Football: Northville Mustangs Tame Novi Wildcats

Northville's Mustangs defeated Novi's Wildcats in overtime play in the Baseline Rivalry Game Friday evening at the newly renovated Tom Holzer Ford Field by a score of 21-14.

Friday evening's match-up between the varsity Northville and Novi High School football teams was a hard fought, close game plagued by rain and cool temperatures throughout. Northville High School scored the first touchdown of the game late in the first quarter, and the extra point was good, making the score 7-0. A field goal attempt by the Mustangs in the second quarter failed, and the half ended with a score of Mustangs 7, Wildcats 0. Throughout the game, Novi seemed to have trouble hanging on to the ball, with a total of four fumbles, all recovered by Northville. Fumbles aside, Novi started the second half with renewed vigor, returning the kick-off to Northville's 30 yard line. Jeffrey Baker of Novi, #29, continued the Wildcat surge, …

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Northville, Novi Students Team Up for Relay For Life

The event was held over the weekend in Northville.

A rivalry between Northville and Novi high schools has long been a tradition. In recent years, students from the schools have put a new twist on it for a good cause. This past weekend, the students participated in their third annual combined Relay for Life. Nearly 400 teens from the two schools fund-raised for the American Cancer Society (ACS) event. The students collected about $47,000, just $1,000 shy of their goal. Donations can still be made on the Relay For Life website. Northville and Novi students also competed in games throughout the evening. Northville won the Novi-Northville games for the third year in a row. It is the only such event run entirely by teenagers in all of Southeast Michigan, said Sarah Evitts, community …

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Novi-Northville Students Host Relay For Life

Students from the two high schools are hosting the fundraiser at Hillside Middle School in Northville from March 24-25.

Catholic Central Wrestlers Advance to Finals

10 individuals qualify for finals and the team moves into the quarterfinals.

The Catholic Central Shamrock wrestlers took another step toward recapturing the Division 1 State Championship title this past week by winning the Regional Finals. This is the fourth consecutive year that CC has advanced to the MHSAA Team State Finals in Battle Creek.  The team opened the evening by destroying Livonia Franklin 83-0 as a result of the Franklin coach’s decision to send second-string wrestlers into the match. The Franklin wrestlers themselves battled hard but were completely outmatched by the Shamrocks. The second meet of the night saw a well coached event between the Shamrocks and Farmington High School. Farmington advanced to the second round of the regional tournament by narrowly defeating Plymouth 38-36 in an exciting …

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Letter to the Editor

Northville High School Students Caution About Dangers of Radon

The students are promoting awareness of the dangers of radon, which can cause cancer.

This Letter to the Editor is from Northville High School students Jimmy Tian, Edward Clifton, Allison Montambeau and Jessica Tyer. It stems from their research for their AP Environmental Science class. On January 22, 2012, the famous football coach of the Penn State University Nittany Lions Joe Paterno died of complications from lung cancer. Most people think that lung cancer is simply a disease that smokers get. That is simply not true. Joe Paterno was not a smoker, but he lived in a very high radon risk area, the Pennsylvania Appalachians, leading to much speculation that Joe Paterno died as a result of radon induced lung cancer. The Environmental Protection Agency states that, each year, 21,000 non-smokers die of lung cancer from the …

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Novi Girls Basketball Beats Northville

The Wildcats are now 11-3.

—Submitted by Matthew Kearney The Novi Varsity Girls Basketball team got a huge win on Friday night over archrival Northville, 42-36 on SAM Club night at Novi High School. SAM stands for Student Athletic Mentors, a program that pairs 4th graders from Novi Woods Elementary with members of both the boys and girls varsity teams, and Friday night the 4th grade girls were invited to come cheer on their Wildcat buddies as special guests at the game. Getting into the action on the court, Kerri McMahan once again led the Novi scoring attack with 17 points, followed closely by senior Sam Pavlika with 8 points. Jade Antolec was next with 6, and also scoring for Novi were Anna Lausch with 4 points and Abby Robinson with 3. Alex Moynes had a double …

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Both Novi and Northville Take Home a Win in Crosstown Bowling Match

Northville was the winner in the girls match, while Novi came out ahead for the boys.

—Submitted by Novi Coach John Osborne In Tuesday's crosstown bowling match, Novi took home a win for the boys, and the Northville girls were victorious. The Novi boys beat Northville 28-2. Novi (3-6, 2-3), in our best showing of the year, won all 10 baker points and both games by the scores of 1002-756 and 935-853. Andrew Thorwall had his personal best of the year scoring two points with games of 242-224, and Kam Mitchell, making his first varsity appearance of the year, shot 201-182. The Northville girls beat out Novi 22.5-7.5. Novi (4-5,2-3) won the first baker game 181-173 but was unable to get lined up and lost both regular games 716-650 and 776-690. Sara Schulz was the lone bright spot, shooting 171-172.

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Novi Boys Basketball Loses Close Game to Northville

The boys team lost 27-31.

The Novi High School varsity boys basketball team was defeated by the Northville Mustangs at home Friday night. The final score was 27-31. Scott Kempa and Charles McKinney both scored 8 points for the Wildcats, followed by Nelson Cagle with 5 points. The Wildcats next play Salem High School away at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Do you have any photos from the game? Add them by clicking the "Upload photos and videos" button or email them to rebecca.jaskot@patch.com. 

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