Today in the MHSAA: 2/19/20
February 19, 2020
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
A pair of championship celebrations long in the making top one of our fullest lists of headliners this season as league titles were clinched in three sports and star performances shined on the court, ice and hill – not to mention the winningest baseball coach in state history announced his retirement.
1. Boys Basketball: Ravenna downed Muskegon Oakridge 70-36 to earn a share of its first West Michigan Conference title since 1980 – Local Sports Journal
2. Girls Basketball: Lake City clinched a share of the Highland Conference title, its first league championship since 2001, with a 36-26 win over second-place Manton – Cadillac News
3. Boys Basketball: Howell claimed the Kensington Lakes Activities Association West title with a 75-71 triple-overtime win over Canton – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
4. Girls Basketball: Hartland avenged its lone loss and moved into first alone in the KLAA West with a 36-33 win over Brighton – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
5. Hockey: Division 3 No. 6 Houghton downed top-ranked Calumet for the first time this season, 3-2 – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette
6. Skiing: Petoskey’s boys and Traverse City Central’s girls clinched Big North Conference championships – Petoskey News-Review
7. Girls Basketball: Ubly earned a share of the Greater Thumb Conference East title with a 42-31 win over Sandusky – Huron Daily Tribune
8. Girls Basketball: Adrian Madison locked up a share of the Tri-County Conference title with a 49-23 win over Clinton – Adrian Daily Telegram
9. Girls Basketball: Kingsley moved into a tie for first in the Northwest Conference with a 50-38 win over co-leader Maple City Glen Lake – MI Sports Now
10. Boys Basketball: East Lansing downed Okemos 45-43 on a last-second shot, putting the teams in a tie for first in the Capital Area Activities Conference Blue – Lansing State Journal
Also of note …
Baseball: Grand Ledge coach Pat O’Keefe, the state’s winningest all-time in the sport with 1,315 victories, retired – Lansing State Journal
Girls Basketball: East Grand Rapids finished a repeat run in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Gold with a 63-59 win over Grand Rapids Christian – FOX 17
Boys Basketball: Ann Arbor Huron earned the Southeastern Conference Red title with a 57-48 win over Saline – Ann Arbor News
Boys Basketball: Muskegon earned a share of a seventh-straight league title, downing Jenison 86-47 in the O-K Black – Muskegon Chronicle
Boys Basketball: Emoni Bates had 63 points and 21 rebounds to lead Ypsilanti Lincoln past Chelsea 108-102 in double overtime – Ann Arbor News
Boys Basketball: Shamar Howard went over 1,000 career points in Lansing Everett’s 57-55 win over Grand Ledge – Lansing State Journal
Boys Basketball: Brett LaFord went over 1,000 career points in Carney-Nadeau’s 62-56 win over Bark River-Harris – Escanaba Daily Press
Today In The MHSAA: 10/7/21
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 7, 2021
1. BOYS TENNIS No. 5 Holland West Ottawa won a loaded Lower Peninsula Division 1 Regional ahead of additional qualifiers No. 7 Hudsonville and No. 6 Rockford – Holland Sentinel
2. BOYS SOCCER Division 2 No. 7 Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood downed Warren De La Salle Collegiate 4-1 in the Detroit Catholic League Bishop championship game – Macomb Daily
3. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 3 Hudsonville Unity Christian edged top-ranked Holland Christian 1-0 in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Blue semifinals – Holland Sentinel
4. BOYS TENNIS Top-ranked Okemos won seven of eight flights to clinch an LPD2 Regional title, and Mason in LPD3 won its first Regional championship since 1995 just ahead of No. 10 Haslett – Lansing State Journal
5. BOYS SOCCER Buckley downed Kingsley 6-0 to clinch the Northwest Conference title outright, with the league championship its first since 1999 – Traverse City Record-Eagle
6. BOYS SOCCER Walled Lake Northern scored the game’s lone goal late in the second half to defeat South Lyon 1-0 in the Lakes Valley Conference Tournament final – Oakland Press
7. BOYS TENNIS LPD2 No. 8 Midland Dow won its 13th-straight Regional title, in LPD2 – Midland Daily News
8. BOYS TENNIS Top-ranked Traverse City St. Francis claimed another LPD4 Regional championship, continuing a run more than a decade long – Up North Live
9. GIRLS GOLF Midland Dow was first and Petoskey second at their LPD2 Regional – Midland Daily News
10. BOYS SOCCER Brownstown Woodhaven clinched its fourth-straight Downriver League title with a 3-1 win over Dearborn Edsel Ford – Southgate News-Herald
Also of note …
BOYS SOCCER Niles Brandywine clinched the outright Berrien-Cass-St. Joseph Conference Red championship with a 4-2 win over Buchanan – Niles Daily Star
CROSS COUNTRY The Munising girls and Stephenson boys claimed Skyline Central Conference championships – Iron Mountain Daily News
BOYS SOCCER Division 4 No. 7 McBain Northern Michigan Christian finished its Northern Michigan Soccer League title run with a 6-0 win over LeRoy Pine River – Cadillac News