My Picks For This Weekend's Regional Baseball Action In The OC

Oxford (D1)

RH Adams, Rochester, Avondale, Clarkston

Pick: Clarkston pulls the upset!!! TYLER SCARLETT IMPARTs SOME OF THAT REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING MOJO THAT he's LEARNED ON THE HARDWOOD THESE PAST four YEARS ONto THE REST OF THE WOLVES DIAMOND CUTTERS AND PRESTOALAKAZAM, COACH PRICE AND CO ARE RAISING A BANNER!

Novi (D1)

Novi, WL Central, Canton, Brother Rice

Pick: I'm nervous about host Novi's semi-final match-up with a worldbeater Canton squad, but I've been picking the Wildcats to go to Battle Creek all season long and I'm not jumping off the bandwagon now come crunch time…………NOVI SOLDIERS MARCH ON…………slipping by Canton and then WL Central in the finale on the last at-bat of the game.  You can't stop the 'Cats Nick Reginer, you can only hope to contain him! THAT's A FACT!

Livonia Ladywood (D2)

MH Lamphere, DH Annapolis, DH Divine Child, Hamtramck

Pick: Lamphere's Greg Fettes goes all GREG FETTES on the comp, blasting a pair of hum-dingers on the afternoon and the Rams barrel their way into the Elite Eight! In St. Louis, they call Albert Pujos homers 'A' Bombs, well from now on I'm gonna call all of Greg Fettes future fence toppers 'G' Bombs.  As Van Wilder once said, 'Write that down." 

Pontiac NDP (D2)

Macomb Lutheran North, Richmond, OL St. Mary's, St. Claire Shores Lakeshore

Pick: St. Mary's and Lamphere, can you fellas say COLLISSION COURSE! Eaglets grab second regional crown in a row behind another big pitching day from James "The Little Buda Man" Edwards and some hot hitting from HALL, PICCIRILLI, and SALTER

Madison Heights Bishop Foley (D3)

MH Bishop Foley, Harper Woods, Blissfield, AP Cabrini

Pick: The Ventures are CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, and the rest of this regional are the PILGRIMS……..alas FOLEY CONQUERS ALL COMERS and keeps dancing into the quarters! I think my man, Drake paraphrased the fortunes of this 2010 Foley squad best by saying its 'SO Far from over'

Lutheran Westland (D4)

Southfield Christian, GPW University Liggett, Lutheran Westland, HW Trillium

Pick: The Southfield Christian Eagles should have made it to Battle Creek two years ago with THE SIX PACK led by Ryan Schario (Oakland) and Tim Bergsma (Michigan for soccer) and they didn't. This year they do! Get busy my main men, Andy Hoffenbacher, Noah Gilson, and those ever sneaky GLOBKE BROS!