Today in the MHSAA: 5/26/17
May 26, 2017
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
The last major night of league track & field meets statewide saw another group of champions crowned, led by Adrian Madison’s girls for the 11th straight season.
Each weekday during the school year, we’ll gather and post media links covering the most significant and intriguing high school events from all over the state.
Baseball
Division 1 No. 14 Holt held on for a 6-2, 10-inning win over St. Johns in a Capital Diamond Classic quarterfinal – Lansing State Journal
Division 1 No. 19 Mount Pleasant stayed in the Saginaw Valley League title race with a sweep of Flint Powers Catholic that included an extra-inning win – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
From Wednesday, Lake Odessa Lakewood secured a Greater Lansing Activities Conference title with a 3-0 win over Stockbridge – Ionia Sentinel-Standard
Boys Golf
Bay City Western battled the elements to win the Bay County Championship with a 334, clearing the field by 18 strokes – Bay City Times
From Tuesday, Lower Peninsula Division 1 No. 6 Plymouth clinched a fifth straight Kensington Lakes Activities Association championship shooting a 315 – Observer & Eccentric
Boys Lacrosse
Division 1 No. 9 Clarkston avenged an earlier loss to Bloomfield Hills with a 13-6 Division 1 Regional win – Oakland Press
Girls Soccer
Division 1 top-ranked Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central made two goals over the first 15 minutes stand the rest of the game in a 2-1 win over No. 17 Portage Central – Grand Rapids Press
Holland Black River finished a perfect run through the Alliance League – Holland Sentinel
Softball
Division 1 No. 10 Mount Pleasant swept Flint Powers Catholic to earn its first Saginaw Valley League title since 2010 – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
From Wednesday, Norway swept Manistique to clinch a share of the Mid-Peninsula Conference championship – Iron Mountain Daily News
Boys Tennis
Negaunee swept all eight flights to claim a seventh straight Mid-Peninsula Conference championship – Marquette Mining Journal
Track & Field
The Detroit Cass Tech boys and Detroit Renaissance girls ran to Detroit Public School League championships – Detroit News
Quincy swept Big 8 Conference championships; the girls finished first at the league meet after entering tied in the standings – Coldwater Daily Reporter
Adrian Madison swept Tri-County Conference championships, the girls (LPD3 No. 4) for the 11th straight season and the boys for the fourth – Adrian Daily Telegram
Onsted’s girls (LPD3 No. 7) and Hillsdale’s boys (LPD3 No. 2) claimed Lenawee County Athletic Association championships – Adrian Daily Telegram
Lake Odessa Lakewood’s boys won the Greater Lansing Activities Conference meet to claim a share of the league title; Olivet’s girls dominated as well – Ionia Sentinel-Standard
The Centreville (LPD4 No. 2) girls and Mendon boys came away champions at the Berrien-Cass-St. Joseph Blue meet – Sturgis Journal
Today in the MHSAA: 5/17/18
May 17, 2018
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Each weekday of the school year, we break down the top headlines courtesy of Michigan’s sports media.
1. Softball: Bear Lake clinched its first softball league championship since 1987 in splitting a doubleheader with Custer Mason County Eastern – Manistee News Advocate
2. Girls Soccer: Reagan Wisser scored all three goals as Division 2 No. 2 Richland Gull Lake downed Division 1 No. 5 Portage Central 3-2 in overtime to clinch its fourth Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference title in five seasons – Kalamazoo Gazette
3. Track & Field: Adrian Madison’s teams finished perfect dual seasons in the Tri-County Conference, the LPD3 No. 3 girls running their league winning streak to 87 and the boys to 35 – Adrian Daily Telegram
4. Boys Golf: Clarkston, No. 4 in Lower Peninsula Division 1, shot a 297 to win the Oakland County Division 1 championship ahead of runner-up and No. 2-ranked Birmingham Seaholm (303) and third-place and No. 3 Lake Orion (305) – C&G Newspapers
5. Boys Lacrosse: Division 1 No. 2 Hartland defeated No. 5 Brighton 15-4 to clinch the Kensington Lakes Activities Association championship – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
6. Girls Soccer: Muskegon Western Michigan Christian created a tie with Division 4 No. 11 Muskegon Catholic Central at the top of the Lakes 8 Conference with a 2-1 win over the Crusaders – Local Sports Journal
7. Baseball: Rochester Hills Stoney Creek finished a three-game sweep of Rochester to earn a shared Oakland Activities Association Red title with Lake Orion – Oakland Press
8. Baseball: Rivals Portage Northern (No. 7 in Division 1) and Portage Central split a doubleheader, both winning in substantial shutouts – Kalamazoo Gazette
9. Softball: Parma Western’s Taylor Nichols went over 1,000 career strikeouts in a 15-9 win over Jackson Lumen Christi – Jackson Citizen-Patriot
10. Baseball: Detroit Osborn will play for a Detroit Public School League title for the second straight year thanks to a 10-0 win over Detroit Central – Detroit News