'Beat Pete' comes to a close for the season, but Saline and Father Gabriel Richard forge on

Posted on Thu, Nov 8, 2012 : 5:58 a.m.

'Beat Pete' comes to a close for the season, but Saline and Father Gabriel Richard forge on

By Pete Cunningham

Saline wide receiver Gage Hammond has been Mr. Everything for the 10-1 Hornets.

Joseph Tobianski | AnnArbor.com

With only two Washtenaw County teams remaining in the MHSAA high school football playoffs, the AnnArbor.com high school football “Beat Pete” pick ‘em contest has officially come to a close for the 2012 season.

Dry those tears everyone. As many a sap have written in high school yearbooks through the years: Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Over the past 11 weeks 540 times the readers have “Beat Pete”, including 17 last week who had to be perfect to beat my 3-1 picks record. As I’ve been reminded of many times over the past 11 weeks, perfection is never outside the realm of possibility when dealing with you, the all knowing readers.

Be sure to check out Kyle Austin’s previews of Saline’s matchup against defending Division 1 state champion Detroit Cass Tech and Father Gabriel Richard’s game against undefeated River Rouge and vote in AnnArbor.com’s interactive polls to weigh in on who you think will win.

Both are home games and being played on different days (Saline at 7 p.m. on Friday, Richard at 1 p.m. on Saturday), so be sure to go out and support the local teams and vote in our online interactive polls at AnnArbor.com.

Thanks for another great season everyone. See you on the hardwood!

Beat Pete Winners

The following people "Beat Pete" last week:

Tim Connors
Randy Dunny
Greg Diedrich
Bekah Makarewich
Jim Kessler
Mike Hession
Gary Dosey
Kristine Dreffs
Greg Irwin
Darrel Littlewor
Denny Schumann
William Nuttall
Jason Idalski
Paul Baetz
James Hunt
Al Leslie
Jim Preston

People who have “Beat Pete”: Playoffs: 104; Overall: 540.

b82-28 (.745); Playoffs: 6-4 (.600).

Pete Cunningham covers sports for AnnArbor.com. He can be contacted at petercunningham@annarbor.com. Follow him on Twitter @petcunningham.

Comments

leonard

Fri, Nov 9, 2012 : 2:58 p.m.

so glad to see pioneer has gone fishing,lol

Craig

Thu, Nov 8, 2012 : 7:20 p.m.

God bless my 2012 Saline Hornets & may the "FORCE" be with you @ regionals!!! Go Hornets !!!

JGS

Thu, Nov 8, 2012 : 11:25 a.m.

Hey Pete thanks for the fun this year. Maybe next year we could get the developers at a2.com or mlive.com to create us a "pick em" style page that could track wins/losses for the season? I'm not holding my breath, but that would be awesome. Go Saline, Go Gabriel Richard and GO Grass Lake!

Pete Cunningham

Thu, Nov 8, 2012 : 3:25 p.m.

I'm sure we could figure something out. Thanks for participating. Email me your name and I'll let you know what your overall record was for the season.