Today In The MHSAA: 8/27/21
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
August 27, 2021
(Thursday’s football games will be included as part of Monday’s “Week 1 in Review.”)
1. GIRLS GOLF Reigning champion St. Joseph won the first round of the Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference Tournament, shooting a 350 to finish two strokes better than Battle Creek Lakeview – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
2. BOYS TENNIS Traverse City St. Francis finished first and Ludington second at the Gladiators’ invitational – Ludington Daily News
3. VOLLEYBALL Brethren downed Mason County Central to win the Bear Lake Invitational – Manistee News Advocate
4. CROSS COUNTRY The Tecumseh girls and Adrian boys won championships at the Bert Cebulski Invitational – Coldwater Daily Reporter
5. BOYS SOCCER Brighton moved to 3-0 with a comeback 3-2 win over Salem – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
6. VOLLEYBALL Menominee swept Gladstone, including edging the Braves by two points in the second set – Escanaba Daily News
7. GIRLS GOLF Sturgis shot a 218 to edge Vicksburg by 11 strokes – Sturgis Journal
Today In The MHSAA: 2/22/21
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
February 22, 2021
Massive matchups in wrestling and hockey highlighted a full weekend, as six sports made our top-10 headliners list.
1. Wrestling: Division 1 top-ranked Davison downed Division 2 top-ranked Lowell 51-6, and then defeated Alma and Division 3 No. 1 Dundee – State Champs Sports Network
2. Hockey: Division 2 No. 5 Hartland downed top-ranked Livonia Stevenson 5-1 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
3. Wrestling: Division 2 No. 5 Stevensville Lakeshore remained unbeaten with a win over No. 7 Middleville Thornapple Kellogg – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
4. Bowling: Brady Cornell’s 300 helped Corunna’s boys get past Owosso 25-5 – Owosso Argus-Press
5. Boys Swimming & Diving: Ann Arbor Skyline – No. 3 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – won against LPD3 No. 7 Pinckney, LPD2 No. 10 Midland Dow and LPD1 No. 7 Brighton at the Bulldogs’ quad – We Love Ann Arbor
6. Hockey: Ty Langlois had three goals and three assists as Muskegon Mona Shores downed Division 2 No. 9 Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern/Eastern 6-3 – Local Sports Journal
7. Girls Basketball: East Grand Rapids moved to 6-0 with a 53-42 win over Kalamazoo Central – FOX 17
8. Gymnastics: Marquette posted a Regional-qualifying team score in winning its invitational – Marquette Mining Journal
9. Hockey: Division 2 No. 3 Trenton came back from an early deficit to defeat Grosse Pointe South 3-1 – Southgate News-Herald
10. Wrestling: Division 3 No. 3 Whitehall avenged last season’s loss to Muskegon Reeths-Puffer to take back the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association championship – Local Sports Journal
Also of note …
Media: Metro Detroit is mourning the death of longtime sportswriter Jim Evans, who covered high school sports in Oakland and then Macomb County for most of more than 40 years in newspapers – Macomb Daily
Football: Montague coach Pat Collins resigned coming off leading his team to the Division 6 championship – Local Sports Journal
Boys Basketball: Marcellus’ Gavin Etter and Sturgis’ Thomas Kurowski both went over 1,000 career points – Kalamazoo Gazette
Girls Basketball: Taylor Folkema went over 1,000 career points in Muskegon Western Michigan Christian’s win over Manistee – Grand Haven Tribune