200+ Volleyball Matches on MHSAA TV

October 5, 2020

By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

More than 700 events in multiple sports at multiple levels of play fill the coming week’s schedule for the NFHS Network and MHSAA.tv.

More than 300 varsity events – nearly 200 of them in volleyball will be available. Monthly subscriptions are $10.99. Click for a complete list of upcoming games, and for a complete list of on-demand games

Fans also can type their school name into the search field on the MHSAA.tv page to search for events. Varsity games being streamed also have links from the MHSAA Website’s Score Center, and from the schedules on individual school pages. Clicking on the green TV set icon listed next to an event will take you directly to a game.
 
Here is a list of
Varsity sports events taking place over the coming week on the NFHS Network/MHSAA.tv (Home team generally listed first):


Football


Friday - October 9 
Redford Union  vs. Garden City  - 5 PM
Kingston  vs. Merritt Academy - 6:45 PM
Saranac  vs. Pewamo-Westphalia  - 6:45 PM
Hartland  vs. Northville  - 6:45 PM
Lowell  vs. Byron Center  - 6:50 PM
Manchester  vs. TBA - 7 PM
Waterford Kettering  vs. White Lake Lakeland  - 7 PM
Rockford  vs. Grand Haven  - 7 PM
Mason  vs. Fowlerville  - 7 PM
Novi  vs. Howell  - 7 PM
Vicksburg  vs. Paw Paw  - 7 PM
Mason  vs. Fowlerville  - 7 PM
Lake Orion  vs. Clarkston  - 7 PM
Saline  vs. Temperance Bedford  - 7 PM
Comstock Park  vs. Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 7 PM
Caro  vs. Marlette  - 7 PM
Corunna  vs. Owosso  - 7 PM
Hemlock  vs. Carrollton  - 7 PM
Peck vs. Caseville  - 7 PM
Portage Northern  vs. Portage Central  - 7 PM
Chesaning  vs. Durand - 7 PM
New Lothrop  vs. Ovid-Elsie  - 7 PM
Wayland Union  vs. Ada Forest Hills Eastern  - 7 PM
Frankenmuth  vs. Alma  - 7 PM
Birmingham Groves  vs. Birmingham Seaholm  - 7 PM
Brighton  vs. Plymouth - 7 PM
Reed City  vs. Newaygo  - 7 PM
Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood  vs. Macomb Lutheran North  - 7 PM
Watervliet  vs. Kalamazoo Hackett - 7 PM
Vermontville Maple Valley  vs. Merrill  - 7 PM
Otisville LakeVille vs. Byron - 7 PM
Walled Lake Northern  vs. South Lyon East  - 7 PM
St. Clair Shores Lake Shore  vs. Sterling Heights  - 7 PM
West Bloomfield  vs. Oxford  - 7 PM
Millington  vs. Midland Bullock Creek  - 7 PM
Sturgis  vs. Dowagiac Union  - 7 PM
Bay City John Glenn vs. Essexville Garber  - 7 PM
Harbor Beach  vs. Memphis  - 7 PM
Freeland  vs. Saginaw Swan Valley  - 7 PM
Walled Lake Central  vs. Waterford Mott  - 7 PM
Holt  vs. East Lansing  - 7 PM
Vassar  vs. Bad Axe  - 7 PM
East Kentwood  vs. Jenison  - 7 PM
Maple City Glen Lake  vs. Mancelona  - 7 PM
Cedar Springs  vs. Grand Rapids South Christian  - 7 PM
South Lyon  vs. Walled Lake Western  - 7 PM
Petoskey  vs. Cadillac  - 7 PM
Macomb L'Anse Creuse North  vs. New Baltimore Anchor Bay  - 7 PM
Stevensville Lakeshore  vs. St. Joseph  - 7 PM
Grand Blanc  vs. Saginaw Arthur Hill  - 7 PM
Troy Athens vs. Berkley  - 7 PM
Ortonville Brandon  vs. Lake Fenton  - 7 PM
Norway  vs. Gwinn  - 8 PM
 
