Today In The MHSAA: 3/18/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

March 18, 2021

Wrestling joined the postseason flurry Wednesday with the start of Team District competition, while hockey continued through Regionals and a few more basketball teams celebrated championships and individual achievements.

1. Hockey: No. 6 Houghton advanced in a Division 3 Regional with a 5-1 win over No. 7 Hancock – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

2. Wrestling: Ravenna downed Hesperia and then Mason County Central to claim its first District title since 2011, in Division 4 – Local Sports Journal

3. Wrestling: Charlotte edged Eaton Rapids 36-33 to claim a Division 2 District championship – Lansing State Journal

4. Girls Basketball: Clawson defeated Eastpointe 47-37 to clinch the Macomb Area Conference Bronze championship – Oakland Press

5. Girls Basketball: Hannah Vallier scored 37 points to become Vicksburg’s all-time leading score during a 58-31 win over Niles – Kalamazoo Gazette

6. Boys Basketball: Hunter Soper went over 1,000 career points in Croswell-Lexington’s 81-51 win over Almont – Port Huron Times Herald

7. Hockey: Top-ranked Byron Center came back from a third-period deficit to defeat Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern/Eastern 3-2 in a Division 2 Regional Semifinal – FOX 17

8. Wrestling: No. 10 Clarkston downed Troy and Waterford Kettering in Division 1 to claim a 15th-straight District title – Oakland Press

9. Wrestling: Holland ran its District title streak to three with wins over Hamilton and Zeeland East in Division 2 – Holland Sentinel

10. Boys Basketball: Sterling Heights Parkway Christian clinched the Michigan Independent Athletic Conference Red title with a 71-61 win over Lutheran Westland – Macomb Daily

Also of note …

Girls Basketball: From Tuesday, Elk Rapids defeated Kalkaska to clinch its first Lake Michigan Conference title, and first league championship in 28 years – MI Sports Now

Today in the MHSAA: 10/5/17

October 5, 2017

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. Volleyball: Class A No. 9 Bloomfield Hills Marian took top-ranked Farmington Hills Mercy to five sets before Mercy prevailed by winning the final two – Oakland Press

2. Volleyball: Three of four sets were decided by two points and the fourth was decided by three as Class B honorable mention Freeland edged No. 7 Saginaw Swan Valley to stay in front in the Tri-Valley Conference Central – Saginaw News

3. Volleyball: Class C honorable mention McBain improved to 28-7-7 with a three-set win over No. 8 Traverse City St. Francis and a sweep of Charlevoix – Cadillac News

4. Boys Soccer: Hamtramck broke Dearborn’s 15-game winning and eight-game shutout streaks with a 4-2 victory – Detroit News

5. Cross Country: Bear Lake’s teams swept West Michigan D league titles, the LPD4 honorable mention girls 22 points ahead of the field and the LPD4 No. 8 boys finishing just two better than Walkerville – Manistee News

6. Boys Soccer: Rivals Traverse City West and Central tied for the second time this season, this time preventing West from clinching its eighth straight Big North Conference title – Traverse City Record-Eagle

7. Girls Golf: Sturgis won the league tournament by 34 strokes to claim a third straight Wolverine B Conference championship – Sturgis Journal

8. Golf: Zeeland West claimed the Wooden Shoe Invitational title by two strokes ahead of runner-up and neighbor Zeeland East – Holland Sentinel

9. Boys Soccer: Division 1 No. 13 Saline outlasted Ann Arbor Pioneer for a 3-2 win to improve to 6-1-1 – Saline Post

10. Cross Country: Litchfield hosted its first cross country meet in 37 years, welcoming the Southern Central Athletic Association for a jamboree – Hillsdale Daily News