Today In The MHSAA: 6/3/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

June 3, 2021

1. Boys Golf: No. 2 East Grand Rapids shot a 302 to win its Lower Peninsula Division 2 Regional, followed by No. 4 Spring Lake and No. 6 Ada Forest Hills Eastern – Grand Rapids Press

2. Boys Golf: Troy Athens shot a 305 in LPD1 to win its first Regional title in this sport since 1993 – Oakland Press

3. Softball: Three Rivers’ Kali Heivilin moved to the front of the statewide home run race this spring, becoming the first to break the single-season record with her 27th homer coming against Berrien Springs – JoeInsider.com

4. Boys Golf: LPD4 No. 6 Maple City Glen Lake shot a 324 to edge No. 4 Charlevoix by a shot and clinch its first Regional title since 2012 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

5. Boys Golf: LPD3 No. 4 Big Rapids clinched its fifth-straight Regional title, shooting a 329 to tie Elk Rapids and winning on the tie-breaker – Big Rapids News

6. Boys Lacrosse: No. 4 Rockford locked up its fourth-straight Division 1 Regional title with a 16-5 win over Grandville – FOX 17

7. Boys Lacrosse: No. 5 Lake Orion won its second-straight Division 1 Regional title, this time with a 13-4 win over Rochester Adams – Oakland Press

8. Girls Soccer: Hartland stopped a late penalty kick and then scored the game’s lone goal in a 1-0 Division 1 District Semifinal win over Brighton – Livingston Press & Argus

9. Girls Soccer: Maggie Evans broke her sister Hanna’s Whitehall career goals record with three more in a Division 3 District win over Shelby – Muskegon Chronicle

10. Softball: Division 4 No. 2 Unionville-Sebewaing handed Division 3 top-ranked Millington its first defeat this spring, 9-1 – Mid-Michigan Now

Also of note …

Wrestling: Holt is mourning the death of coach Rocky Shaft, who led the Rams to a 618-106 record from 1980-81 through this winter – Lansing State Journal

Today in the MHSAA: 5/16/23

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 16, 2023

1. SOFTBALL Division 3 No. 8 Standish-Sterling swept Midland Bullock Creek to claim the Tri-Valley Conference Blue title, its first league championship since 1986 – Bay City Times

2. GIRLS SOCCER Division 2 No. 8 Trenton edged Brownstown Woodhaven 1-0 to lock up a repeat Downriver League championship – Southgate News-Herald

3. TRACK & FIELD The Fraser boys and Port Huron Northern girls won Macomb Area Conference White league meet titles – Macomb Daily

4. SOFTBALL Division 2 No. 3 Chelsea finished a Southeastern Conference White title run with a sweep of Pinckney – Ann Arbor News

5. GIRLS TENNIS Rockford edged Holland West Ottawa by a point in the league tournament to create a shared Ottawa-Kent Conference Red championship – Holland Sentinel

6. BASEBALL Division 2 No. 15 Adrian swept Tecumseh to clinch a share of the SEC White championship – Adrian Daily Telegram

7. GIRLS SOCCER Division 1 No. 7 Portage Central moved on to the Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference Tournament final with a 1-0 win over Division 2 No. 5 Richland Gull Lake – WWMT

8. BOYS GOLF Monroe shot a 308 to win the Monroe County Championship – Monroe News

9. BOYS GOLF Alpena’s season-low 324 placed atop the standings at the Saginaw Swan Valley Invitational – Alpena News

10. BOYS GOLF LPD2 No. 1 Grand Rapids Christian shot a 305 to finish 21 shots better than the field at the Muskegon Mona Shores Invitational – Local Sports Journal

Also of note …

BOYS BASKETBALL Grand Blanc coach Tory Jackson has left to take over at Detroit Catholic Central – Oakland Press

VOLLEYBALL Angie Compton, who led Reese to the Division 3 title in 2021, has resigned to become coach at Delta College – WJRT

OFFICIALS Big Rapids’ Jeff Greene is serving his 50th year as an MHSAA-registered official – MI Sports Now