Today in the MHSAA: 10/1/15

October 1, 2015

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

A pair of neat stories on three-sport athletes are worth your time today as we prepare for another full weekend and celebrate our first MHSAA champions.

Girls Golf

Lower Peninsula Division 2 top-ranked Midland Dow captured the first of what it hopes will be multiple championships this fall, winning its third straight Saginaw Valley League title – Saginaw News

St. Joseph, No. 7 in Division 2, claimed the Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference championship by 31 strokes with a score of 338 – Kalamazoo Gazette

Boys Soccer

Ortonville Brandon, No. 19 in Division 2, notched its ninth shutout of the season and sixth straight win by blanking Linden 2-0 – Flint Journal

Girls Tennis

Munising clinched its first MHSAA title, edging Iron Mountain by a point to win Upper Peninsula Division 2 in the first postseason final of this school year – Second Half

Volleyball

Tri-County Conference rivals Clinton and Adrian Madison played five sets Tuesday, none decided by more than four points in Clinton’s win to stay undefeated in the league – Adrian Daily Telegram

Good Reads

Since joining the Sanford Meridian varsity during Week 2 of 2012, four-year quarterback Christian Petre has a 25-9 record and has the Mustangs off to a 5-0 start. He also plays baseball and is a reigning MHSAA champion in the 100 meters – Midland Daily News

The Dean family is synonymous with Lowell football (and wrestling too), with Noel Dean the longtime football coach and Zeth Dean on the team now – along with his sister, Darby, the kicker this fall – Grand Rapids Press

Today In The MHSAA: 5/14/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 14, 2021

1. Track & Field: Oak Park won girls and boys Oakland Activities Association Blue/Gold championships, the girls outright and the boys sharing with Farmington – Oakland Press

2. Boys Lacrosse: Division 2 No. 7 Okemos downed Division 1 No. 8 Haslett 8-6 to clinch the Capital Area Activities Conference championship – Lansing State Journal

3. Girls Tennis: Traverse City Central won the Big North Conference Tournament, earning a shared league title with dual-season champ West – Traverse City Record-Eagle

4. Track & Field: Zeeland East’s girls – No. 7 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – wrapped up the Ottawa-Kent Conference Green championship – Holland Sentinel

5. Baseball: Division 1 No. 13 Livonia Stevenson split with No. 20 Franklin, clinching the Kensington Lakes Activities Association East title with a win in the first game – Observer & Eccentric

6. Track & Field: The Corunna and Fenton boys and Corunna and Flushing girls won Flint Metro League championships – WJRT

7. Softball: Undefeated and Division 3 top-ranked Millington swept Division 2 honorable mention Frankenmuth 1-0 and 3-2 – Mid-Michigan Now

8. Girls Soccer: Traverse City Central ended a 13-game losing streak to Division 1 No. 10 West with a 2-1 win – Traverse City Record-Eagle

9. Softball: Division 1 honorable mentions South Lyon and Walled Lake Northern split to hold onto their shared lead in the Lakes Valley Conference – Oakland Press

10. Softball: Fowlerville freshman Tori Briggs hit two homers in each game of a doubleheader sweep of Lansing Catholic – Livingston Daily Press & Argus