DEARBORN - Michigan Sporting defeated the Dearborn Stars in the Michigan Premier Soccer League Cup quarterfinals on Friday, June24 by a score of 2-1 in extra time in one of the most intense cross-town rivalry games in recent memory.

Dearborn Fordson football fans have always been a prideful, some might say boastful group, but after surprisingly early exits in the playoffs the past few years, some of that enthusiasm appears to have waned. But now there's something different about this current team that makes them a serious threat for a run at the Division-I state championship game.