High school football players, coaches to visit Detroit Lions training camp practice session

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Some coaches and players from local high school football teams that will play their season-opening games in the Big Day Prep Showdown series are set to visit a Detroit Lions training camp practice.

Representatives of Detroit Cass Tech, Detroit Martin Luther King, Birmingham Brother Rice and Ann Arbor Skyline are to appear at the Lions' Allen Park facility on Tuesday.

The Big Day Prep Showdown gets under way Aug. 25 at Eastern Michigan University with Clinton vs. Manchester and Sterling Heights Stevenson vs. Howell.

The Aug. 26 schedule features Skyline vs. Hartland and Chelsea vs. Novi.

And on Aug. 27, Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central plays Plymouth; Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard takes on Lake Fenton; Martin Luther King faces Brother Rice; and Cass Tech goes up against Farmington Hills Harrison.