Today in the MHSAA: 12/18/15
December 18, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Holiday break is nearly upon us, but heroics of December, these few included, are setting up what should be an interesting January and February for a number of teams all over the state.
Girls Basketball
Detroit Renaissance might be the best in Detroit this winter – and a contender in Class A – after handing a rare city loss to Detroit Martin Luther King, 68-65 – Detroit News
Muskegon’s Mardrekia Cook drilled a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Big Reds a 55-52 win over Muskegon Oakridge – Muskegon Chronicle
Boys Basketball
Shawn Pardee is again starring for Millington this season – and missed his school record by only a point Thursday with 55 in an 83-77 double overtime win over Essexville Garber – Saginaw News
Frankfort and Traverse City St. Francis traded baskets over the final 20 seconds, with St. Francis getting the last in a 69-68 victory – Traverse City Record-Eagle
Andrew Terry’s fifth 3-pointer of the game gave Warren Lincoln a 61-60 final lead with 4.9 seconds to play against Center Line – Macomb Daily
Girls Swimming & Diving
Gladstone, runner-up at last season’s Upper Peninsula Final, edged Kingsford by three points in a tri-meet; Kingsford was sixth last season – Iron Mountain Daily
Track & Field
Longtime Kingsford athletic director and 2001 MHSAA Bush Award winner Don Edens, Jr., died Tuesday at the age of 70. Edens also was a longtime manager of the U.P. Track & Field Finals – WLUC
Today in the MHSAA: 5/27/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
May 27, 2025
1. TRACK & FIELD The top-ranked Holland Christian girls and No. 1 Battle Creek Harper Creek boys won Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association team titles in Division 2 – Holland Sentinel | Battle Creek Enquirer
2. TRACK & FIELD The top-ranked Remus Chippewa Hills girls and No. 3 Traverse City St. Francis boys won Division 3 MITCA team championships – Big Rapids Pioneer | Traverse City Record-Eagle
3. TRACK & FIELD The top-ranked Hillsdale Academy girls and No. 1 Riverview Gabriel Richard boys won MITCA titles in Division 4 – Hillsdale Daily News | Athletic.net
4. TRACK & FIELD East Kentwood swept Division 1 MITCA championships; both the girls and boys teams were ranked No. 1 entering the meet – Athletic.net
5. SOFTBALL Division 3 No. 6 Grass Lake claimed its fifth-straight Cascades Conference title with a sweep of honorable mention Brooklyn Columbia Central – Jackson Citizen Patriot
6. SOFTBALL Benzie Central swept Onekama to clinch its first Northwest Conference title in this sport since 1996 – Manistee News-Advocate
7. BASEBALL Division 3 No. 9 Grass Lake also claimed its fifth-straight Cascades Conference title on the baseball diamond with a sweep of Brooklyn Columbia Central – Jackson Citizen Patriot
8. SOFTBALL Bronson finished a fourth-straight Big 8 Conference title run with a sweep of Concord – Coldwater Daily Reporter
9. SOFTBALL Division 4 No. 6 Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart swept Vestaburg to clinch a fourth-straight Mid-State Activities Conference title – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
10. SOFTBALL Division 3 No. 3 Evart earned a shared Highland Conference title with Division 4 No. 2 Beal City by sweeping LeRoy Pine River – Cadillac News
Also of note …
TRACK & FIELD The Rochester High girls and Rochester Adams boys won Oakland County championships – Oakland Press Girls | Boys