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: 11/3/22

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

November 3, 2022

1. BOYS SOCCER Top-ranked Richland Gull Lake will play for the Division 2 title thanks to a 2-0 Semifinal win over No. 2 Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern – Battle Creek Enquirer

2. BOYS SOCCER No. 3 Rockford earned a trip to the Division 1 Final with a 3-0 win over No. 2 Detroit Catholic Central – WOOD TV

3. BOYS SOCCER Jackson Craft scored both goals to send No. 8 Rochester Adams to the Division 1 Final with a 2-0 win over No. 10 Salem – Detroit News

4. BOYS SOCCER Unranked Ann Arbor Greenhills continued to keep its playoff opponents scoreless with a 1-0 Division 4 Semifinal win over No. 6 Plymouth Christian Academy – Ann Arbor News

5. BOYS SOCCER No. 14 Grosse Ile will return to the Division 3 Final after a 1-0 win over No. 2 Detroit Country Day – Southgate News-Herald

6. BOYS SOCCER No. 6 Holland Christian will play for the Division 3 championship after a 4-1 Semifinal win over No. 9 Elk Rapids – Holland Sentinel

7. BOYS SOCCER No. 3 Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood score with just under 11 minutes to play to get past No. 10 Riverview 1-0 in a Division 2 Semifinal – Oakland Press

8. BOYS SOCCER Unranked Muskegon Western Michigan Christian got past also-unranked Leland 3-1 in a Division 4 Semifinal – Grand Haven Tribune

9. VOLLEYBALL Morgan Deming went over 1,000 career kills with 52 in a Division 2 District Semifinal win over Kingsley – Petoskey News-Review

10. VOLLEYBALL Unranked Saginaw Swan Valley came back from two sets down to defeat honorable mention Essexville Garber in five in Division 2 – Bay City Times