Anna Lassan News Today

There’s no place Ava Bradshaw would rather spend those final weeks as a high school student, than on a ball diamond, with her friends, slinging straight gas — and notching the no-hitters that sometimes go with it — as she takes one last ride in a South Lyon softball uniform.

A 47-41 win over their crosstown foes, the previously once-beaten South Lyon Lions, ensured the South Lyon East Cougars wouldn’t have to look up at anyone in the standings, putting them back in first — alone — for the first time in a month, and extending their intracity win streak to 16 games.

It had been so long since Lakeland came out victorious against South Lyon East in girls basketball — something that wasn’t singular to them among Lakes Valley Conference teams in recent years — that nobody could quite remember the last precedent for Tuesday’s 36-31 road win by the Eagles. Turns out there wasn’t one. The last time was never.