Today in the MHSAA: 12/1/16
December 1, 2016
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
As fans of competition, we can give thanks for early-season matchups of top-ranked teams like we saw in hockey Wednesday. But check out our “Good Reads” today for a wider perspective of why else we should be grateful.
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.
Girls Basketball
Michigan Center survived a Jonesville comeback to win its season opener 43-40 in overtime – Jackson Citizen-Patriot
Class D power Athens got off to the right start with a 32-20 win over Battle Creek St. Philip – Battle Creek Enquirer
Mackinaw City pulled out an overtime win over rival Pellston, 36-33 – Petoskey News Review
From Tuesday, Canton downed Bloomfield Hills Marian 43-40 in an early-season meeting of regular contenders in Class A – Observer & Eccentric
Hockey
Hartland – ranked No. 1 in Division 2 – came back from a two-goal deficit to beat Division 1 top-ranked Brighton 3-2 in overtime – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
Cadillac led 4-0 but had to hold on for a 5-4 win over Cheboygan – Cadillac News
On his team’s 56th shot of the night, Mario Steffin netted the game-winner as Wyandotte Roosevelt downed Southgate Anderson 4-3 in overtime – Southgate News Herald
Good Reads
We missed this one a few days ago, but the Port Huron Times Herald provided some awesome perspective by printing what many of its most notable local sports figures – coaches, high school stars and champions past – were thankful for this Thanksgiving weekend – Port Huron Times Herald
We’ve been following the story of longtime northern Michigan and current Traverse City St. Francis basketball coach Keith Haske (Second Half, 3/3/16), who has been fighting cancer but finished up a round of chemotherapy this week – Traverse City Record-Eagle
Today in the MHSAA: 5/7/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
May 7, 2025
1. TRACK & FIELD The Romeo girls and Macomb Dakota boys clinched Macomb Area Conference Red championships – Macomb Daily Girls | Boys
2. GIRLS SOCCER Division 1 No. 2 Bloomfield Hills clinched a share of the Oakland Activities Association Red title with a 2-0 win over No. 8 Rochester Adams – Oakland Press
3. BASEBALL Parchment earned coach Rob Dreier his 500th career win with a 16-4 defeat of Lawton – Kalamazoo Gazette
4. GIRLS SOCCER Division 1 No. 10 Troy Athens remains in contention for a share in the OAA Red as well after a 2-0 win over No. 7 Troy – Oakland Press
5. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 11 Traverse City St. Francis avenged an earlier loss to Division 4 No. 3 Leland with a 2-0 win – MI Sports Now
6. BOYS GOLF Freeland and Saginaw Valley Lutheran’s Reid Schisler were Saginaw County Invitational champions – Saginaw News
7. SOFTBALL Coloma swept Division 3 honorable mention Watervliet, allowing a combined two runs over the two games – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
8. BOYS GOLF Cassopolis claimed the Scott Novak Memorial Cup championship – Niles Daily Star
9. TRACK & FIELD The Remus Chippewa Hills girls – No. 1 in Lower Peninsula Division 3 – pulled within a few more wins of a potential 22nd-straight league title, and Big Rapids’ boys also remained alive for a championship with a sweep – Big Rapids Pioneer
10. BASEBALL Gaylord St. Mary’s Daniel Jacobson went 5-for-6 in his team’s split with Johannesburg-Lewiston a day after pacing the golf team in a win by tying for the lead in his first high school golf event – Petoskey News-Review