Michigan High School Athletic Association

The Battle Creek Central Bearcats have had good success against Gull Lake since the Blue Devils joined the Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference. One thing that has been consistent is the physical play the two squads exude on the gridiron in the past eight seasons.

The 2020 High School Football season, through an unexpected return to this fall and shortened, has had its challenges through the first few weeks.

In 2020, it has been the year of changes in routine, ways to communicate, distance and learning in school. When it comes to the beginning of the 2020 High School Football season, a small change can be great.

In the ever-changing world of sports, the trickle down continues into the High School ranks. On top of a COVID-19 pandemic, there's just one more change to the kickoff of our 2020 High School Football season.

Now that the High School Football season is slated to begin with its first competitions this Friday, the full slate of schedules can be found here with several changes from the original schedules in May.

Just over 24 hours after Governor Gretchen Whitmer updated Michigan residents on a possible return to some normalcy with gyms and pools reopening, big news came for the high school sports ranks involving their fall programs.

Gymnasiums and indoor recreational facilities have remained closed in Michigan as we inch closer to six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. There was hope of an announcement Wednesday that would open these businesses and especially for high school sports in our area.

A week after the decision to move football to the spring, the Michigan High School Athletic Association approved contests scheduled for volleyball, Boys soccer, and Girls swimming and diving can go on, but only in a few areas in the state.

The monthly turn of the calendar puts us in July 2020 and the preparations for the upcoming school year continue after schools shut down in March.

When the whole Spring season was canceled in March amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it all became a waiting game on when athletics could return at the high school level in Michigan.