Today in the MHSAA: 5/8/18
May 8, 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. Girls Tennis: Holland West Ottawa, No. 6 in Lower Peninsula Division 1, won the first outright Ottawa-Kent Conference Red title in program history with a clincher over Caledonia – Holland Sentinel
3. Girls Tennis: No. 1 singles player Anne Bandrowski earned the 100th win of her career in LP Division 4 No. 3 Traverse City St. Francis’ sweep of Charlevoix – Traverse City Record-Eagle
2. Girls Soccer: No. 7 Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central downed No. 18 Grand Haven in a nonleague matchup of Division 1 ranked teams – Grand Haven Tribune
4. Baseball: Unranked Plymouth edged Division 1 No. 14 Livonia Stevenson 4-3 thanks to a heavy-hitting performance by Nolen Dingledey – Observer & Eccentric
5. Boys Golf: Pinckney shot a 329 to beat runner-up Oxford and win the Jim Sander Invitational – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
6. Girls Soccer: Shelby’s Amy England had four goals and two assists in her team’s 8-2 win over Hart – Local Sports Journal
7. Softball: Hillman came back from a seven-run deficit to down AuGres-Sims 11-10, then won the second game as well – Alpena News
8. Track & Field: The Norway boys and Iron River West Iron County girls repeated as champions at the Norway Invitational – Iron Mountain Daily News
9. Softball: Warren Lincoln came back from a nine-run deficit to down Madison Heights Madison 25-15 – Macomb Daily
10. Girls Soccer: Manistee scored twice over the final eight minutes to down rival Ludington 2-1 – Manistee News Advocate
Today in the MHSAA: 10/11/19
October 11, 2019
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
The MHSAA Lower Peninsula Boys Tennis Finals fields began to take shape with the first Regionals for that sport played Thursday, while the LP Girls Golf Finals fields are set after the last of those Regional tournaments finished up.
1. Boys Tennis: Top-ranked Ann Arbor Greenhills swept every flight to win its Lower Peninsula Division 3 Regional, with No. 3 Detroit Country Day finishing runner-up in seven flights – We Love Ann Arbor
2. Boys Tennis: LPD3 No. 10 Petoskey won every flight on the way to an 11th straight Regional team championship – Petoskey News-Review
3. Girls Golf: Unranked Troy edged runner-up and No. 6 Rochester Adams by two strokes to win their LPD1 Regional – Oakland Press
4. Boys Tennis: Gibraltar Carlson outpaced runner-up Allen Park by a point to win its fifth straight Regional title, in LPD2 – Southgate News-Herald
5. Boys Tennis: St. Joseph claimed its 22nd Regional title over the last 24 seasons, in LPD3 – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
6. Girls Golf: LPD1 No. 8 Grand Blanc shot a 329 to edge LPD3 No. 1 Flint Powers Catholic by two strokes and win the Saginaw Valley League Tournament – Midland Daily News
7. Boys Soccer: Alpena won its first MHSAA Tournament game in at least nine years, 5-0 over Mount Pleasant in Division 2 – Alpena News
8. Volleyball: No. 6 Clarkston got past honorable mention Lake Orion in a key Oakland Activities Association Red matchup – Oakland Press
9. Cross County: Saugatuck’s girls and boys teams swept the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship meet titles; the girls are ranked No. 14 in LPD3 and the boys are ranked No. 3 – Holland Sentinel
10. Girls Swimming & Diving: No. 7 Ann Arbor Skyline outpaced No. 10 Huron 114-72 in a matchup of two of the three ranked Ann Arbor schools in LPD1 – We Love Ann Arbor