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: 5/12/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 12, 2025

1. GIRLS TENNIS Holland West Ottawa – No. 8 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – claimed its ninth-straight Ottawa-Kent Conference Red championship – Holland Sentinel

2. TRACK & FIELD The LPD3 top-ranked Remus Chippewa Hills girls and Big Rapids boys won Central State Activities Association championships, Chippewa Hills’ girls for the 22nd-straight season – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun | Big Rapids Pioneer

3. TRACK & FIELD Grass Lake’s girls claimed their fifth-consecutive Cascades Conference title, and Jonesville and Hanover-Horton’s boys are co-champions after the former won the league meet – Jackson Citizen Patriot Girls | Boys

4. GIRLS TENNIS Hemlock won six tournament flights on the way to claiming a repeat Tri-Valley Conference title – Saginaw News

5. TRACK & FIELD The LPD1 No. 1 East Kentwood, No. 7 Byron Center, No. 9 Middleville Thornapple Kellogg, No. 4 Zeeland East, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central and Hopkins girls, and LPD1 No. 1 East Kentwood, No. 8 Byron Center, No. 9 Zeeland West, LPD2 No. 7 Wayland, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern and Hopkins boys all won O-K Conference championship meet titles – Grand Rapids Press Girls | Boys

6. GIRLS SOCCER North Farmington capped an outright championship run in the Oakland Activities Association Blue with a 7-1 win over West Bloomfield – Oakland Press

7. GIRLS LACROSSE Detroit Country Day edged East Grand Rapids 11-10 in a matchup of Division 2 favorites – Detroit Free Press

8. TRACK & FIELD The Sturgis girls and LPD2 No. 3 Three Rivers boys won Wolverine Conference meet championships – Sturgis Journal

9. TRACK & FIELD The Bay City Western girls and Midland boys won in the Saginaw Valley League – Bay City Times | Athletic.net

10. TRACK & FIELD The Belleville girls and Northville boys won Kensington Lakes Activities Association titles – Hometown Life

Also of note …

GIRLS TENNIS Edwardsburg finished as overall champion in the Wolverine Conference – Sturgis Journal

TRACK & FIELD The Shepherd boys and LPD2 No. 3 Gladwin girls earned Jack Pine Conference meet titles – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun | Athletic.net

TRACK & FIELD The LPD3 No. 6 Adrian Madison boys and No. 4 Blissfield girls won Lenawee County Athletic Association meets – Adrian Daily Telegram | Athletic.net