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: 1/19/22
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
January 19, 2022
1. GIRLS BASKETBALL Division 2 No. 2 Frankenmuth went to overtime to hand Division 1 No. 3 Midland Dow its first loss, 63-60 – Saginaw News
2. BOYS BASKETBALL Division 2 No. 18 Ferndale downed North Farmington 56-49 in a matchup of Oakland Activities Association Red contenders – Oakland Press
3. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Zeeland swam past Lower Peninsula Division 3 No. 2 Holland Christian 103-83 – Holland Sentinel
4. BOYS BASKETBALL Division 1 No. 15 Rockford sits alone atop the Ottawa-Kent Conference Red after a 62-56 win over No. 7 Grand Haven – FOX17
5. BOYS BASKETBALL Division 2 No. 20 Carrollton won a matchup of unbeatens, 77-69 over No. 14 Standish-Sterling – Bay City Times
6. GIRLS BASKETBALL Gibraltar Carlson defeated Trenton 51-42 in a matchup of Downriver League leaders – Southgate News-Herald
7. BOYS BASKETBALL Division 3 No. 2 Traverse City St. Francis held on to win a battle for first in the Lake Michigan Conference, 50-47 over No. 4 Elk Rapids – Traverse City Record-Eagle
8. BOYS BASKETBALL Division 2 No. 2 Parchment remained undefeated in handing Kalamazoo Christian its second loss, 52-41 – WWMT
9. GIRLS BASKETBALL A late 3-pointer pushed Holt past DeWitt 49-48 – Lansing State Journal
10. SKIING Cadillac swept the championships at its home invitational – Cadillac News