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: 10/4/18
October 4, 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. Boys Soccer: Comstock locked up its third straight Berrien-Cass-St. Joseph Conference Red title with a 4-0 win over Parchment – JoeInsider.com
2. Cross Country: Custer Mason County Eastern’s boys edged Walkerville by two points to win the West Michigan D League championship meet – Ludington Daily News
3. Volleyball: Petoskey moved into a first-place tie in the Big North Conference by handing Division 2 honorable mention Cadillac its first league loss – Petoskey News-Review
4. Boys Soccer: Walled Lake Central avenged its lone league loss of the season, downing Milford in a Lakes Valley Conference tournament semifinal – Oakland Press
5. Boys Soccer: Holt held off Division 3 No. 9 Williamston 2-1 in the first round of the Capital Area Activities Conference Gold Cup – Lansing State Journal
6. Volleyball: Traverse City Central downed rival West in five games to finish its first sweep of the Titans in eight years – Traverse City Record-Eagle
7. Cross Country: The Pittsford girls (LPD4 No. 4) and Hillsdale Academy boys won their third league jamborees to move closer to titles in the Southern Central Athletic Association – Hillsdale Daily News
8. Boys Soccer: Fourth-place Allen Park handed first-place Brownstown Woodhaven a 4-0 loss in a Downriver League position game – Southgate News-Herald
9. Girls Golf: Division 2 No. 9 Coldwater earned a 189-217 win over Sturgis in a “Purple Week” match – Coldwater Daily Reporter
10. Cross Country: Grosse Ile swept the second Huron League jamborees of this fall; the girls are tied for No. 10 in LPD2 – Southgate News-Herald
Also of note …
Volleyball: From Tuesday, Division 3 honorable mention Brighton Charyl Stockwell earned a five-set win over reigning Division 4 champion and current No. 6 Plymouth Christian Academy – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
Cross Country: From Saturday, Shepherd’s Amber Gall broke the girls school record time from 1978 by running a 17:27.4 – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
Boys Soccer: From Tuesday, Division 4 No. 4 Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian downed Wyoming Godwin Heights to clinch the Ottawa-Kent Conference Silver title – FOX 17