Highlight Reel: Pewamo-Westphalia/Hudson
November 10, 2014
The Pewamo-Westphalia football team defeated Hudson 34-27 in a Division 7 District Final on Saturday. Click the headings below for MHSAA.tv highlights and the final link to watch the game in full.
Jared Smith Scores Twice In The First - Jared Smith scored two first-quarter touchdowns for Pewamo-Westphalia. Here's the second score on a 9-yard run late in the period.
McDaniel Sets Up Hudson Score - Hudson responded in the third quarter to tighten things up. Shay McDaniel set up the score with this run.
Smith Scores Again - Jared Smith's third TD of the game came at the end of a long third quarter drive for Pewamo-Westpahlia against Hudson. Here Smith scores from nine yards out.
Smith Does It Again - Jared Smith scored his fourth TD of the game for Pewamo-Westphalia on a 64-yard run in the third quarter.
Akers Ties It Up - Hudson tied the score on a 61-yard run by Zach Akers.
Bauer To Fandel For The Game Winner - With just more than four minutes to play, Pewamo-Westphalia strikes big on a 44-yard pass from Trey Bauer to William Fandel.
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Balancing Football Playoffs
April 18, 2017
Every time the Michigan High School Athletic Association Football Playoffs have been expanded, two voices have been heard – one complaining that too many teams or divisions have watered down the tournament; the other advocating that every school should qualify for the tournament regardless of its regular-season performance.
The playoffs have expanded from 32 to 64 to 128 to 256 to 272 teams; and for 2017, with the addition of 16 more 8-player teams, to 288 of the 626 MHSAA member schools’ football teams in Michigan.
We have reached the point where 46 percent of the schools which sponsor football qualify for the Football Playoffs, and we are approaching closely the point of qualifying every team with winning records during the regular season.
Those stats sound about right for a collision sport conducted mostly outdoors in a cold climate for teenagers. A longer tournament is unwise; a larger tournament is unneeded.
What is needed and wise is more attention to the regular season, and especially to practices which occur at least five times more frequently than games. That’s where the teaching and learning of football skills and life lessons can be everyday occurrences for every team in Michigan.