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BY ED WRIGHT
June 27, 2010, 10:45 a.m.

  Thanks for stopping by the inaugural PlymouthCantonSports.com "Spring 2010 Eddie Awards", the show that aims to shine some well-deserved positive light on the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park athletes who went above and beyond the past three months.

  I tried to book the Fox Theater, but it was so expensive

my family and I wouldn't have been able to eat for six months, so The Cyberspace Auditorium will have to do. (On the bright side, look how much money you saved on tux rental).

  Although this is a commercial-free awards show, please take the time to patronize the businesses you see on these pages. They make it all possible.

  In terms of success, this past spring was unprecedented at the Park. Four teams - Plymouth's girls soccer team (lost in final game), Canton's baseball team (lost in quarterfinals), Plymouth's boys golf team (finished eighth in state) and Canton's girls soccer team (lost in quarterfinals) - while Plymouth's softball team lost in a Regional final game to the team that barely lost in the state championship game.

  Several individuals also turned in All-State efforts in track and field.

  Thanks to all the spine-chilling moments that have unfolded on PCEP venues this spring - and since the site launched in September - PlymouthCantonSports.com has surpassed 700,000 hits, a remarkable milestone for a local sports website.

  While the local paper turns to a regional format this summer to allow for employee vacations, PlymouthCantonSports.com will remain 100 percent local as I can't afford to take a vacation. Please visit every day for fresh, updated material.

  On to the awards.

FINALISTS
Plymouth soccer player ZOE FOSTER
Canton softball player JESSICA WEBSTER
Plymouth sprinter MADI LEWIS
Plymouth pitcher ELAINE GEROU

And the winner is...ELAINE GEROU

FINALISTS
Canton's KEVIN "THE BLUR" BUFORD
Salem's ZACK GASKELL
Plymouth's WILLIAM ASKEW II

And the winner is...KEVIN "THE BLUR" BUFORD

FINALISTS
Plymouth's MADI LEWIS
Canton's LINDSEY LIPA
Salem's KHYLI RAY

And the winner is...MADI LEWIS

FINALISTS
Salem's BRI LEE
Canton's AMY DUNLEAVY
Plymouth's ELAINE GEROU

And the winner is...AMY DUNLEAVY

FINALISTS
Salem's CHRIS KORDICK
Canton's KEVIN DELAPAZ
Plymouth's HARRISON MICHELS
Canton's ANDREW TIDWELL

And the winner is...KEVIN DELAPAZ

FINALISTS
Canton's MATT RODGERS
Salem's DYLAN HATCHER
Plymouth's RYAN RENAULT
Canton's JAKE UNDERWOOD

And the winners are...RYAN RENAULT and JAKE UNDERWOOD

FINALISTS
Plymouth's REAGAN ENGSTROM
Canton's NICK ALANIVA
Salem's MEGAN PARUTA
Plymouth's GRANT SENKBEIL

And the winner is...REAGAN ENGSTROM

FINALISTS
Plymouth boys track coach JON MIKOSZ
Plymouth boys lacrosse coach BRIAN WALSH
Salem boys golf coach RYAN NIMMERGUTH
Plymouth baseball coach BRYAN BOYD

And the winner is...JON MIKOSZ

FINALISTS
Salem's PATRICK DOTY
Canton's ZACH CONRAD
Plymouth's JOSH HEINZE

And the winner is...JOSH HEINZE

FINALISTS
Salem's ALLIE CARPENTER
Plymouth's LINDSAY STEMBERGER
Canton's MEGAN LEUNG

And the winner is...ALLIE CARPENTER

FINALISTS
Canton boys 1,600-meter relay team
Salem boys, 1,600-meter relay team
Plymouth boys 3,200-meter relay team

And the winner is...Salem boys 1,600-meter relay team

FINALISTS
Canton baseball coach Mark Blomshield
Plymouth girls soccer coach Jeff Neschich
Plymouth boys golf coach Chris Moore
Salem boys track coach Kyle Meteyer

And the winner is...JEFF NESCHICH/MARK BLOMSHIELD

FINALISTS
Salem junior Sam Maksimovic's game-winning inside-the-park home run in the bottom of the 14th inning against Canton.

Plymouth freshman Zoe Foster's game-winning overtime goal against Canton in the Division 1 Regional final.

Canton senior Joe Galanty's game-winning, sixth-inning home run against Northville in the KLAA Kensington Conference championship game.

And the winner is...ZOE FOSTER'S game-winning goal against Canton

FINALISTS
Canton softball player Amy Dunleavy
Plymouth soccer player Marissa Williams
PCS lacrosse player Lauryn Ebersole
Salem softball player Bri Lee
Canton soccer player Melanie Pickert
Plymouth softball player Stacey Klonowski

And the winner is...AMY DUNLEAVY and STACEY KLONOWKSI

FINALISTS
Canton baseball player Kevin Delapaz
Salem baseball player Chris Kordick
Plymouth track star Warren Buzzard
Canton lacrosse player Jake Underwood
Salem track star Dan Martin
Plymouth baseball player Mike Nadratowski

And the winner is...Canton baseball player KEVIN DELAPAZ

FINALISTS
Plymouth girls soccer team
Canton boys baseball team
Salem boys track team
Plymouth boys golf team

And the winner is...
PLYMOUTH GIRLS SOCCER TEAM
  

  Ed Wright can be reached at (734) 453-1980 or info@plymouthcantonsports.com.
 
 
ED WRIGHT COLUMN ARCHIVES

Plymouth girls soccer team's run to state title game was truly amazing

31st Canton Cup was memorable event

Success at the Park is incredible

This pitcher's comeback hit close to home

Lacrosse is a very cool sport

Wedgewood's performance was off-the-charts amazing!

CEBL's 8-9-year-old Sixers proved winning isn't everything

Canton's girls basketball team played like true champions

There are some 'sick' performances unfolding around these parts -- and we're not talking Swine Flu

Plymouth's Hahn well deserving of MHSAA's scholar-athlete award

Unnesessary red tape is tripping up Zech's college soccer career

Falcusan earns "Greatest PCEP Female Athlete 2000-09" title with convincing victory

Goble-Rolfe showdown was one for the record books

Local teams hit the high school basketball lottery

Unscientific survey will lead the "greatest" PCEP athlete from the past decade

They don't make sports games like they used to

Annual poem saluting athletes who excelled in 2009

Danny Cassidy will be remembered as a humble, happy young man who had the jump shot to be envied.

A serious medical condition robbed Brandon Wright of a chance to play football, but not his ability to inspire.

Steelers-Lions rivalry brings out the best in junior gridiron heroes

Let's bury that crazy John Glenn-Plymouth play

On crazy finishes, sharp cornerbacks and unheralded mid-fielders

On Salem's first win...

Let's hear it for the band, high school volleyball and 88-cent Corn Flakes

This All-Star Football team has true character(s)

The story behind the creation of PlymouthCantonSports.com

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