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
Today in the MHSAA: 10/5/26
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 5, 2026
1. BOYS TENNIS Holland West Ottawa and Holland Christian – No. 3 in Lower Peninsula Division 3 – both won league championships, West Ottawa its sixth straight in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Red and Holland Christian by a point over runner-up and LPD3 No. 6 Hudsonville Unity Christian in the O-K Black – Holland Sentinel
2. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Division 2 top-ranked Grand Rapids Christian won the Jenison Invitational – Local Sports Journal
3. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Monroe High continued its impressive climb with its first Monroe County championship – Monroe News
4. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING LPD2 No. 1 Farmington Hills Mercy ran its Oakland County championship string to four – Oakland Press
5. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Utica Eisenhower repeated as champion at the Macomb County meet – Macomb Daily
6. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD1 No. 7 Rochester Adams girls and Lake Orion boys won Oakland County team titles – Athletic.net
7. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD1 No. 14 Traverse City Central girls and No. 2 West boys won “elite” race championships at the Shepherd Invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle
8. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Division 3 No. 3 Muskegon Western Michigan Christian finished 5-0 to win the Best of the West Tournament at Mona Shores – Local Sports Journal
9. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD3 No. 6 Lake City girls and Reed City boys finished first at the Cecil R. Burch Pine River Invitational – Cadillac News
10. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Muskegon Reeths-Puffer finished 3-0 at Spring Lake – Local Sports Journal