Saturday - October 10 
Brethren  vs. Baldwin - 1 PM
Warren De La Salle Collegiate vs. DeWitt  - 3 PM
 

Boys Soccer

 
Tuesday - Oct. 6 
St. Joseph  vs. Kalamazoo Central  - 6:30 PM
Lake Orion  vs. Bloomfield Hills  - 7 PM
Troy  vs. Birmingham Seaholm  - 7 PM
Novi  vs. Brighton  - 7 PM
Troy Athens vs. Rochester Adams  - 7 PM
 
Wednesday - Oct. 7 
Manchester  vs. Bronson  - 5:30 PM
Ithaca  vs. Midland Bullock Creek  - 5:30 PM
St. Clair Shores Lake Shore  vs. Roseville  - 6 PM
Corunna  vs. Holly  - 6:15 PM
Freeland  vs. Frankenmuth  - 7 PM
Clare  vs. LeRoy Pine River  - 7 PM
South Lyon  vs. TBA - 7 PM
Waterford Kettering  vs. TBA - 7 PM
Hemlock  vs. Saginaw Nouvel  - 7 PM
Grand Rapids South Christian  vs. TBA - 7:15 PM
 
Thursday - Oct. 8 
Warren De La Salle Collegiate vs. New Baltimore Anchor Bay  - 5 PM
Ithaca  vs. Alma  - 5:30 PM
Waterford Kettering  vs. Pontiac  - 6 PM
Stevensville Lakeshore  vs. TBA - 6:30 PM
Cadillac  vs. Traverse City Central  - 6:45 PM
Petoskey  vs. Gaylord  - 6:45 PM
East Grand Rapids  vs. TBA - 6:45 PM
Grand Blanc  vs. Troy Athens - 7 PM
Saline  vs. Temperance Bedford  - 7 PM
Troy  vs. Rochester  - 7 PM
West Bloomfield  vs. TBA - 7 PM
Birmingham Groves  vs. Birmingham Seaholm  - 7 PM
Northville  vs. Salem  - 7 PM
Bloomfield Hills  vs. North Farmington  - 7 PM
Novi  vs. Plymouth - 7 PM
 
Friday - Oct. 9 
South Lyon East  vs. Farmington  - 4 PM
Garden City  vs. Dearborn Heights Crestwood  - 4 PM
Warren Woods Tower  vs. Fraser  - 5 PM
Mason  vs. St. Johns  - 5 PM
Novi  vs. Northville  - 7 PM
Madison Heights Lamphere  vs. St. Clair  - 7 PM
 
Saturday - Oct. 10 
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Dearborn Divine Child  - 10 AM
Comstock Park  vs. Grandville Calvin Christian  - 10 AM
Stevensville Lakeshore  vs. TBA - 11:30 AM
 
Monday - Oct. 12 
Warren Woods Tower  vs. Marysville  - 5 PM
Bad Axe  vs. Bay City John Glenn - 5 PM
Manchester  vs. Blissfield  - 5:30 PM
Royal Oak Shrine Catholic  vs. Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest  - 5:30 PM
Chesaning  vs. Saginaw Swan Valley  - 6 PM
St. Clair Shores Lake Shore  vs. Harrison Twp. L'Anse Creuse  - 6 PM
Romulus Summit Academy North  vs. Detroit Cass Tech - 6 PM
Grand Blanc  vs. Bay City Central  - 6 PM
Stevensville Lakeshore  vs. Niles  - 6:30 PM
Macomb L'Anse Creuse North  vs. Grosse Pointe North  - 6:30 PM
Saginaw Heritage  vs. Davison  - 6:45 PM
Petoskey  vs. Traverse City West  - 6:45 PM
Saline  vs. Monroe  - 7 PM
Madison Heights Lamphere  vs. Ferndale  - 7 PM
Novi  vs. TBA - 7 PM
West Bloomfield  vs. Royal Oak  - 7 PM
Lake Orion  vs. Clarkston  - 7 PM
Troy  vs. Warren De La Salle Collegiate - 7 PM
South Lyon  vs. South Lyon East  - 7 PM
Northville  vs. TBA - 7 PM
Grand Rapids South Christian  vs. TBA - 7:15 PM
 

