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: 6/5/19
June 5, 2019
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Nearly all of this week’s Girls Soccer Regional Semifinals were played Tuesday – and a bracket shake-up in Division 2 leads off the list of headliners across all four divisions.
1. Girls Soccer: Unranked Fenton handed top-ranked DeWitt its first and only loss this season, 2-1 in a Division 2 Regional Semifinal – Flint Journal
2. Girls Soccer: No. 2 Royal Oak Shrine will get the chance to play for its first Regional title after downing No. 4 Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central in Division 4 – Oakland Press
3. Girls Soccer: Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central, also unranked, upset No. 9 Grand Haven 4-2 in a Division 1 Regional Semifinal – Grand Haven Tribune
4. Girls Soccer: No. 2 Warren Regina held on through a late rally by No. 9 Grosse Ile to move on in Division 3 with a 3-2 win – C&G Newspapers
5. Girls Soccer: Top-ranked Novi got past No. 14 Livonia Stevenson 2-0 in a Division 1 rematch of their league title game – Observer & Eccentric
6. Girls Soccer: No. 7 Houghton Lake won a matchup of ranked Division 4 teams 2-1 over No. 12 Elk Rapids – WPBN
7. Girls Soccer: No. 9 Marshall made a first-half goal stand to the end in a 1-0 win over No. 10 Dexter in Division 2 – Chelsea Sun Times News
8. Girls Soccer: Ann Arbor Father Gabriel Richard advanced to a Division 3 Regional Final with a win over Delton Kellogg, after beginning this season 0-11-1 – Ann Arbor News
9. Girls Soccer: No. 7 Midland got past Portage Central in a shootout to move on in Division 1 – Kalamazoo Gazette
10. Girls Soccer: Top-ranked North Muskegon moved to 19-2 with a 5-0 win over Grandville Calvin Christian – Local Sports Journal
Also of note …
Boys Golf: Gaylord locked down its third straight Big North Conference championship with a one-stroke tournament win – Traverse City Record-Eagle