Today In The MHSAA: 3/2/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

March 2, 2021

A pair of individual accomplishments and the end of a two-decade losing streak put girls basketball at the top of Monday’s statewide headlines.

1. Girls Basketball: Kali Heivilin went over 1,000 career points and Three Rivers handed Edwardsburg its first league loss, 50-39 – JoeInsider.com

2. Girls Basketball: Bay City Western defeated Saginaw Heritage for the first time in its last 35 tries, 47-36 – Bay City Times

3. Girls Basketball: Bloomingdale’s Kallie Harrison also went over 1,000 career points, doing so during her team’s 57-35 win over White Pigeon – Kalamazoo Gazette

4. Hockey: Division 1 No. 7 Traverse Bay Reps avenged an earlier loss to No. 5 Traverse City West with a 3-2 win over the Titans – Traverse City Record-Eagle

5. Boys Basketball: Orlando Lovejoy had a triple-double to keep Romulus Summit Academy undefeated with a 54-51 win over Harper Woods Chandler Park – Detroit News

6. Boys Basketball: Standish-Sterling remained undefeated while handing the first loss to Ogemaw Heights, 71-65 – Bay City Times

7. Bowling: Melvindale swept Dearborn Heights Robichaud, the girls team to remain undefeated atop the Western Wayne Athletic Conference standings – Southgate News-Herald

8. Girls Basketball: St. Charles improved to 9-0 with a big win over Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart – Saginaw News

9. Boys Basketball: Otsego edged Plainwell 50-47 in a matchup with potential league title implications – FOX 17

10. Boys Basketball: Fremont took back the lead over the final half-minute to get past Grant 58-55 – Local Sports Journal

Today in the MHSAA: 1/27/22

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

January 27, 2022

1. WRESTLING Division 3 top-ranked Dundee defeated Division 4 No. 1 Hudson 56-16 in Lenawee County Athletic Association competition – Adrian Daily Telegram

2. HOCKEY Division 2 top-ranked Hartland continued to ride Ben Pouliot’s scoring surge to a 3-1 win over No. 2 Livonia Stevenson – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

3. HOCKEY Division 1 No. 2 Brighton won 4-3 over Toledo St. Francis, the reigning Ohio champion – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

4. BOYS BASKETBALL Pittsford defeated Jackson Christian 56-35, giving coach Mike Burger his 300th career victory – Hillsdale Daily News

5. WRESTLING Division 3 No. 9 Kingsley defeated Division 4 No. 8 LeRoy Pine River and Mancelona – Traverse City Record-Eagle

6. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Ann Arbor Skyline – No. 3 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – won 131-52 at honorable mention Dexter – We Love Ann Arbor

7. BOWLING Monroe’s girls and Temperance Bedford’s boys won matches with first-place implications – Monroe News

8. COMPETITIVE CHEER Merrill was first and Marion second at the Remus Chippewa Hills Invitational – Ludington Daily News

9. GIRLS BASKETBALL Rochester defeated Lake Orion 39-22 to take over first alone in the Oakland Activities Association White – Oakland Press

10. WRESTLING Macomb Area Conference Blue leader Utica Eisenhower handed St. Clair its first league loss and also defeated Port Huron Northern – Macomb Daily