This Week In High School Sports: 1/18/22

By Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

January 18, 2022

This week's edition highlights a strong start for the Midland Dow girls basketball team, awards Game Balls to high achievers in wrestling, basketball and hockey; and celebrates retiring coaches who are among the winningest in Michigan's girls basketball and baseball history. MI Student Aid

The 5-minute program each week includes feature stories from around the state from the MHSAA’s Second Half or network affiliates, along with "Be The Referee," a 60-second look at the fine art of officiating.

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Previous editions

Jan. 11: Battle of the Fans X "Challenge Round," officiating on the islands – Listen
Jan. 4: Onsted boys basketball, Oxford Strong – Listen
Dec. 15:
Winter championship calendar, KLAA/MIHL Memorial Showcase – Listen
Dec. 8:
2021 Bush Award honorees, remembering Tom Rashid – Listen
Dec. 1: 11-Player Football Finals review – Listen
Nov. 23: Volleyball, LP Girls Swimming & Diving, 8-Player Football Finals review – Listen
Nov. 16:
Lower Peninsula Cross Country continued, weekend preview – Listen
Nov. 9: Lower Peninsula Cross Country, Boys Soccer Finals review – Listen
Nov. 2: Title IX at 50 celebration, Fall championship broadcasts – Listen
Oct. 27: Upper Peninsula Cross Country Finals review, soccer/volleyball playoff update – Listen
Oct. 20: Lower Peninsula Girls Golf & Boys Tennis Finals review – Listen
Oct. 13: Middle school/junior high cross country Regionals, football playoff selection – Listen
Oct. 6: Upper Peninsula girls tennis champions, football broadcast update – Listen
Sept. 29: Girls swimming & diving "Meet of Champions," Schoolcraft's star kicker – Listen
Sept. 22:
Spartan Invitational "elite" races, John U. Bacon's "Let Them Lead" – Listen
Sept. 15:
Volleyball powers face off, Tiger Teusink's tennis legacy – Listen
Sept. 8:
Fall sports rules changes, Adrian Lenawee Christian inspiration – Listen
Sept. 1: 
Boys soccer seeding process, Beaver Island athletics – Listen
Aug. 25:
 Return of Fall sports, “enhanced strength-of-schedule” football playoff format – Listen

Today in the MHSAA: 10/6/26

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

October 6, 2026

1. BOYS TENNIS Imlay City won the Blue Water Athletic Conference Tournament to claim its first league title in this sport since 1984 – Flint Journal

2. GIRLS GOLF Standish-Sterling earned its first Finals appearance in this sport with a runner-up finish at its Lower Peninsula Division 3 Regional – Bay City Times

3. GIRLS GOLF Honorable mention St. Joseph edged No. 9 Plainwell by four strokes to win their LPD2 Regional – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

4. BOYS SOCCER Dearborn Edsel Ford locked up a fourth-straight Downriver League title with a scoreless draw against Lincoln Park – Southgate News-Herald

5. BOYS SOCCER Sterling Heights Stevenson completed an outright Macomb Area Conference White championship run with a 4-1 win over Warren Cousino – Macomb Daily

6. BOYS SOCCER Ludington clinched the West Michigan Conference championship in shutting out Shelby 4-0 – Ludington Daily News

7. GIRLS GOLF No. 3 Okemos was first and No. 8 Grand Blanc second at the Lower Peninsula Division 1 Regional at Forest Akers East –Lansing State Journal

8. BOYS TENNIS LPD3 No. 4 Ann Arbor Greenhills handed LPD2 No. 3 Midland Dow its first loss, 6-2 – Midland Daily News

9. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Grosse Ile downed Flat Rock 108-75 to remain first in the Huron League – Southgate News-Herald

10. BOYS SOCCER Big Rapids advanced in the Central State Activities Association Tournament with a 4-0 semifinal win over Newaygo – Big Rapids Pioneer