Today in the MHSAA: 11/18/16
November 18, 2016
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Four volleyball teams secured matches on the final day of the season, and a champion football coach will be coming back from retirement to start a new era next fall.
Each weekday during the school year, we’ll gather and post media links covering the most significant and intriguing high school events from all over the state.
Volleyball
Class C: Reigning champion and No. 2-ranked Bronson swept honorable mention Calumet – Coldwater Daily Reporter
Class C: No. 6 Brown City will play in its first championship match after edging Adrian Madison in five sets – Port Huron Times Herald
Class B: Reigning runner-up and No. 3-ranked North Branch will play for the title again after coming back to beat No. 5 Buchanan 3-2 – Flint Journal
Class B: Top-ranked Lake Odessa Lakewood will play in the championship match for the third time in five seasons after downing No. 7 Cadillac 3-1 – Grand Rapids Press
Football
Former Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central coach Jack Giarmo, who led the Falcons to the Division 6 title in 2014, has been hired at Gibraltar Carlson – Monroe Evening News
Performance of the Week: Troy Athens' Olivia Hemmila
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Olivia Hemmila ♦ Troy Athens
Golf ♦ Senior
The bar for this season already was set high for Hemmila, who tied for ninth at last season's Lower Peninsula Division 1 Final at The Meadows at Grand Valley State University. She set off quickly to begin reaching it last week, starting her senior campaign by shooting a two-day 146 (72-74) to repeat as individual champion at the Lober Classic at Crystal Mountain. Junior teammate Ava Weeks was third individually, and Troy Athens finished third as a team among a field that included two more top-eight finishers from last season's LPD1 Final, where Athens placed fifth.
Hemmila also played at the LPD1 Final with her team in 2020, missing the individual top 10 by just three strokes, and she was an individual qualifier as a freshman. She was named to the all-state Super Team last season after also making the all-state first team both of her first two seasons. She's committed to sign with Oakland University and intends to study biology or chemistry as she pursues a career as a physician's assistant.
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(Photos courtesy of the Hemmila family.)