Today in the MHSAA: 5/16/19
May 16, 2019
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Some slim upsets in golf and soccer led to major championships Wednesday, while a number of other teams made school history by clinching titles.
1. Boys Golf: Lower Peninsula Division 1 No. 8 Lake Orion shot a 303 to edge top-ranked Clarkston by two strokes and win the Oakland County championship – Oakland Press
2. Girls Soccer: Division 1 No. 5 Grand Blanc downed No. 4 Midland 2-1 to claim the Saginaw Valley League championship – State Champs Sports Network
3. Girls Soccer: Armada locked up the Blue Water Area Conference title with a 5-1 win over Division 3 No. 13 Richmond – Macomb Daily
4. Softball: Livonia Stevenson clinched its first league title in softball since 2006, downing Westland John Glenn to claim the Kensington Lakes Activities Association East championship – Observer & Eccentric
5. Boys Golf: LPD3 No. 7 Shepherd ran its Tri-Valley Conference West title streak to three with another jamboree win – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
6. Girls Soccer: Brownstown Woodhaven got past Trenton to claim the Downriver League title outright – Southgate News-Herald
7. Baseball: Division 1 No. 8 Brighton clinched the KLAA West title with a win over Hartland – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
8. Baseball: Berkley clinched the Oakland Activities Association Blue championship – Oakland Press
9. Baseball: Division 2 No. 5 Chelsea finished a sweep of Ypsilanti as the Southeastern Conference White champion – Chelsea Sun Times News
10. Girls Soccer: Division 1 No. 8 New Baltimore Anchor Bay won a key Macomb Area Conference Red matchup with No. 6 Macomb Dakota, 2-1 – Macomb Daily
Also of note …
Softball/Basketball: Rochester Adams coach Fran Scislowicz went over 1,000 combined wins in the two sports with a softball victory April 25 – C&G Newspapers
Track & Field: From Friday, Greenville’s boys claimed the Ottawa-Kent Conference White meet title to repeat as league champions – Greenville Daily News
Today in the MHSAA: 6/7/19
June 7, 2019
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
A number of top girls soccer teams earned opportunities to continue on to the season’s final week by clinching Regional championships Thursday.
1. Girls Soccer: Top-ranked Novi won a rematch of last season’s Division 1 Final, this time taking a Regional title with a 4-0 win over No. 4 Grand Blanc – State Champs Sports Network
2. Girls Soccer: No. 8 Boyne City claimed its first Regional title, downing top-ranked Freeland in a shootout in Division 3 – WPBN
3. Girls Soccer: No. 2 Royal Oak Shrine clinched a Division 4 Regional title with a 1-0 win over two-time reigning champion and current No. 14 Lansing Christian – Lansing State Journal
4. Girls Soccer: Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central downed a second ranked opponent this Regional week, this time No. 7 Midland 2-0 – WOODTV
5. Girls Soccer: Top-ranked North Muskegon shut out No. 7 Houghton Lake 4-0 to finish a Division 4 Regional run – Local Sports Journal
6. Girls Soccer: No. 9 Saginaw Nouvel continued an incredible turnaround season with a Division 4 Regional Final win over Marine City Cardinal Mooney – Saginaw News
7. Girls Soccer: No. 2 Warren Regina repeated as a Division 3 Regional champ with a 2-0 win over Ann Arbor Father Gabriel Richard – C&G Newspapers
8. Girls Soccer: No. 13 Troy clinched a Division 1 Regional title with a 3-0 win over Rochester Adams – Oakland Press
9. Girls Soccer: No. 11 Flint Powers Catholic earned a Division 2 Regional title with a 2-0 win over Fenton – WJRT
10. Baseball: Division 4 No. 6 Brethren claimed an outright West Michigan D League championship with a split against Mesick – Manistee News Advocate