Today In The MHSAA: 5/25/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 25, 2021

Girls Soccer: Division 1 No. 11 Salem clinched its first league title in this sport in 34 years with 3-0 win over No. 20 Livonia Stevenson in the Kensington Lakes Activities Association championship game – Observer & Eccentric

2. Softball: No. 3 Howell continued an awesome run to close the regular season with a 5-3 win over top-ranked Grand Blanc – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

3. Track & Field: The Negaunee girls and Gladstone boys clinched Mid-Peninsula Conference titles, the Miners for the 11th-straight season – Marquette Mining Journal

4. Boys Golf: Warren De La Salle Collegiate – No. 5 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – ran its Macomb County championship streak to seven shooting a 309 at the county tournament – Macomb Daily

5. Girls Soccer: Traverse City West earned its third-straight Big North Conference title with a 2-0 win over second-place Petoskey – Traverse City Record-Eagle

6. Baseball: Goodrich downed Fenton 2-1 in nine innings to clinch the outright Flint Metro League championship – WJRT

7. Baseball: Division 2 No. 9 Grand Rapids Christian claimed the Ottawa-Kent Conference White title with a 4-3 win over East Grand Rapids – FOX 17

8. Softball: Division 2 No. 8 Chelsea swept Tecumseh to clinch the Southeastern Conference White title, setting a team home run record in the process – Ann Arbor News

9. Baseball: Dexter’s sweep of Pinckney and Chelsea’s win over Tecumseh landed the Dreadnaughts the outright SEC White title – Chelsea Sun Times News

10. Boys Golf: Niles shot a 349 to win the Berrien-Cass-St. Joseph Conference championship in its lone season playing in the league – Niles Daily Star

Also of note …

Softball: Division 1 No. 7 South Lyon East fell to No. 5 Allen Park 8-6 but did hit its 64th home run of the season to set an MHSAA record – Oakland Press

Baseball: Division 2 No. 2 New Boston Huron clinched the Huron League championship with a 6-4 win over Milan – Monroe News

Boys Golf: LPD2 No. 4 Chelsea shot a 319 at the SEC White Tournament to earn the overall league title – Chelsea Sun Times News

Boys Golf: Durand shot a 386 at the Mid-Michigan Activities Conference Tournament to finish first and lock up the overall league title – Owosso Argus-Press

Girls Lacrosse: Jeff Seidel tells a memorable story of why this season’s first-year Detroit Cass Tech team was unforgettable – Detroit Free Press

Today in the MHSAA: 12/11/17

December 11, 2017

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Each weekday of the school year, we break down the top headlines courtesy of Michigan’s sports media.

Today's Top 10 

1. Girls Basketball: Howell ended Ypsilanti Arbor Prep’s 26-game regular-season winning streak, downing the reigning Class B runner-up 51-41 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

2. Cheer: Brownstown Woodhaven and Gibraltar Carlson won Competitive Cheer Coaches Association of Michigan Scholarship Meets on Saturday, Carlson ahead of reigning Division 2 champ Allen Park – Southgate News Herald

3. Hockey: Division 3 top-ranked Hancock came back from a two-goal deficit to get past Division 2 No. 4 Birmingham Brother Rice 6-4 – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

4. Hockey: Division 1 No. 10 Rochester United held on after seeing a two-goal lead dissolve, downing Division 3 No. 7 Houghton 4-3 in overtime; Houghton had tied Brother Rice on Friday – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

5. Boys Swimming & Diving: Lower Peninsula Division 1 No. 7 Novi opened with a dominating finish at the Fenton Relays, finishing ahead of the host Tigers and Lake Orion among the top three – Observer & Eccentric

6. Boys Basketball: Reigning Interstate 8 Athletic Conference champion Marshall edged last season’s runner-up Coldwater 51-46 – Battle Creek Enquirer

7. Hockey: Division 2 No. 3 Plymouth got up four goals and held on for a 4-3 win over Division 3 No. 6 Livonia Churchill – Observer & Eccentric

8. Boys Swimming & Diving: LP Division 1 No. 6 Grand Rapids Forest Hills United added to last year’s perfect regular-season run with a 177-138 opening win over East Kentwood – Grand Rapids Press

9. Boys Basketball: Romeo Weems had a triple double to lead reigning Class B champion New Haven past Warren DeLaSalle at Calihan Hall – Macomb Daily

10. Cheer: Addison set a program record in Round 3 in winning the Homer Invitational – Adrian Daily Telegram