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Chassell girls, E-TC boys open at No. 2

The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association released its first basketball poll of the season today. All votes were made prior to Monday.

Locally, the Chassell Panthers earned the second spot in Class D girls behind the Munising Mustangs. Chassell (5-1) earned four first-place votes and has won five straight before Monday’s win over Dollar Bay after a season-opening loss to the L’Anse Purple Hornets. The Mustangs (6-1) suffered a 52-33 loss to the Gwinn Modeltowners on Thursday.

Rounding out the top five in Class D girls are the Ewen-Trout Creek Panthers (5-1). E-TC travels to Chassell tonight for a top five showdown after losing to Bessemer on Monday.

On the boys side in Class D, the Ewen-Trout Creek Panthers (7-0) received one first-place vote and are second behind the Rapid River Rockets (7-0). Rapid River defeated E-TC 63-56 in a regional semifinal matchup last season.

The Dollar Bay Blue Bolts came in third with two-first place votes. For some reason, the Blue Bolts were left out of the top five on one poll and placed fifth on another. This, despite Dollar Bay returning its main core from a team that lost by two to the eventual state champion North Central Jets. I guess some people forget things easily, or don’t use common sense.

Oh yeah, in case this hasn’t been mentioned before: Dollar Bay hosts E-TC on Feb. 6.

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Boys

Class ABC

1. Escanaba (3) 6-1 29

1. Iron Mountain (3) 6-0 29

3. Marquette (1) 3-3 24

4. Gladstone 4-2 11

5. Ishpeming 3-2 5

Others receiving votes: Norway (3-2) 3, Kingsford (3-2) 2, West Iron County (3-3) 1, Negaunee (4-4) 1.

Class D

1. Rapid River (4) 7-0 31

2. Ewen-Trout Creek (1) 7-0 26

3. Dollar Bay (2) 5-0 21

4. North Central 5-1 13

5. Munising 4-1 6

Others receiving votes: Cedarville (6-2) 3, Forest Park (4-2) 2, Wakefield-Marenisco (6-1) 2, Bark River-Harris (4-2) 1.

Girls

Class ABC

1. Negaunee (3) 9-0 29

2. St. Ignace (3) 7-0 28

3. Marquette (1) 8-0 24

4. Ishpeming 7-1 14

5. Westwood 7-3 5

Others receiving votes: West Iron County (6-2) 4, Kingsford (6-4) 1.

Class D

1. Munising (3) 6-1 28

2. Chassell (4) 5-1 25

3. Bark River-Harris 8-1 23

4. Cedarville 6-1 12

5. Ewen-Trout Creek 5-1 10

Others receiving votes: Jeffers (5-2) 3, Pickford (6-2) 3, North Dickinson (5-2) 1.

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