Today in the MHSAA: 4/19/18
April 19, 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 Tennis: Lower Peninsula Division 1 top-ranked Midland Dow shut out LPD2 No. 6 Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central and gave up just a point to LPD2 No. 3 Birmingham Seaholm – Midland Daily News
2. Girls Tennis: Also at Midland, LPD2 No. 7 Traverse City Central downed Forest Hills Central and was shut out by Seaholm – Traverse City Record-Eagle
3. Boys Lacrosse: Division 1 No. 10 Brighton edged No. 5 Howell 20-15 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
4. Baseball: Brighton got a five-inning no-hitter from Cameron Tullar in a 12-1 win over Novi – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
5. Baseball: Division 1 No. 9 Sterling Heights Stevenson got back on the field with a win over Utica Eisenhower – Detroit News
6. Baseball: Division 1 top-ranked Saline opened league play with a victory over Temperance Bedford – Saline Post
7. Baseball: Birmingham Groves remained undefeated with a 7-5 win over rival Seaholm – Oakland Press
8. Football: Powers North Central has a new coach after a contentious few weeks led to Wednesday’s resignation of Kevin Bellefeuil, who guided the team to undefeated seasons in 2015 and 2016 – Escanaba Daily Press
9. Boys Basketball: Buckley coach Blair Moss has stepped down after leading the Bears to back-to-back Class D runner-up finishes – MI Sports Now
10. Girls Basketball: After 20 seasons over two tenures, Tim Walker has stepped down again as Bay City Western girls basketball coach – Midland Daily News
Today in the MHSAA: 5/3/18
May 3, 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. Track & Field: Detroit U-D Jesuit senior Sean English returned to the track and ran the 400 meters with a prosthetic leg just more than a year after he was struck by another driver while stopping to assist passengers of an overturned vehicle – Detroit Free Press
2. Girls Tennis: Unranked Byron Center upset Lower Peninsula Division 3 No. 8 Holland Christian 5-3 – Holland Sentinel
3. Softball: Molly Carey tossed a no-hitter as Division 1 No. 2 Howell swept Grand Blanc – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
4. Boys Golf: Muskegon Reeths-Puffer followed freshman medalist Cody Petroski to a Greater Muskegon Athletic Association championship – Local Sports Journal
5. Boys Golf: Gaylord’s Brendon Gouin shot a 70 as individual medalist as his Division 2 No. 8 Blue Devils won the Cheboygan Invitational – Gaylord Herald Times
6. Baseball: Division 1 No. 18 Birmingham Brother Rice and Division 2 No. 5 Orchard Lake St. Mary’s split their doubleheader – Oakland Press
7. Girls Soccer: Traverse City St. Francis scored twice in 48 seconds in downing Maple City Glen Lake 2-1 – Traverse City Record-Eagle
8. Girls Soccer: Division 1 No. 16 Brownstown Woodhaven scored twice over the final 14 minutes to edge Gibraltar Carlson 2-0 – Southgate News Herald
9. Girls Soccer: Jaclynn Sibley scored the first three goals as Division 1 No. 2 Portage Central downed rival Portage Northern 4-0 – WWMT
10. Baseball: A day after losing 17-2 to Romeo, Utica Ford came back with a 7-5 win – Macomb Daily