Today in the MHSAA: 2/2/18
February 2, 2018
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Each weekday of the school year, we break down the top headlines courtesy of Michigan’s sports media.
Today's Top 10
1. Girls Basketball: Olivia Dameron’s basket with 4.5 seconds to play gave Macomb Dakota a 53-51 win over Port Huron Northern and the Macomb Area Conference Red championship – Port Huron Times Herald
2. Wrestling: St. Louis clinched its sixth straight Tri-Valley Conference West title with a 63-12 win over Hemlock – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
3. Girls Basketball: Ida clinched a share of the Lenawee County Athletic Association championship with a 62-19 win over Dundee – Monroe Evening News
4. Girls Basketball: Sophia Wiard went over 1,000 career points as Muskegon Oakridge won its 75th straight West Michigan Conference game, 61-43 over Shelby – Local Sports Journal
5. Girls Basketball: Southfield Arts & Technology created a tie atop the Oakland Activities Association Red with a 47-36 win over previous lone leader Clarkston – Oakland Press
6. Girls Basketball: Maple City Glen Lake’s Savannah Peplinski went over 1,000 career points in her team’s 74-43 win over Suttons Bay – Traverse City Record-Eagle
7. Girls Basketball: Bellevue handed Athens its first loss this season, 40-38 – Coldwater Daily Reporter
8. Boys Swimming & Diving: Lower Peninsula Division 3 top-ranked Holland West Ottawa got past honorable mention Hudsonville 183-123 – Holland Sentinel
9. Girls Basketball: Pittsford ran its overall winning streak to 69 and regular-season winning streak to 100 with a 72-25 win over Litchfield – Hillsdale Daily News
10. Hanover-Horton: Longtime basketball scorekeeper and school and league historian Larry Dailey thankfully is back to work – only three weeks after having a tumor removed from his brain – Jackson Citizen Patriot
Today in the MHSAA: 10/17/19
October 17, 2019
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
The first District champions are in for boys soccer – and more cross country and volleyball league champs as well – but the top headline from Wednesday highlighted a game on the pitch from earlier in the Division 1 bracket.
1. Boys Soccer: Unranked Ann Arbor Pioneer eliminated reigning Division 1 champion and current No. 4 Ann Arbor Skyline in a 2-1 District Semifinal win – We Love Ann Arbor
2. Boys Soccer: No. 8 Macomb Lutheran North got past No. 13 Imlay City 3-2 to clinch a Division 3 District title – Macomb Daily
3. Boys Soccer: Dowagiac downed South Haven 4-2 in Division 3 to win its third straight District championship – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
4. Boys Soccer: Rochester Adams continued its surge by downing Lake Orion to clinch a Division 1 District title – Oakland Press
5. Boys Soccer: Salem edged Canton 2-1 to wrap up a Division 1 District championship – Observer & Eccentric
6. Boys Soccer: Madison Heights Lamphere earned a Division 2 District Final win 1-0 over Warren Woods-Tower – Oakland Press
7. Boys Soccer: Ludington finished another Division 3 District run with a 1-0 win over Shelby – MI Sports Now
8. Cross Country: Shepherd’s girls – ranked No. 3 in Lower Peninsula Division 3 – and No. 11 boys teams finished a sweep of Jack Pine Conference championships in their first season in the league – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
9. Cross Country: The LPD4 top-ranked Breckenridge boys and No. 1 Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart girls completed dominating runs to Mid-State Activities Conference titles – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
10. Boys Soccer: Unranked Holland scored late to get past No. 14 Grand Rapids Christian in a Division 2 District Semifinal – Holland Sentinel
Also of note …
Cross Country: Hanover-Horton swept the Cascades Conference meet championships; the boys team is ranked No. 1 in LPD3 – JTV
Volleyball: From Tuesday, Division 3 No. 6 Centreville came back from two sets down to defeat Division 4 No. 3 Mendon and claim the Southwest 10 Conference championship, its first league title since 2001 – Sturgis Journal
Volleyball: From Tuesday, Dexter defeated Pinckney in five sets to lock up a fourth straight Southeastern Conference White title – Sun Times News
Cross Country: From Tuesday, the LPD2 No. 10 Spring Lake girls and No. 12 Sparta boys won Ottawa-Kent Conference Blue championships – Grand Haven Tribune
Cross Country: From Monday, the UPD2 honorable mention St. Ignace girls and UPD3 No. 3 Brimley boys locked up Eastern Upper Peninsula Conference championships – Sault Ste. Marie Evening News