Linked Up: 12/19/11
December 20, 2011
We've hit a bit of a slow spot with schools out for break and most contests reserved for holiday showcases and the like.
Here are some suggestions if you have some time for some reading between now and the start of 2012.
High school coaches try to bring basketball back to basics (Detroit News)
For most of the last decade, we've heard about the recessing of basketball fundamentals even among elite high school players. Enter Ben Kelso, Marshall Thomas and a number of other Michigan coaches who have pledged to end that trend. Tom Markowski tells us how the Metro Detroit Basketball Coaches Association aims to do so.
Lantzy retires after more than 4 decades as Ike grid coach (Macomb County Advisor & Source)
Utica-Eisenhower coach Bob Lantzy has been his school's only varsity football coach. He took four teams to MHSAA Finals and this fall became one of only nine state football coaches to win more than 900 games. He has retired after 41 seasons, and Kevin Lozon fills us in on the legacy.
Tabahn Afrik poised for greatness in pool for West Ottawa (Holland Sentinel)
The Holland area has its next big swimming star. Dan D'Addona introduces us to Tabahn Afrik, a freshman at Holland West Ottawa who qualified for the MHSAA Division 1 Finals in two events in his first meet this season.
High school basketball: History of class hoops is just that (South Bend Tribune)
"Hoosiers" made Indiana's former one-class basketball tournament known on a grander scale. But Indiana went to classes (similar to Michigan's) beginning in 1997-98. Al Lesar tells us how some in the state are attempting to revert to one class.
Today in the MHSAA: 10/11/23
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 11, 2023
1. CROSS COUNTRY Buckley’s girls – No. 4 in Lower Peninsula Division 4 – claimed the school’s first Northwest Conference title in any girls sport, and Benzie Central clinched the boys championship while Traverse City St. Francis claimed the final Lake Michigan Conference titles; the St. Francis boys are No. 1 in LPD3, and the girls are No. 2 – Traverse City Record-Eagle | Benzie Record-Patriot
2. CROSS COUNTRY Brighton’s LPD1 No. 3-ranked girls dominated their race with Hartland and Howell to clinch the Kensington Lakes Activities Association West title – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
3. BOYS SOCCER Bad Axe downed Caro 4-1 to clinch a fifth-straight Greater Thumb Conference West championship – Huron Daily Tribune
4. BOYS SOCCER Division 4 No. 8 Bloomfield Hills Roeper edged Plymouth Christian Academy 1-0 to clinch the Michigan Independent Athletic Conference Blue title – Hometown Life
5. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD2 No. 10 Alma boys and No. 9 Frankenmuth girls finished Tri-Valley Conference Red championship runs – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun | Athletic.net
6. GIRLS GOLF No. 6 Rochester carded a 333 to claim its Lower Peninsula Division 1 Regional title – Oakland Press
7. GIRLS GOLF Ludington edged Remus Chippewa Hills by four strokes to win an LPD3 Regional – Ludington Daily News
8. GIRLS GOLF No. 4 St. Joseph carded a 364 to win an LPD2 Regional championship – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
9. BOYS SOCCER Division 2 No. 10 Holland avenged an early-season loss to Muskegon Reeths-Puffer 4-1 to finish its championship run through the Ottawa-Kent Conference Green – Holland Sentinel
10. VOLLEYBALL Ludington downed Fremont 3-1 in a matchup of co-leaders in the West Michigan Conference Lakes – MI Sports Now