On Tuesday, Chelsea High School Senior Nyck Udell officially signed his commitment letter to continue his great bowling career at Adrian College. The young Bulldog is excited about this opportunity. Nyck is the son of proud parents Rodney and Carm Udell
Chelsea’s Matthew Klink scores the first goal of the game
The Adrian Maples blew into Chelsea on a very windy, cloudy afternoon. The Jv team mercied the Maples with an 8-0 shutout that ended early in the second half led by 2 goals each by Parker Shaw and Chris White, and then it was the varsity’s turn to fight for a victory.
Chelsea took control early and kept lots of pressure on the Maples netminder and then with 4 minutes gone in the first half, Matthew Klink made a great shot for the first goal of the game. Several minutes later it was Senor Isaac Smedshammer with a beautiful kick about 20 yards out which the wind took and circled around into net for the 2nd goal of the game. Seven minutes later it was Junior Cullen Lindsay with a hard kick right down the middle to give the Bulldogs a big 3-0 lead. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs defense kept the Maples, not only off the scoreboard, but without a shot!
At about the 12-minute mark, only two minutes after Lindsay’s goal, it was Senior Callum Krause putting the ball in the back of the net for a big 4-0 lead. 3 minutes later Adrian scored on its first shot on goal of the half. The Bulldogs would take a 4-1 lead into the half.
In the second half, it was more of the same as Chelsea just dominated play and piled up the shots. At the 12:14 mark on Chelsea’s 18th shot of the game, it was Krause picking up his second goal of the game. The Bulldogs finished with a big 5-1 victory and ended the game with 20 shots on goal while only yielding 1 goal on 1 shot for the whole night.
Senior Matt McDaniels was in net for Chelsea the first half, Junior Logan Mahalak played in the second half. Chelsea is off until Tuesday the 6th when they travel to Lincoln.
Ethan French drives in the first for 2. He finished the game with 17 points
Chelsea was looking to get back on a winning streak after their second loss of the season against highly ranked Ann Arbor Huron. But to do that they would face off against a very tough Adrian Lenawee Christian team. The Cougars, who play much better than their record reflects, were looking to get back on the winning track too after a tough loss to Consortium College Prep.
The Cougars struck first with Sophomore Trey Helinski hitting a trey. But Bulldog Senior Trevor Kingsley struck back with a 3 of his own. After that scoring was limited as both teams played a very physical, tight game. The Cougars took a 9-7 lead in the second period. The Cougars at one point were pulling away but Chelsea Head Coach Josh Tropea made great use of his substitutes as he kept fresh players rotating in and out to match up against the much taller Cougars. And his strategy worked as Junor Guard Ryan Mitchell had a great second period as he had three steals, one he took the length of the court. But it was Junior Forward Brady Friss who hit a big three to put Chelsea up 20-17 at the half.
After the half it was more of the same, tough defense and points were hard to come by for either team. The Cougars Senior Nigerian duo of Collins & Maxwell, (their only names given) standing at 6’7″ and 6’6″ respectively, kept the Cougars in the game with their big underneath game, forcing the Bulldogs at many times to foul.
But the Bulldogs were not intimidated at all and would not give up forcing the Cougars to try to cover their outside shots as Senior Ethan French hit a huge three-point basket to put the Bulldogs up by 4 going into the final frame.
The Cougars took advantage at the start of the 4th of a big three by Helinski and some big shots by Maxwell to take the lead early on. But Chelsea’s Coach Tropea took advantage of his deeper bench and rested players and made wise use of his timeouts. With the game tied at the 3:55 mark Mitchell hit a huge 30 foot three pointer and then off a Noah Cooper steal and assist it was Mitchell again sinking another big three to put the Bulldogs up by 1 and it was from that point on the Bulldogs never trailed in the game again. In the closing minutes of the game Kingsley and French hit several clutch free throws to secure the Bulldogs victory, 54-44.
Mitchell finished with 15 points and 3 steals on the night, Kingsley had 10 and led all Bulldogs with 5 rebounds. Lenawee Christian was led by Maxwell with 24 points and Helinski with 12. The Bulldogs are 10-2 on the season and travel to Ann Arbor Skyline Friday.
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