Today in the MHSAA: 10/7/15
October 7, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
A record-setting cross country run tops today’s sampling of headline makers from across Michigan, and we finish the list with an intriguing boys basketball coaching hire.
Cross Country
Mount Pleasant’s Mac LaBelle broke a school record set in 1983 by running a 16:07.3 to win the DeWitt Invitational earlier this season; he went 15:58.73 on Tuesday – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
The first-year Engadine cross country program, featured three weeks ago on Second Half, hosted its first home meet Tuesday – Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
Girls Golf
Adrian Madison, which debuted in the state poll this week at No. 2 in Lower Peninsula Division 4, won the Lenawee County Tournament by 51 strokes with a score of 364 – Adrian Daily Telegram
Boys Soccer
Division 2 No. 2 Mattawan defeated Division 1 No. 8 Portage Central in a matchup of one-loss teams and with a berth in the Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference final on the line – Kalamazoo Gazette
Sixth-seeded and unranked Grand Ledge upset third-seeded and Division 2 No. 5 Mason 3-2 in the first round of Capital Area Activities Conference Gold Cup play – Mlive-Lansing
Volleyball
Class A No. 8 Birmingham Seaholm edged honorable mention Clarkston 3-2, defeating the Wolves in league play for the first time since 2005 – Oakland Press
Boys Basketball
Battle Creek Central has named former Albion coach Durant Crum as the program’s new leader; Crum led Albion teams to Class B Semifinals and Class C Quarterfinals over 11 seasons before that school closed in 2013 – Battle Creek Enquirer
Today in the MHSAA: 5/20/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
May 20, 2025
1. BASEBALL Detroit Cass Tech ended Division 1 No. 10 Detroit Western’s run of 15 straight city championships with a 6-1 win in the Detroit Public School League Gold title game – Detroit Free Press
2. BASEBALL Division 2 No. 18 Flat Rock clinched a share of its first Huron League title since 1976 with a 9-0 win over Division 3 No. 20 Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central – Monroe News
3. SOFTBALL Division 3 No. 6 Millington swept Division 4 top-ranked Unionville-Sebewaing to clinch the Big Thumb Conference White title – Huron Daily Tribune
4. SOFTBALL Division 1 No. 1 Farmington Hills Mercy won its fifth-straight Catholic High School League title with a 5-0 win over Division 2 No. 4 Dearborn Divine Child in the Bishop championship game – Hometown Life
5. TRACK & FIELD Lake Linden-Hubbell swept championships at the Copper Mountain Conference championship meets – Upper Michigan’s Source
6. BOYS GOLF Warren De La Salle Collegiate – No. 4 in Lower Peninsula Division 4 – carded a 307 to claim a 10th Macomb County championship over the last 11 seasons – Macomb Daily
7. TRACK & FIELD The Gladstone girls and Marquette boys were champs at the Great Northern Conference championship meets – Upper Michigan’s Source
8. GIRLS SOCCER Ovid-Elsie downed Montrose 4-0 to secure the Mid-Michigan Activities Conference championship – Mid-Michigan Now
9. GIRLS TENNIS Bay City Western won the Bay County championship, tying Essexville Garber for most titles at the annual tournament – Bay City Times
10. BOYS GOLF Ann Arbor Pioneer and LPD2 No. 5 Chelsea won Southeastern Conference Tournament titles – Ann Arbor News
Also of note ...
SOFTBALL Division 3 honorable mention Lansing Catholic swept Ionia to earn a share of the Capital Area Activities Conference White title – Lansing State Journal