Today in the MHSAA: 4/18/17

April 18, 2017

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

A longtime baseball coach pulled within one victory Monday of becoming the fourth in Michigan history to win 1,000 games at the high school level.

Each weekday during the school year, we’ll gather and post media links covering the most significant and intriguing high school events from all over the state.

Baseball

Longtime Saginaw Heritage baseball coach Bob Andrezejewski earned his 999th career win as the Hawks split with Midland – Saginaw News

Livonia Franklin’s Joe Montie had a walk-off hit for the second straight game, this time to beat Salem 5-4 – Observer & Eccentric

Birmingham Groves got past Farmington 3-2 on a walk-off double by John Kowalchuk – Oakland Press

Track & Field

The Lake Linden-Hubbell girls and Bessemer boys won the Superior Central Invitational, held inside Northern Michigan University’s Superior Dome – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

Mentor of Many (Kalamazoo Gazette)

April 17, 2012

Longtime Plainwell coach and athletic director Jack Streidl died Monday at age 93 and after nearly a lifetime of serving his community's athletic programs in a variety of roles.

The Kalamazoo Gazette's Scott DeCamp recounts the contributions of the Menominee native and Western Michigan grad who won more than 200 football games and was present as the school's stadium was named after him in 2008. 

Remembering a legend: Plainwell teacher/coach Jack Streidl 'always saw the best in people'