Today in the MHSAA: 1/24/22
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
January 25, 2022
1. WRESTLING Division 3 top-ranked Dundee was first and Division 4 top-ranked Hudson second at the Tigers’ Super 16 Tournament – Monroe News
2. HOCKEY Division 2 top-ranked Hartland defeated No. 4 Byron Center and then No. 6 Muskegon Mona Shores to win the Westside Invitational – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
3. BOYS BASKETBALL Division 3 No. 17 Ecorse beat the buzzer to hand Division 1 No. 11 River Rouge its first loss, 60-58 – Southgate News-Herald
4. GIRLS BASKETBALL Alyssa Hill went over 1,000 career points as Negaunee avenged an earlier loss to Ishpeming Westwood – Marquette Mining Journal
5. WRESTLING Division 2 No. 2 Whitehall won the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association championship with eight individual titles – Muskegon Chronicle
6. WRESTLING Gladstone won its first Upper Peninsula championship in five years, with Division 4 No. 9 Iron Mountain second – Escanaba Daily Press
7. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Brownstown Woodhaven won the 10-team Downriver Classic – Southgate News-Herald
8. COMPETITIVE CHEER Wyandotte Roosevelt finished first in Division 1 and overall at its invitational – Southgate News-Herald
9. WRESTLING Napoleon was first and Niles Brandywine second at the 26th Shawn Cockrell Memorial Invitational at Quincy – Coldwater Daily Reporter
10. WRESTLING Howell went 5-0 to win Plymouth’s Jimmy Ahearn Memorial Duals – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
Today in the MHSAA: 1/5/16
January 5, 2016
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Winter sports return in force with a full slate of events statewide tonight, but here are a few headlines of note as we get rolling – plus two great reads from the wrestling world.
Boys Basketball
Ishpeming in recent seasons has scheduled its first basketball games later than other teams to offset the football team’s four straight runs to the MHSAA Finals at Ford Field – but the Hematites were one of the first to play in 2016 and came away with a 74-72 win over Gladstone to move to 2-0 – Marquette Mining Journal
Girls Bowling
From Sunday, two-time reigning Division 2 champion Flint Kearsley got past 2015 Division 1 finalist Jackson to win the Lila Jean Furnish Classic in Owosso, which included a number of the state’s top teams – Jackson Citizen-Patriot
Good Reads
When Clinton wrestler Nick Rolland was 3, his parents were told to say their good-byes after he was pulled from under a running lawn mower. But doctors were able to save his life, and then his leg, and this weekend he’ll wrestle for his 100th career win – Adrian Daily Telegram
Hastings wrestling coach Mike Goggins started out as an athlete for the Saxons, later coached at the middle school and now also is the high school athletic director – and owner of more than 400 varsity coaching wins after reaching that milestone during the Montrose Invitational on Dec. 29 – Grand Rapids Press