Today in the MHSAA: 11/23/16

November 23, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The winter sports season is underway on the hockey rink, and in addition to coverage of Tuesday games we’ve got the awarding of a top football player and reorganization of an east-side league.

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.

Football

Detroit Cass Tech star Donovan Peoples-Jones received the MLive Football Player of the Year Award on Tuesday – MLive-Detroit

Hockey

Five players scored as Kingsford got past Escanaba 5-3; Kingsford was a Regional semifinalist last season – Escanaba Daily Press

L’Anse Creuse United and St. Clair Shores United combined for 55 shots on goal as L’Anse Creuse won 4-0 – Macomb Daily

Hartland added Jed Pietila from the travel ranks this winter and is seeing the benefits of having another excellent forward after a 16-0 win – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

Good Read

Fans of 8-player football in particular will be interested in this report on the reorganization of the North Central Thumb League – Huron Daily Tribune

Today in the MHSAA: 4/13/26

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

April 13, 2026

1. SOFTBALL Division 3 No. 8 Pinconning ended Division 2 No. 9 Essexville Garber’s five-year Bay County championship run with an 8-6 win in this year’s final – Bay City Times

2. TRACK & FIELD Traverse City West swept girls and boys championships at the Freeland Invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle

3. TRACK & FIELD The Remus Chippewa Hills girls and Shepherd boys won Warrior Invitational titles – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

4. BOYS GOLF Bay City Western – No. 9 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – and Freeland’s Tristan Pohl were champions at the Pinconning Invitational – Bay City Times

5. GIRLS SOCCER Bay City Western defeated 2025 champion and current Division 2 No. 10 Essexville Garber 6-0 to win the Bay County Championship – Bay City Times

6. BASEBALL Division 2 No. 10 Yale defeated Croswell-Lexington 5-1 to win Cass City’s Wood Bat Classic – WNEM

7. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 9 Bay City Western downed Garber to win the Bay County Championship on the baseball diamond – Bay City Times

8. BOYS GOLF Tecumseh was first in Division 1 and overall at Ida’s Larry Murdock Invitational – Adrian Daily Telegram

9. TRACK & FIELD The Bellevue girls and Hanover-Horton boys won the latter’s Comet Invitational – Jackson Citizen-Patriot

10. BASEBALL Division 2 No. 13 Flat Rock and Taylor split, Flat Rock winning the first game 9-6 and Taylor the second 19-9 – Southgate News-Herald