Today in the MHSAA: 4/12/18

April 12, 2018

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Each weekday of the school year, we break down the top headlines courtesy of Michigan’s sports media.

1. Baseball: Orchard Lake St. Mary’s impressed in its Detroit Catholic League opener, sweeping Division 2 No. 5 Dearborn Divine Child – Detroit News

2. Girls Soccer: Muskegon Mona Shores earned an impressive early-season win, 1-0 over Division 2 No. 19 Spring Lake – Local Sports Journal

3. Girls Soccer: Traverse City Central connected on a late penalty kick to get past Petoskey in a Big North Conference matchup – MI Sports Now

4. Baseball: Division 1 top-ranked Saline won a pair of one-run games against Fenton to open the season – Saline Post

5. Softball: Midland Bullock Creek scored a combined 25 runs in a sweep of Saginaw Valley Lutheran – Midland Daily News

6. Girls Soccer: Division 1 No. 5 Portage Central moved to 4-0 with a 4-0 win over Plainwell – JoeInsider.com

7. Girls Soccer: Allen Park and Gibraltar Carlson both remained undefeated in Downriver League play with a 1-1 draw – Southgate News Herald

8. Baseball: Birmingham Groves improved to 3-0 with a 7-2 win over previously undefeated Troy – Oakland Press

9. Boys Soccer: East Lansing coach Nick Archer, who began that program in 1977 and led it to five MHSAA Finals championships, has retired after pioneering the sport locally and statewide – Lansing State Journal

10. Girls Basketball: The Upper Peninsula basketball community is mourning the late Harvey Filppula, who built Dollar Bay’s girls program – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

Today in the MHSAA: 2/17/23

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

February 17, 2023

1. GIRLS BASKETBALL Petersburg Summerfield earned a share of the Tri-County Conference championship with a 46-28 win over Morenci – Monroe News

2. BOYS BASKETBALL Mason clinched its first league title since 2007, downing Lansing Eastern 58-46 in the Capital Area Activities Conference Red – Lansing State Journal

3. GIRLS BASKETBALL Riverview claimed its third-straight outright Huron League championship with a 55-25 win over Flat Rock – Southgate News-Herald

4. GIRLS BASKEBALL Lake City clinched a share of the Highland Conference title with a 49-22 win over Manton – Cadillac News

5. GIRLS BASKETBALL Traverse City St. Francis clinched a share of the Lake Michigan Conference title with a big win at Kalkaska, and Gaylord St. Mary downed Johannesburg-Lewiston to win the Ski Valley Conference for the third-straight season – Traverse City Record-Eagle

6. GIRLS BASKETBALL Hart repeated as a league champion with a big win over Hesperia – Muskegon Chronicle

7. BOYS BASKETBALL Mio finished an outright North Star League Big Dipper title run with a 60-41 win over Whittemore-Prescott – Bay City Times

8. BOYS BASKETBALL Croswell-Lexington moved back into first in the Blue Water Area Conference with a 54-45 overtime win over Richmond – Port Huron Times Herald

9. GIRLS BASKETBALL Detroit Cass Tech defeated Mumford 48-39 to advance to the Detroit Public School League Tournament final – Detroit News

10. BOYS BASKETBALL Sterling Heights avenged a pair of losses to Madison Heights Lamphere with a 58-56 win in the Macomb Area Conference Silver/Bronze Tournament – Macomb Daily