Today in the MHSAA: 3/8/16

March 8, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The upsets were few, but the late-game heroics aplenty Monday during the first night of the MHSAA Boys Basketball Tournament.

Boys Basketball

After falling twice to its rival during the regular season, Traverse City West opened a 13-1 lead and downed Traverse City Central 55-52 in Class A – Traverse City Record-Eagle

South Lyon’s 3-pointer with fewer than two seconds to play gave it a 40-37 win over Brighton in Class A – Livingston Daily

Also in Class A, Bloomfield Hills took over in double overtime to get past Auburn Hills Avondale 65-56 – Oakland Press

Warren Woods-Tower emerged from a close matchup with St. Clair Shores Lake shore, 46-42, dropping Lakeshore’s final record to 17-4 – Macomb Daily

Noah Ingram made 10-pointers and scored 44 points total as Mount Pleasant downed Midland Dow 81-70 in Class A – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

In arguably the biggest matchup of opening night, reigning Class B champion Wyoming Godwin Heights downed Wayland 65-62 in a matchup of teams with a combined record of 34-5 – Grand Rapids Press

Freeland won a crossover of top Class B teams in the Tri-Valley Conference, 45-42 over Bridgeport – Saginaw News

Also in Class B, Marshall survived a last-second basket that forced overtime to get past Battle Creek Pennfield – 89-81 – Battle Creek Enquirer

Trey Newsham made 4 of 4 free-throw attempts during the final 14 seconds and went over 1,000 points for his career in Essexville Garber’s 60-59 Class B win over Bay City John Glenn – Bay City Times

Flint Beecher eliminated rival Flint Hamady in Class C for the 10th straight season, 68-62, in a matchup of teams that were a combined 34-4 – Flint Journal

In a Class C matchup of teams with a combined 32-10 record, Traverse City St. Francis got past Johannesburg-Lewiston 79-65 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

Also in Class C, Hartford’s 3-pointer with 11 seconds left pushed the team past Kalamazoo Christian 46-45 in an upset of the formerly 17-2 Comets – Kalamazoo Gazette

Good Read

Last summer, the Kronemeyer family of Holland was forced to mourn the death of 18-year-old daughter Marissa, who had died in a car crash. But community and eventually Holland Calvary basketball have assisted as the family continues to cope – Holland Sentinel

Today in the MHSAA: 5/23/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 23, 2025

1. BOYS GOLF Howell won its first overall Kensington Lakes Activities Association championship in this sport, carding a two-round 590 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

2. BASEBALL Division 2 No. 16 Dearborn Divine Child downed No. 10 Macomb Lutheran North 10-0 to clinch the Catholic High School League Cardinal championship – Macomb Daily

3. BASEBALL Division 3 No. 5 Ann Arbor Greenhills came back to claim a second-straight CHSL St. Anne title with a 3-2 win over Division 4 No. 9 Royal Oak Shrine Catholic – Ann Arbor News

4. BASEBALL Howell downed Division 1 No. 18 Novi 6-1 to clinch its first KLAA title in nine years, winning the West – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

5. BASEBALL Ann Arbor Skyline downed Division 1 No. 19 Saline 4-2 to clinch an outright championship in the Southeastern Conference Red – Ann Arbor News

6. SOFTBALL Division 4 No. 8 Plymouth Christian Academy finished a repeat run in the Michigan Independent Athletic Conference with a shutout of Auburn Hills Oakland Christian – Hometown Life

7. TRACK & FIELD Negaunee swept girls and boys titles at the Mid-Peninsula Conference championship meets – Upper Michigan’s Source

8. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 12 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice repeated as CHSL Bishop champion with an 8-1 win over Toledo St. John’s – Oakland Press

9. BOYS GOLF Muskegon Mona Shores carded a 306 to win the Ottawa-Kent Conference Green Tournament – Local Sports Journal

10. BASEBALL Pinconning clinched the Jack Pine Conference 2 title with a sweep of Harrison – Bay City Times

Also of note …

BASEBALL Elk Rapids swept Charlevoix to clinch the Northern Shores Conference title – Traverse City Record-Eagle

BASEBALL Division 1 No. 9 Mattawan split with Kalamazoo Central to finish an outright Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference title – Kalamazoo Gazette

SOFTBALL Fruitport clinched a share of the O-K Conference Silver title with a split against Hopkins; Grandville Calvin Christian also shared – MuskegonSports.com

BOYS GOLF Battle Creek Harper Creek carded a school-record 291 to win the All-City championship – Battle Creek Enquirer