Battle Creek Pennfield

The Interstate 8 has been very competitive once again this basketball season and it was showcased Tuesday night in perfect fashion at Pennfield for our Game of the Night.

Friday night's Game of the Night was set to pit two Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference foes against each other for the first time this season, and two crosstown rivals to boot.

Two Battle Creek teams returned to the floor Monday with opportunities to better their squads following their games just two days before.

The two teams that would have represented the finalists of the Michigan High School Athletic Association's Division 2 District Finals at Harper Creek in 2020 finally got their match-up 341 days later.

As the 2021 High School Basketball season finally begins, our Game of the Night returns to the scene of our last basketball broadcast of 2020, where a pair of District Semifinal games would end the season short of its end.

The High School Sports schedules for this season are ever-changing since the school year began. After a football season that was delayed by three weeks and paused in the postseason, it was just one of many fall sports to have completed their state championships in January.

The year of local high school sports in 2020 had the prospect of being epic, kicked off by several close games on the hardwood and a stellar season in the upcoming fall for the area football teams.

The Fall 2020 High School Sports season almost came to completion in the Michigan High School Athletic Association in the coming weeks, but the latest emergency order from the Michigan government has put a hold on the postseason for three sports.

The Pennfield Panthers made some of the best strides in their return to prominence in the Cereal City's football realm this season with a chance to continue their upward trend at Williamston in a District Final battle Friday.

As the Michigan High School Athletic Association postseason continues on in football, several surprises have come in all of the divisions of 11- and 8-Man Football. Some for health reasons, others due to hitting their stride at the right time.