Girls Volleyball

 
Tuesday - Oct. 6 
Dearborn Heights Robichaud  vs. Dearborn Heights Crestwood   - 4 PM
Madison Heights Lamphere  vs. New Haven   - 6 PM
Vermontville Maple Valley vs. TBA  - 6 PM
DeWitt  vs. Fowlerville   - 6 PM
St. Clair Shores Lake Shore  vs. Sterling Heights   - 6 PM
Williamston  vs. Grand Ledge   - 6 PM
Sturgis  vs. Edwardsburg   - 6 PM
Wayland Union  vs. Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills   - 6 PM
Mayville  vs. Bay City All Saints - 6 PM
Chesaning  vs. Ovid-Elsie   - 6:15 PM
Otisville LakeVille vs. New Lothrop   - 6:15 PM
Ovid-Elsie  vs. Chesaning   - 6:15 PM
Grand Rapids Christian  vs. Byron Center Charter School  - 6:15 PM
St Johns  vs. Lansing Catholic   - 6:20 PM
Brighton  vs. Canton   - 6:30 PM
Grand Rapids South Christian  vs. Grand Rapids Catholic Central   - 6:30 PM
Flint Powers Catholic  vs. Saginaw Heritage   - 6:30 PM
Suttons Bay  vs. Kingsley - 6:30 PM
Highland Milford  vs. White Lake Lakeland   - 6:30 PM
Southfield Christian  vs. Livonia Clarenceville   - 6:30 PM
Manchester  vs. Napoleon   - 6:30 PM
Howell  vs. Hartland   - 6:30 PM
Frankfort  vs. Leland   - 6:30 PM
Watervliet  vs. Fennville   - 6:30 PM
South Lyon  vs. Walled Lake Northern   - 6:30 PM
South Lyon East  vs. Walled Lake Western   - 6:30 PM
Durand vs. Mt Morris   - 6:55 PM
Saline  vs. Ann Arbor Pioneer   - 7 PM
Morley Stanwood  vs. Kent City   - 7 PM
West Bloomfield  vs. Rochester Hills Stoney Creek   - 7 PM
Maple City Glen Lake  vs. Onekama   - 7 PM
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Dearborn Divine Child   - 7 PM
East Kentwood  vs. Holland West Ottawa   - 7 PM
Hart  vs. Ravenna   - 7 PM
Bear Lake  vs. Big Rapids Crossroads Charter - 7 PM
Pentwater  vs. Mason County Eastern   - 7 PM
Kingsford  vs. Iron Mountain   - 7:15 PM
Caro  vs. Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker   - 7:30 PM
Kingston  vs. Akron-Fairgrove   - 7:30 PM
Bad Axe  vs. Cass City   - 7:30 PM
 
Wednesday - Oct. 7 
Flint Kearsley  vs. Flushing   - 5:15 PM
Fenton  vs. Swartz Creek   - 5:15 PM
Linden  vs. Holly   - 5:15 PM
Niles  vs. Comstock   - 6 PM
Corunna  vs. Lake Fenton   - 6:15 PM
Stevensvile Lakeshore  vs. Mattawan   - 6:30 PM
Allen Park Cabrini  vs. Riverview Gabriel Richard Catholic - 6:30 PM
Novi  vs. Livonia Franklin   - 6:30 PM
Bay City John Glenn vs. Alma   - 7 PM
Macomb Lutheran North  vs. Waterford Our Lady - 7 PM
Freeland  vs. Saginaw Swan Valley   - 7 PM
Frankenmuth  vs. Essexville Garber   - 7 PM
Bloomfield Hills Marian  vs. Farmington Hills Mercy   - 7:15 PM
Warren Regina  vs. Royal Oak Shrine Catholic   - 7:15 PM
Hemlock  vs. Standish-Sterling - 7:30 PM
Clare  vs. Pinconning - 7:30 PM
 
