Today in the MHSAA: 8/28/15
August 28, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Thursday saw the start of varsity football season, and nearly half of Michigan’s teams kicked off their fall.
Football’s first week in review will be posted Monday afternoon; in the meantime, there is more good news to report from today’s statewide headlines.
Cross Country
The Croswell-Lexington girls and Yale boys won the Mike Jackson Invitational, with Port Huron’s Rachel Bonner – fourth at the Lower Peninsula Division 1 Final last season – taking the girls individual title by 59 seconds – Port Huron Times-Herald
Girls Golf
Spring Lake set a school record shooting 321 to win the Big Rapids Invitational, also placing the top two individuals – Grand Haven Tribune
Good Reads
Longtime cross country and track and field official Doug Steward was quoted as saying he was close to retiring – in 2009. But this fall, after 51 years, he indeed will start his final races – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
The Lac Vieux Desert Tribe presented Watersmeet schools with $174,000 earlier this year that in part went to a new gym floor complete with the school's nationally-recognized Nimrod logo – Ironwood Daily Globe
Today in the MHSAA: 8/25/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
August 25, 2025
1. CROSS COUNTRY The Ann Arbor Pioneer and Hart girls and Traverse City West and Benzie Central boys won championships at the annual Pete Moss Invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle | Athletic.net
2. VOLLEYBALL Cadillac won every set and all five matches on the way to clinching its home invitational title – Cadillac News
3. BOYS SOCCER Detroit Country Day downed Royal Oak 1-0 to clinch the 48th Paul Bartoshuk Invitational championship – Oakland Press
4. GIRLS GOLF Goodrich edged Grand Blanc by four strokes to win Midland Dow’s Frank Altimore Invitational – Midland Daily News
5. BOYS SOCCER Alma received three shutouts from freshman keeper Jackson Moeggenborg in winning its home tournament – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
6. VOLLEYBALL Kingsford swept Negaunee and then Hancock to win its invitational – Iron Mountain Daily News
7. VOLLEYBALL Edwardsburg finished 6-0 in winning the Richland Gull Lake Invitational – Niles Daily Star
8. VOLLEYBALL Reed City defeated Kent City to claim its invitational championship – Cadillac News
9. CROSS COUNTRY Eight champions were crowned at Grand Rapids South Christian’s Under the Lights Invitational – Athletic.net
10. VOLLEYBALL Mallory Woiteshek reached 1,000 career kills for Grand Haven during its Lakeshore Classic – Grand Haven Tribune