Today In The MHSAA: 3/22/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

March 22, 2021

The first of four consecutive jam-packed high school sports weekends to finish the winter saw postseason and regular season championships as most basketball teams played their final games before playoffs and the rest of remaining MHSAA sports advanced through another round of their tournaments – with the state’s top female wrestlers celebrating statewide championships Sunday as well.

1. Wrestling: Bullock Creek’s Sydney Kutzke reached 100 career wins Saturday at her Division 3 Individual District, then won her weight at the Michigan Wrestling Association state finals Sunday – Midland Daily News

2. Hockey: No. 5 Novi downed No. 4 Livonia Stevenson 2-1 in a Division 2 Regional Final – State Champs Sports Network

3. Hockey: Top-ranked Calumet downed No. 6 Houghton 3-1 to claim a Division 3 Regional title – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

4. Boys Basketball: Detroit Martin Luther King defeated Detroit Pershing 56-48 to claim the Detroit Public School League Tournament title – Detroit News

5. Bowling: Tecumseh swept girls and boys team and individual Division 2 Regional championships – Adrian Daily Telegram

6. Girls Basketball: Bloomingdale clinched its first Southwest 10 Conference championship in this sport, downing Centreville 59-38 – Sturgis Journal

7. Boys Basketball: Grand Ledge downed Holt 75-65 to clinch the Capital Area Activities Conference Blue title, its first league title since 2003 – Lansing State Journal

8. Girls Basketball: Haslett clinched the CAAC Red title with a 46-32 win over Williamston – WILX

9. Boys Basketball: Eaton Rapids won a title-clinching matchup of first-place teams in the CAAC White, defeating former co-leader Lansing Catholic 62-48 – WILX

10. Competitive Cheer: Reigning Division 2 champion Allen Park claimed its fourth-straight District title – Southgate News-Herald

Also of note …

Boys Basketball: Detroit U-D Jesuit edged Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice 64-62 to claim the Detroit Catholic League Tournament title – Detroit News

Girls Basketball: East Lansing downed Grand Ledge 79-43 to finish a perfect run through the CAAC Blue – Lansing State Journal

Boys Basketball: Ubly clinched its first league title since 2011 with a 35-33 win over Harbor Beach in the Greater Thumb Conference East – Huron Daily Tribune

Boys Basketball: Charlevoix clinched the Lake Michigan Conference outright championship with a 49-45 win over Elk Rapids – Petoskey News-Review

Boys Basketball: Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart finished an outright title run in the Mid-State Activities Conference with a 63-26 win over Coleman – Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart

Girls/Boys Basketball: The Big Bay de Noc girls and Kinross Maplewood Baptist boys clinched Northern Lights League championships – Escanaba Daily Press

Today In The MHSAA: 5/20/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 20, 2021

1. Girls Soccer: Schoolcraft’s Hannah Thompson set the single-season state goals record with her 67th – and ended up at 74 after an 8-1 win over Parchment – WWMT

2. Girls Tennis: No. 3 Chelsea won every set on the way to a Lower Peninsula Division 3 Regional championship at Haslett – Chelsea Sun Times News

3. Boys Golf: LPD2 No. 5 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice shot a 306 to edge LPD1 No. 3 Detroit Catholic Central by three strokes and win the Oakland County Division 1 title – Oakland Press

4. Baseball: Division 1 No. 15 Utica Ford clinched its first outright league title in this sport since 1986 with a 3-0 win over Division 2 No. 9 St. Clair in the Macomb Area Conference White – Macomb Daily

5. Girls Lacrosse: No. 4 DeWitt came back from a late deficit to edge Okemos 11-10 and clinch the Capital Area Activities Conference championship – Lansing State Journal

6. Girls Soccer: Division 1 No. 7 Grand Blanc finished an outright Saginaw Valley League title run with a 4-1 win over Midland Dow – WJRT

7. Girls Soccer: Division 2 No. 10 Ludington finished a perfect run through the Lakes 8 Conference with a 3-0 shutout of Manistee – Ludington Daily News

8. Boys Lacrosse: No. 8 Battle Creek Lakeview downed Vicksburg 18-6 in a Division 2 Regional game – Battle Creek Enquirer

9. Boys Golf: Jake Beaudoin shot a Charlevoix school-record 64 to finish as individual winner of a Lake Michigan Conference event at Boyne Highlands, while Elk Rapids edged the LPD4 No. 4 Rayders by five strokes for the team win – Traverse City Record-Eagle

10. Baseball: Division 2 No. 18 Trenton earned a share of the Downriver League title with a 3-2 win over Division 1 No. 9 Brownstown Woodhaven Southgate News-Herald