Thursday - Oct. 8 
Armada  vs. Armada   - 4:30 PM
Saline  vs. TBA  - 5 PM
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. TBA  - 5 PM
Romulus Summit Academy North  vs. TBA  - 5:30 PM
Durand vs. Clarkston Everest Collegiate - 5:55 PM
Fowlerville  vs. Williamston   - 6 PM
Vicksburg  vs. Paw Paw   - 6 PM
Peck vs. Caseville   - 6 PM
Sturgis  vs. Dowagiac Union   - 6 PM
Kinde North Huron  vs. Dryden   - 6 PM
Holt  vs. St Johns   - 6 PM
Lowell  vs. East Grand Rapids   - 6:15 PM
New Lothrop  vs. Montrose   - 6:15 PM
Highland Milford  vs. Wixom St. Catherine - 6:15 PM
Ovid-Elsie  vs. Ashley   - 6:30 PM
Huron Valley Lutheran  vs. Novi Christian Academy  - 6:30 PM
Sterling Heights Parkway Christian vs. Allen Park Inter-City Baptist   - 6:30 PM
Manchester  vs. Hanover-Horton   - 6:30 PM
Walled Lake Western  vs. South Lyon   - 6:30 PM
Walled Lake Northern  vs. Walled Lake Central   - 6:30 PM
Oakland Christian  vs. Brighton Charyl Stockwell - 6:30 PM
Saginaw Heritage  vs. Flint Carman-Ainsworth   - 6:30 PM
Ann Arbor Greenhills vs. Ann Arbor Pioneer   - 6:30 PM
White Lake Lakeland  vs. Waterford Mott   - 6:30 PM
Southfield Christian  vs. Lutheran  Westland  - 6:30 PM
Grand Blanc  vs. Lapeer   - 6:30 PM
Escanaba  vs. Stephenson   - 7 PM
West Bloomfield  vs. Birmingham Seaholm   - 7 PM
Marcellus  vs. Bloomingdale   - 7 PM
Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian vs. Wyoming Kelloggsville   - 7 PM
Hart  vs. Muskegon   - 7 PM
Garden City  vs. Melvindale   - 7 PM
Grandville Calvin Christian  vs. Wyoming Lee   - 7 PM
Bloomfield Hills  vs. Lake Orion   - 7 PM
Rockford  vs. Jenison   - 7 PM
Troy  vs. Troy Athens - 7 PM
Caro  vs. Unionville Sebewaing   - 7:30 PM
Livonia Clarenceville  vs. Plymouth Christian Academy  - 7:30 PM
 
Friday - Oct. 9 
Riverview Gabriel Richard Catholic vs. Madison Heights Bishop Foley   - 7 PM
Macomb Lutheran North  vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood   - 7 PM
Marian  vs. St. Catherine of Siena Academy  - 7:15 PM
Dearborn Divine Child  vs. Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard  - 7:15 PM
 
Saturday - Oct. 10 
Caro  vs. Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker   - TBA
Wayland Union  vs. Shelby   - 8 AM
Multi-team Event @ Plainwell – Part 1 - 8 AM
Caro  vs. Oscoda   - 8:30 AM
Troy Athens vs. TBA  - 8:30 AM
Suttons Bay  vs. TBA  - 8:30 AM
Grandville  vs. East Grand Rapids   - 8:30 AM
East Kentwood  vs. Grand Rapids Northview   - 8:30 AM
Multi-team Event @ St. Johns  - 9 AM
Frankenmuth  vs. Bay City Central   - 9 AM
Hopkins  vs. Allegan   - 9 AM
Niles  vs. Edwardsburg   - 9 AM
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. New Baltimore Anchor Bay   - 9:30 AM
Escanaba  vs. Gladstone   - 10 AM
DeWitt  vs. TBA  - 10 AM
Morley Stanwood  vs.  TBA - 10 AM
Caro  vs.  TBA  - 10 AM
Multi-team Event @ Plainwell – Part 2 - 12 PM
 
