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: 10/4/16

October 4, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Golf, tennis and soccer teams continued to claim league championships Monday, as some of the state’s best played their last local matches before the start of MHSAA tournaments later this week.

Each weekday during the school year, we’ll gather and post media links covering the most significant and intriguing high school events from all over the state.

Cross Country

Cedarville’s girls and boys teams, both ranked No. 4 in Upper Peninsula Division 3, swept the Eastern U.P. Conference second jamboree, the girls dominating and the boys edging UPD2 honorable mention Newberry by a point – Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

Girls Golf

Port Huron Northern followed Megan Randolph’s 79 to a St. Clair County championship with a 373 total, four strokes lower than runner-up Marysville – Port Huron Times Herald

LPD2 No. 6 St. Joseph shot a 349 to edge LPD4 No. 2 Kalamazoo Hackett by seven strokes and win the HawksHead Invitational in South Haven, the Bears' seventh tournament win in eight events this fall – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

LPD1 No. 2 Traverse City West and Harbor Springs finished first and second, respectively, at the Traverse City Central Invitational, which doubled as the Big North Conference championship tournament – Traverse City Record-Eagle

Boys Soccer

St. Clair Shores Lake Shore got three second-half goals from Antonio Kazdaglis to down Warren Woods-Tower, and in doing so, clinch the Macomb Area Conference Gold title – Macomb Daily

Alpena’s Evan LeTourneau broke his school’s career goals record with his 42nd in a 5-1 win over Ogemaw Heights – Alpena News

Boys Tennis

LPD3 No. 7 Allegan claimed the Wolverine Conference championship with 72 points, three more than runner-up Sturgis – Sturgis Journal

Coldwater claimed its third straight Interstate 8 Athletic Conference championship by edging Parma Western by two points in the league tournament; both are tied for No. 10 in LPD3 – Coldwater Daily Reporter