the middle. Most were sweeps around the right or around the left side of the line. And the Titans came up huge throughout the drive.

Twice they converted on 3rd-and-4 and converted a 4th-and-3.

As the clock wound under a minute remaining, the Titans had a 2nd-and-1 at the City 6. And with two timeouts, the clock continued to run.

"We wanted to save one for after the kickoff," Foerg said.

The Titans got to the 1 with 14 seconds left, and scored the game-winner with a 1-yard plunge around the left tackle for the score.

The Wolves got the ball back with eight seconds left. They tried a trick pass play which fell incomplete, and had the last pass attempt with three seconds left get intercepted.

"We have a great group of kids," Foerg said. "They were focused all week. We had a good week of practice. To sum it up, today wasn't our day. ... Somebody had to win and it wasn't us."

While the Wolves are leaving with what they had hoped for - a trip to Florida - they are proud of their remarkable season and wish their fellow Junior Pee Wees the best of luck.

"It's amazing," Foerg said. "We couldn't be happier. It's a great feeling.

"... For the whole community, I think it's going to excite them; help inspire Michigan City football, bringing them back to where they need to be and that is at the top."

Contact sports writer Nick Dettmann at ndettmann@thenewsdispatch.com or 874-7211, Ext. 447.