Monday - Oct. 12 
Warren Woods-Tower vs. TBA  - 4:30 PM
Norway  vs. Escanaba   - 6 PM
Munising  vs. Powers North Central   - 6 PM
Stevensville Lakeshore  vs. Portage Northern   - 6:30 PM
Big Rapids  vs. Morley Stanwood   - 7 PM
Plymouth Christian Academy vs. Lutheran Westland  - 7 PM
Grandville Calvin Christian  vs. Wyoming Kelloggsville   - 7 PM
Pentwater  vs. Baldwin - 7 PM
 
Tuesday - Oct. 13 
Dearborn Heights Robichaud  vs. Hamtramck   - 4 PM
Multi-team Event @ Dollar Bay - 4:20 PM
Multi-team Event @ Galesburg-Augusta  - 5 PM
East Lansing  vs. TBA  - 5 PM
Holt  vs. TBA  - 5 PM
Bay City John Glenn vs. Saginaw Arthur Hill   - 5:30 PM
Wayland Union  vs. Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills   - 6 PM
Sturgis  vs. Vicksburg   - 6 PM
Mayville  vs. Caseville   - 6 PM
Vermontville Maple Valley  vs. Stockbridge  - 6 PM
Romulus Summit Academy North  vs. Dearborn Henry Ford Academy  - 6 PM
Plainwell  vs. Hopkins   - 6 PM
Grand Rapids Christian  vs. East Grand Rapids   - 6 PM
Madison Heights Lamphere  vs. Warren Mott   - 6 PM
Mt Morris  vs. Otisville LakeVille - 6:15 PM
Chesaning  vs. Montrose   - 6:15 PM
Hartland  vs. Canton   - 6:15 PM
Novi  vs. Northville   - 6:30 PM
Whitmore Lake  vs. Allen Park Inter-City Baptist   - 6:30 PM
South Lyon  vs. South Lyon East   - 6:30 PM
Southfield Christian  vs. Plymouth Christian - 6:30 PM
Walled Lake Northern  vs. Highland Milford   - 6:30 PM

Century of School Sports: State's Storytellers Share Spring Memories

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

April 8, 2025

With the start of spring sports, the MHSAA’s “Century of School Sports” celebration has begun its final lap.

Every week we’ve told at least a few stories from these last 100 years – and today, we present our third and final installment of favorite sports memories from statewide media, our historian and MHSAA staff.

Below are their most unforgettable moments from spring.

Homer Sets Standard with 56-Game Baseball Winning Streak

Ron Pesch, MHSAA historian

Recognizing the contrasting challenges that face teams in various eras to set or break records, it was great fun to track Homer's successful attempt to match, then exceed Grand Haven's 43-year-old record, then chase a national record for consecutive baseball victories.

There's something about the small-town excitement knitted into such a chase. Grand Haven set the mark back before an MHSAA-sponsored state tournament commenced in 1971. Inherently built into such an accomplishment is an evolving roster that spans multiple seasons, when a single season featured only 20 to 30 or so games. (Only one Buccaneer player was part of all the Buccaneers' 56-straight victories.)

Because of the postseason, Homer's annual slate featured more games, but came with the additional challenge of squaring off against more talented teams as the playoffs progressed. Homer's record-setting win came during a homefield doubleheader against Reading during the 2005 regular season – ironically against the school which gave the Trojans their last loss in the 2003 Regional Semifinal. Victorious in both games that day against Reading, Homer extended the run through 75-consecutive contests – a national record, since topped – that ended in June with a 7-6 loss to Saginaw Nouvel in the MHSAA Division 3 Final.

The Lansing State Journal sports section details Grand Ledge's comeback to defeat Homer at the Diamond Classic in Lansing.Truly an Unforgettable Classic

Tim Staudt, WILX (Lansing), in 54th year of broadcasting

The one memory from the spring season that immediately jumps to mind is the 2006 Diamond Classic final between Homer and Grand Ledge. Grand Ledge would come back to win the game 7-6 with players from the Lansing Lugnuts in the dugout watching to see how the game was going to end.

This was one more remarkable Grand Ledge baseball achievement under coach Pat O’Keefe. It would be Homer’s only loss of the 2006 season, as they went 38-1 and won the Division 4 championship, a year after winning a then-national record 75 straight games.

