Today in the MHSAA: 11/7/16
November 7, 2016
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
The busiest championship weekend of the fall saw 12 MHSAA Finals winners crowned in cross country and boys soccer, plus many more in District volleyball and league girls swimming & diving.
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.
Cross Country
The Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart girls won in record fashion as Traverse City St. Francis and Otsego repeated and Milford surprised the Division 1 field at Michigan International Speedway – Second Half
Saugatuck repeated as a boys champion, but in a different division, while Pewamo-Westphalia also won a title in a new division, Corunna won for the first time ever and White Lake Lakeland for the first time in a while – Second Half
Boys Soccer
Mattawan and Grand Rapids Catholic Central won their first MHSAA championships in the sport, as Burton Genesee Christian won its second straight and East Kentwood won its fifth total by taking a shootout – Second Half
Girls Swimming & Diving
Lower Peninsula Division 1 honorable mention Grand Blanc edged No. 10 Brighton to win Saturday’s Kensington Lakes Activities Association Lakes meet as Brighton’s Taylor Seaman broke four league records – Livingston Daily Argus & Press
Midland Dow won its 11th straight Saginaw Valley League championship, led by three wins by freshman Claire Newman – Midland Daily News
Volleyball
Davison polished off its sixth District title in seven seasons with a sweep of Mount Morris in Class A – Flint Journal
Traverse City Central downed Gaylord for its first District title since 2008, in Class A – Traverse City Record-Eagle
Class A honorable mention Saline, meanwhile, won its first District title since 2005 with a sweep of Dexter – Saline Post
Allen Park claimed its fourth straight District title, downing Lincoln Park in Class A – Southgate News-Herald
Class B No. 7 Cadillac secured its 11th straight District title, sweeping Big Rapids – Cadillac News
Honorable mention Fruitport swept Montague in Class B for its first District title since 2011 – Muskegon Chronicle
After falling to Manchester in the District Final the last two seasons, Adrian Madison downed Manchester in the first round and went on to win in Class C – Adrian Daily Telegram
Crystal Falls Forest Park, also a state poll honorable mention, won its 17th straight District title, downing Wakefield-Marenisco in Class D – Ironwood Daily Globe
Pentwater won its fourth straight District title, sweeping Walkerville in Class D – Ludington Daily News
Today in the MHSAA: 10/6/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 6, 2025
1. CROSS COUNTRY Highly-ranked Lower Peninsula teams dominated at the prestigious Portage Invitational, with the LPD1 top-ranked Ann Arbor Pioneer girls and No. 2 boys, LPD2 No. 1 Otsego girls, LPD2 No. 2 East Grand Rapids boys, LPD3 No. 1 Lansing Catholic girls, LPD3 No. 1 Jackson Lumen Christi boys, LPD4 No. 1 Whitmore Lake girls and LPD4 No. 1 Maple City Glen Lake boys among champions – Athletic.net | Traverse City Record-Eagle
2. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Utica Eisenhower claimed its first Macomb County championship since 2018 – Macomb Daily
3. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING LPD2 top-ranked Farmington Hills Mercy dominated in claimed a third-straight Oakland County championship – Oakland Press
4. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD1 No. 15 Rochester girls and No. 8 Milford boys were champions at the Oakland County meet – Oakland Press
5. VOLLEYBALL Division 1 No. 10 Grand Haven finished 3-1 at the Jenison Invitational with Bria Hogeboom reaching 1,000 career assists – Grand Haven Tribune
6. GIRLS GOLF LPD3 No. 2 Grand Rapids Catholic Central carded a 677 to win the Katke Classic by 66 strokes – Ludington Daily News
7. CROSS COUNTRY The Hartland girls and LPD2 top-ranked Flint Powers Catholic boys won Greater Flint Championship titles – Flint Journal
8. VOLLEYBALL Division 4 No. 8 Crystal Falls Forest Park earned a repeat title at the Escanaba Invitational – Iron Mountain Daily News
9. VOLLEYBALL Division 3 honorable mention Manton finished 6-0 and downed Lake City to win the latter’s invitational – Cadillac News
10. CROSS COUNTRY Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker swept girls and boys titles at the North Park Invitational – Huron Daily Tribune