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: 9/29/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

September 29, 2021

1. GIRLS GOLF Grand Blanc clinched its third-straight Saginaw Valley League championship – WJRT

2. GIRLS GOLF Durand finished a third-straight Mid-Michigan Activities Conference championship run with a seven-stroke win at the league postseason tournament – Owosso Argus-Press

3. VOLLEYBALL Division 1 honorable mention Lake Orion came back from two sets down to defeat No. 9 Clarkston in five – Oakland Press

4. GIRLS GOLF Plainwell edged Allegan by four strokes to win the Wolverine Conference championship tournament – JoeInsider.com

5. BOYS SOCCER Division 2 No. 14 Ludington shut out Muskegon Western Michigan Christian 2-0 to clinch a share of the Lakes 8 Activities Conference title – Ludington Daily News

6. BOYS SOCCER Stevensville Lakeshore played Division 2 top-ranked St. Joseph to a 1-1 draw – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

7. BOYS SOCCER Traverse City Christian scored the lone goal during the second half of a 1-0 win over Division 3 No. 9 Boyne City – Up North Live

8. CROSS COUNTRY The Ann Arbor Pioneer girls – top-ranked in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – and Saline boys topped standings at the star-studded Southeastern Conference Red jamboree – Monroe News

9. CROSS COUNTRY Battle Creek Lakeview swept girls and boys All-City championships – Battle Creek Enquirer

10. BOYS SOCCER In what could be the first of multiple matchups, Division 3 No. 8 Detroit Country Day and No. 13 Pontiac Notre Dame Prep played to a 1-1 draw – Oakland Press