Today in the MHSAA: 10/20/17
October 20, 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. Football: Bellevue is having an incredible first season of 8-player football, and quarterback Gino Costello is building on an already impressive effort with a heavy heart after his mom died after a fight with cancer at the start of this month – Battle Creek Enquirer
2. Football: West Bloomfield kicker Nick O’Shea lost his father unexpectedly from a heart attack just 10 days ago. But how he and West Bloomfield’s coaches and players have rallied is also truly inspiring – Detroit Free Press
3. Volleyball: Harbor Springs Harbor Light Christian finished a perfect run through the Northern Lakes Conference with a sweep of Vanderbilt – Petoskey News-Review
4. Volleyball: Class B No. 8 Spring Lake clinched a share of the Ottawa-Kent Conference Blue title with a win over Comstock Park – Grand Haven Tribune
5. Boys Soccer: No. 7 Coldwater earned a rematch with No. 6-ranked Marshall by getting past perennial power Mason 2-0 to advance in Division 2 – Coldwater Daily Reporter
6. Volleyball: Class C No. 8 Unionville-Sebewaing clinched its sixth Greater Thumb Conference West title in seven seasons with a four-set win over Reese – Huron Daily Tribune
7. Cross Country: The Highland Milford girls (No. 10 in LPD1) and White Lake Lakeland boys (No. 5 in LPD1) clinched the inaugural Lakes Valley Conference championships – Observer & Eccentric Girls | Boys
8. Boys Soccer: Walled Lake Northern dealt rival Division 1 No. 15 Walled Lake Central a draw this year as the Vikings finished 15-0-1 in the Lakes Valley Conference, but Central avenged that tie with a 3-0 Division 1 win – Oakland Press
9. Volleyball: Houghton claimed the Copper Spike traveling trophy for the fourth straight season with a sweep of rival Hancock – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette
10. Conference realignment: The Western Peninsula Athletic Conference is set to expand significantly with most of the Upper Peninsula’s 11-player football schools filling out the league – Marquette Mining Journal
Today in the MHSAA: 10/20/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 20, 2025
1. BOYS CROSS COUNTRY Sault Ste. Marie’s Gabe Litzner finished a career Finals championship sweep and Marquette, Painesdale Jeffers and Crystal Falls Forest Park won team titles at the Upper Peninsula Boys Cross Country Finals – MHSAA.com
2. GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY L’Anse claimed its first team championship and Marquette and Rudyard also won titles at the Upper Peninsula Girls Cross Country Finals – MHSAA.com
3. GIRLS GOLF Northville, Dexter, Grand Rapids Catholic Central and Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian won Lower Peninsula Finals – MHSAA.com
4. BOYS TENNIS Troy passed three-time reigning champion Bloomfield Hills to win the Lower Peninsula Division 1 championship – MHSAA.com
5. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING West Bloomfield’s Elizabeth Eichbrecht and Holland Christian’s Camryn Siegers won multiple individual races, and Zeeland won a pair of relays to highlight performances at the annual MISCA meet – MISCA
6. BOYS SOCCER No. 4 Romeo edged reigning Division 1 champion Rochester Adams 1-0 in a District Final – Macomb Daily
7. CROSS COUNTRY The Shepherd, Lower Peninsula Division 3 No. 10 Traverse City St. Francis and LPD4 No. 6 Grand Traverse Academy girls and Alpena, LPD3 No. 7 Central Montcalm and LPD4 No. 4 Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart boys won at the Northern Michigan Meet of Champions – Athletic.net
8. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Muskegon Mona Shores swept Fruitport to win a fourth-straight Greater Muskegon Athletic Association title – Local Sports Journal
9. CROSS COUNTRY The Frankenmuth girls and Saginaw Heritage boys won Saginaw County titles – Saginaw News
10. CROSS COUNTRY Utica Ford locked up the Macomb Area Conference White boys championship, while three teams shared the girls title – Macomb Daily