Today in the MHSAA: 2/2/16

February 2, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Statewide sports action Monday was light, so we’ll focus on a series of stories published today that should pull at your heart strings and put life’s little obstacles in proper perspective.

Good Reads

Mason’s Brendan Brown is fighting for his life, against a form of cancer that has led to the amputation of a leg and soon will mean the removal of parts of his lungs. The Bulldogs junior is fighting, and also continuing a high school bowling career that is inspiring opponents and those in his community – Jackson Citizen-Patriot

Also at Mason, Storm Miller might be the strongest athlete at his high school and finished third in a national weight-lifting competition last summer. He’s relying on strength now to fight a rare form of cancer that also initially was found in a leg – Lansing State Journal

Molly Holmes hasn't joined her siblings on the Leroy Pine River wrestling team yet – wait until next year – but she plays junior varsity basketball and is one of 13 kids in a family that loves sports – a family that adopted her after five foster placements and a fight to survive no child should experience – Cadillac News

Today in the MHSAA: 2/14/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

February 14, 2025

1. WRESTLING No. 6 Temperance Bedford downed Wyandotte Roosevelt and Westland John Glenn to win a Division 1 Regional title, and Chase Norbury reached 150 career wins – Monroe News

2. WRESTLING Union City earned its first Regional title since 2000 with wins over Mendon and Springport in Division 4 – Coldwater Daily Reporter

3. BOYS BASKETBALL Pewamo-Westphalia clinched the Central Michigan Athletic Conference championship with a 66-30 win over Bath – WILX

4. BOYS BASKETBALL Maple City Glen Lake downed Brethren 72-51 to clinch the Northwest Conference championship – Traverse City Record-Eagle

5. BOWLING The Wyandotte Roosevelt girls and Taylor boys capped Downriver League championship runs – Southgate News-Herald

6. BOYS BASKETBALL Grady Pieratt reached 1,000 career points in Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart’s 86-40 win over Merrill – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

7. GIRLS BASKETBALL McBain edged Roscommon 47-46 on a halfcourt buzzer beater – MI Sports Now

8. BOYS BASKETALL Gladwin downed Farwell to reach 17 wins, its most in a season since 1993 – Bay City Times

9. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Midland Dow – No. 10 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – edged rival Midland High 96-84 – Midland Daily News

10. BOYS BASKETBALL Battle Creek Harper Creek moved into first place in the Interstate 8 Athletic Conference with a 47-45 win over Coldwater – Battle Creek Enquirer