Today In The MHSAA: 2/18/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

February 18, 2021

More league champions were celebrated in skiing Wednesday, with regional champions rising in Muskegon-area bowling and statewide elite facing off in competitive cheer, basketball and hockey.

1. Skiing: Harbor Springs’ girls clinched their 13th-straight Lake Michigan Conference title, and Great North Alpine claimed the boys title – Petoskey News-Review

2. Skiing: The Onekema girls and Benzie Central boys finished league title runs in the Lake Michigan Ski Conference – Traverse City Record-Eagle

3. Bowling: Whitehall’s girls won their first Greater Muskegon Athletic Association championship, while Fruitport’s boys repeated – Local Sports Journal

4. Competitive Cheer: Reigning Division 2 champion Allen Park topped reigning runner-up Gibraltar Carlson after the powers were separated by less than a point after Round 2 – Southgate News-Herald

5. Hockey: Division 3 No. 3 Flint Powers Catholic shut out Division 1 No. 4 Saginaw Heritage 5-0 – WJRT

6. Boys Basketball: Orchard Lake St. Mary’s got past Grand Blanc 65-52 in a matchup of highly-regarded contenders – Oakland Press

7. Hockey: Division 2 No. 4 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice downed Division 1 No. 2 Brighton 4-2 – Observer & Eccentric

8. Hockey: Division 1 No. 6 Traverse Bay Reps downed Division 2 No. 8 Traverse City Central 3-1 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

9. Girls Basketball: Carly McCrum went over 1,000 career points as Bay City John Glenn downed Alma 41-32 – Bay City Times

10. Girls Basketball: Although New Lothrop lost 52-47 to Linden, the Hornets’ Brooke Wenzlick went over 1,000 career points – Owosso Argus-Press

Also of note …

Athletic Directors: East Grand Rapids’ Tim Johnston, an MHSAA Bush Award honoree this past year, will retire this summer after 38 years in educational athletics – Grand Rapids Press

Today In The MHSAA: 4/26/22

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

April 26, 2022

1. BOYS LACROSSE Hartland’s Bo Lockwood set the MHSAA career assists record at 241 and counting during the Division 1 No. 6 Eagles’ win over Salem – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

2. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 5 Hudsonville Unity Christian edged Division 2 No. 7 Spring Lake 2-1 in a league matchup of state-ranked teams – Grand Haven Tribune

3. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 8 Essexville Garber downed No. 15 Freeland 4-2 in league play – Mid-Michigan Now

4. GIRLS SOCCER Bay City Western played Division 1 No. 2 Midland Dow to a league draw – Midland Daily News

5. GIRLS LACROSSE Ella Spooner’s school-record 13 goals led Holland West Ottawa past Zeeland 16-9 – Holland Sentinel

6. SOFTBALL Division 1 No. 10 Grand Blanc handed honorable mention Midland its first losses of the season in a sweep – Midland Daily News

7. BASEBALL Division 4 No. 4 Johannesburg-Lewiston and Division 3 No. 19 Traverse City St. Francis played to a high-scoring split – Up North Live

8. BOYS GOLF North Muskegon won a close Shelby Invitational, shooting 358 to finish a stroke ahead of Reeths-Puffer and three ahead of Manistee – Manistee News-Advocate

9. SOFTBALL Mikaylyn Kenney didn’t allow a hit over a combined 11 innings in Pentwater’s no-hitter sweep of Bear Lake – Ludington Daily News

10. BASEBALL Flushing ran its winning streak to seven with a 13-12 victory over Lapeer – WJRT