Today in the MHSAA: 4/18/18

April 18, 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. Girls Soccer: After opening this season 0-2, No. 4 Saline has won the first three games of league play including Tuesday’s over Ann Arbor Pioneer, 3-0 – Saline Post

2. Boys Lacrosse: Lake Orion continued its league dominance with a 15-10 win over Troy – Oakland Press

3. Girls Soccer: Lake Orion remained undefeated in league play on the soccer field as well with a 3-0 win over Royal Oak – Oakland Press

4. Baseball: Chelsea will name its field after former longtime coach and athletic director Wayne Welton – Ann Arbor News

5. Volleyball: Traverse City Central has hired former Benzie Central coach Jen Wright to take over the program; Wright most recently has been coaching the Trojans’ junior varsity – Traverse City Record-Eagle

6. Football: Junior varsity coach Jesse Fenstermaker has been promoted to take over Rogers City’s program as varsity leader – Alpena News

7. Football: Hillman promoted defensive coordinator Cody Allen to head coach as it heads into 8-player football for the first time this fall – Alpena News

8. Officials: Longtime sportswriter Al Wright gives his perspective on why it's gotten tougher to recruit officials for high school athletics – Midwest Sports Network

9. MHSAA: As part of its Black History Month features in February, State Champs! Network included a tribute to MHSAA assistant director Nate Hampton, who coordinates football, girls and boys basketball and girls and boys track & field – State Champs!

Today in the MHSAA: 5/18/26

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 18, 2026

1. BASEBALL Division 2 top-ranked Orchard Lake St. Mary’s downed Warren De La Salle Collegiate and Division 1 top-ranked Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice, both in shutouts, to clinch a Catholic High School League championship – Detroit News

2. GIRLS TRACK & FIELD Romeo swept girls and boys Regional titles in this sport for the first time, with the girls repeating in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – Macomb Daily

3. GIRLS SOCCER Division 2 No. 4 Bloomfield Hills Marian repeated as Catholic High School League Bishop champion with a 4-1 win over Division 3 No. 4 Warren Regina – Macomb Daily

4. TRACK & FIELD Grand Ledge also won girls and boys Regionals in the same season for the first time, also in LPD1 – WLNS

5. SOFTBALL Division 2 honorable mention Orchard Lake St. Mary’s claimed a CHSL Bishop title with a 1-0 win over Toledo St. Ursula – Oakland Press

6. SOFTBALL Division 3 No. 7 Jackson Lumen Christi downed Madison Heights Bishop Foley in the CHSL Cardinal championship game – Oakland Press

7. TRACK & FIELD The Rudyard girls and Pickford boys won Upper Peninsula Division 2 Regional titles – Escanaba Daily Press

8. GIRLS SOCCER Megan U’Ren broke Suttons Bay’s career scoring record and tied its career assist record during a win over Kalkaska – Traverse City Record-Eagle

9. SOFTBALL Lorelei Chciuk reached 1,000 career strikeouts for Division 1 No. 6 Grand Haven during a no-hitter against honorable mention Grosse Pointe South – Grand Haven Tribune

10. BASEBALL Escanaba’s Lennox Peacock set his school’s career strikeout record during a 10-0 shutout of Norway – Upper Michigan’s Source