Today In The MHSAA: 5/3/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 3, 2021

1. Track & Field: Birmingham Seaholm’s Audrey DaDamio and Ann Arbor Skyline’s Hobbs Kessler won Barnyard Invitational championships against fields including many of the state’s top distance runners – Macomb Daily

2. Baseball: Division 1 No. 13 Saline handed the first loss this season to Division 2 top-ranked Orchard Lake St. Mary’s, 2-1 – State Champs Sports Network

3. Softball: Kami Morse hit two home runs in an emotion-fueled performance as Jenison went 3-0 to win its invitational – FOX 17

4. Girls Tennis: North Muskegon – No. 2 in Lower Peninsula Division 4 – won its third Greater Muskegon Athletic Association championship in four seasons, just ahead of Mona Shores and Whitehall – Local Sports Journal

5. Track & Field: Reeths-Puffer won its first GMAA championship since 2006 and Whitehall won the girls title the next day – Muskegon Chronicle Girls | Boys

6. Softball: Muskegon Oakridge moved up a tier in the GMAA tournament and won its fifth-straight championship – Local Sports Journal

7. Girls Soccer: Rochester Adams earned an impressive 1-0 win over Novi – Oakland Press

8. Track & Field: Grand Blanc swept Flint Carman-Ainsworth Invitational championships – WJRT

9. Boys Golf: Norway shot a 323 to edge Houghton by seven strokes and win its invitational – Iron Mountain Daily News

10. Baseball: Muskegon Mona Shores clinched its third-straight GMAA Tier 1 title – Local Sports Journal

Also of note …

Softball: Portage Central celebrated the life of Sophie Varney with its Sophie Strong game and dedication of new batting cages; she died in December after battling an inoperable brain tumor – Kalamazoo Gazette

Today in the MHSAA: 4/20/23

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

April 20, 2023

1. BASEBALL Division 1 top-ranked Orchard Lake St. Mary’s extended its record winning streak by taking the first game against No. 3 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice, but the second was suspended with the score tied – Oakland Press

2. GIRLS SOCCER Mattawan continued its impressive April with a 2-1 win over Division 1 No. 3 Portage Central – Kalamazoo Gazette

3. SOFTBALL Division 3 No. 2 Evart swept No. 9 Traverse City St. Francis thanks in part to Ally Theunick’s hitting – Big Rapids Pioneer

4. SOFTBALL Aubrey Hensley became Temperance Bedford’s all-time home runs leader with her 19th in a win over Adrian – Monroe News

5. SOFTBALL A pair of Hamilton pitchers combined to no-hit Coopersville during the opener of a doubleheader matchup of Division 2 honorable mentions – Holland Sentinel

6. BOYS GOLF Pentwater shot a 339 to win the Shelby Invitational – Ludington Daily News

7. GIRLS SOCCER Nora Proos scored all four goals in St. Joseph Our Lady of the Lakes’ 4-3 win over St. Joseph Michigan Lutheran – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

8. SOFTBALL Midland earned a split with Davison with an eighth-inning walk-off single in the second game – Midland Daily News

9. BASEBALL Mackinaw City edged Pickford 12-11 on a walk-off double – Cheboygan Daily Tribune

10. BOYS GOLF Quincy edged Jonesville by two strokes to win the first Big 8 Conference jamboree – Coldwater Daily Reporter