Today In The MHSAA: 5/18/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 18, 2021

Girls soccer: Schoolcraft’s Hannah Thompson tied the MHSAA single-season goals record with her 66th during a 7-2 win over Hartford; she scored all seven goals for her team – Kalamazoo Gazette

2. Boys Golf: Shepherd shot a 358 to clinch a fourth-straight league title and first in the Mid-Michigan Golf Conference – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

3. Girls Soccer: Division 2 No. 8 Linden closed a perfect Flint Metro League run with a 2-1 win over Lake Fenton – WJRT

4. Softball/Baseball: New Lothrop clinched Mid-Michigan Activities Conference championships in both with wins over Otisville-LakeVille Memorial, the softball team its first league title since 2009. New Lothrop’s softball team is ranked No. 9 in Division 3, and the baseball team is No. 13 – Owosso Argus-Press

5. Girls Soccer: Utica Eisenhower clinched the Macomb Area Conference Red title with a 1-0 win over New Baltimore Anchor Bay – Macomb Daily

6. Boys Lacrosse: Division 1 No. 2 Hartland locked up the Kensington Lakes Activities Association championship with a 19-3 win over Plymouth – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

7. Baseball: Division 1 No. 12 Lake Orion swept Rochester Adams to win the Oakland Activities Association Red championship – Oakland Press

8. Boys Golf: Manistee Catholic Central was one stroke better than Pentwater in locking up the West Michigan D League title – Manistee News Advocate

9. Girls Soccer: Division 4 No. 8 North Muskegon came back from a two-goal deficit to tie No. 7 Lansing Christian 2-2 – Local Sports Journal

10. Baseball: Division 4 No. 7 Johannesburg-Lewiston held on for a pair of one-run wins over Indian River Inland Lakes – Cheboygan News

Today in the MHSAA: 1/16/19

January 16, 2019

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Tuesday night is usually a basketball night – and there’s big news to report. But the most major headline may have come in the pool as three swimming & diving stories made today’s top 10.

1. Boys Swimming & Diving: Lower Peninsula Division 1 honorable mention Zeeland downed LPD3 No. 1 Holland Christian 113-73 to take the lead in the Ottawa Kent Conference Green – Holland Sentinel

2. Girls Basketball: Flint Carman-Ainsworth downed reigning Class B champion Detroit Country Day 65-60 – Flint Journal

3. Boys Basketball: Muskegon Reeths-Puffer ended Muskegon’s 58-game league winning streak with a 63-59 overtime win – Muskegon Chronicle

4. Boys Basketball: Roseville downed Macomb Dakota 63-56 in a matchup of Macomb Area Conference Red contenders – Detroit News

5. Boys Swimming & Diving: LPD1 No. 5 Ann Arbor Pioneer outraced honorable mention Ann Arbor Huron 117-69 – We Love Ann Arbor

6. Boys Basketball: Behind eight 3-pointers by Nolan Finkbeiner, Hemlock handed Sanford Meridian its first loss, 60-51 – Saginaw News

7. Hockey: Division 2 top-ranked Hartland downed No. 9 Howell 7-1 after being outshot during the first period – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

8. Boys Swimming & Diving: LPD3 No. 3 Spring Lake earned a key 98-88 league win over LPD2 honorable mention Jenison – Grand Haven Tribune

9. Girls Basketball: Michigan Center remained undefeated with a 52-38 win over rival Hanover-Horton – Jackson Citizen-Patriot

10. Boys Basketball: Hudsonville made a strong move in the O-K Red with a big win over East Kentwood – FOX 17

Also of note …

Basketball: Coopersville will be celebrating its 100th season of basketball Friday, and this collection includes many highlights both girls and boys from all over that first century – Grand Rapids Press