Career Crosses Paths with State’s 2 Winningest on Baseball Diamond

Brian Calloway, Lansing State Journal

In two media markets I have worked in in the state, I’ve had the privilege to cover two of the state’s most decorated baseball coaches in Blissfield’s Larry Tuttle and Grand Ledge’s Pat O’Keefe, who are both members of the Michigan Baseball Hall of Fame.

I worked in Adrian when Larry Tuttle joined the 1,000-win club in June of 2008. After moving to the Lansing market, I got to document the final portion of O’Keefe’s special career that he ended as the all-time wins leader before eventually being passed by Tuttle.

Legendary Softball Team Ends Legendary Run

Geoff Kimmerly, MHSAA Communications Director and formerly of Lansing State Journal

I stepped into the Lansing State Journal fulltime lineup in January 2000 amid the senior years of two of the greatest athletes in local and statewide high school sports history – Lansing Waverly’s Marcus Taylor, who led his team to the Class A basketball title that March, and Okemos’ Jessica Beech, who had pitched her softball team to the Division 1 championship in 1999 and remains the most accomplished three-sport athlete in mid-Michigan history.

Dating back to that title run, Beech had earned an MHSAA-record 57 straight pitching victories heading into a Division 1 Regional Semifinal on June 10, 2000, at Lansing Everett. Up next was undefeated Portage Northern. Beech struck out 11 hitters against the team Okemos coach Dan Stolz called “the best his team has faced the past two seasons.” But Northern prevailed 2-0, with sophomore Anna Ollgaard throwing a one-hitter, and went on to finish the season 41-0 and Division 1 champion for the first of three consecutive seasons. The Huskies’ 52-game winning streak started that spring remains the second-longest in MHSAA softball history.

Livonia Franklin's softball team takes a team photo after finishing its 1986 Class A title run. Lectka Becomes Unstoppable in Leaving Livonia Franklin Legacy

Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press (formerly of Observer & Eccentric newspapers)

After falling to Mount Clemens L’Anse Creuse North in the 1985 championship game, 5-0, Livonia Franklin redeemed itself by beating Waterford Kettering, 1-0, in the 1986 Class A Softball Final for its first state title as senior pitcher Tracy Lectka’s threw a no-hitter at Lansing’s Ranney Park.

Lectka tossed back-to-back shutouts, including a 2-0 Semifinal win over South Lyon in a two-day continuation game halted by darkness where Lectka pitched all 20 innings to secure the victory.

Glen Lake’s Superwoman Finishes with Another Historic Run

Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press since 1970

Heading into the 1992 Class D track & field state championships at Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern, Maple City Glen Lake’s Marnie Peplinski had to balance the emotions of being confident without being overconfident.

She looked at the performances of the other girls in the Finals and compared them to her efforts. “I knew they were not going to make up two or three seconds in that one day unless they were Superwoman.”

Well, Superwoman did show up at the Finals that day, but she was wearing a Glen Lake uniform.

That day, her final day of being a Michigan high school athlete, Peplinski became the first girl in state history to win four state titles in consecutive years, helping Glen Lake to its second-straight team title. She set Finals records when she won the 100 hurdles (15.06 seconds) and 300 hurdles (44.80). She also won the long jump (17 feet, 5 inches) and was part of the winning 1,600 relay team (4:03.90). She also had won all of those events as a junior, and as a sophomore she won the 300 hurdles, the long jump and the 1,600 relay, which she was a part of as a freshman as well.

The day capped a brilliant high school career for Peplinski, who also earned first-team all-state honors in basketball and volleyball. She went on to compete in track & field and basketball at Central Michigan University.

Brother Rice Sets Standard in Boys Lacrosse

Perry Farrell, MHSAA.com and formerly of Detroit Free Press

Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice's run in lacrosse was a showcase of dominance as they started a stretch that saw them win 13 of the first 14 Division 1 championships starting in 2005.

Watch the 2017 Division 1 Final, which Brother Rice won over Detroit Catholic Central 8-7, on the NFHS Network, and see highlights below from that game from State Champs! Sports Network.  

