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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --December 20, 2000
Contact: John Johnson or Andy Frushour-- 517.332.5046

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Dec. 20 -- The recipients of the top Michigan High School Athletic Association's Good Sports Are Winners! Awards for the recently-completed 2000 fall sports season have been named, with each school to receive commemorative banners, crystal trophies and a $1,000 donation from Little Caesars Pizza, the Association's corporate partner in sportsmanship efforts.

Allen Park Inter-City Baptist in boys soccer, Schoolcraft in football and DeWitt in girls basketball, were selected by the tournament management at their respective finals for displaying the most exemplary sportsmanship by their coaches, student-athletes and spectators. Presentation dates at all three schools will be announced at a future date.

Allen Park Inter-City Baptist was the champion in the Division 4 boys soccer tournament; Schoolcraft was the runner-up in the Division 6 football playoffs; and DeWitt was a semifinalist in the Class B girls basketball tournament.

In addition to receiving the finals award, Schoolcraft was honored at the district and regional levels of the football playoffs. DeWitt is being honored with a finals level award for the third time, the previous occasions being at the 1989 Football Finals and the 1996 Baseball Finals.

The Good Sports Are Winners! Award is making its return in 2000-01 with the corporate underwriting of Little Caesars Pizza. The program had previously been offered from 1989 to 1996.

Major changes have been made as the program returns. At the district and regional level of MHSAA tournaments, all schools which meet a set of sportsmanlike standards will receive awards, which
will result in nearly 500 additional schools being recognized annually. Previously, the award was presented to only one school at each tournament center. There have also been standards introduced into the program which would automatically disqualify a school from consideration from the award. Any team which is disqualified for the Good Sports Are Winners! Award at the District or Regional level of a tournament becomes ineligible for the award at higher levels of that same tournament.

In all, 203 teams in girls basketball, 123 in football and 85 in boys soccer will receive either certificates at the district level, or plaques at the regional level from Little Caesars Pizza during fall competition. During the course of the 2000-01 school year, nearly 1,500 awards will be presented, recognizing schools in ten activities for their sportsmanship efforts during MHSAA tournaments.

The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary membership by over 1,300 public and private senior high schools and junior high/middle schools which exists to develop common rules for athletic eligibility and competition. No government funds or tax dollars support the MHSAA, which was the first such association nationally to not accept membership dues or tournament entry fees from schools. Member schools which enforce these rules are permitted to participate in MHSAA tournaments which attract approximately 1.6 million spectators each year.

Little Caesars Pizza, founded in 1959 by Michael and Marian Ilitch, is an international pizza chain with locations on 5 continents. The Ilitch family has been a proud sponsor of amateur sports since 1964. The Little Caesars amateur sports program started with the sponsorship of one hockey team, and today more than 17,000 children participate in Little Caesars sponsored sports throughout the community.

The following is a list of Good Sports Are Winners! Award recipients as submitted by tournament managers through December 19 for the recently-completed fall sports season (SPORTS DIRECTORS/ EDITORS -- Please scan this list for recipients from your coverage area):

NOTE - For more information about Little Caesars, contact Public Relations Manager Lisa Cosnowski at 313.983.6175. You can download the MHSAA's sportsmanship logo from the MHSAA Web Site - click on Forms & Graphics off the home page.

GOOD SPORTS ARE WINNERS!
2000 Fall Award Recipients
(Based on reports received at the MHSAA offices as of 12/19/00. NOTE: There can be more than one winner at each site, and not all site managers responded.)

BOYS SOCCER
District Awards
DIVISION 1
2 Jackson
3 Saline
5 Livonia Churchill
7 Fraser
7 Warren DeLaSalle
9 Troy
10 Clarkston
11 Rochester Adams
11 Utica
13 Jenison
14 Muskegon Reeths-Puffer
14 Grand Haven
14 Holland West Ottawa
14 Zeeland
14 Muskegon
14 Holland
15 Flushing
DIVISION 2
18 Middleville Thornapple Kellogg
18 Portage Northern
19 Ypsilanti Lincoln
19 Chelsea
19 Tecumseh
20 Trenton
21 Dearborn Divine Child
21 Farmington
21 Farmington Hills Harrison
21 Redford Thurston
21 Redford Union
21 North Farmington
24 Birmingham Groves
26 Fowlerville
27 East Lansing
27 Mason
28 Lowell
29 Wyoming Park
29 Grand Rapids Christian
29 Grand Rapids Catholic Central
32 Gaylord
32 Petoskey
DIVISION 3
36 Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard
38 Madison Heights Lamphere
38 Detroit Country Day
39 Linden
39 Pontiac Notre Dame
42 Parchment
42 Plainwell
42 Otsego
44 Muskegon Orchard View
44 Muskegon Oakridge
44 Spring Lake
45 Manistee
45 Ludington
45 Reed City
45 Hart
47 Tawas City
DIVISION 4
51 Jonesville
51 Jackson Lumen Christi
51 Clinton
52 Lansing Christian
56 Auburn Hills Oakland Christian
56 Bloomfield Hills Roeper
58 Grand Rapids Baptist
58 Hudsonville Freedom Baptist
59 Muskegon Western Michigan Christian
59 North Muskegon
59 Holland Calvary Baptist
60 Saginaw Valley Lutheran
63 Harbor Springs
63 Fairview

