Football

Harry Plouff has been running for over 30 years and has logged over 100,000 miles, running in 57 marathons on seven continents. Plouff initially attended Mason County Central where he played football for coach Loren Dietrich and he ran track prior to attending Ludington High School where he ran track and graduated in 1966. Some of the interesting locations Plouff has run are Dublin, Ireland; ...Read More...

Bruce Krieger coached track & field, cross country, basketball and football at Mason County Central, becoming the 1986 Michigan Track & Field Coach of the Year in Class C and the 1986 National Track & Field Coach of the Year-Bronze Award recipient. Krieger coached the 1985 boys Track & Field MHSAA State Runner-up team and the 1986 State Champion team. His teams were conference c ...Read More...

Caleb Anthony, a 2001 graduate of Ludington High School, was all-state in football and in discus and shot put in track and field. He was a two-time all-American wrestler at Cadet National Championships; a seven-time Greco-Roman and Freestyle state champion—winning his first championship at age eight. In football, Anthony was All-Muskegon Area First Team, was selected to the Coaches East-West All ...Read More...

Dick Daron used a standout track and field career at Ludington High School to earn a scholarship at Central Michigan University shortly before World War II. His high school career included earning the 1939 state championship during his junior year of high school in the 440-yard run with a time of 53.0 seconds. His quarter-mile record for the school stood for 20 years. He captained the Orioles f ...Read More...

Lee Schoenherr went from having an impact on various athletic fields to helping to provide so many opportunities for those in and around Mason County. Schoenherr, a 1953 graduate of Ludington, was a member of the Orioles' 1953 state runner-up team. In 1959, he was still listed as the fifth-highest scoring player in school history. He earned all-North Central Conference honors for his play He ...Read More...

One game. The first for the University of Notre Dame. Ludington native George Cartier was the quarterback for the Fighting Irish on Nov. 23, 1887 in the school's very first football game and it happened to be against Michigan. The Fighting Irish lost the game, 8-0, but Cartier went on to be involved in sports in one fashion or another later on in his life.His brother, Warren Cartier, was a Notre D ...Read More...

The 2015-16 Mason County Sports Hall of Fame Male Student-Athlete of the Year is Mason County Central's Spencer Knizacky. He competed all four of his high school years on the wrestling and baseball teams and for three seasons on the varsity football team. He is a two-time West Michigan Conference, district and regional champion in wrestling and he placed three years at the state meet, including ...Read More...

Greg Melchert was an outstanding baseball and football player as well as wrestler at Mason County Central, and he found his greatest success in baseball. He played at Western Michigan and went on to pitch in the Detroit Tigers farm system for Lakeland and Utica. He was an All-State special mention in baseball. He was a three-time state qualifier in wrestling, finishing fourth as an individual and ...Read More...

Lee T. Snyder was a one-man wrecking crew one fine spring day at the 1954 Class B state track meet. The Ludington Oriole single handedly gave his school the state runner-up trophy as he won state titles in the pole vault and high jump while taking second in the low hurdles and third in the long jump. Snyder's prowess wasn't limited to the track as he was a member of the boys basketball teams and f ...Read More...

Perhaps no person is as synonymous as the voice of Ludington football and basketball as Rod Beckman. For 40 years, Beckman was the play-by-play voice of both programs on the airwaves of WKLA and for a year of basketball at WMOM. And when he wasn't delivering sports on the air, he continued to play in a sport where he excelled — baseball and softball. He was a member of the Custer VFW teams long ...Read More...