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: 6/6/17

June 6, 2017

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Few teams were back in action Monday after a championship-filled weekend, but there are still a couple of intriguing headlines to report – in baseball, and also boys basketball.

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

Holt ace Jesse Heikkinen struck out 13 in helping the Rams down Grand Ledge 2-0 and advance to the Capital Diamond Classic championship game against DeWitt – Lansing State Journal

In the late Diamond Classic semifinal, DeWitt came back from a 2-0 first-inning deficit to beat Fowlerville 10-4 – Lansing State Journal

Boys Basketball

Former successful Kalamazoo Central coach Mike Thomas will return to the high school bench, taking over Grand Blanc’s boys program – Flint Journal