Today in the MHSAA: 4/13/18

April 13, 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. Softball: Muskegon Reeths-Puffer held on for an 11-inning win and then came back to sweep Division 2 No. 10 Muskegon Oakridge – Local Sports Journal

2. Girls Soccer: Division 1 No. 6 Bloomfield Hills and No. 14 Rochester Adams tied 1-1 in Oakland Activities Association Red play – Oakland Press

3. Girls Soccer: Also in the OAA Red, Troy Athens upset Division 1 No. 19 Rochester 1-0 – Oakland Press

4. Softball: Division 3 honorable mention Sanford Meridian and Division 4 No. 4 Coleman split a doubleheader, with both winning big – Midland Daily News

5. Girls Soccer: Division 2 No. 4 Holland Christian’s Hannah Luurtsema made good on a second chance with the go-ahead goal in a 2-1 win over Holland – Holland Sentinel

6. Baseball: Grandville finished a three-game sweep of Grand Haven this week with a 10-1 win Thursday; Grand Haven made the Division 1 Semifinals a year ago – Grand Haven Tribune

7. Boys Lacrosse: Division 2 top-ranked Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central improved to 5-0 with a 17-2 win over Forest Hills Northern – FOX17

8. Softball: Division 4 No. 6 Frankfort hit a combined eight home runs in a sweep of Lake City – Traverse City Record-Eagle

9. Boys Lacrosse: The Traverse City United team made up of players from West and Central played their first game and earned their first win, 16-4 over Petoskey – Traverse City Record-Eagle

10. Track & Field: Deckerville’s girls and boys teams swept quad meets at Kinde-North Huron, the girls placing an individual or relay first in nearly every event – Huron Daily Tribune

Today in the MHSAA: 2/10/20

February 10, 2020

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

League and county championships in wrestling and swimming & diving, respectively, signaled the start of the winter postseason over the weekend – and a matchup of basketball powers foreshadowed a possible playoff meeting to come as well.

1. Boys Basketball: Benton Harbor won a matchup of Division 2 title contenders, 64-51 over Grand Rapids Catholic Central – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

2. Boys Swimming & Diving: Detroit Catholic Central – No. 1 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – won the Oakland County meet championship ahead of runner-up and LPD2 top-ranked Farmington – Oakland Press

3. Wrestling: New Boston Huron, Division 3 No. 1 Dundee and Division 1 No. 5 Temperance Bedford locked up league championships – Monroe News

4. Boys Swimming & Diving: Macomb Dakota won the Macomb County title, ending Warren De La Salle Collegiate’s seven-year run as champion – Macomb Daily

5. Wrestling: Division 2 No. 7 Stevensville Lakeshore finished its run to the Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference championship – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

6. Wrestling: Brownstown Woodhaven broke a three-way tie for first to claim its fourth-straight Downriver League championship – Southgate News-Herald

7. Wrestling: Six Gladstone wrestlers earned individual championships to lead the team to the Mid-Peninsula Conference title – Escanaba Daily Press

8. Girls Basketball: White Pigeon handed Centreville its first league loss since 2016, 48-44 – Sturgis Journal

9. Bowling: Elk Rapids’ boys delivered Cadillac’s first league defeat since joining the Great Northwest High School Bowling Conference three seasons ago – Traverse City Record-Eagle

10. Wrestling: Division 4 No. 7 Leroy Pine River claimed the Highland/Mid-Michigan Conference championship – Cadillac News

Also of note …

Wrestling: Niles Brandywine finished an outright championship in the Berrien-Cass-St. Joseph Conference – Niles Daily Star