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. 
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.
"This Week in High School Sports" is powered by MI Student Aid, a part of the Office of Postsecondary Financial Planning located within the Michigan Department of Treasury.
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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: 9/25/26
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
September 25, 2026
1. BOYS SOCCER Division 2 No. 7 Fruitport moved into first place alone in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Silver with a 1-0 win over Division 3 No. 5 Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian – MuskegonSports.com
2. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Rochester – No. 10 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – edged Bloomfield Hills 94-92 – Oakland Press
3. BOYS SOCCER Traverse City Central and Division 1 No. 11 Traverse City West remain tied for the lead in the Big North Conference after a 2-2 draw – Up North Live
4. BOYS SOCCER Division 1 No. 15 Walled Lake Northern edged Walled Lake Western 4-3 – Oakland Press
5. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Traverse City Central’s Erica Heffner reached 1,000 career kills during a sweep of Sault Ste. Marie – Traverse City Record-Eagle
6. CROSS COUNTRY The Montrose boys and Frankenmuth girls won team titles at the latter’s invitational – Saginaw News
7. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Gibraltar Carlson came back from a 2-1 deficit to defeat Brownstown Woodhaven in five – Southgate News-Herald
8. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Kingsford improved to 10-1-0 with a sweep of Gladstone – Upper Michigan’s Source
9. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Macomb L’Anse Creuse North lost the first set but won the next three to down Harrison Township L’Anse Creuse – Macomb Daily
10. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Dexter defeated Temperance Bedford 106-79 – Chelsea Sun Times News
Also of note …
FOOTBALL Longtime Monroe Jefferson coach Marc Cisco died at age 90; he coached Jefferson for 47 years – Monroe News