Today In The MHSAA: 5/20/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 20, 2021

1. Girls Soccer: Schoolcraft’s Hannah Thompson set the single-season state goals record with her 67th – and ended up at 74 after an 8-1 win over Parchment – WWMT

2. Girls Tennis: No. 3 Chelsea won every set on the way to a Lower Peninsula Division 3 Regional championship at Haslett – Chelsea Sun Times News

3. Boys Golf: LPD2 No. 5 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice shot a 306 to edge LPD1 No. 3 Detroit Catholic Central by three strokes and win the Oakland County Division 1 title – Oakland Press

4. Baseball: Division 1 No. 15 Utica Ford clinched its first outright league title in this sport since 1986 with a 3-0 win over Division 2 No. 9 St. Clair in the Macomb Area Conference White – Macomb Daily

5. Girls Lacrosse: No. 4 DeWitt came back from a late deficit to edge Okemos 11-10 and clinch the Capital Area Activities Conference championship – Lansing State Journal

6. Girls Soccer: Division 1 No. 7 Grand Blanc finished an outright Saginaw Valley League title run with a 4-1 win over Midland Dow – WJRT

7. Girls Soccer: Division 2 No. 10 Ludington finished a perfect run through the Lakes 8 Conference with a 3-0 shutout of Manistee – Ludington Daily News

8. Boys Lacrosse: No. 8 Battle Creek Lakeview downed Vicksburg 18-6 in a Division 2 Regional game – Battle Creek Enquirer

9. Boys Golf: Jake Beaudoin shot a Charlevoix school-record 64 to finish as individual winner of a Lake Michigan Conference event at Boyne Highlands, while Elk Rapids edged the LPD4 No. 4 Rayders by five strokes for the team win – Traverse City Record-Eagle

10. Baseball: Division 2 No. 18 Trenton earned a share of the Downriver League title with a 3-2 win over Division 1 No. 9 Brownstown Woodhaven Southgate News-Herald

Today In The MHSAA: 2/22/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

February 22, 2021

Massive matchups in wrestling and hockey highlighted a full weekend, as six sports made our top-10 headliners list.

 

1. Wrestling: Division 1 top-ranked Davison downed Division 2 top-ranked Lowell 51-6, and then defeated Alma and Division 3 No. 1 Dundee – State Champs Sports Network

2. Hockey: Division 2 No. 5 Hartland downed top-ranked Livonia Stevenson 5-1 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

3. Wrestling: Division 2 No. 5 Stevensville Lakeshore remained unbeaten with a win over No. 7 Middleville Thornapple Kellogg – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

4. Bowling: Brady Cornell’s 300 helped Corunna’s boys get past Owosso 25-5 – Owosso Argus-Press

5. Boys Swimming & Diving: Ann Arbor Skyline – No. 3 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – won against LPD3 No. 7 Pinckney, LPD2 No. 10 Midland Dow and LPD1 No. 7 Brighton at the Bulldogs’ quad – We Love Ann Arbor

6. Hockey: Ty Langlois had three goals and three assists as Muskegon Mona Shores downed Division 2 No. 9 Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern/Eastern 6-3 – Local Sports Journal

7. Girls Basketball: East Grand Rapids moved to 6-0 with a 53-42 win over Kalamazoo Central – FOX 17

8. Gymnastics: Marquette posted a Regional-qualifying team score in winning its invitational – Marquette Mining Journal

9. Hockey: Division 2 No. 3 Trenton came back from an early deficit to defeat Grosse Pointe South 3-1 – Southgate News-Herald

10. Wrestling: Division 3 No. 3 Whitehall avenged last season’s loss to Muskegon Reeths-Puffer to take back the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association championship – Local Sports Journal

Also of note …

Media: Metro Detroit is mourning the death of longtime sportswriter Jim Evans, who covered high school sports in Oakland and then Macomb County for most of more than 40 years in newspapers – Macomb Daily

Football: Montague coach Pat Collins resigned coming off leading his team to the Division 6 championship – Local Sports Journal

Boys Basketball: Marcellus’ Gavin Etter and Sturgis’ Thomas Kurowski both went over 1,000 career points – Kalamazoo Gazette

Girls Basketball: Taylor Folkema went over 1,000 career points in Muskegon Western Michigan Christian’s win over Manistee – Grand Haven Tribune