All Saints Celebrates on Big Screen
July 31, 2014
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Forty years ago, Bay City All Saints brought its hometown the first of two straight MHSAA boys basketball championships – which continue to stand as the only ones won by a Bay City school.
As part of the Class of 1974’s 40-year reunion this weekend, organizers will show the broadcast of that 71-59 victory over Detroit Servite in the Class C Final, on Friday at the downtown State Theater.
The team was coached by Russell “Lefty” Franz, who sits 14th in MHSAA boys basketball coaching history with 545 wins (545-215) at All Saints, Bay City St. Stanislaus and Pinconning achieved from 1953-1991. All Saints repeated as Class C champion under Franz in 1975 with a 79-69 win over Cassopolis.
The Bay City Times caught up today with three starters from that team who are expected to return for the showing of the game. Click to read more.
Rooting for Haske
Northern Michigan basketball fans and supporters from all over are cheering on Traverse City St. Francis boys basketball coach Keith Haske, who is battling throat cancer and seeking treatment in Houston, according to a report by the Petoskey News.
Haske has coached three boys teams to MHSAA Class C runner-up finishes – St. Francis in 2012 and Charlevoix in 2004 and 2001, and also coached at St. Johns prior to taking the Rayders job in 1998. He also coached the Charlevoix girls team to a Class C runner-up finish in 2004.
Click to read more about Haske and how to donate to his treatment.
Thanks, Gary Hice
The MHSAA welcomed 43 new athletic directors to East Lansing today for training as they take over their schools’ athletic departments.
An athletic director we’ll certainly miss is Petoskey’s Gary Hice.
Hice – an MHSAA Allen W. Bush Award winner in 2002 for his contributions to high school athletics – has retired after 30 years as his school’s athletic director.
Click to read more, again from the Petoskey News, about Hice’s service to his school and community.
PHOTO: The Bay City All Saints Class of 1974 reunion this weekend will include a showing of the boys basketball team’s Class C championship game win over Detroit Servite.
Today in the MHSAA: 2/12/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
February 12, 2025
1. BOYS BASKETBALL Macari Moore became Ann Arbor Huron’s all-time leading scorer during a 79-54 win over Skyline that gave Huron the outright Southeastern Conference Red title – Ann Arbor News
2. GIRLS BASKETBALL Rockford clinched a share of a third-straight Ottawa-Kent Conference Red title with a 57-45 win over Hudsonville – Grand Rapids Press
3. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Trenton – No. 9 in Lower Peninsula Division 3 – finished the dual meet season undefeated in the Downriver League while handing Allen Park its only league loss, 103-83 – Southgate News-Herald
4. BOYS BASKETBALL Bay City John Glenn clinched a share of the Tri-Valley Conference Red title with a 66-55 win over second-place Freeland – Bay City Times
5. GIRLS BASKETBALL Clare Conzelmann scored her 1,000th career point in Frankenmuth’s 45-39 win over Goodrich – Saginaw News
6. BOYS BASKETBALL Trey McKenney paced Orchard Lake St. Mary’s in a 72-41 win over Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice in a Catholic High School League Bishop semifinal – Oakland Press
7. GIRLS BASKETBALL White Lake Lakeland moved into a tie in the Lakes Valley Conference with a 35-32 win over co-leader South Lyon – Oakland Press
8. BOYS BASKETBALL Hudsonville defeated O-K Red leader Rockford 75-69 – FOX 17
9. GIRLS BASKETBALL Midland maintained its lead in the Saginaw Valley League with a 62-46 win over Flint Powers Catholic – Midland Daily News
10. HOCKEY Division 3 top-ranked Orchard Lake St. Mary’s downed Division 1 No. 2 Hartland 4-2 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus