Today in the MHSAA: 12/18/19

December 18, 2019

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The 2019 calendar year refuses to finish without making some significant early impacts on this basketball season, with Tuesday including a few that will be remembered.

1. Girls Basketball: Saginaw Swan Valley delivered Hemlock’s first regular-season season defeat in nearly two calendar years, 67-50 – Saginaw News

2. Boys Basketball: Grand Rapids Christian locked down Grand Rapids Catholic Central for a 60-54 win – FOX 17

3. Boys Basketball: Beaverton got past reigning league champ Sanford Meridian 40-38 in a matchup of the two best from the Jack Pine Conference in 2018-19 – Midland Daily News

4. Girls Basketball: Hartland slowed down Okemos for a 41-23 win – State Champs Sports Network

5. Boys Swimming & Diving: Holland West Ottawa had the top finisher in eight races on the way to a 112-72 win over Zeeland – Holland Sentinel

6. Girls Basketball: Carlee Crabtree scored her 1,000th career point as Coldwater earned its first win this season, 62-22 over Hastings – Coldwater Daily Reporter

7. Girls Basketball: Saline moved to 5-0 with a 71-24 win over Dearborn Henry Ford Academy as Ella Stemmer set a school record with eight 3-pointers – Saline Post

8. Boys Basketball: Tyson Acuff scored 44 points including the winning basket in Detroit Cass Tech’s 65-64 win over Henry Ford – Detroit News

9. Girls Basketball: Marquette held on for a low-scoring 35-32 win over Negaunee – The Upbeat

10. Girls Basketball: Morgan Case made a half-court shot at the buzzer to push Blissfield past Erie Mason 50-47 – Adrian Daily Telegram

Also of note …

State Champs Sports Network produced its MHSAA Finals shows for Volleyball, Girls Swimming & Diving and Football

Today in the MHSAA: 5/23/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 23, 2025

1. BOYS GOLF Howell won its first overall Kensington Lakes Activities Association championship in this sport, carding a two-round 590 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

2. BASEBALL Division 2 No. 16 Dearborn Divine Child downed No. 10 Macomb Lutheran North 10-0 to clinch the Catholic High School League Cardinal championship – Macomb Daily

3. BASEBALL Division 3 No. 5 Ann Arbor Greenhills came back to claim a second-straight CHSL St. Anne title with a 3-2 win over Division 4 No. 9 Royal Oak Shrine Catholic – Ann Arbor News

4. BASEBALL Howell downed Division 1 No. 18 Novi 6-1 to clinch its first KLAA title in nine years, winning the West – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

5. BASEBALL Ann Arbor Skyline downed Division 1 No. 19 Saline 4-2 to clinch an outright championship in the Southeastern Conference Red – Ann Arbor News

6. SOFTBALL Division 4 No. 8 Plymouth Christian Academy finished a repeat run in the Michigan Independent Athletic Conference with a shutout of Auburn Hills Oakland Christian – Hometown Life

7. TRACK & FIELD Negaunee swept girls and boys titles at the Mid-Peninsula Conference championship meets – Upper Michigan’s Source

8. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 12 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice repeated as CHSL Bishop champion with an 8-1 win over Toledo St. John’s – Oakland Press

9. BOYS GOLF Muskegon Mona Shores carded a 306 to win the Ottawa-Kent Conference Green Tournament – Local Sports Journal

10. BASEBALL Pinconning clinched the Jack Pine Conference 2 title with a sweep of Harrison – Bay City Times

Also of note …

BASEBALL Elk Rapids swept Charlevoix to clinch the Northern Shores Conference title – Traverse City Record-Eagle

BASEBALL Division 1 No. 9 Mattawan split with Kalamazoo Central to finish an outright Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference title – Kalamazoo Gazette

SOFTBALL Fruitport clinched a share of the O-K Conference Silver title with a split against Hopkins; Grandville Calvin Christian also shared – MuskegonSports.com

BOYS GOLF Battle Creek Harper Creek carded a school-record 291 to win the All-City championship – Battle Creek Enquirer