Today in the MHSAA: 1/24/20

January 24, 2020

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

A hockey league champion celebrated Thursday, while girls and boys basketball conference races continued to shift with upsets and buzzer beaters.

1. Hockey: Division 2 No. 7 Lake Orion locked up the Oakland Activities Association Red title with an 8-0 win over M-1 United – Oakland Press

2. Girls Basketball: New Lothrop edged Durand 59-54 in overtime thanks to Brooke Wenzlick’s school-record 42 points – Flint Journal

3. Boys Basketball: Parker’s Neu’s late basket helped Traverse City West hand Cadillac its first loss, 47-46 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

4. Boys Basketball: Pickford broke a seven-game winning streak for Rudyard, 62-50 – MI Sports Now

5. Girls Basketball: Caro improved to 10-1 overall and moved into first alone in the Greater Thumb Conference West with a 46-37 win over Reese – Bay City Times

6. Girls Basketball: Adrian Lenawee Christian held off Dexter 51-43 – Adrian Daily Telegram

7. Girls Basketball: Ravenna knocked Montague out of a first-place tie in the West Michigan Conference with a 42-40 win – Muskegon Chronicle

8. Boys Basketball: Jemari Mack’s last-second putback was the final difference in Macomb L’Anse Creuse North’s 56-54 win over Sterling Heights Stevenson – Macomb Daily

9. Girls Basketball: Clarkston held on for a 46-42 win over Royal Oak – Oakland Press

10. Bowling: Midland’s boys came back from a 10-0 deficit to get past Grand Blanc 20-10 – Midland Daily News

Also of note …

Hockey: From Wednesday, Riverview downed Grosse Ile 3-2 in overtime to clinch the Huron League championship – Southgate News-Herald

Today in the MHSAA: 10/9/15

October 9, 2015

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

MHSAA Boys Tennis Regionals got rolling all over the Lower Peninsula on Thursday, while girls golf continued with its second day of postseason competition.

Girls Golf

Three top-10 Lower Peninsula Division 1 teams emerged from the MHSAA Regional at Twin Lakes Golf Club. No. 7 Troy shot 309, 20 strokes ahead of the field, and was followed by No. 5 Bloomfield Hills and No. 10 Farmington Hills Mercy – Oakland Press

Boys Soccer

Division 2 No. 8 Spring Lake came back to beat No. 6 Fruitport in overtime 5-3, creating a tie between the two for first in the Lakes 8 Conference – Muskegon Chronicle

Boys Tennis

Paw Paw, ranked No. 10 in LP Division 4, won its first regional title – Kalamazoo Gazette

Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central, No. 2 in LP Division 2, won all eight flights to claim its regional championship – Grand Rapids Press 

LP Division 3 Petoskey won its seventh straight regional championship – Petoskey News

Both No. 5 Detroit U-D Jesuit and No 8 Birmingham Seaholm edged No. 4 Birmingham Groves by a point, tying for their LP Division 2 title – Oakland Press

Volleyball

Class A No. 8 Seaholm continued an impressive run, this time knocking off No. 3 Lake Orion in five sets after beating honorable mention Clarkston on Tuesday – Oakland Press 

Class A No. 6 Romeo continued its surge, coming back after losing the first set to win the next three against Class B No. 10 Marysville – Macomb Daily