Who’s your crosstown rival when you go to the only school on an island?
You’ve got to fly on a plane or ride on a ferry to find one!
For four Great Lakes island schools’ basketball programs, the competition traditions are fierce yet friendly and play out at the annual island basketball tournament, held last year on Mackinac Island.
Great Lakes Now took you courtside for those matchups between Beaver, Mackinac, South Bass and Washington islands in the segment “Island Basketball.” The boys’ team from Beaver Island and the girls’ team from Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island took the home trophies.
Immediately after, the players were already thinking about rematches in 2020.
“If they beat us on their home turf, we’re going to beat them on their home turf,” promised Nora Bailey, then a freshman at Mackinac whose girls team lost to Put-in-Bay.
But with the COVID-19 pandemic, will this year’s tournament happen? We get an update from the coach whose Ohio school is scheduled to host the two days of hard-fought games this year.