Jack Pine Tribune

By Eric Dion

The Comets have been contenders all year on the oval, and proved to be just as tough on their home turf. The boys would put 218 points up on the day to win the event in decisive fashion. The Fike boys worked hard to help rule the points race, and Jacob Kipp continued on his plan to break the rules of gravity. Robert Snear continues to compete in the Shot Put and discus, and gave his team some more valuable points to help with the Domination of Comet Nation.

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COLEMAN – The highly touted Gladwin Flying G’s are bubbling with high expectations for this spring on the ball diamonds. The G-men swooped down M-18 and westward on Schaffer Road to lock horns with perhaps the richest baseball tradition known to mid-Michigan, the Comets of Coleman. Coleman is the most recent baseball program to win a baseball state championship in the area as they etched their name in stone as state champions in 1993. Recent CMU and Coleman star, Cody Allen still stands in the MHSAA books for compiling a .650 batting average. The G’s weren’t scared as they rumbled into Coleman and gathered a sweep, winning 5-1 in the opener and 2-0 in the nightcap.

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