Today in the MHSAA: 5/17/18
May 17, 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. Softball: Bear Lake clinched its first softball league championship since 1987 in splitting a doubleheader with Custer Mason County Eastern – Manistee News Advocate
2. Girls Soccer: Reagan Wisser scored all three goals as Division 2 No. 2 Richland Gull Lake downed Division 1 No. 5 Portage Central 3-2 in overtime to clinch its fourth Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference title in five seasons – Kalamazoo Gazette
3. Track & Field: Adrian Madison’s teams finished perfect dual seasons in the Tri-County Conference, the LPD3 No. 3 girls running their league winning streak to 87 and the boys to 35 – Adrian Daily Telegram
4. Boys Golf: Clarkston, No. 4 in Lower Peninsula Division 1, shot a 297 to win the Oakland County Division 1 championship ahead of runner-up and No. 2-ranked Birmingham Seaholm (303) and third-place and No. 3 Lake Orion (305) – C&G Newspapers
5. Boys Lacrosse: Division 1 No. 2 Hartland defeated No. 5 Brighton 15-4 to clinch the Kensington Lakes Activities Association championship – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
6. Girls Soccer: Muskegon Western Michigan Christian created a tie with Division 4 No. 11 Muskegon Catholic Central at the top of the Lakes 8 Conference with a 2-1 win over the Crusaders – Local Sports Journal
7. Baseball: Rochester Hills Stoney Creek finished a three-game sweep of Rochester to earn a shared Oakland Activities Association Red title with Lake Orion – Oakland Press
8. Baseball: Rivals Portage Northern (No. 7 in Division 1) and Portage Central split a doubleheader, both winning in substantial shutouts – Kalamazoo Gazette
9. Softball: Parma Western’s Taylor Nichols went over 1,000 career strikeouts in a 15-9 win over Jackson Lumen Christi – Jackson Citizen-Patriot
10. Baseball: Detroit Osborn will play for a Detroit Public School League title for the second straight year thanks to a 10-0 win over Detroit Central – Detroit News
Today in the MHSAA: 10/13/15
October 13, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Soccer saw Monday’s most intriguing games, with ranked teams and league champions facing off to kick off the final week of the regular season.
Boys Soccer
LP Division 1 Flint Powers Catholic hasn’t given up a goal since Sept. 12 and moved to 15-1 on Monday with a 1-0 win over Saginaw Heritage, champion of the Saginaw Valley League North; Powers won the South – Flint Journal
East Lansing, No. 5 in LP Division 2, downed Division 3 No. 3 Williamston 5-2 in a Capital Area Activities Conference Gold Cup semifinal – Lansing State Journal
Daniel Dubois scored three goals to lead LP Division 4 No. 9 Whitehall past Ravenna 4-0, in the process setting a school record with 61 goals in his career – Muskegon Chronicle
Unranked Grand Blanc downed LP Division 1 No. 18 White Lake Lakeland 2-1 to win the Kensington Lakes Activities Association Lakes Conference title – Oakland Press
Muskegon Western Michigan Christian, No. 4 in LP Division 4, downed LP Division 3 No. 20 Wyoming Godwin Heights 3-1 on three second-half goals by Dylan Mines – Muskegon Chronicle