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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.

Mid-Season Player Reports - Part 2

Part II

1 Mario Ojemudia (FH Harrison)

2 Matt Godin (Novi Detroit CC)

3 Marquise Wallace (Oak Park)

4 Antar Otis (Southfield)

5 Jason Gamble (WL Western)

1 James Ross (OL St. Mary's)

2 Zach Collins-Matt Dellinger (Clarkston)

3 Mike Fisher (RH Adams)

4 Willie Duncan (Southfield)

5 (tie) Reschke/Bouchard/Cherrochi (Birmingham Brother Rice)

5 (tie) Jamal Lyles (Southfield-Lathrup

1 James Hendrix-Eddie Kidd (Birmingham Brother Rice)

2 Leviticus Payne (Southfield)

3 Dave Racey (Novi Detroit CC)

4 Aaron Burbridge-Garius Coleman (FH Harrison)

5 (tie) Travis Smith (Clarkston)

5 (tie) Nate Cole (BH Lahser)

1 Cody Ellwanger-Jordan Rabbon (Birmingham Brother Rice)

2 Jake Vento-Ken Russ (FH Harrison)

3 Tony Annese (RH Adams)

4 Ronnie Craft-Bush (Pontiac)

5 (tie) Lonnie Jaynes (Troy Athens)

5 (tie) Jeff Douglas (AH Avondale)

1 Kyle Sroka (AH Avondale)

2 Alex Barta (Clarkston)

3 Ryan Ceisel (RH Adams)

4 Sean Murphy (Troy)

5 Brandon Buckner (FH Harrison)

Breakout Stars

1 Byran Green (Farmington)

2 Mike Johnson (AH Avondale)

3 Oliver Jiang (Troy)

4 Kezlow Smith (Pontiac)

5 Lorenzo Collins (FH Harrison)

6 Kyle Cooper (Novi Detroit CC)

7 Chazz Miller (Lake Orion)

8 The McInnis Brothers (OL St. Mary's)

9 De Shun Brown (Birmingham Brother Rice)

10 Kris Gervin (Troy Athens)

Workhorse Award

1 (tie) Tony Annese (RH Adams)

1 (tie) Jake Vento (FH Harrison)

2 Kezlow Smith (Pontiac)

3 Joey Goss (Clarkston)

4 Jarrett Bochniak (Troy)

5 (tie) Brett Zdebski (WL Western)

5 (tie) Kirk Thomas (WL Northern)

5 (tie) Zac Liembach (WL Central)

MVP

1 Tony Annese (RH Adams)

2 Jake Vento (FH Harrison)

3 (tie) Brandon Watkins (Southfield)

3 (tie) Prescott Line (Oxford)

4 Mitch Robinson (AH Avondale)

5 Devin Church (Birmingham Brother Rice)

Coach of the (Mid) Year

1 John Bechtel (Farmington)

2 Tony Patritto (RH Adams)

3 (tie) Josh Heppner (Troy Athens)

3 (tie) Kyle Zimmerman (Pontiac NDP)

4 Brendan Flaherty (Birmingham Groves)

5 (tie) John Goddard (RO Shrine)

5 (tie) Gary Griffith (Troy)

About Me

Scott M. Burnstein grew up in Bloomfield Hills and attended school at Birmingham Roeper, where he earned multiple varsity letters in both basketball and baseball, and has been following the local preps scene since the 1980's. Mr. Burnstein attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he received a bachelors of arts degree in political science, and the John Marshall Law School, in Chicago, Illinois, where he got his Juris Doctrate. He has covered high school sports for both the Detroit Free Press and the Oakland Press, and is the author of the 2007 regional best-selling book, The Motor City Mafia - A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit, Family Affair - Greed, Treachery, and Betrayal in The Chicago Mafia (2010), Mafia Prince - The Crazy Phil Leonetti Story (2012) and The Detroit True Crime Chronicles (2013).

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