Regional Awards
DIVISION 1
3 Warren DeLaSalle
4 Milford
DIVISION 2
5 Mattawan
5 Portage Northern
8 Petoskey
DIVISION 3
9 Buchanan
11 Hudsonville Unity Christian
11 Lansing Catholic Central
11 Spring Lake
12 Cheboygan
12 Frankenmuth
12 Pigeon Laker
12 Tawas City
DIVISION 4
15 Saginaw Valley Lutheran
16 Harbor Springs
16 Grand Marais Burt Township

FOOTBALL
District Awards
DIVISION 1
1 East Kentwood
2 Grand Ledge
4 Ann Arbor Huron
5 Detroit Catholic Central
7 Utica Eisenhower
7 Rochester Adams
7 Troy Athens
8 Detroit Denby
8 Detroit Henry Ford
DIVISION 2
11 Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern
11 Hudsonville
11 Grand Rapids Creston
12 Novi
12 Northville
15 Sterling Heights
15 Grosse Pointe North
DIVISION 3
17 Gaylord
18 Greenville
18 Fruitport
18 Grand Rapids Catholic Central
19 Stevensville Lakeshore
21 Monroe Jefferson
21 Carleton Airport
23 Ortonville-Brandon
23 Fenton
23 Lapeer West
DIVISION 4
25 Menominee
27 Grand Rapids South Christian
27 Allegan
27 Coopersville
28 Dowagiac
28 Three Rivers
29 Orchard Lake St Mary
29 DeWitt
31 Clinton Township Clintondale
DIVISION 5
34 Shepherd
34 Beaverton
35 Grand Rapids West Catholic
35 Muskegon Oakridge
35 Spring Lake
37 Battle Creek Pennfield
37 Jackson Lumen Christi
37 Onsted
38 Detroit Crockett
38 Goodrich
38 Milan
38 Detroit Country Day
39 Birch Run
39 Frankenmuth
39 Montrose
40 Bad Axe
40 Yale
40 Imlay City
DIVISION 6
41 Houghton
43 Ithaca
43 Hesperia
44 Saginaw Nouvel
44 St Charles
46 Bangor
46 Schoolcraft
46 Constantine
47 Napoleon
47 Hudson
DIVISON 7
50 Maple City Glen Lake
50 East Jackson
51 Merrill
51 McBain
51 Johannesburg-Lewiston
52 Unionville-Sebewaing
52 Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary
52 Deckerville
53 Athens
53 Gobles
53 White Pigeon
54 Reading
54 Bath
54 Pewamo-Westphalia
55 Manchester
56 Harper Woods
56 Royal Oak Shrine
DIVISION 8
57 Lake Linden-Hubbell
58 Rock Mid Peninsula
58 Gaylord St Mary
58 Posen
59 Beal City
59 Arenac Eastern
60 Fulton-Middleton
60 Fowler
61 Muskegon Catholic Central
63 Ottawa Lake-Whiteford
63 Redford St Agatha
63 Wyandotte Mt Carmel

Regional Awards
DIVISION 1
1 Grand Ledge
1 Rockford
3 Detroit Cass Tech
3 Detroit Catholic Central
4 Utica Eisenhower
4 Detroit Henry Ford
DIVISION 2
6 Northville
6 Hudsonville
DIVISION 3
11 Chelsea
DIVISION 4
13 Cedar Springs
13 Kingsford
16 Detroit St Martin dePorres
DIVISION 5
17 Gladwin
18 Byron Center
18 Spring Lake
19 Milan
19 Jackson Lumen Christi
20 Montrose
DIVISION 6
21 Ishpeming
21 Whittemore-Prescott
23 Schoolcraft
23 Hopkins
DIVISION 7
25 Iron Mountain
25 Kingsley
27 Pewamo-Westphalia
28 Britton-Macon
28 Sand Creek
DIVISION 8
29 Crystal Falls Forest Park
30 Fowler
30 Frankfort
31 Muskegon Catholic Central

