Today in the MHSAA: 10/19/15

October 19, 2015

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The first MHSAA Lower Peninsula championships of 2015-16 were awarded in girls golf and boys tennis this weekend. Find links to Second Half coverage of those, plus reports from a handful of other significant events that took place around the state.

Cross Country

The Hudson boys, ranked No. 9 in Lower Peninsula Division 4, won the Lenawee County championship Saturday as its combined finishes were one hundredth of a second faster than runner-up Adrian’s – Adrian Daily Telegram

The Utica Eisenhower girls improved from second last season to first in winning the Macomb County Invitational – Macomb Daily

Girls Golf 

Traverse City West won its first MHSAA title, Birmingham Seaholm won its third straight and Spring Lake and Kalamazoo Hackett were repeat champions at the Lower Peninsula Finals – Second Half

Boys Tennis

Novi and Bloomfield Hills shared the LP Division 1 title, Portage Central and Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central shared in Division 2, and powers Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood and Ann Arbor Greenhills also claimed championships – Second Half 

Volleyball

Class B No. 4 Battle Creek Harper Creek downed Class D No. 1 Battle Creek St. Philip in two sets to repeat as Battle Creek All-City champion – Battle Creek Enquirer

Crystal Falls Forest Park, an honorable mention in Class D, won the first Skyline Central Conference tournament in two sets over Munising – Iron Mountain Daily News

Adrian defeated Tecumseh in the final of the 35th Lenawee County Tournament after entering bracket play as the second seed – Adrian Daily Telegram

Today in the MHSAA: 5/17/16

May 17, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

League and area supremacy was on the line Monday, especially in our diamond sports – where Detroit’s best in baseball extended a title streak to nearly a decade.

Baseball

Detroit Western International claimed its ninth straight Detroit Public School League title, downing Detroit Renaissance in the Mega final 8-6; Detroit Osborn also won its first PSL title in 27 years – Detroit News

Howell edged White Lake Lakeland 4-2 to win the Kensington Lakes Activities Association Lakes title for the first time – Livingston Daily

Girls Soccer

McBain Northern Michigan Christian might be cruising under the radar while unranked this week, but NMC moved to 14-0 with a 3-1 win over Boyne City – Cadillac News

Softball

Walled Lake Northern homered in the sixth inning to take a lead, but Koryn Pennebaker singled home the tying and winning runs in the seventh to lead Milford to a 5-4 win and its first league title, in the KLAA Lakes division – Oakland Press

Surging DeWitt downed Eaton Rapids 7-0 on Monday in the first round of the Lansing Softball Classic; Eaton Rapids has won the title five of the last seven years – Lansing State Journal

Grand Ledge remained undefeated at 22-0 with a 12-7 win over Mason in the second game of Monday’s Softball Classic openers – Lansing State Journal