Apr. 6—MAPLE CITY — Many friends and teammates referred to Geof Kotila simply as "Ko." Quite often, his opponents just called him "that guy that just beat us." Kotila, a 1977 Glen Lake graduate who hit the game-winning free throws in the Lakers' 1977 Class D state championship victory, passed away March 20 in Denmark at age 64. Kotila would go on to play at Georgia Tech and then Michigan Tech, ...