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Burney's Bytes will focus primarily on the local preps sports scene, but will also touch on some college and pro athletics, mostly in regards to athletes who hail and have played high school sports in Oakland County. My goal for the blog is to be conversational and anecdotal, a more relaxed and free formal take on high school athletics than you see in regular game day coverage.

Monday, May 31, 2010

The Great Burnzini Returns - District Baseball Bonanza

Here are Burney's Picks For This Week's Start of The 2010 State Tournament:
D1
Royal Oak
Royal Oak
Berkley
Warren Mott
Warren Cousino
Warren De La Salle
Pick – The host-Ravens and red-hot Berkley Bears could both end up pulling the upset over the defending state champs, Warren De La Salle, but Burney just doesn't have the guts to predict it. DE LA SIZZLE DOUSES THE COMPS UPSET BID and RETURNS TO MACOMB CTY W/ TITLE IN HAND
Troy Athens
Troy Athens
Rochester
Utica Eisenhower
Utica
Pick – The HIGHLY-ACCLAIMED (BY BURNEY AT THE VERY LEAST) PITCHING ROTATION OF Alex Harrison, Alex Riopelle, and Ira Land will carry the Red Hawks to the title. ATHENS DOES A VICTORY DANCE ON ITS HOME FIELD
RH Adams
RH Adams
Lake Orion
Oxford
Stoney Creek
Romeo
Pick – EXTRA, EXTRA, A BURNEY SUPERSONIC UPSET SPECIAL: I just have a feeling after all the ups and downs the Dragons of Lake Orion HAVE EXPERIENCED THE BASEBALL GODS WILL BLESS THEM W/ A LITTLE  POETIC JUSTICE  and LET THEM PREVAIL over the host-Highlanders in taking the DISTRICT CROWN
Birmingham Seaholm
Birmingham Seaholm
Birmingham Groves
Birmingham Brother Rice
Southfield-Lathrup
West Bloomfield
Pick – Rice has put things together late in the season and will ride the momentum of its upset-win over Divine Child in the CHSL title game AT THE COPA LAST WEEK through districts and into regionals.  JIMMY PICKENS, TOMMY BARRETT, AND PAT MACKENZIE MAKE IT THREE DISTRICT MEDALS IN A ROW FOR THEIR VARSITY JACKETS
Waterford Kettering
Waterford Kettering
Waterford Mott
AH Avondale
Pontiac
Pick – Avondale has Brian Portelli and Taylor Drabek, the rest of the district draw does not…..SIMPLE AS PIE, ENOUGH SAID! YELLOW JACKETS WIN, YELLOW JACKETS WIN!!!
Milford
Milford
Clarkston
Fenton
Hartland
Holly
Pick – Tyler Scarlett brings home his third district championship trophy this school year and Clarkston continues its magical season with yet another banner-raising ceremony . GET BUSY MY MAIN MAN, T-SCAR!
Lakeland
Lakeland
WL Central
WL Western
WL Northern
South Lyom
Pick – WL Central finished the regular season on a losing streak, now Burney thinks the Vikings are going to end the weekend on a win-streak……aka…..hoisting the district championship trophy over their heads in celebration!
Northville
Northville
Farmington
FH Harrison
North Farmington
Novi
Novi Detroit Catholic Central
Pick – The phrase "collision course" best describes what the squads at Farmington and Novi are heading for. This is the toughest call of the day for Burney. That said, I'm going to go with the team playing the best late in the season and that is the Wildcats. I've said it before, and now I'm saying it again…MEMO TO BURNEY'S HOMEBOYS FROM NOVI= C YA IN CEREAL CITY IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS!
D2
Warren Fitzgerald
Warren Fitzgerald
Ferndale
Hazel Park
MH Lamphere
Birmingham DCD
Pick – REALLY? COME ON, EVERY ONE KNOWS THERE IS NO WAY BURNEY WOULD PICK AGAINST HIS HOMEBOYS FROM LAMPHERE…… I mean THA KOZ, THE G MAN, senior Paul "The Shot Caller" Lobur…is there really any question?  THE RAMS IN A WALK!
Pontiac NDP
Pontiac NDP
BH Andover
BH Lahser
OL St. Mary's
BH Cranbrook
Pick – Eaglets of St. Mary's fly away with the district title. Most-Likely Upset Scenario: Host-NDP and/or Cranbrook could end up playing spoiler
D3
Clawson
Clawson
MH Madison
MH Bishop Foley
Mt. Clemens
New Haven
Warren Collegiate
Pick – Bishop Foley is a grizzled squad with a number of grit-it-out wins and narrow-losses under its belt and that will pay dividends in the state tourney….NOTE TO THE VENTURES: CAN U SAY C YA IN DA CREEK aka THE BATTLE CRIZZLE..aka…. BATTLE CREEK FOR THE FINAL FOUR!  
D4
MC Marine Cardinal Mooney
MC Marine Cardinal Mooney
AH Oakland Christian
RH Lutheran NW
WOLL
Pick –  Miscovich, Novak, Massel, Berkseth…etc…..SENIOR STUD ALERT will EQUAL DISTRICT TITLE!
Southfield Christian
Southfield Christian
Novi Franklin Road Christian
West Bloomfield Jewish Academy
Pick – Host-Eagles swoop down on the comp and make away with the Golden Ticket…aka the district championship trophy!
GPW University Liggett
GPW University Liggett
SH Parkway Christian
RO Shrine
BH Roeper
Warren Macomb
Pick – All due respect to the Shriners, the Liggett Knights are on an inspired-win streak due to the recent release of the Russell Crowe/Ridley Scott remake of "Robin Hood" and like Crowe's surging acting career, there doesn't appear to be any end in sight

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