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.
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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: 9/26/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
September 26, 2025
1. GIRLS GOLF Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central – No. 5 in Lower Peninsula Division 4 – carded a 355 to win the Huron League Tournament and its first league title since 1994 – Monroe News
2. GIRLS TENNIS Marquette ended Escanaba’s four-year reign atop the Great Northern Conference – Escanaba Daily Press
3. BOYS SOCCER Division 2 No. 7 Edwardsburg downed Vicksburg 4-1 to secure the Wolverine Conference championship – Niles Daily Star
4. GIRLS TENNIS Negaunee and Ishpeming Westwood faced off at every flight of the Mid-Peninsula Conference Tournament, with the Miners emerging as champions – Iron Mountain Daily News
5. BOYS SOCCER Division 1 No. 3 Clarkston turned a scoreless tie at halftime into a 4-0 win over No. 15 Troy Athens – Oakland Press
6. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 3 Elk Rapids downed Division 4 No. 8 Harbor Springs 1-0 – Up North Live
7. VOLLEYBALL Onekama handed Suttons Bay its first loss, in five sets, in a matchup of Division 4 honorable mention teams – Traverse City Record-Eagle
8. BOYS SOCCER Division 4 No. 11 Bloomfield Hills Roeper continued to send coach Ed Sack up the career wins list with a 5-1 victory over Lutheran Westland – Hometown Life
9. VOLLEYBALL Cadillac swept Gaylord to move to 4-0 in Big North Conference play – Cadillac News
10. BOYS SOCCER Nick Gaddis had three goals and an assist in St. Clair Shores Lakeview’s big win over Clinton Township Chippewa Valley – Macomb Daily