Today in the MHSAA: 5/15/17

May 15, 2017

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The last weekend of the track & field regular season featured league and invitational titles galore, and we've highlighted some of the most intriguing as well as the best from the rest of competition including a league title game between the top-ranked boys teams in Division 1.

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

Battle Creek Harper Creek downed Division 1 No. 12 Lakeview 3-1 to win the Battle Creek All-City championship – Battle Creek Enquirer

A bases-loaded walk in the seventh inning gave Division 2 No. 9 Fowlerville a 6-5 win over Lansing Catholic as the Gladiators clinched the Capital Area Activities Conference White title – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

Division 1 No. 8 Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett downed Division 3 No. 2 Schoolcraft 3-2 to win its invitational – Detroit News

Boys Golf

James Staab won medalist for the second straight season to lead Lakeview to its 14th straight Battle Creek All-City title – Battle Creek Enquirer

Lower Peninsula Division 2 No. 10 Grosse Ile shot a 295 to win the Marauder Invitational by 13 strokes, led by medalist Mitch Daly’s 69 – Southgate News Herald

Girls Lacrosse

Okemos, No. 4 in Division 2, won its 10th straight Capital Area Activities Conference title with a 17-9 win over Haslett/Williamston in the tournament final – Lansing State Journal

Boys Lacrosse

Division 1 top-ranked Birmingham Brother Rice locked down the Detroit Catholic League title with a 15-10 win over No. 2 Detroit Catholic Central – Oakland Press

Softball

Battle Creek Pennfield hung on to down Harper Creek in the Battle Creek All-City softball final – Battle Creek Enquirer

Warren Regina split with Farmington Hills Mercy, getting the one necessary win to clinch the Detroit Catholic League Central title – Macomb Daily

Girls Tennis

Niles Brandywine won its fifth straight league title and 10th over the last 13 seasons, this time by only a point over Comstock – Niles Daily Star

Track & Field

Bay City Western swept the Bay County titles, the boys for the ninth straight season; the girls are ranked No. 7 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 and the boys are No. 10 – Bay City Times

The Houghton boys and Lake Linden-Hubbell girls won Houghton County Invitational titles, the boys led by a record-setting performance by Clayton Sayen as he bested a school mark from 1991 and a meet record from 1995 – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

Manton swept the titles at its invitational, defending the girls' No. 1 ranking and boys' No. 3 in LP Division 4 – Cadillac News

Unranked Novi finished 23.5 points ahead of LP Division 1 No. 3 Salem to claim the boys Kensington Lakes Activities Association Kensington title – Observer & Eccentric

Good Read

Comstock Park retired its first girls soccer number last week – the No. 3 of Kristin Stowie, who died in a snowmobile crash in 2010 – Grand Rapids Press

Today in the MHSAA: 5/16/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 16, 2025

1. GIRLS TENNIS Lower Peninsula No. 8 Harbor Springs edged No. 3 Traverse City St. Francis by two points to claim its first Regional title since 2017 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

2. GIRLS TENNIS Top-ranked Utica Eisenhower was first and No. 9 Rochester Hills Stoney Creek second at an LPD1 Regional – Macomb Daily

3. GIRLS TENNIS No. 8 Holland West Ottawa edged No. 7 Rockford in LPD1, and No. 8 Holland Christian won all eight flights to claim an LPD3 Regional team title – Holland Sentinel

4. BASEBALL After entering the day one game back, Division 1 top-ranked Bay City Western claimed the outright Saginaw Valley League title with a sweep of Bay City Central – Bay City Times

5. GIRLS SOCCER Division 2 No. 9 DeWitt shut out Grand Ledge 2-0 to win the Capital Area Activities Conference Gold Cup – Lansing State Journal

6. GIRLS TENNIS No. 3 Chelsea claimed an eighth-straight Regional title, finishing first with Grosse Ile second in LPD3 – Chelsea Sun Times News

7. GIRLS TENNIS No. 4 Midland Dow scored all but one possible point to clinch an LPD2 Regional title – Midland Daily News

8. SOFTBALL Division 1 honorable mention Lake Orion split with Rochester Hills Stoney Creek, the opening win clinching the Oakland Activities Association Red title – Oakland Press

9. SOFTBALL Grant secured the Central State Activities Association Red title with a sweep of Remus Chippewa Hills – Local Sports Journal

10. BASEBALL Division 4 No. 3 Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart swept Merrill, giving Irish coach Earl Hartman his 900th win – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun