Mar 2, 2024
Courtesy Photograph The 2023-24 Alpena Neighborhood Faculty males’s basketball workforce poses for a workforce portrait on this undated picture supplied by the school.
ALPENA — The Alpena Neighborhood Faculty males’s basketball workforce has clinched a spot within the postseason and can host the primary spherical of the NJCAA Division II Nice Lakes District B Males’s Basketball Championship beginning Tuesday.
The Lumberjacks completed the common season with a report of 9-15 and a Michigan Neighborhood Faculty Athletic Affiliation Northern Convention Document of 7-7.
The Lumberjacks final superior to the postseason in the course of the 2021-22 season, after they misplaced to the Henry Ford Neighborhood Faculty Hawks.
The final time the Lumberjacks hosted a postseason recreation was the 1998-99 season that led to heartbreak after they fell to Kalamazoo Valley Neighborhood Faculty 71-73 on a missed three-pointer on the buzzer.
Whereas nearly all of the event will happen at Mott Neighborhood Faculty in Flint, the primary spherical of event play will likely be hosted on the dwelling courtroom of the higher-seed.
ACC is the upper seed in its first-round match-up and can host the sport in Alpena.
“This can be a particular evening for the workforce and for ACC Athletics,” mentioned ACC Athletic Director Allen Telgenhof. “A loud, engaged crowd can actually choose up a workforce’s adrenaline, and I’m assured that our followers and our pupil part will get it going.”
ACC will tackle the Muskegon Jayhawks, a fellow Northern Convention member.
The 2 groups have met up twice this season, with the Lumberjacks taking the win in each matchups, 70-62 and 73-69.
This yr’s Lumberjacks have been one of the crucial aggressive groups in latest historical past, with a convention report of .500, 4 of their losses being by 5 factors or much less, and an extra 5 video games being determined by 10 factors or much less.
Standouts for the workforce embody freshman Eli Hennings, who was named Northern Convention Participant of the Week twice in the course of the season by the MCCAA, in addition to freshman Trevon Johnson and sophomores Daddy Hill, Davarion Mitchell, and Ianson Simpson.
“The groups battle all season lengthy to have a possibility to make the event and host a playoff recreation,” mentioned head coach Bobby Allen. “As a coach, I’m in search of my gamers to play workforce ball and provides all of it they’ve.”
ACC will host the primary spherical of the event at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Park Area. The primary 100 followers in attendance will likely be given pom poms, and followers are inspired to put on their Jack Pack T-shirts, different ACC shirts, or burgundy shirts to point out their faculty spirit.
Different individuals within the event are Kalamazoo Valley Neighborhood Faculty, Macomb Neighborhood Faculty, Muskegon Neighborhood Faculty, and the No. 3 seed for the Ohio Neighborhood Faculty Athletic Southern Convention (but to be decided).
If the Lumberjacks win, they’ll go on to face Macomb Neighborhood Faculty on Friday at Mott Neighborhood Faculty. The rest of the event will happen at Mott Neighborhood Faculty, with the championship recreation happening at 4 p.m. March 10.
The Nice Lakes District B Champion will advance to the NJCAA Division II Males’s Basketball Championship held March 18 to 23 at Mary Miller Gymnasium on the campus of Danville Space Neighborhood Faculty in Danville, Illinois.
Followers can comply with alongside on the event web site at njcaaregion12.org/tournaments/mbkb2B/2023- 24/index.
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