Today in the MHSAA: 1/16/19

January 16, 2019

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Tuesday night is usually a basketball night – and there’s big news to report. But the most major headline may have come in the pool as three swimming & diving stories made today’s top 10.

1. Boys Swimming & Diving: Lower Peninsula Division 1 honorable mention Zeeland downed LPD3 No. 1 Holland Christian 113-73 to take the lead in the Ottawa Kent Conference Green – Holland Sentinel

2. Girls Basketball: Flint Carman-Ainsworth downed reigning Class B champion Detroit Country Day 65-60 – Flint Journal

3. Boys Basketball: Muskegon Reeths-Puffer ended Muskegon’s 58-game league winning streak with a 63-59 overtime win – Muskegon Chronicle

4. Boys Basketball: Roseville downed Macomb Dakota 63-56 in a matchup of Macomb Area Conference Red contenders – Detroit News

5. Boys Swimming & Diving: LPD1 No. 5 Ann Arbor Pioneer outraced honorable mention Ann Arbor Huron 117-69 – We Love Ann Arbor

6. Boys Basketball: Behind eight 3-pointers by Nolan Finkbeiner, Hemlock handed Sanford Meridian its first loss, 60-51 – Saginaw News

7. Hockey: Division 2 top-ranked Hartland downed No. 9 Howell 7-1 after being outshot during the first period – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

8. Boys Swimming & Diving: LPD3 No. 3 Spring Lake earned a key 98-88 league win over LPD2 honorable mention Jenison – Grand Haven Tribune

9. Girls Basketball: Michigan Center remained undefeated with a 52-38 win over rival Hanover-Horton – Jackson Citizen-Patriot

10. Boys Basketball: Hudsonville made a strong move in the O-K Red with a big win over East Kentwood – FOX 17

Also of note …

Basketball: Coopersville will be celebrating its 100th season of basketball Friday, and this collection includes many highlights both girls and boys from all over that first century – Grand Rapids Press

Today in the MHSAA: 4/15/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

April 15, 2025

1. SOFTBALL Tia Schone shined with 16 strikeouts in a 10-0 six-inning perfect game win over Ishpeming Westwood that kicked off a Gladstone sweep – Escanaba Daily Press

2. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 6 Essexville Garber earned a key 1-0 victory over No. 8 Freeland – WNEM

3. TRACK & FIELD Alma’s boys defeated reigning Tri-Valley Conference Red champion Frankenmuth and also Bridgeport, while the Frankenmuth girls earned two wins – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

4. BASEBALL Midland Dow went to extra innings again, this time for a 12-11 win over Division 1 No. 11 Grand Blanc in eight – Midland Daily News

5. BASEBALL Howell came back from a six-run deficit to defeat Division 1 No. 3 Novi 8-7 on a bases-loaded walk – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

6. GIRLS SOCCER Abby Ellis scored all three goals as Waterford Mott downed Kettering 3-2 – Oakland Press

7. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 12 Saline came back from eight and then one run down to sweep Temperance Bedford – Ann Arbor News

8. SOFTBALL Sage Myers earned pitching wins and hit homers in both games of Division 4 honorable mention Frankfort’s sweep of McBain – Traverse City Record-Eagle

9. GIRLS SOCCER Maddie Jordan scored four goals as Bad Axe downed Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker 5-3 – Huron Daily Tribune

10. GIRLS SOCCER Division 4 No. 4 North Muskegon held on for a 5-3 win over Hart – Local Sports Journal