Today in the MHSAA: 11/14/16

November 14, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

We’ve moved into the final week this fall for volleyball and girls swimming & diving and will have plenty of coverage to “link up” over the next few days. In the meantime, here are a few more interesting reads to get you rolling into another Monday.

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.

Good Reads

St. Joseph Michigan Lutheran’s Emily Witkowski wants to be a teacher and coach someday, and she’ll have some great experience from which to draw as a multi-sport athlete during her high school career – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

In honor of Veterans Day, the Macomb Daily featured Marine Corps vet James Manning, who takes photos of Utica Eisenhower football games and has been catching the action with his camera for nearly a half-century – Macomb Daily

Williamston’s basketball community will work this weekend to raise $15,000 to send cancer-fighting boys coach Jason Bauer and his family to Disney World – and will raise the money hosting the longest basketball game in Michigan – MLive-Lansing

Today in the MHSAA: 6/2/17

June 2, 2017

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Carney-Nadeau senior Hunter Eicchorn achieved what no other male golfer had in MHSAA history before Thursday, topping an excitement-filled afternoon of Upper Peninsula Golf Finals, Lower Peninsula Regionals and Girls Soccer District Semifinals.

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 Golf

Carney-Nadeau’s Hunter Eicchorn capped his career as arguably the state’s most accomplished golfer by leading his team to an Upper Peninsula Division 3 title while becoming the first in MHSAA history to win a fourth individual championship – Second Half

St. Ignace finished a U.P. Division 2 championship run with a 10-stroke Finals win – Second Half

No. 3 Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian finished 17 strokes better than No. 2 Muskegon Catholic Central to win the LP Division 4 Regional at Hastings Country Club; Lansing Christian also advanced for the first time to next week’s Finals – Muskegon Chronicle

Girls Golf

Munising’s successful senior class added a golf championship to the list with a win at the U.P. Division 2 Final – Second Half

DeTour claimed its first MHSAA golf title since 1999, finishing as champ in U.P. Division 3 – Second Half

Girls Soccer

No. 11 Plymouth downed neighbor and No. 12 Canton 1-0 in a Division 1 District Semifinal and matchup of teams with a combined 30 wins this season – MLive-Detroit

No. 8 Kalamazoo Christian scored with six seconds to play to down rival No. 2 Kalamazoo Hackett 1-0 in a Division 4 District Semifinal – Kalamazoo Gazette

Division 1 No. 19 New Baltimore Anchor Bay needed a shootout to dispatch Macomb L’Anse Creuse North 2-1 in a District Semifinal – Macomb Daily

West Bloomfield advanced to its first District Final since 1993 with a 3-2 overtime win over Walled Lake Central – Oakland Press

No. 15 Spring Lake got past No. 17 Muskegon Reeths-Puffer 2-0 in a Division 2 District Semifinal – Grand Haven Tribune

Division 4 No. 13 St. Joseph Michigan Lutheran scored with seven minutes to play to get past Bridgman in a District Semifinal – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

Division 1 No. 7 Livonia Stevenson had to convert 14 penalty kicks in its half of a shootout before a miss by Northville to earn a 2-1 win in a District Semifinal – Observer & Eccentric