Beal City Provides Celebration to Remember

Greg Miller, formerly of 9&10 News (Cadillac)

The 2023 season for Beal City baseball was a special one that ended with a Division 4 championship celebration on the field at McLane Stadium in East Lansing. A year prior, the Aggies, who had been top-ranked nearly the entire season, fell short in the championship game, and they were back seeking redemption.

Cayden Smith's backflip was a memorable detail from Beal City's 2023 championship celebration.In a tightly-fought battle in the title game against Plymouth Christian Academy, Beal City answered after surrendering the game's first run in the fourth inning, tying the game in the bottom half of the frame. They then took the lead in the bottom of the sixth. 

Star pitcher Cayden Smith, after hitting his pitch limit with one out in the seventh, moved to shortstop and was able to catch the final out of the game, performing a celebratory backflip on the infield grass before being mobbed by his teammates in one of the coolest celebration moments I ever witnessed.

Watch the 2023 Division 4 Final on the NFHS Network.

Previous "Century of School Sports" Spotlights

April 2: Sharp Leadership Synonymous with MHSAA Success - Read
March 25:
Athletic Directors Indispensable to Mission of School Sports - Read
March 18:
2025 Finals Begin Next Half-Century of Girls Hoops Championships - Read
March 11:
Boys Basketball's Best 1st to Earn MHSAA Finals Titles - Read
March 5:
Everything We Do Begins with Participation - Read
Feb. 25:
Slogans & Logos Remain Unforgettable Parts of MHSAA History - Read
Feb. 19:
MHSAA Tickets Continue to Provide Fan-Friendly Value - Read
Feb. 11:
We Recognize Those Who Make Our Games Go - Read
Feb. 4:
WISL Conference Continues to Inspire Aspiring Leaders - Read
Jan. 28:
Michigan's National Impact Begins at NFHS' Start - Read
Jan. 21:
Awards Celebrate Well-Rounded Educational Experience - Read
Jan. 14:
Predecessors Laid Foundation for MHSAA's Formation - Read
Jan. 9:
MHSAA Blazes Trail Into Cyberspace - Read
Dec. 31: 
State's Storytellers Share Winter Memories - Read
Dec. 17: 
MHSAA Over Time - Read
Dec. 10:
On This Day, December 13, We Will Celebrate - Read
Dec. 3:
MHSAA Work Guided by Representative Council - Read
Nov. 26: 
Finals Provide Future Pros Early Ford Field Glory - Read
Nov. 19:
Connection at Heart of Coaches Advancement Program - Read
Nov. 12:
Good Sports are Winners Then, Now & Always - Read
Nov. 5:
MHSAA's Home Sweet Home - Read
Oct. 29:
MHSAA Summits Draw Thousands to Promote Sportsmanship - Read
Oct. 23:
Cross Country Finals Among MHSAA's Longest Running - Read
Oct. 15:
State's Storytellers Share Fall Memories - Read
Oct. 8:
Guided by 4 S's of Educational Athletics - Read
Oct. 1:
Michigan Sends 10 to National Hall of Fame - Read
Sept. 25: MHSAA Record Books Filled with 1000s of Achievements - Read
Sept. 18:
Why Does the MHSAA Have These Rules? - Read
Sept. 10: 
Special Medals, Patches to Commemorate Special Year - Read
Sept. 4:
Fall to Finish with 50th Football Championships - Read
Aug. 28:
Let the Celebration Begin - Read

PHOTOS (Top) From left: Homer's Josh Collmenter throws a pitch during the 2004 Finals, Maple City Glen Lake's Marnie Peplinski long jumps in 1992, the Brother Rice boys lacrosse team celebrates its 2019 championship, and the Portage Northern softball team takes a photo after finishing an undefeated 2000 season. (2) The Lansing State Journal sports section details Grand Ledge's comeback to defeat Homer at the Diamond Classic in Lansing. (3) Livonia Franklin's softball team takes a team photo after finishing its 1986 Class A title run. (4) Cayden Smith's backflip kicks off Beal City's 2023 championship celebration. (MHSAA file photos.)