Today in the MHSAA: 2/14/20

February 14, 2020

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The first round of the Team Wrestling Tournament finished up Thursday with a dramatic ending in Division 2 leading a loaded list of headliners from across the state and five sports.

1. Wrestling: Caleb McNeil’s last-match comeback gave No. 8 Muskegon Reeths-Puffer a District Semifinal win over No. 4 Whitehall, and the Rockets then shut out Muskegon to win the title in Division 2 – Local Sports Journal

2. Hockey: Division 2 top-ranked Livonia Stevenson shut out Division 1 No. 3 Brighton 4-0 in the Kensington Lakes Activities Association championship game – Observer & Eccentric

3. Wrestling: Bark River-Harris defeated Manistique in Division 4 to claim its first District title in this sport – Escanaba Daily Press

4. Wrestling: Unranked Union City got past No. 8 Mendon in Division 4 to earn its first District title since 2008 – Coldwater Daily News

5. Wrestling: Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice earned its first District title in this sport in a decade with a 51-20 win over Birmingham Seaholm in Division 1 – Oakland Press

6. Boys Basketball: Fraser’s 50-48 overtime win over St. Clair gave St. Clair and Port Huron Northern a shared Macomb Area Conference Gold title, Northern’s first league championship since 2001 – Port Huron Times-Herald

7. Boys Swimming & Diving: Holland West Ottawa clinched a share of a sixth-straight Ottawa-Kent Conference Red title with a 187-118 win over Grand Haven – Holland Sentinel

8. Girls Basketball: Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart took back the Mid-State Activities Conference championship with a 63-48 win over Coleman – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

9. Boys Basketball: Marquette edged Escanaba 68-64 to clinch the Great Northern Conference title – Marquette Mining Journal

10. Girls Basketball: Oscoda clinched a second-straight North Star League Big Dipper title with a 64-27 win over Whittemore-Prescott – Alpena News

Also of note …

Boys Basketball: Detroit Cass Tech advanced to the Detroit Public School League final with a 53-44 win over Detroit Communication & Media Arts – State Champs Sports Network

Boys Basketball: Muskegon Orchard View’s Ke’Ontae Barnes scored 30 points in a 58-43 win over Muskegon Catholic Central to go over 1,000 for his career – Muskegon Chronicle

Girls Basketball: Saline junior Ella Stemmer went over 1,000 points for her career with 19 in a 59-31 win over Monroe – Ann Arbor News

Today in the MHSAA: 2/10/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

February 10, 2025

1. BOYS WRESTLING Division 1 No. 2 Brighton and Division 2 No. 9 Fowlerville were among the most successful teams at Individual Boys Districts statewide, both qualifying 13 wrestlers for Regionals – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

2. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Fraser’s Hunter Lemmon set multiple Macomb County Championship meet records, and St. Clair Shores Lakeview repeated as team champion – Macomb Daily

3. GIRLS WRESTLING A pair of reigning Finals champions were among 10 District winners from the Grand Rapids area at Girls Wrestling Districts – Grand Rapids Press

4. GIRLS WRESTLING LeRoy Pine River advanced four wrestlers to Regionals from an inaugural Girls Wrestling District – Cadillac News

5. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Detroit Catholic Central – No. 3 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – followed a pair of multi-event winners to the Oakland County Championships title – Oakland Press

6. BOYS BASKETBALL Graham Junge became Flat Rock’s all-time leading scorer during a 59-40 win over Grosse Ile – Monroe News

7. BOYS WRESTLING Macomb County sent 107 wrestlers to Individual Regionals – Macomb Daily

8. BOYS BASKETBALL Grady Harless reached 1,000 career points in Bear Lake’s big win over Walkerville – Traverse City Record-Eagle

9. BOYS BASKETBALL Dalton Williams reached 1,000 career points in Colon’s 61-55 win over Climax-Scotts – Sturgis Journal

10. BOYS BASKETBALL Avery Clous reached 1,000 career rebounds in Otisville LakeVille Memorial’s game against New Lothrop – Flint Journal