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: 4/21/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

April 21, 2021

Every day we play produces a story or a few, and Tuesday’s included a pair of coaching milestones and some regular-season matchups that may have been previews of postseason rematches in June.

1. Baseball: Bay City John Glenn coach Jeff Hartt reached 800 wins with his Division 2 No. 10-ranked team’s sweep of Birch Run – Bay City Times

2. Girls Soccer: Division 1 powers Brighton and Novi finished in a 1-1 draw as the Bulldogs scored with less than a minute to play – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

3. Baseball: Division 2 No. 11 Frankenmuth swept No. 7 Saginaw Swan Valley 5-0 and 9-5, with the first game featuring a pitching matchup of future college teammates – Saginaw News

4. Softball: Division 2 contenders Frankenmuth and Swan Valley split, the Eagles winning the first game 4-0 and the Vikings the second 8-2 – Saginaw News

5. Softball: Frankfort coach Michael Thompson reached 450 career wins with his team’s sweep of Buckley – Up North Live

6. Track & Field: The Salem boys and Northville girls were victorious in snowy duals pitting top teams – Observer & Eccentric

7. Boys Lacrosse: Portage Central scored seven straight goals to come back and defeat Battle Creek Pennfield 9-7 – WWMT

8. Softball: Muskegon Mona Shores shut out Reeths-Puffer 4-0, but Reeths-Puffer came back with an 11-4 win in the second game of the doubleheader – Local Sports Journal

9. Girls Soccer: Laila Sharlow scored four of Waterford Kettering’s goals in a 5-0 win over Walled Lake Western – Oakland Press

10. Boys Lacrosse: Six Troy Athens players scored as the Red Hawks downed rival Troy 16-9 – Oakland Press