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: 5/23/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 23, 2025

1. BOYS GOLF Howell won its first overall Kensington Lakes Activities Association championship in this sport, carding a two-round 590 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

2. BASEBALL Division 2 No. 16 Dearborn Divine Child downed No. 10 Macomb Lutheran North 10-0 to clinch the Catholic High School League Cardinal championship – Macomb Daily

3. BASEBALL Division 3 No. 5 Ann Arbor Greenhills came back to claim a second-straight CHSL St. Anne title with a 3-2 win over Division 4 No. 9 Royal Oak Shrine Catholic – Ann Arbor News

4. BASEBALL Howell downed Division 1 No. 18 Novi 6-1 to clinch its first KLAA title in nine years, winning the West – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

5. BASEBALL Ann Arbor Skyline downed Division 1 No. 19 Saline 4-2 to clinch an outright championship in the Southeastern Conference Red – Ann Arbor News

6. SOFTBALL Division 4 No. 8 Plymouth Christian Academy finished a repeat run in the Michigan Independent Athletic Conference with a shutout of Auburn Hills Oakland Christian – Hometown Life

7. TRACK & FIELD Negaunee swept girls and boys titles at the Mid-Peninsula Conference championship meets – Upper Michigan’s Source

8. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 12 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice repeated as CHSL Bishop champion with an 8-1 win over Toledo St. John’s – Oakland Press

9. BOYS GOLF Muskegon Mona Shores carded a 306 to win the Ottawa-Kent Conference Green Tournament – Local Sports Journal

10. BASEBALL Pinconning clinched the Jack Pine Conference 2 title with a sweep of Harrison – Bay City Times

Also of note …

BASEBALL Elk Rapids swept Charlevoix to clinch the Northern Shores Conference title – Traverse City Record-Eagle

BASEBALL Division 1 No. 9 Mattawan split with Kalamazoo Central to finish an outright Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference title – Kalamazoo Gazette

SOFTBALL Fruitport clinched a share of the O-K Conference Silver title with a split against Hopkins; Grandville Calvin Christian also shared – MuskegonSports.com

BOYS GOLF Battle Creek Harper Creek carded a school-record 291 to win the All-City championship – Battle Creek Enquirer