Today in the MHSAA: 11/9/18

November 9, 2018

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Each weekday of the school year, we break down the top headlines courtesy of Michigan’s sports media.

Thursday’s 32 Volleyball Regional Finals saw the elimination of 12 top-10 teams but all eight contenders ranked No. 1 or 2 move on as next week’s Quarterfinals were set.

1. Volleyball: No. 2 Pontiac Notre Dame Prep downed No. 3 North Branch in a power-packed Division 2 Regional title matchup – Oakland Press

2. Volleyball: Reigning Class C champion and current top-ranked Bronson moved on in Division 3 with a 3-2 Regional title win over No. 3 Schoolcraft – Sturgis Journal

3. Volleyball: Top-ranked Farmington Hills Mercy continued its run this fall over rival and No. 6 Bloomfield Hills Marian with a Division 1 Regional Final sweep – Oakland Press

4. Volleyball: Unranked Richland Gull Lake avenged two sweeps by No. 3 Mattawan this season with a 3-1 Regional Final win in Division 1 – Kalamazoo Gazette

5. Volleyball: No. 2 Lake Orion swept league rival and No. 9 Rochester Hills Stoney Creek for a Division 1 Regional title – Oakland Press

6. Volleyball: No. 2 Mendon came back from dropping the first set to clinch a Division 4 Regional title with a four-set win over No. 5 Battle Creek St. Philip – Sturgis Journal

7. Volleyball: Honorable mention Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian continued a title-filled run with a 3-1 win over No. 7 North Muskegon in a Division 3 Regional Final – Grand Rapids Press

8. Volleyball: No. 7 Adrian Lenawee Christian came back from a two-set deficit to down No. 3 Camden-Frontier in a Division 4 Regional Final – Adrian Daily Telegram

9. Volleyball: Honorable mention Onaway came back from losing the first set to upset No. 10 Rudyard in five in a Division 4 Regional Final – Alpena News

10. Volleyball: Kingsley won its first Regional since 2009 and ended Cadillac’s streak at nine with a sweep in a Division 2 matchup of honorable mention teams – Traverse City Record-Eagle

Also of note …

Volleyball: No. 5 Manchester swept Bath in Division 3 to earn its first Regional title in 25 years – Jackson Citizen Patriot

Volleyball: Kingston downed No. 8 Merrill in Division 4 to clinch its first Regional title in this sport – Saginaw News

Football: Central Lake coach Rob Heeke has announced his retirement; he led the team to the 8-player Division 1 title in 2017 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

Today in the MHSAA: 5/6/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 6, 2025

1. BASEBALL Grand Blanc defeated Division 1 top-ranked Bay City Western 4-0 to open their doubleheader, but Western won the second game 3-0 – Bay City Times

2. SOFTBALL Division 1 No. 3 Hudsonville held on for a 2-1 eight-inning win over honorable mention Grand Haven – Grand Haven Tribune

3. GIRLS TENNIS Parma Western – No. 9 in Lower Peninsula Division 3 – downed Battle Creek Harper Creek to finish a perfect run through the Interstate 8 Athletic Conference – Jackson Citizen Patriot

4. BASEBALL Southgate Anderson got past Division 2 No. 5 Trenton 1-0 in eight innings – Southgate News-Herald

5. SOFTBALL Linden’s Morgan Piotrovsky went over 200 career hits during the Division 2 honorable mention Eagles’ sweep of Flint Kearsley – Flint Journal

6. TRACK & FIELD The LPD3 No. 2 McBain girls and Manton boys took steps in their Highland Conference races – Cadillac News

7. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 6 Frankenmuth downed Freeland 3-0 – WNEM

8. SOFTBALL Division 2 honorable mention Chelsea leads the Southeastern Conference White after sweeping Adrian – Ann Arbor News

9. BASEBALL Andrew Everson threw a no-hitter for Brighton in its 6-0 win over Hartland – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

10. GIRLS SOCCER Armada ran its winning streak to 12 with a 3-1 win over Richmond – Macomb Daily