Suttons Bay plays in the Division 6 state championship game on Nov. 26, 2004.
The varsity football season at Suttons Bay ended last week after a 37-0 loss to Elk Rapids, which followed a 38-14 loss to East Jordan.
Suttons Bay has 158 students. Athletic director Christine Mikesell said the team began with 16 players on varsity but lost two to injury in the opener.
Four more players were injured in Week 2, but one said he had recovered enough to play if the season continued.
School officials decided not to try to call up players from the junior varsity. Of the 16 players on the JV team, 11 are freshmen.
“What we had on our varsity roster was the bigger sophomores that wanted to play varsity,” Mikesell said. “What were left on JV were the smaller ones.”
Mikesell said the sophomores on varsity will finish the season on the JV team.
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Ron Bindi, who has Charlevoix 2-0 and ranked No. 2 in Division 6, is this week’s Detroit Lions/Farm Bureau Insurance Michigan High School Coach of the Week. This is Bindi’s 37th year in coaching. A former head coach at U-D Jesuit, Bindi coached at Bellaire for five seasons, helping the Eagles reach the 2012 8-man championship game, before moving to Charlevoix four years ago.