Today in the MHSAA: 5/18/16
May 18, 2016
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Girls tennis and softball teams posted "sweeping" performances Tuesday as more championships were earned in multiple sports.
Boys Lacrosse
The MHSAA Regional Tournament started this week, and among early winners was Saginaw Heritage with a 17-7 victory over Swartz Creek – Saginaw News
Girls Soccer
Cadillac avenged its lone loss this season, improving to 13-1-2 with a 2-1 win over Traverse City Central – Cadillac News
Softball
Undefeated Coleman, No. 1 in Division 4, won the Mid-State Activities Conference championship for the second straight season, this time with a sweep of Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
Girls Tennis
Traverse City Central won all 24 matches at the Big North Conference Tournament for the seventh time in the league’s history – Traverse City Record-Eagle
Boys Tennis
From Monday, Menominee remained undefeated with a sweep of Iron Mountain – Iron Mountain Daily News
Today in the MHSAA: 8/28/15
August 28, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Thursday saw the start of varsity football season, and nearly half of Michigan’s teams kicked off their fall.
Football’s first week in review will be posted Monday afternoon; in the meantime, there is more good news to report from today’s statewide headlines.
Cross Country
The Croswell-Lexington girls and Yale boys won the Mike Jackson Invitational, with Port Huron’s Rachel Bonner – fourth at the Lower Peninsula Division 1 Final last season – taking the girls individual title by 59 seconds – Port Huron Times-Herald
Girls Golf
Spring Lake set a school record shooting 321 to win the Big Rapids Invitational, also placing the top two individuals – Grand Haven Tribune
Good Reads
Longtime cross country and track and field official Doug Steward was quoted as saying he was close to retiring – in 2009. But this fall, after 51 years, he indeed will start his final races – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
The Lac Vieux Desert Tribe presented Watersmeet schools with $174,000 earlier this year that in part went to a new gym floor complete with the school's nationally-recognized Nimrod logo – Ironwood Daily Globe