Today in the MHSAA: 2/19/26

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

February 19, 2026

1. TEAM WRESTLING No. 13 Fruitport claimed its first Regional title in 41 years with wins over Gaylord and No. 10 Greenville in Division 2 – MuskegonSports.com

2. BOWLING The top-ranked Ravenna girls were more than 1,000 pins better than the field in their Division 4 Regional victory – Muskegon Chronicle

3. TEAM WRESTLING No. 3 Brighton downed No. 6 Grand Ledge and No. 15 Hastings to win a Division 1 Regional title – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

4. TEAM WRESTLING No. 2 Whitehall clinched a Division 3 Regional title with a 38-30 win over No. 5 Kent City – Local Sports Journal

5. BOWLING The No. 9 Bay City All Saints boys won their first Regional title in 13 years, and the No. 3-ranked Sandusky girls were champions as well in Division 4 – Bay City Times

6. TEAM WRESTLING No. 2 Hartland downed No. 4 Clarkston to finish a Division 1 Regional title run – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

7. GIRLS BASKETBALL McBain completed an outright championship in the Highland Conference with a 52-24 win over LeRoy Pine River – Cadillac News

8. TEAM WRESTLING Top-ranked Hudson defeated No. 7 Springport and Hanover-Horton in a Division 4 Regional – Adrian Daily Telegram

9. TEAM WRESTLING No. 11 Freeland claimed a Division 2 Regional title with a 36-27 win over No. 12 Bay City John Glenn – Saginaw News

10. TEAM WRESTLING No. 3 Clinton claimed a Division 4 Regional title with wins over No. 10 Manchester and Clarkston Everest Collegiate – Adrian Daily Telegram

Also of note …

BOYS BASKETBALL Evincio LaCount scored his 1,000th career point during Ellsworth’s 56-41 win over Mesick – Traverse City Record-Eagle

GIRLS BASKETABLL Madie Folkema set a school single-season scoring record for Muskegon Western Michigan Christian during its 59-40 win over Montague – Local Sports Journal

In Memoriam: Chip Mundy (1955-2023)

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

August 16, 2023

When the MHSAA took a significant step in telling the stories of school sports with the introduction of the Second Half website in 2012, Chip Mundy was a natural to lend his expertise after a career doing the same in the Jackson area.

He always took special care in searching out the human interest side of our “stories behind the scores” – and today we remember that dedication as we mourn his death Monday. He was 68.

Chip MundyMundy was a graduate of Jackson Parkside and then served as sports editor at the Brooklyn Exponent and Albion Recorder from 1980-86. He then became a fixture in high school sports coverage as a reporter and later copy editor at the Jackson Citizen Patriot from 1986-2011.

Mundy was one of the original correspondents when Second Half took on a regional component beginning with the 2015-16 school year, thoughtfully providing biweekly features from the “Southeast & Border” area that includes Jackson, Ann Arbor, Monroe and the host of smaller communities north of the Michigan/Ohio line. Before the beginning of 2H’s “Region Reports,” Mundy also was among the first to begin producing coverage of MHSAA Finals for the site as Second Half started in part with a mission of covering all MHSAA championship events.

He admittedly ended up reporting on some sports he’d rarely or never covered before, and admittedly often wrote a little longer than he’d intended – but in his own words, because “there were so many stories” or “the story was so good.”

Click to read many of his features for the Second Half website.