Grayling Plays On as Healing Continues

December 15, 2014

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The Grayling community was rocked by a two-vehicle collision in 2013 that resulted in the deaths of a coach, a golfer and another passenger in the other vehicle, as well as numerous serious injuries, while the boys golf team was driving to a tournament. 

As the community began to heal, the team played the rest of the 2013 season for classmates who could not. Last spring, more than 30 golfers came out as the team fell just one place short of making the MHSAA Finals but sent an individual, Jake Hinkle, to the Lower Peninsula Division 3 tournament at Grand Valley State University.  

In a few short months, Grayling's boys golf team will again begin the journey to play at the Finals as a team, backed by a community that continues to rally. 

The NBC Golf Channel tells this incredible story below:

Today in the MHSAA: 9/3/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

September 3, 2025

1. CROSS COUNTRY New Boston Huron’s girls and boys teams swept Erie Mason’s Frank Connolly Relays – Monroe News

2. BOYS SOCCER Division 1 No. 5 Hartland and No. 3 Okemos played to a 1-1 draw – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

3. BOYS SOCCER Division 4 No. 7 Muskegon Western Michigan Christian went on the road for a 3-1 win over Grand Rapids Covenant Christian – Local Sports Journal

4. GIRLS GOLF Byron Center – No. 8 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – and Muskegon Reeths-Puffer’s Sophia McCollum finished first at the latest Ottawa-Kent Conference Green jamboree – Local Sports Journal

5. BOYS SOCCER Jackson Northwest shut out Lumen Christi 2-0 – Jackson Citizen Patriot

6. BOYS SOCCER Grayling won a key Northern Shores Conference matchup 5-0 over Kingsley – Traverse City Record-Eagle

7. VOLLEYBALL Midland Bullock Creek lost the first set but won the next three to get past Hemlock – Midland Daily News

8. VOLLEYBALL Saginaw Michigan Lutheran Seminary swept Caro – WNEM

9. BOYS SOCCER Traverse City Central downed Cadillac 4-0 – MI Sports Now

10. BOYS SOCCER Richmond edged Chesterfield Austin Catholic 4-3 – Macomb Daily