Today In The MHSAA: 1/28/22
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
January 28, 2022
1. WRESTLING Division 3 No. 3 Alma clinched a sixth-straight regular-season league title with a 55-9 win over Birch Run – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
2. GIRLS BASKETBALL Katelyn Pnacek became the third Coleman player to reach 1,000 career points, reaching the milestone in the Division 4 No. 10 Comets’ 47-26 win over Breckenridge – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
3. GIRLS BASKETBALL Emma Smieska went over 1,000 career points in Leslie’s 49-37 win over Lansing Christian – Jackson Citizen Patriot
4. GIRLS BASKETBALL Division 4 No. 6 Gaylord St. Mary downed No. 14 Lake Leelanau St. Mary 62-50 – Traverse City Record-Eagle
5. HOCKEY Pinckney opened the Michigan Public High School Showcase with a 4-2 win over Division 2 No. 9 South Lyon – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
6. GIRLS BASKETBALL Homer dealt Division 3 No. 5 Jonesville its first defeat, 48-47 – Jackson Citizen Patriot
7. BOYS BASKETBALL Treyvon Lewis filled the stat sheet in West Bloomfield’s 72-61 win over Division 2 No. 6 Ferndale – Oakland Press
8. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Holland West Ottawa – No. 4 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – swam past Rockford 175-125 – Holland Sentinel
9. BOYS BASKETBALL Division 4 No. 5 McBain Northern Michigan Christian held on for a 56-50 win at Manton – Up North Live
10. BOYS BASKETBALL Joseph Hayes scored 40 points in Shelby’s 63-55 win over Hart – CatchMark SportsNet
Today in the MHSAA: 3/1/16
March 1, 2016
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Four more MHSAA championships were awarded Monday, while the Girls Basketball District Tournament tipped off with a new scoring record.
Girls Basketball
Benton Harbor’s Kysre Gondrezick scored an MHSAA-record 72 points to lead her team past Buchanan 80-78 in double overtime of a Class B District opener – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
Reigning Class A champion Bloomfield Hills Marian opened District play with a 44-38 win over Bloomfield Hills, the 600th win of coach Mary Cicerone’s career – Detroit News
Maple City Glen Lake moved to 19-2 with a Class C win over Johannesburg-Lewiston, which finished 18-2 – Traverse City Record-Eagle
Spring Lake edged Fruitport 47-42, ending the latter’s season after it won its first league title – Muskegon Chronicle
Warren Mott earned its first District win since 2001, downing Troy Athens in Class A 50-49 – Macomb Daily
East Lansing eliminated reigning Class B runner-up Haslett – now in Class A – in a District opener, 60-42 – Lansing State Journal
Reigning Class C champion Calumet opened with a 41-34 win over Hancock, one of the most successful teams on the Copper Kings’ immediate path toward returning to East Lansing – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette
Ice Hockey
Division 1 No. 15 Rochester downed Lake Orion 5-2 in a Division 1 Pre-Regional after being eliminated by the Dragons the last two seasons – Oakland Press
Division 3 No. 1 Saginaw Heritage downed No. 8 Flint Powers Catholic 3-2 in a Pre-Regional rematch – Saginaw News
Skiing
The Marquette girls won their first championship in six seasons, finishing first in Division 1 – Second Half
The Marquette boys scored a mere 22 points to hold on to the Division 1 title – Second Half
The Petoskey boys won their sixth straight MHSAA championship, dominating Division 2 – Second Half
The Elk Rapids/Traverse St. Francis girls won by the slimmest of margins to claim a Division 2 title – Second Half
Boys Swimming & Diving
In a meet that finished up Monday, Midland Dow won its 14th straight Saginaw Valley League title – Midland Daily News