Linked Up: 11/8/11
November 8, 2011
My online travels over the last 10 days have taken me to just about every media entity in Michigan as we've been tracking down football, volleyball and soccer results. Below are some of the intriguing stories I happened upon that you might want to check out as well.
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State meet an experience to savor (Livingston County Daily Press & Argus)
Reporter Katie Noble ran at the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Cross Country Finals for Kinde North Huron in 2001. She explains how her perspective has changed during the 10 years since -- something any former high school athlete can appreciate.
Lincoln football: More than just football (AnnArbor.com)
Although Ypsilanti Lincoln's first playoff run ever ended after just one game, it gave those fans plenty to celebrate -- and AnnArbor.com's Jeff Sainlar put together a great multimedia look at how the team made history after going 0-9 in 2010.
Twin sisters key players for both Dow and Midland volleyball teams (Midland Daily News)
We hear a lot of stories of teams having two or three siblings, a set of twins or an occasional crew of triplets. But Saturday's District final at Saginaw Heritage included two teams from the same city both receiving major contributions sets of twins. Dan Chalk explained how similarities among those pairs benefited their respective teams in similar ways.
Thomas coached five sports and served as athletic director during his tenure at Saginaw High. But he's best known for leading a boys basketball power that has produced two more coaches who have gone on to win MHSAA titles. A fantastic legacy left by one of the friendliest people I've met in high school athletics, and Geoff Mott tells us about it.
Deckerville Eagles will move to 8-man football (Port Huron Times-Herald)
The Port Huron area looks to continue to be a center for 8-player football with another solid program set to make the switch. But it's not always an easy decision, and Jim Whymer tells us why and how Deckerville decided it was time.
Today in the MHSAA: 9/23/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
September 23, 2025
1. GIRLS GOLF Okemos – No. 2 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – carded a program-record 300 to win the Capital Area Activities Conference Open by 20 strokes ahead of LPD2 top-ranked Dexter – WILX
2. VOLLEYBALL Flat Rock earned its first victory ever over Division 3 top-ranked Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central, winning in five sets – Monroe News
3. GIRLS GOLF LPD1 No. 9 Brighton won the team title and Midland Dow’s Sophia Lee and Oxford’s Katie Pill were co-medalists at the Dow Invitational – Midland Daily News
4. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 14 Freeland edged No. 8 Frankenmuth, 3-2 – Saginaw News
5. VOLLEYBALL Freeland downed Division 3 honorable mention Cass City 3-1 – WNEM
6. BOYS SOCCCER Sterling Heights Stevenson avenged an earlier loss to Utica Ford with a 4-1 win – Macomb Daily
7. CROSS COUNTRY The Bellaire girls and Grayling boys won the latter’s invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle
8. BOYS SOCCER Flat Rock scored late to get past Riverview 2-1 – Southgate News-Herald
9. BOYS SOCCCER Division 4 No. 7 Muskegon Western Michigan Christian downed Whitehall 1-0 – Local Sports Journal
10. BOYS TENNIS Sturgis swept singles in defeating Otsego 6-2 – Sturgis Journal