Today in the MHSAA: 10/12/17

October 12, 2017

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Each weekday of the school year, we break down the top headlines courtesy of Michigan’s sports media.

Today's Top 10

1. Girls Golf: For the first time in 36 years, Sturgis won a Regional in this sport, claiming its Lower Peninsula Division 2 tournament by 21 strokes – Sturgis Journal

2. Boys Soccer: Division 1 No. 5 Detroit Catholic Central shut out Division 2 No. 3 Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood 4-0 to win the Detroit Catholic League A-B championship – Observer & Eccentric

3. Boys Soccer: Division 1 No. 9 Northville won its first boys soccer championship in the Kensington Lakes Activities Association with a 1-0 victory over No. 12 Plymouth – Observer & Eccentric

4. Boys Soccer: Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard got past Madison Heights Bishop Foley 4-1 to earn its first Catholic League C-D title in the sport – Oakland Press

5. Cross Country: Ithaca’s boys and girls teams finished a sweep of Tri-Valley Conference West jamborees to claim league titles; the boys team is No. 14 in LPD3 – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

6. Cross Country: Shepherd did the same as Ithaca but in the TVC Central, with both teams sweeping all three jamborees to earn conference championships; the girls are ranked No. 9 in LPD3, and the boys are No. 11 – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

7. Boys Soccer: Division 3 No. 15 Whitehall took back a share of the West Michigan Conference title with a 4-0 win over North Muskegon in the league tournament final after North Muskegon won the regular-season share and beat the Vikings for the championship in 2016 – Local Sports Journal

8. Boys Soccer: Marysville clinched its first league title in boys soccer since 2011 with a 2-1 win over St. Clair – Port Huron Times Herald

9. Cross Country: The Indian River Inland Lakes girls and Johannesburg-Lewiston boys won Ski Valley Conference championship meet titles – Traverse City Record-Eagle

10. Wrestling: Manistee hired its third coach in three years, this time bringing in longtime Saginaw Swan Valley leader Darrell Burchfield, who led the Vikings to a 432-91 record from 2003-16 – Manistee News-Advocate

Also for note:

Girls Cross Country: From Tuesday, Sault Ste. Marie senior Mackenzie Kalchik added a fourth Straits Area Conference individual championship to her impressive career work which this season includes pacing the top-ranked team in Upper Peninsula Division 1 – Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

Today in the MHSAA: 9/20/22

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

September 20, 2022

1. BOYS SOCCER South Lyons shut out Waterford Kettering to clinch the outright Lakes Valley Conference championship – Oakland Press

2. GIRLS GOLF Grand Ledge shot a 364 to win the Tullymore Invitational – Local Sports Journal

3. GIRLS GOLF Battle Creek Lakeview – No. 15 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – took back the All-City championship – Battle Creek Enquirer

4. VOLLEYBALL Beaverton came back from a two-set deficit to defeat Sanford Meridian in five – Midland Daily News

5. CROSS COUNTRY Harbor Springs swept championships at the Inland Lakes Invitational; the Harbor Springs girls are No. 4 in LPD4, and the boys team is ranked No. 6 – Cheboygan Daily Tribune | Athletic.net

6. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 5 Holland Christian scored the game’s lone goal late to get past Allendale – FOX 17

7. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 7 Elk Rapids extended its winning streak to eight games with a victory over Kalkaska – Traverse City Record-Eagle

8. VOLLEYBALL St. Clair Shores Lakeview defeated Lake Shore in four sets to claim the “Wars in the Shores” – Macomb Daily

9. GIRLS GOLF Otsego shot a 186 to edge Plainwell by a stroke in the latest Wolverine Conference jamboree – Joe Insider

10. BOYS TENNIS LPD3 No. 6 Holland Christian defeated Holland High 6-2 – Holland Sentinel