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11/14/2005 For the 3rd year in a row, a team from the Kensington Valley Conference will play a semi-final football game for the right to go to the ‘Dome’ on Thanksgiving weekend. Or in this case, Ford Field since the MHSAA football finals have moved downtown. The Brighton Bulldogs will face the Rockford Rams Saturday in Lansing and the winner advances to the Championship game. Last year, as you recall, the South Lyon Lions lost a heartbreaker to eventual State Champion Rockford in the Semi-Final game. And of course, in 2003 who can forget the undefeated 12-0 Novi Wildcats and their dramatic overtime loss to Brother Rice. The last time a KVC made it to the ‘Dome’ was 1995 when South Lyon faced Lapeer West and led the entire game before succumbing in the end. Give it up to the KVC, they have become a premier football conference in this millennium by anybody’s standards. This year alone they captured (2) District Titles and a Regional Title. Last year the conference did the same thing, and since 2000, Novi won (3) District crowns in a row (2002, 2003, 2004) and they’ve established themselves a Statewide football power. This year Milford got into the act, even knocking off perennial State Champ Catholic Central, and in the last 10 years, both South Lyon and Brighton have been fixtures in the playoffs and have also garnered District Championships. Each year the KVC has 3 sometimes 4 representatives in the playoffs, and the schools typically do well against non-conference opponents as well. Wildcat fans should take pride in knowing that even if they can’t be the ones to win the whole shooting match every year, someone from their conference, usually someone they’ve beaten, or, certainly someone they compete with on a level playing field is representing their division quite well. Success breeds success, and the Wildcats embody success. (c) 2005 Novi
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