Today in the MHSAA: 4/14/16

April 14, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

A set of milestone coaching wins and the passing of a legendary basketball coach received the biggest headlines Thursday.

Baseball

Hudsonville coach Dave VanNoord added his 500th career win with his team’s 6-1 victory over Zeeland East – Grand Rapids Press

Pinch-hitter Connor Margosian drove in two runs to give Richmond an 8-7 walk-off win over Marysville – Port Huron Times Herald

From Tuesday, St. Louis won the 300th game of coach Rollie Carman’s career, 9-1 over Harrison – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

Girls Lacrosse

Spring Lake opened a 7-3 lead, Grand Haven caught up at 10-10 to force overtime, and Spring Lake then prevailed with one more goal – Grand Haven Tribune

Girls Soccer

Frankenmuth scored with six seconds to play to edge Midland Bullock Creek 2-1 – Midland Daily News

Softball

Jenison gave coach Kari Kossen the 399th and 400th wins of her 17-season career leading the program with a sweep of Grand Rapids Northview – Grand Rapids Press

Dowagiac swept Decatur 10-0 and 10-8 with pitcher Taylor Hulett tossing a no-hitter in the opener – Niles Daily Star

Good Read

The Lansing and statewide basketball communities are mourning one of the winningest coaches in Michigan high school history, Paul Cook, who died Tuesday evening and coached the first two Mr. Basketball winners and also won an MHSAA title with the Lansing Catholic girls – Lansing State Journal

Today in the MHSAA: 10/6/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

October 6, 2025

1. CROSS COUNTRY Highly-ranked Lower Peninsula teams dominated at the prestigious Portage Invitational, with the LPD1 top-ranked Ann Arbor Pioneer girls and No. 2 boys, LPD2 No. 1 Otsego girls, LPD2 No. 2 East Grand Rapids boys, LPD3 No. 1 Lansing Catholic girls, LPD3 No. 1 Jackson Lumen Christi boys, LPD4 No. 1 Whitmore Lake girls and LPD4 No. 1 Maple City Glen Lake boys among champions – Athletic.net | Traverse City Record-Eagle

2. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Utica Eisenhower claimed its first Macomb County championship since 2018 – Macomb Daily

3. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING LPD2 top-ranked Farmington Hills Mercy dominated in claimed a third-straight Oakland County championship – Oakland Press

4. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD1 No. 15 Rochester girls and No. 8 Milford boys were champions at the Oakland County meet – Oakland Press

5. VOLLEYBALL Division 1 No. 10 Grand Haven finished 3-1 at the Jenison Invitational with Bria Hogeboom reaching 1,000 career assists – Grand Haven Tribune

6. GIRLS GOLF LPD3 No. 2 Grand Rapids Catholic Central carded a 677 to win the Katke Classic by 66 strokes – Ludington Daily News

7. CROSS COUNTRY The Hartland girls and LPD2 top-ranked Flint Powers Catholic boys won Greater Flint Championship titles – Flint Journal

8. VOLLEYBALL Division 4 No. 8 Crystal Falls Forest Park earned a repeat title at the Escanaba Invitational – Iron Mountain Daily News

9. VOLLEYBALL Division 3 honorable mention Manton finished 6-0 and downed Lake City to win the latter’s invitational – Cadillac News

10. CROSS COUNTRY Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker swept girls and boys titles at the North Park Invitational – Huron Daily Tribune