Today in the MHSAA: 5/8/17

May 8, 2017

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Muskegon County championships in a number of sports highlighted a busy weekend of action to kick off May, the final month of the spring regular season for most teams across the state.

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 4 No. 6 Muskegon Catholic Central won a championship game rematch with Montague 7-4 to claim the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association Tier 2 title – Muskegon Chronicle

Whitehall downed Muskegon Mona Shores 10-6, ending the Sailors’ GMAA Tier 1 title streak at five straight – Muskegon Chronicle

Bay City Western split with Mount Pleasant, getting a 1-0 shutout win from pitcher Cody Freed in the first game – Bay City Times

Division 1 No. 9 Livonia Stevenson came back to down Livonia Franklin 3-1 to win an all-city championship – Observer & Eccentric

Boys Golf

Lower Peninsula Division 4 No. 2 Muskegon Catholic Central followed medalist Collin Powers to a Greater Muskegon Athletic Association win of two strokes over Mona Shores – Muskegon Chronicle

Gladstone edged the host by two strokes at the Escanaba Invitational as Carney-Nadeau’s Hunter Eichhorn shot a first-place 67 – Escanaba Daily Press

Boys Lacrosse

Division 1 No. 3 Hartland remained undefeated by ending No. 7 Brighton’s 51-game league winning streak with a 16-5 victory – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

Softball

Muskegon Reeths-Puffer fell in its opener but came back to repeat as Greater Muskegon Athletic Association Tier 1 champion – Muskegon Chronicle

Division 2 No. 5 Muskegon Oakridge repeated as GMAA Tier 2 champion with an 8-2 win over Division 4 No. 4 Holton – Muskegon Chronicle

Division 1 No. 4 Walled Lake Northern won the 40-team Michigan Stars Invitational, with No. 5 Midland finishing third – Midland Daily News

Girls Tennis

Lower Peninsula Division 4 No. 6 North Muskegon claimed its fifth straight Greater Muskegon Athletic Association championship as Brittany Bailey won a flight title for the third time in four seasons – Muskegon Chronicle

Battle Creek Lakeview clinched the All-City championship, sweeping all eight flight titles – Battle Creek Enquirer

Track & Field

Muskegon Reeths-Puffer’s girls won their eighth straight Greater Muskegon Athletic Association meet led again by standout Maryssa Depies – Muskegon Chronicle

Fruitport’s boys won their fourth straight Greater Muskegon Athletic Association title with three two-event winners – Muskegon Chronicle

Marysville swept the Algonac Muskrat Classic Small School titles, sharing the boys championship with Marine City – Port Huron Times Herald

St. Ignace’s girls won their Kiwanis Invitational, while Newberry’s boys claimed that title – Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

Lake Linden-Hubbell’s teams swept the Lakes Invitational titles – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

Remus Chippewa Hills swept the Sanford Meridian Nite Trax Invitational titles; the girls team is ranked No. 8 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – Big Rapids News

LP Division 4 No. 4 Grand Haven’s girls edged LP Division 2 top-ranked Ada Forest Hills Eastern by 14 points at the Holland West Ottawa Invitational – Grand Haven Tribune

Centreville’s girls, No. 3 in LP Division 4, finished ahead of No. 6 Marcellus to win their invitational – Sturgis Journal

Today In The MHSAA: 5/5/22

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 5, 2022

1. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 3 Williamston defeated Division 2 No. 3 Haslett 1-0 in league play – Lansing State Journal

2. TRACK & FIELD The New Baltimore Anchor Bay boys and Macomb Dakota girls clinched  shares of Macomb Area Conference Red titles – Macomb Daily Girls | Boys

3. BOYS GOLF Muskegon Mona Shores – No. 2 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – shot a 302 to again win the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association championship – Muskegon Chronicle

4. GIRLS SOCCER Division 2 No. 8 South Lyon East set itself up to clinch the Lakes Valley Conference title with a 4-1 victory over Division 1 No. 13 Walled Lake Northern – Oakland Press

5. SOFTBALL Division 2 No. 9 Muskegon Oakridge swept Ravenna in a matchup of undefeated teams – CatchMark SportsNet

6. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 10 Grosse Ile moved into first alone in the Huron League with a 2-1 win over Riverview – Southgate News-Herald

7. GIRLS SOCCER Hannah Thompson scored five goals as Schoolcraft downed Kalamazoo Hackett Catholic Prep 6-3 – WWMT

8. GIRLS TENNIS LPD1 No. 6 Holland West Ottawa shut out Grandville, led by a strong performance at No. 1 singles by Megan Blake – Holland Sentinel

9. TRACK & FIELD Traverse City West swept its meets with Traverse City Central; the West boys are ranked No. 2 in LPD1, and the girls are No. 6 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

10. SOFTBALL Nevaeh Ingram struck out 35 of 47 batters faced during Division 2 No. 3 Jackson Northwest’s sweep of Parma Western – Jackson Citizen Patriot