Today in the MHSAA: 5/11/17

May 11, 2017

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Michigan’s schools are celebrating the first track & field league championships of 2017 as Regionals draw near beginning a week from Friday.

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

Division 1 No. 18 Brighton clinched its seventh league title in nine seasons, sweeping Grand Blanc to secure the Kensington Lakes Activities Association West championship – Livingston County Daily Press & Argus

Boys Golf

Lower Peninsula Division 2 No. 4 Flint Powers Catholic won its Saginaw Valley League jamboree with a 299, led by senior Blaise Vanitvelt’s 67 – Flint Journal

Boys Lacrosse

Division 1 top-ranked Birmingham Brother Rice downed Division 2 No. 4 Detroit Country Day 15-5 in a matchup of two of Michigan’s annual powers – Oakland Press

Girls Soccer

Portage Central, No. 17 in Division 1, downed Division 2 No. 5 Richland Gull Lake 2-0, handing Gull Lake its first Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference loss in four years – Kalamazoo Gazette

Softball

Division 1 No. 8 Howell secured the KLAA West championship with a sweep of Milford, its second title in three seasons – Livingston County Daily Press & Argus

Track & Field

Battle Creek St. Philip swept Southern Central Athletic Association West championships, with Colon second in both meets; St. Phil’s boys are ranked No. 5 in LP Division 4 – Battle Creek Enquirer

The Pittsford girls, No. 3 in LP Division 4, and Hillsdale Academy boys won the SCAA East championships – Hillsdale Daily News

The Rock Mid Peninsula girls won their invitational by 33 points over Engadine, while Engadine won the boys meet – Escanaba Daily Press

For the second time in a week, Ithaca thrower Alex VanDeWeghe broke a school record set in 1988, this time in the discus with a toss of 154-10 – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

Brethren’s boys claimed the West Michigan D League championship – Manistee News Advocate

From Tuesday, Ubly swept the championships at the Laker Rotary Invitational at Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port, edging Bad Axe in both meets – Huron Daily Tribune

Today in the MHSAA: 1/17/23

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

January 17, 2023

1. BOWLING The St. Clair Shores Lake Shore boys won their first Macomb County championship and were joined by the Macomb L’Anse Creuse girls as this season’s winning teams – Macomb Daily Girls | Boys

2. HOCKEY Division 3 top-ranked Houghton went 2-0 for the weekend with a 6-5 win over Division 2 No. 5 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice and 5-2 win over No. 7 Detroit U-D Jesuit – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

3. BOYS BASKETBALL Ferndale handed Flint Beecher its first loss, 63-52, at the MLK Freedom Classic – D Zone

4. HOCKEY Division 2 No. 2 Alpena downed No. 4 Saginaw Heritage 3-2 to run its winning streak to 10 – WBKB

5. SWIMMING & DIVING Connor Dowd set school and pool records in leading Essexville Garber to the Ogemaw Heights Stephanie Rice Memorial Invitational championship – Bay City Times

6. BOWLING The South Lyon girls and Oxford boys won Oakland County championships – Oakland Press Girls | Boys

7. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Danny Borozan earned four first places to help Battle Creek Lakeview – an honorable mention in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – to its 32nd-straight All-City championship – Battle Creek Enquirer

8. HOCKEY Division 3 No. 7 Detroit Country Day scored on its first shot on the way to a 6-3 win over No. 6 Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett – Oakland Press

9. GIRLS BASKETBALL West Bloomfield closed its MLK Classic with a big win over Detroit Cass Tech – Oakland Press

10. WRESTLING Howell won Parma Western’s 59th Jim Dewland Classic, with the host team runner-up – Livingston Daily Press & Argus