April 26, 2025

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Saline Sports

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Saline Drops Opener in Overtime

It was a learning experience for a very young Saline basketball team in the season opener Tuesday night when the Hornets fell to Plymouth 57-49 in overtime. The Hornets have just one player returning from last years team had has a roster with three sophomores and three freshmen so a majority of the team will ...

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Saline Area Schools are Planning to Review its Athletic Department

In the wake of a varsity football season that saw the school district forfeiting three games because of a penalty for use of an ineligible player, Saline Area Schools (SAS) are looking into reviewing the entire athletic department. The Sun Times News (STN) followed up with SAS Board of Education President Michael McVey by email to ...

Saline Hockey Splits Pair to Open Season

Cover STN File Photo The Saline hockey team opened its season with a road trip to the Grand Rapids area and came home with a split of two games. The Hornets held off Hudsonville for a 3-2 win in the season opener Friday. Saline jumped out to a 3-1 lead but had to hold off ...

Saline Volleyball Clinches SEC Red Title

The Saline volleyball team has had a strong finish to its regular season and earned a sweep of the league jamboree last week to clinch the SEC Red title. The Hornets dropped a five-set match to Dexter in mid-November but has been on a roll ever since. Saline bounced back to sweep Ann Arbor Pioneer ...

Saline Cross Country Teams both Finish State Runners-Up

Photo from Saline Athletics Another stellar season for the Saline cross country program ended Saturday with both the boys’ and girls’ teams earning runner-up finishes at the D1 state finals at Michigan International Speedway. The second-place finish for the girls was the 23rd straight top ten finish for the Hornets and the 27th straight appearance ...

Saline Rolls to Rematch with Belleville

Despite being the road team, the Saline football squad left no doubt who was the better team Friday night with a convincing 37-7 win at Northville. The Hornets entered the state playoffs as the lower seed due to forfeiting the first three games of the season, but the road game was all Hornets after a ...

Saline Field Hockey Headed to the State Finals

The Saline field hockey team moved to Saturday’s D1 state championship game by holding off Novi with a 3-2 win Wednesday night. To say the ending was frantic, might be an understatement. The Hornets had a 3-2 lead over Novi and the defense had shut down the Wildcats for most of the second half, but ...