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: 10/10/25
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 10, 2025
1. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Buckley earned a share of its first league title in this sport, sweeping Frankfort to claim part of the Northwest Conference championship with Suttons Bay and Onekama – Traverse City Record-Eagle
2. CROSS COUNTRY Marquette’s girls won their 26th-straight Great Northern Conference title, and Marquette’s boys ran their championship streak to 13; both are top-ranked in Upper Peninsula Division 1 – Escanaba Daily Press
3. BOYS TENNIS Williamston won five flights on the way to a Lower Peninsula Division 4 Regional team title – Lansing State Journal
4. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Traverse City West earned a key Big North Conference sweep of Cadillac – Up North Live
5. BOYS SOCCER Bloomfield Hills got past Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice 3-2 in a Division 1 District opener – Oakland Press
6. BOYS SOCCER Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker followed Faustin Therer to a Division 3 District-opening 4-1 victory – Huron Daily Tribune
7. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Essexville Garber came back to defeat Frankenmuth in five sets – Saginaw News
8. BOYS SOCCER Spring Lake opened its Division 2 District with a 6-0 win over Sparta – Grand Haven Tribune
9. BOYS SOCCER Traverse City Central opened Division 1 District play with a 7-1 win over Midland – Up North Live
10. BOYS SOCCER Stevensville Lakeshore advanced in Division 2 with a 5-0 win over Sturgis – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium