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Sports Briefs

PUBLISHED: May 1, 2008

Rails split with Pioneer

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The Lincoln Splitters had a mixed week on the baseball field. A double header with Romulus was cancelled later in the week after splitting with Ann Arbor Pioneer.

In the first game of the week against Pioneer the locals Corey Caldwell got the 12-8 win.

Andrew Dillon smacked two homeruns over the fence and Joey Sibert was 3-for-4 at the plate.

Assistant Coach Carlos Lozano said the first game was a good one fir his team.

"We were up the entire game," Lozano said. "It was 8-2 and then they made it 8-6."

In the second game Pioneer had a big first inning (six runs) and went on to win 18-3. Jarrett Dupuis got the loss on the hill.

Dillon was 2-for-4 with a double in the loss.

"It was a non-conference game so we try and play everyone," he said. "They are not in our division."

Lincoln slips to 5-6-2 overall and 1-4-1 in the Southeast Conference.

Phoenix track runs past Belleville

The week went pretty well for the Ypsilanti Phoenix boys' track team. It started out on April 22 with a 73-60 win over the Belleville track team and just got better from there.

Ja'Quan Patterson won the long jump. Ben Hand took first in both the shot a discus.

Ypsilanti won three out of the four relays. The lone relay loss came in the 800-meter relay. Dominique Lynch won the 100-meter dash and Al Backey took first in both the 1,600 and 800-meter races.

Key second place finishes went to Wayne Gordon in the high jump, Marvon Sanders in the long jump. Mohamed Cherif was second in both the shot and discus. Lynch was second in the 200-meter dash and Kyle Woodyard was second in the 3,200-meter run.

"The boys surprised me on Tuesday," Ypsilanti Coach Torin Moore said. "We were missing all of our 300-meter hurdles and we got swept in that event."

On Friday at North Farmington, the Phoenix tied for second with Salem and had 52 points at the Raider Relays. Holly won the event with 56 points.

Ypsilanti took first in the high jump relays with a score of eighteen feet, two inches. Gordon, Backey and Kevin Atkins won it. Patterson, Terrance Moore, Searcy and Backey won the 1,600-meter relay. Ypsilanti also won the sprint medley and Patterson, Lynch, Mitchell Long and Backey ran it.

The locals took second in the long jump relay, third in the 800-meter relay and sixth in the pole vault relay.

The boys finished in 16th with 12 points at the Shumake Relays on Saturday, which were held at Detroit Renaissance. Trotwood-Madison out of Ohio won the meet with 85 points and Detroit Mumford was second with 67 points.

Atkins took first in the high jump with a leap of six-foot, four inches.

— Dave Merchant