Bay County curse is lifted as state-ranked Western lands long-sought titles

BAY CITY, MI – There was no voodoo doll, witches brew or magic spell involved. Bay City Western found another way to remove its Bay County curse. Ten pins at a time. Performing a strike-throwing exorcism that could not be denied, the Warriors swept the boys and girls titles at the 17th annual Bay County Bowling Championship, taking fate, luck and chance out of the equation and hoisting the trophies that seemed destined to elude them for years. “The joke is Western is cursed in Counties,” Western senior Carson Yurgaites said. “It seems like we’d always have a 140 Baker game or something that we wouldn’t normally do -- and it would cost us every time.” But this was Western’s time. Bay City...