Today in the MHSAA: 1/15/19

January 15, 2019

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

A matchup of two of the north’s top girls basketball teams plus rivalry games in hoops and hockey highlighted Monday’s action across the state.

1. Girls Basketball: Kingsley won a matchup of league leaders, downing Manton 66-40 – WPBN

2. Hockey: Division 3 No. 6 Houghton poured in four goals during the third period to get past Hancock 6-1 – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

3. Girls Basketball: Charlevoix won a matchup of first-place teams in the Lake Michigan Conference, 56-32 over Elk Rapids – Petoskey News-Review

4. Skiing: Gaylord’s Reagan Olli won both slalom and giant slalom at the Big North Conference competition at Crystal Mountain; Petoskey’s boys and Traverse City Central’s girls finished first among teams – Traverse City Record-Eagle

5. Boys Basketball: Justus Clark made both free throws with a tenth of a second to play to get North Farmington past Farmington High 41-39 – C&G Newspapers

6. Boys Basketball: Buchanan came back from 10 points down to defeat Constantine 59-51 – JoeInsider.com

7. Girls Basketball: Coleman made a last-second stop to outlast Tawas 35-34 – Midland Daily News

8. Girls Basketball: Sanford Meridian came back from a five-point halftime deficit to down Breckenridge 48-33 – Midland Daily News

9. Boys Basketball: Rapid River made 57 percent of its shots from the field in a 68-54 win over Powers North Central – Escanaba Daily Press

10. Bowling: Grand Haven’s girls downed East Kentwood’s 27-3, while the boys teams tied in league competition – Grand Haven Tribune

Also of note …

Wrestling: From Saturday, Division 1 No. 2 Brighton downed No. 4 Hartland to claim the Kensington Lakes Activities Association West championship – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

Today in the MHSAA: 1/29/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

January 29, 2025

1. GIRLS BASKETBALL Negaunee downed Gladstone 45-28 in a matchup of undefeated teams – Escanaba Daily Press

2. GIRLS BASKETBALL Utica Eisenhower took over first place alone in the Macomb Area Conference Red in handing Utica Ford its first loss, 63-49 – Macomb Daily

3. GIRLS BASKETBALL Midland remains atop the Saginaw Valley League after handing Saginaw Heritage its first conference loss, 53-36 – Midland Daily News

4. GIRLS BASKETBALL Yale remains atop the Blue Water Area Conference, now alone after handing Armada its first loss 69-62 – Port Huron Times Herald

5. HOCKEY Division 1 No. 3 Hartland downed Division 2 No. 2 Livonia Stevenson 8-5 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

6. GIRLS BASKETBALL Grace Mitchell went over 1,000 career points in Paw Paw’s 68-37 win over Kalamazoo Central, believed to be the program’s first win over K-Central since 1968 – Kalamazoo Gazette

7. BOYS BASKETBALL Freeland’s Wilson Huckeby reached 1,000 career points in his team’s 74-47 win over Alma – Saginaw News

8. BOYS BASKETBALL Norway got past Kingsford 60-57 on a last-second shot – Upper Peninsula’s Source

9. GIRLS BASKETBALL Northville kept pace in the Kensington Lakes Activities Association West with a 49-43 win over Howell – Detroit News

10. GIRLS BASKETBALL Traverse City Central earned a notable 59-39 win over Sault Ste. Marie – Up North Live