NEW BALTIMORE – Rocky Balboa might be the ultimate underdog in sports.

Anchor Bay’s soccer team might have been feeling like a present-day Rocky when it was languishing near the bottom of the Macomb Area Conference Red Division standings after being hit by a rash of injuries.

“When we hit a rough spot in the season with the injuries that every team goes through we were a little bit in disarray,” coach Nate Williams said Thursday after the Tars edged MAC Red rival Macomb Dakota 1-0 to win the Division 1 district hosted by Anchor Bay.

“We talked about punching our way to where we want to go. I stole that from Sylvester Stallion on a late-night show and it kind of became our mantra. To get where you want to go, you have to punch your way through and we’ve been doing that day-by-day, game-b

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