Today in the MHSAA: 8/24/15
August 24, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
All MHSAA fall sports but football kicked off competition last week, with cross country, boys soccer, girls swimming and diving and volleyball starting Saturday.
Below are some notable headlines from the first weekend of this season, plus links to coverage.
Cross Country
St. Johns hosted its second “Under the Lights” meets Friday; Ithaca’s girls and Saugatuck’s boys bested fields loaded with much larger opponents – Lansing State Journal
The St. Joseph girls and Bridgman boys won championships at the Niles Stampede – the St. Joseph girls, who finished fourth in Lower Peninsula Division 2 last season, by a large margin – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
Girls Golf
Maple City Glen Lake’s Nichole Cox, last season’s LP Division 4 individual champion, came back to defeat Brighton freshman Annie Pietila at the two-day Lober Invitational at Grand Traverse Resort – Traverse City Record-Eagle
Boys Soccer
Two of the state’s powers met in the championship game of the Detroit Country Day Tournament on Saturday – with 2013 Division 1 runner-up Bloomfield Hills downing the host Yellowjackets 1-0 in a shootout – Oakland Press
Girls Swimming & Diving
Howell won its Kenzie Klassic, which honors swimmer Mackenize Watts, who died in 2005 at age 15. The school also raised enough money to award three scholarships and begin funding cardiac-related causes – Livingston Daily
Volleyball
Novi won the Lakeshore Classic by coming back after losing the first two games to beat Grand Haven 3-2 in a rematch of a 2014 Class A Semifinal – Muskegon Chronicle
Battle Creek Harper Creek, for the first time, won the gold championship at the long-running Carrie Adams Memorial Tournament hosted by reigning Class D champion Battle Creek St. Philip – Battle Creek Enquirer
Good Read
Mike Steele, a Midland Dow grad and now pitching coach at Long Beach State in California, argues that parents need to raise their athletes to compete instead of providing specific training in one sport – Midland Daily News
Today in the MHSAA: 10/4/18
October 4, 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. Boys Soccer: Comstock locked up its third straight Berrien-Cass-St. Joseph Conference Red title with a 4-0 win over Parchment – JoeInsider.com
2. Cross Country: Custer Mason County Eastern’s boys edged Walkerville by two points to win the West Michigan D League championship meet – Ludington Daily News
3. Volleyball: Petoskey moved into a first-place tie in the Big North Conference by handing Division 2 honorable mention Cadillac its first league loss – Petoskey News-Review
4. Boys Soccer: Walled Lake Central avenged its lone league loss of the season, downing Milford in a Lakes Valley Conference tournament semifinal – Oakland Press
5. Boys Soccer: Holt held off Division 3 No. 9 Williamston 2-1 in the first round of the Capital Area Activities Conference Gold Cup – Lansing State Journal
6. Volleyball: Traverse City Central downed rival West in five games to finish its first sweep of the Titans in eight years – Traverse City Record-Eagle
7. Cross Country: The Pittsford girls (LPD4 No. 4) and Hillsdale Academy boys won their third league jamborees to move closer to titles in the Southern Central Athletic Association – Hillsdale Daily News
8. Boys Soccer: Fourth-place Allen Park handed first-place Brownstown Woodhaven a 4-0 loss in a Downriver League position game – Southgate News-Herald
9. Girls Golf: Division 2 No. 9 Coldwater earned a 189-217 win over Sturgis in a “Purple Week” match – Coldwater Daily Reporter
10. Cross Country: Grosse Ile swept the second Huron League jamborees of this fall; the girls are tied for No. 10 in LPD2 – Southgate News-Herald
Also of note …
Volleyball: From Tuesday, Division 3 honorable mention Brighton Charyl Stockwell earned a five-set win over reigning Division 4 champion and current No. 6 Plymouth Christian Academy – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
Cross Country: From Saturday, Shepherd’s Amber Gall broke the girls school record time from 1978 by running a 17:27.4 – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
Boys Soccer: From Tuesday, Division 4 No. 4 Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian downed Wyoming Godwin Heights to clinch the Ottawa-Kent Conference Silver title – FOX 17