Today in the MHSAA: 10/9/17

October 9, 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. Cross Country: The top-ranked Ann Arbor Pioneer boys and No. 2 Rockford girls won Division 1 championships at the Portage Invitational, which again drew many of the state’s top teams from all four Lower Peninsula divisions. Also winning boys championships were LPD2 No. 8 Lansing Catholic, LPD3 No. 2 Hanover-Horton and LPD4 No. 1 Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart, while the top-ranked Sacred Heart girls, LPD3 No. 1 Hart girls and LPD2 No. 4 Dearborn Divine Child girls won meets as well – Athletic.net

2. Volleyball: Class B No. 5 Kingsley avenged its only losses of this season, downing Class D No. 2 Leland and then Class C No. 9 Calumet to claim the championship at the Suttons Bay Invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle

3. Cross Country: Reigning LPD1 champion and current No. 4 White Lake Lakeland won the boys race, and No. 4-ranked Troy won the girls at the Oakland County Championship – Oakland Press

4. Cross Country: Saginaw Heritage swept the races at its 30th annual Heritage Invitational, Heritage’s boys are ranked No. 7 in LPD1 and finished just ahead of LPD3 top-ranked Caro – Athletic.net

5. Girls Swimming & Diving: LPD1 honorable mention Utica Eisenhower claimed a fourth straight Macomb County championship led by standouts Abigail Desmet and Bianca Licari – Macomb Daily

6. Boys Soccer: Division 1 No. 13 Saline scored late to hold on to a 1-1 tie with No. 5 Novi – Saline Post

7. Volleyball: Cheboygan downed Class D No. 8 Rudyard and then Engadine to win the Escanaba Elks Invitational – Escanaba Daily Press

8. Cross Country: The Erie-Mason boys, No. 5 in LPD3, were the only in-state team among four champions at the Hudson Invitational, which featured a number of schools from the southeastern border and Ohio – Athletic.net

9. Volleyball: Zeeland East emerged from third place in pool play to win the Best of the West Invitational at Muskegon Mona Shores – Holland Sentinel

10. Volleyball: Onsted avenged a pool play loss to Centreville to win the Sturgis Invitational – JoeInsider.com

Today in the MHSAA: 4/30/26

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

April 30, 2026

1. BOYS GOLF Cruz Beckstrom repeated as Greater Muskegon Athletic Association medalist in leading Muskegon Mona Shores – No. 5 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – to a seventh-straight team win – Local Sports Journal

2. BOYS GOLF Traverse City Central carded a 285 to win the Cadillac Invitational – Cadillac News

3. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 3 Bay City Western moved past Midland into first in the Saginaw Valley League North with a sweep of the Chemics – Midland Daily News

4. GIRLS SOCCER Kayla Rousseau scored all three goals in Flushing’s 3-0 win over Holly – Flint Journal

5. BOYS LACROSSE Traverse City Central avenged an earlier loss to rival West with a 9-8 overtime victory – Up North Live

6. SOFTBALL Lily Vidra drove in a combined 10 runs during Temperance Bedford’s sweep of Ida – Monroe News

7. TRACK & FIELD The Saginaw Swan Valley girls and LPD2 No. 10 Alma boys won twice at Tri-Valley Conference Red three-team meets – Saginaw News

8. BOYS GOLF Onekama won the Northwest Conference event and three golfers tied for first individually – Traverse City Record-Eagle

9. SOFTBALL Ypsilanti Lincoln had 19 hits in a big win over Ann Arbor Pioneer – Ann Arbor News

10. BASEBALL Stevensville Lakeshore swept Portage Central 6-1, 8-4 – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium