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: 4/7/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
April 7, 2025
1. TRACK & FIELD Hillsdale Academy’s Grayson Rorick was among standouts at the Jack Beilfuss Early Season Invitational – Hillsdale Daily News
2. GIRLS SOCCER Hartland shut out Okemos 2-0 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
3. GIRLS SOCCER Lakeview downed McBain Northern Michigan Christian 5-1 to win the latter’s Comet Cup – Cadillac News
4. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 2 Bay City Western swept Division 4 No. 3 Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart and Walled Lake Northern in a Saturday doubleheader – Bay City Times
5. GIRLS LACROSSE Rochester scored first, but Stoney Creek scored the next six goals on the way to a 16-6 victory – Oakland Press
6. GIRLS SOCCER Harrison Township L’Anse Creuse scored both goals during the first half of a 2-0 win over Richmond – Macomb Daily
7. GIRLS SOCCER Brooke Grant had three goals and an assist in Jackson Northwest’s 8-1 win over Napoleon – Jackson Citizen Patriot
8. BASEBALL Division 3 No. 5 Traverse City St. Francis opened with a sweep of Kingsley, 9-3 and 7-3 – Traverse City Record-Eagle
9. BASEBALL Freeland also opened with a sweep, downing Alpena 7-1 and 4-0 – Saginaw News
10. GIRLS SOCCER Dearborn Heights Crestwood downed Detroit Western 7-3 – Dearborn Press & Guide