Today in the MHSAA: 8/28/20

August 28, 2020

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Contenders in girls golf continued to emerge Thursday, as did a possible girls tennis contender in the Upper Peninsula.

1. Girls Golf: Anci Dy led a dominating Traverse City West performance as the Titans won the Midland Dow Invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle

2. Girls Golf: St. Joseph and Portage Northern freshman KT Leinwand were the winners at Thursday’s Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference event – WWMT

3. Girls Tennis: Escanaba earned a 4-4 tie with Marquette, the reigning Upper Peninsula Division 1 champion – Escanaba Daily Press

4. Volleyball: Opening night was senior night as well as Manton downed Clare 3-1 – Cadillac News

5. Boys Soccer: Cadillac scored both of its goals during the second half of a 2-1 win over Leland – Up North Live

6. Volleyball: Carney-Nadeau allowed only 26 points over a three-game sweep of Crystal Falls Forest Park – Iron Mountain Daily News

7. Volleyball: Gladwin traveled north and brought home a five-set win over Grayling – Midland Daily News

8. Volleyball: Alpena swept Cheboygan, Hillman and Rogers City in a home quad – Alpena News

9. Volleyball: Mackinaw City opened with a sweep of DeTour – Cheboygan Daily Tribune

10. Girls Golf: Hudsonville Unity Christian shot a 187 to get past Holland Christian in league play – Holland Sentinel

Today In The MHSAA: 5/26/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 26, 2021

1. Baseball: Division 4 top-ranked Beal City clinched its 17th-straight league title by splitting with Evart in the Highland Conference – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

2. Girls Soccer: Division 1 No. 18 Muskegon Mona Shores downed Division 2 No. 18 Zeeland East 4-1 to lock up fourth-straight league tournament and overall championships, this time in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Green – Local Sports Journal

3. Track & Field: Clare’s sweep of Jack Pine Conference championship meets gave the girls an outright league title and the boys a shared championship with Shepherd; both Clare teams are ranked No. 1 in Lower Peninsula Division 3, and Shepherd’s boys are No. 7 – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

4. Softball: Division 1 No. 6 Farmington Hills Mercy and Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett earned Detroit Catholic League championships – Detroit News

5. Softball: Division 2 No. 5 Gaylord’s sweep of Traverse City Central locked up a shared Big North Conference championship between the Blue Devils and Traverse City West, which swept Cadillac – Petoskey News-Review | Traverse City Record-Eagle

6. Softball: Essexville Garber came back to defeat Alma in extra innings and earn a share of the Tri-Valley Conference East championship – Bay City Times

7. Track & Field: New Lothrop clinched a sweep of Mid-Michigan Activities Conference titles with wins in the third league jamboree – Owosso Argus-Press

8. Track & Field: Centreville swept the Southwest 10 Conference championship meets to clinch both the girls and boys overall league titles – Three Rivers Commercial-News

9. Baseball: Hillman swept Posen to finish its North Star League Little Dipper championship run – Alpena News

10. Softball: Evart and McBain tied for the Highland Conference title with Evart’s sweep of Beal City – Big Rapids News

Also of note …

Baseball: Troy Athens clinched the Oakland Activities Association Blue title with a win over Auburn Hills Avondale – Oakland Press