Today in the MHSAA: 2/22/19

February 22, 2019

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

More league championships were awarded Thursday as boys basketball teams finished up their regular season and girls teams closed in on the final week of theirs – and we’re also glad to especially highlight an impressive United Sports effort that brought more than 250 athletes to Novi.

1. Unified Basketball: Novi and the Kensington Lakes Activities Association hosted 10 schools for a league tournament that showcased the growing Unified Sports effort – Detroit News

2. Boys Basketball: Canton downed Howell 78-58 to clinch the Kensington Lakes Activities Association Tournament championship – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

3. Boys Basketball: Walled Lake Northern earned the inaugural Lakes Valley Conference Tournament title with a 29-26 win over White Lake Lakeland – State Champs!

4. Girls Basketball: A big win over Memphis helped Harbor Beach earn a share of the Greater Thumb Conference East title – Huron Daily Tribune

5. Girls Basketball: St. Ignace defeated Cheboygan to clinch the outright Straits Area Conference championship – The Upbeat

6. Boys Basketball: Otsego finished the regular season 20-0 with a 75-61 win over Sturgis in the Wolverine Conference championship game – JoeInsider.com

7. Boys Basketball: Bear Lake’s Trey Gilbert scored 50 points in a 71-48 win over Baldwin to go over 1,000 for his career – Manistee News Advocate

8. Boys Basketball: Pellston secured the outright Ski Valley Conference title with a 54-39 win over Gaylord St. Mary – Petoskey News-Review

9. Boys Basketball: Ovid-Elsie downed New Lothrop 48-28 to secure the outright Mid-Michigan Activities Conference title – Owosso Argus-Press

10. Boys Basketball: Kyle Hulett went over 1,000 career points with 31 for Byron in a 74-72 win over Mount Morris – Flint Journal

Also of note …

Boys Basketball: New Haven’s Romeo Weems, Detroit Renaissance’s Chandler Turner, Canton’s B. Artis White and Westland John Glenn’s Joe Moon were named finalists for the Mr. Basketball Award – State Champs!

Boys Basketball: Gladstone downed Kingsford, but Kingsford’s Tyler Beauchamp became the program’s all-time leading scorer and teammate Luke Terrian scored his 1,000th point – Iron Mountain Daily News

Boys Basketball: From Tuesday, Hale defeated Posen to claim its third straight North Star League Little Dipper title – WBKB

Today in the MHSAA: 4/2/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

April 2, 2025

1. SOFTBALL Division 1 No. 6 Grand Haven swept Spring Lake in the Drawbridge Classic, 17-0 and 19-11 – Local Sports Journal

2. GIRLS LACROSSE Hartland edged Muskegon Mona Shores 7-6 – Local Sports Journal

3. GIRLS SOCCER Lake Orion got past Oxford 3-0 scoring all three goals over 17 minutes – Oakland Press

4. SOFTBALL Parma Western rallied in the bottom of the sixth inning to get past Napoleon 5-3 – Jackson Citizen Patriot

5. GIRLS SOCCER Freeland opened with a 3-0 win over Hemlock – Saginaw News

6. SOFTBALL Armada downed Macomb L’Anse Creuse North 10-6 – Macomb Daily

7. BASEBALL Taylor came back to win its season opener at Riverview, 5-1 – Southgate News-Herald

8. BASEBALL Gibraltar Carlson opened with a 17-6 win over Melvindale – Southgate News-Herald

9. BOYS LACROSSE Pontiac Notre Dame Prep downed Troy in the latter’s season opener, 11-5 – Oakland Press

10. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 7 Hudsonville broke away late for a 10-1 win over Muskegon Mona Shores – Local Sports Journal

Also of note …

HOCKEY Hartland coach Rick Gadwa resigned after 14 seasons and with a 295-83-15 record and three Division 2 championships – Livingston Daily Press & Argus