Today in the MHSAA: 10/8/15
October 8, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
The start of the Lower Peninsula Girls Golf Tournament included plenty of highlights to top an eventful Wednesday statewide.
Girls Golf
Lower Peninsula Division 2 No. 8 Muskegon Mona Shores won the MHSAA Regional at Thornapple Pointe Golf Club, but Reeths-Puffer freshman Karina VanDuinen also was exceptional going under par to finish first individually – Muskegon Chronicle
LP Division 2 top-ranked Midland Dow tied No. 6 Flushing at 340 and won the Regional title on the fifth-golfer tie-breaker – Saginaw News
Frankenmuth, No. 4 in LP Division 4, won its first Regional title and just ahead of No. 5 Freeland – Saginaw News
New Boston Huron qualified for the MHSAA Finals for the first time in this sport by finishing third at Monroe Country Club – Mlive-Detroit
Boys Soccer
Division 2 top-ranked Holland Christian and Division 3 No. 6 Hudsonville Unity Christian played to a 3-3 tie that made both 6-0-2 in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Green – Holland Sentinel
Unranked Tecumseh is 6-4-4 but unbeaten in eight straight after tying Division 2 No. 12 Dexter – Adrian Daily Telegram
Unranked Buckley, a solid 13-2, upset Division 4 No. 3 Leland 2-1. Buckley hadn’t beaten Leland in boys soccer since 2003 – Cadillac News
Division 3 No. 10 Gladwin capped its Northern Michigan Soccer League schedule with another win to finish with a conference record of 10-0 – Midland Daily News
Volleyball
Unranked Mason, a Class A quarterfinalist a year ago, downed No. 10 DeWitt in five sets to create a two-team tie atop the Capital Area Activities Conference Red standings – Lansing State Journal
Good Reads
Coldwater will host its first swimming and diving meet tonight thanks to a $15 million dollar donation that paid for a new aquatic center and was given in honor of the school’s Class of 1942 by one of its members – Battle Creek Enquirer
Farmington Hills Harrison football is 5-1 under longtime coach John Herrington in what might be the final season of the school and despite the transfers of two players before the start of practice – Detroit News
Today in the MHSAA: 3/1/17
March 1, 2017
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Ranked hockey teams met in Divisions 1 and 3 on Tuesday as those playoffs moved through their second night and the boys basketball regular season moved one closer to finishing up for 2016-17.
Each weekday during the school year, we’ll gather and post media links covering the most significant and intriguing high school events from all over the state.
Boys Basketball
River Rouge closed the regular season 19-1 with an impressive 62-47 win over Class D favorite Southfield Christian – MLive-Detroit
New Haven edged Flint Beecher 108-104 in triple overtime despite 63 points and 11 assists from Beecher’s Malik Ellison – Flint Journal
Flint Northwestern downed Flint Academy West 72-56 thanks to 35 points from Darious Young in what was expected to be the final home game for the heralded program – Flint Journal
Da’Quarius Cooper had 35 points and 20 rebounds off the bench in Muskegon Mona Shores’ 78-58 win over Muskegon Catholic Central – Muskegon Chronicle
Clarkston clinched its 11th straight Oakland Activities Association Red title with a 68-61 win over West Bloomfield – Oakland Press
Hillsdale finished the regular season 20-0 with a 73-30 win over Adrian Madison – Hillsdale Daily News
Hockey
Top-ranked Flint Powers Catholic downed No. 9 Saginaw Heritage 5-0 in a Pre-Regional – Flint Journal
In Division 1, No. 8 Utica Eisenhower downed No. 7 Lake Orion – Macomb Daily