GIRLS BASKETBALL
District Awards
CLASS A
1 Kalamazoo Central
1 Battle Creek Lakeview
1 Portage Central
2 Mason
3 South Lyon
3 Ann Arbor Pioneer
3 Saline
3 Jackson
3 Coldwater
3 Ann Arbor Huron
4 Lansing Everett
4 St Johns
7 Grand Haven
7 Muskegon Mona Shores
7 Muskegon Reeths-Puffer
7 Grandville
8 Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern
8 Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
8 Rockford
8 Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills
8 Lowell
8 Greenville
9 Owosso
9 Holly
10 Flushing
10 Clio
10 Saginaw Arthur Hill
12 Escanaba
13 Ypsilanti Lincoln
13 Temperance Bedford
13 Adrian
13 Ypsilanti
13 Brownstown Woodhaven
13 Monroe
15 Westland John Glenn
15 Livonia Franklin
15 Belleville
16 Dearborn Heights Crestwood
20 Harper Woods Regina
20 Detroit Finney
21 Fraser
22 Troy
24 Livonia Stevenson
24 Livonia Ladywood
26 Bloomfield Hills Lahser
26 Farmington Hills Mercy
29 Lake Orion
CLASS B
33 Coloma
37 Onsted
37 Tecumseh
37 Milan
37 Chelsea
37 Dexter
41 Center Line
41 Hamtramck
41 Highland Park
41 St Clair Shores Lakeview
41 St Clair Shores Lake Shore
43 Madison Heights Madison
43 Clawson
44 Detroit Country Day
44 Bloomfield Hills Andover
44 Birmingham Seaholm
53 Remus Chippewa Hills
53 Belding
53 Stanton Central Montcalm
54 Portland
55 Otisville-Lakeville
55 Flint Powers Catholic
55 Goodrich
55 Flint Beecher
55 Montrose
59 Pinconning
59 Birch Run
59 Bay City John Glenn
59 Midland Bullock Creek
59 Essexville Garber
60 Saginaw Swan Valley
64 Menominee
CLASS C
65 Berrien Springs
65 Buchanan
65 Bridgman
67 Quincy
67 Bronson
67 Homer
67 Union City
67 Athens
73 Kalamazoo Christian
73 Kalamazoo Hackett
73 Lawton
79 Royal Oak Shrine
79 Almont
79 New Haven
79 Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest
79 Bloomfield Hills Academy
80 Genesee
81 Carson City-Crystal
81 Bath
81 Pewamo-Westphalia
81 Saranac
83 Brethren
83 Hart
84 Leroy Pine River
86 Ithaca
88 Brown City
88 Mayville
88 Marlette
88 Sandusky
89 Cass City
89 Harbor Beach
91 Harbor Springs
91 East Jordan
95 Hancock
95 Calumet
95 Houghton
CLASS D
100 Jackson Christian
100 North Adams-Jerome
100 Litchfield
100 Camden-Frontier
100 Waldron
101 Wyandotte Mt Carmel
107 Lansing Christian
107 Webberville
107 Lansing New Covenant Christian
107 Potterville
108 Hudsonville Freedom Baptist
108 Holland Black River
108 Holland Calvary Baptist
108 Saugatuck
108 Wyoming Tri-Unity Christian
109 Muskegon Catholic Central
110 Fowler
110 Fulton-Middleton
110 Ashley
112 Carsonville-Port Sanilac
113 Kingston
115 Buckley
115 Marion
115 Fife Lake Forest Area
115 McBain Northern Michigan Christian
116 Big Rapids Crossroads Academy
116 Hart Lakeshore
116 Mason County Eastern
117 Frankfort
117 Manistee Catholic Central
117 Traverse City Christian
119 Ellsworth
119 Alba
119 Central Lake
120 Posen
122 Pellston
122 Harbor Springs Harbor Light Christian
122 Mackinaw City
122 Burt Lake Northern Michigan Christian

Regional Awards
CLASS A
1 Kalamazoo Central
1 Jenison
1 Grand Rapids Christian
2 Saline
2 Lansing Everett
2 Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills
2 Mason
3 Adrian
4 Grosse Pointe North
4 Livonia Ladywood
4 Detroit King
5 Troy
5 Utica
5 Fraser
6 Plymouth Canton
6 Rochester Adams
7 Clarkston
8 Flint Northern
8 Saginaw Heritage
8 Escanaba
8 Cadillac
CLASS B
14 Lake Odessa Lakewood
14 Ionia
16 Tawas City
16 Menominee
CLASS C
18 Ann Arbor Greenhills
20 Lake Fenton
20 Royal Oak Shrine
20 Marlette
20 Harbor Beach
21 Ithaca
21 Pewamo-Westphalia
22 Manton
22 Shelby
23 Freeland
23 Charlevoix
23 Maple City Glen Lake
23 Alcona
24 Houghton
24 Iron River West Iron County
24 St Ignace
CLASS D
25 Wyoming Tri-Unity Christian
26 Plymouth Christian
28 Portland St Patrick
28 Burton Genesee Christian
28 Peck
32 Carney-Nadeau
32 Painesdale-Jeffers
32 Ewen-Trout Creek

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