Today in the MHSAA: 1/15/16

January 15, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Thursday provided a substantial appetizer for another big weekend with key basketball games, noteworthy swimming and diving finishes and a milestone wrestling victory.

Boys Basketball

Clarkston earned a key Oakland Activities Association Red edge with a win over similarly state-ranked North Farmington, 60-47 – Oakland Press

Frankfort earned a similarly important win in Northwest Conference play, winning a matchup of Class D ranked teams 65-55 over Buckley – Traverse City Record-Eagle

For the second straight day, a basketball team made an incredible comeback; this time, it was East Jackson building off a 21-2 deficit at the end of the first quarter to beat Napoleon 42-39 – Jackson Citizen-Patriot

Olivet junior Delbert Redfield made nine of 11 3-point tries and scored 33 points total to lead the Eagles to a 73-55 win over Lansing Christian – MLive Lansing

Girls Basketball

Warren Cousino handed Grosse Pointe North the latter’s first loss this season, 64-58, to move to 9-1 overall – Macomb Daily

Boys Swimming & Diving

Lower Peninsula Division 3 honorable mention Spring Lake downed No. 4 Hamilton, No. 5 Grand Rapids Christian and Division 2 honorable mention Holland in its best meet of a strong run so far – Grand Haven Tribune

Wrestling

Leslie defeated Olivet (and also lost to Lake Odessa Lakewood) on Thursday, giving Blackhawks coach Todd Stern his 400th career win since taking over as head coach in 1987 – Jackson Citizen-Patriot

Good Reads

Battle of the Fans V kicks off tonight with our first visit to Yale, a finalist as well in 2015 – Port Huron Times-Herald

Grand Haven’s basketball teams will return to their former gym now part of Lakeshore Middle School – Pirates Pit – on Feb. 6 and for the first time since 2007 as the high school gym will be used for the league wrestling meet – Grand Haven Tribune

Vanderbilt’s boys basketball team has one win this season, but it was the first in nearly two years and a testament to the rebuilding of the program under first-year coach Darren Conn and assistant Amie Byelich – Petoskey News

Today In The MHSAA: 4/14/22

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

April 14, 2022

1. GIRLS SOCCER Swartz Creek shut out Division 2 No. 14 Fenton 2-0 – Mid-Michigan Now

2. GIRLS SOCCER After winning two games in 2021, Flat Rock is 2-0-1 this spring after Wednesday’s win over Carleton Airport – Monroe News

3. SOFTBALL Traverse City West’s Kaci Sowers won her third and fourth games this week with a combined 28 strikeouts in a sweep of Division 3 honorable mention Charlevoix – Traverse City Record-Eagle

4. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 12 Boyne City ran its Lake Michigan Conference record to 3-0 with a 2-1 win over Traverse City St. Francis – Petoskey News-Review

5. GIRLS SOCCER Port Huron Northern moved to 2-0 with a 4-1 win over rival Port Huron – Port Huron Times Herald

6. BASEBALL Evan Waters struck out 13 over six innings to lead Lake Orion past Grosse Pointe North 7-0 – Oakland Press

7. GIRLS SOCCER Cadillac scored the lone goal with two minutes to play in a 1-0 win over Ludington – Cadillac News

8. BASEBALL Adrian Madison opened Tri-County Conference play with a sweep of Petersburg Summerfield – Adrian Daily Telegram

9. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 5 Brownstown Woodhaven moved to 2-0 in Downriver League play with a 5-2 win over Gibraltar Carlson – Southgate News-Herald

10. GIRLS SOCCER Kate Robinson scored the lone goal as Madison Heights Lamphere edge St. Clair Shores Lake Shore 1-0 – Macomb Daily