Today In The MHSAA: 10/1/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

October 1, 2021

1. GIRLS GOLF Northville – top-ranked in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – shot a 302 to edge No. 2 Plymouth by a stroke and win the Kensington Lakes Activities Association Tournament – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

2. BOYS TENNIS Milan won the Huron League Tournament to lock up its first overall league championship in the sport – Monroe News

3. BOYS TENNIS LPD2 No. 8 Midland Dow won seven of eight flights to clinch its 16th-straight Saginaw Valley League Tournament title – Midland Daily News

4. GIRLS GOLF LPD3 No. 7 Grosse Ile shot a 325 to win the Huron League Tournament – Monroe News

5. GIRLS GOLF Shepherd finished a repeat title run in the Mid-Michigan Golf Conference with a league tournament win – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

6. BOYS TENNIS Traverse City Central edged Petoskey by five points to win the Big North Conference Tournament – Traverse City Record-Eagle

7. BOYS SOCCER Division 2 No. 14 Ludington clinched the outright Lakes 8 Activities Conference title with a shutout of Muskegon Orchard View – Ludington Daily News

8. VOLLEYBALL Division 3 No. 4 Centreville took over first place alone in the Southwest 10 Conference with a five-set win over Mendon – Sturgis Journal

9. VOLLEYBALL Zeeland East came back from a two-set deficit to defeat Zeeland West in five and take over first alone in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Green – Holland Sentinel

10. BOYS SOCCER Pontiac maintained its league lead, downing Auburn Hills Avondale 3-1 in Oakland Activities Association Blue play – Oakland Press

Today in the MHSAA: 12/14/15

December 14, 2015

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Close finishes highlighted the first Friday of boys basketball season, as those results led a weekend of impressive performances across the state in a variety of sports.

Boys Basketball

Class C Flint Beecher outlasted Class A Detroit East English 72-69 at the Horatio Williams Foundation Tip-Off Classic – Flint Journal

Reigning champion Lansing Everett opened its season with a 55-48 win over Grand Ledge in a matchup of the top two teams from the Capital Area Activities Conference Blue in 2014-15 – Lansing State Journal

Trishton Jackson scored to send the game to overtime and then added the game-winner in the extra period as West Bloomfield edged Southfield Christian 77-76 at the Oakland County Invitational – Mlive-Detroit

Ludington opened up Lakes 8 Conference play with a 54-42 win over reigning champion Muskegon Catholic Central – Ludington Daily News

Marquette rode the hot hand of Troy Sergey, who scored 22 points in a 68-60 win over Traverse City West on Saturday at the Petoskey Invitational – Marquette Mining Journal

From Thursday, St. Ignace football star Gage Kreski is pretty good at basketball too; he had 38 points, 13 rebounds and nine steals in a 75-48 win over Rudyard – Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

Girls Basketball

Muskegon Mona Shores standout Jordan Walker, also a member of the MHSAA Student Advisory Council, had 26 points, nine rebounds, six assists and four steals in a 68-42 win over Dearborn Heights Robichaud – Muskegon Chronicle

Girls Bowling

Paw Paw came back from a 10-0 deficit after the Baker games to edge Portage Northern 16-14 thanks in part to a 311 series by Grace Sylvester – Kalamazoo Gazette

Ice Hockey

Reid Pietila scored all five goals as Houghton defeated Utica Eisenhower 5-1 on Friday – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

Wrestling

St. Johns, No. 2 in Division 2, finished 5-0 at the Jackson Area Wrestling Showdown with wins over Division 1 No. 9 Temperance Bedford and Division 4 No. 5 Manchester – Jackson Citizen-Patriot

Every Hartland wrestler placed among the top five at his weight as the Division 1 top-ranked Eagles won their invitational – Livingston Daily