Ubly 55, USA 47

Ubly pulled out a hard fought 55-47 win over USA on Tuesday night. The Bearcats trailed 17-4 at one poiit, but rallied to tie it at 24 at the half.

For Ubly, the team got off to a slow start, but really began to gel as the game progressed. Coach Joel Leipprandt has a lot of options in terms of what line-ups he can throw out there and said it will take a little more time to figure out the rotation. As for the Patriots, coach Mark Gainforth was proud of his team's effort, especially for a bunch of guys who got very little play time last year. He said the team learned alot about itslef tonight, but didn't learn one key thing...who wants the ball at the end of the game. He thinks they'll have a better idea by the time the league games start.

More photos from Friday night

These are soem photos from Steve Jias from last night...

Former Ubly Athletes make awesome movie

For those looking for tonight's basketball pictures, check out the post below. For everyone else, mark your calendars in what could be a once in a lifetime event, there will be a major movie premiere held in good old, downtown Ubly.

Former Ubly football standouts Grant Pichla, Patrick Murdock and a handful of others have written, filmed, produced, edited and promoted their movie High School Heist. I've seen the trailer and I can't wait to go.

The Huron County Press will have an exclusive in our paper Wednesday on the making of the movie, but until then, here are the details of the event:

The premiere showing of the student made film, High School Heist, will be December 20th at the Sleeper Public Library in Ubly. Showing times are at 9:00 and 9:30 (possibly at 10:00 if needed). The film is 22 minutes long, and the cost is only $2.00, which will be used to pay the rental fee of the library. A sign up for the DVD of High School Heist will also be available, cost $10.00 (not needed until delivery). The DVD includes both full screen and widescreen versions and TONS of special features, including:-Director’s Commentary-Bloopers/Deleted Scenes-1920’s version of High School Heist-Production StillsAnd at least 15 other videos that were created during our media class last year.PLEASE let me know if you are planning on coming, because the library can only seat 60 at a time, and I don’t want more than that to show up for the first show. Otherwise, I would have to tell people to wait until the 9:30 show. At least let me know what time you want to watch, and I’ll have you reserved on a list. Thanks.Once again, here are some movie posters and the trailer can be viewed in HD at http://vimeo.com/2247766 By the way, spread the word.

Some pictures from tonight's action

The bar has been raised

North Huron's Anthony Irvine
Owen-Gage's Brent Reil

North Huron's John Iseler

Owen-Gage's Nick Zaleski

North Huron's Anthony Irvine

In the media, we often talk amongst ourselves about the quality of our pictures. It almost becomes a competition amongst ourselves as to who can up with the best shots. While I often thought the competition was just between me and Paul Adams, our sports editor Steve Jias has enterred the fray and with these pictures has shown he it is going to be a "triple threat match" this season.

Everyone knows about the pressures athletes face heading into games, well after Steve came up with these dandies yesterday, I'm feeling the pressure to producs tonight.
I think I'll be up to the challenge. So look for photos from North Huron vs. Kingston & USA vs. Ubly from me tonight, while Steve will hit a pair of games as well.

Feel free to post your results from local games here.

A few tidbits

Now that things have settled down a little bit following Ubly's run to the finals, putting out a remberance section and our winter Sports Preview, basketball action is starting to heat up...well, at least it is underway.
From the early reports I've gotten, there has been several sloppy games so far, but in a few weeks after the Christmas break, most teams should settle in and we should be the quality of games we are hoping for.
Speaking of quality, I hope you all got a chance to check out our Sports Preview this past week. It was truly a team effort as Steve wrote the stories and I layed out and designed the section. It was Steve's first experience with writing 95 percent of the section (I chipped in with things like the players to watch, etc.) and he did a great job.
I really think he needs to be commended for the effort he put out. As someone who has done entire sections by myself before, I know how tricky it, let alone to do it in a rookie year like Steve did. Please feel free to share your comments about the seciton here and any positive feedback you have for Steve's efforts.
As for coverage, we've already got a few games in the bag and we'll post some pictures following tomorrow's action. Steve and I will both be heading to a pair of games, so there will be a wide variety of action tomorrow.
Come back anbd check us out then.
We'll see you at the games!

Our online tribute to Ubly is up

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In the world of newspapers, many htings factor into the eventual product you put out. Ad dollars, page counts, how many things really need to get in and of course time.
All those things factored against us this past week when putting together our look back at what Ubly has accomplished this past year. While overall I was happy with how our section turned out, I couldn't help but feel we could have done better; there were just too many photos and stories we didn't get in.
So we took a couple (okay more like four or five) and did this right. We redid the section so we could put it online, the only place were space is never an issue. I hope you enjoy how this additional effort turned out.
Just double-click on the picture of the page and it will enlarge (like all of our pictures do, in case you didn't know) and then you can read the stories, see the pictures, etc.