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: 4/21/26

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

April 21, 2026

1. SOFTBALL Reese swept Marlette, pushing Rockets coach Andy Behmlander past 900 career coaching wins in the sport – Saginaw News

2. BOYS GOLF Hartland – an honorable mention in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – won the Pleasant Counseling Invitational with a 301 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

3. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 6 Warren De La Salle Collegiate won the first game and Division 2 top-ranked Orchard Lake St. Mary’s the second during their doubleheader – Oakland Press

4. GIRLS TENNIS Traverse City Central swept doubles in defeating LPD4 No. 3 Traverse City St. Francis 5-3 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

5. BASEBALL Division 2 No. 9 Standish-Sterling swept Division 4 No. 4 Beal City 9-4 and 10-4 – Bay City Times

6. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 10 Traverse City St. Francis remains undefeated thanks to a 3-0 win over Division 4 No. 12 Leland – MI Sports Now

7. BASEBALL Saline and Chelsea split, Saline winning 6-1 and Chelsea 5-3 – Ann Arbor News

8. GIRLS SOCCER Davison scored twice over the final four minutes to get past Flint Powers Catholic 2-1 – WJRT

9. GIRLS SOCCER Macomb Area Conference Silver contenders Sterling Heights and Roseville played to a 1-1 draw – Macomb Daily

10. SOFTBALL Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker swept Harbor Beach, with Ellee Armbruster hitting for the cycle in the first game – Huron Daily Tribune