Today in the MHSAA: 8/29/19

August 29, 2019

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Teams across Michigan continued driving toward the holiday weekend in impressive fashion Wednesday, led by major performances on the golf and cross country courses and tennis court.

1. Girls Golf: Troy, No. 9 in Lower Peninsula Division 1, shot a 322 to win the Oakland County Division 2 Tournament championship by 16 strokes ahead of runner-up LPD3 No. 5 Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – Oakland Press

2. Girls Tennis: Reigning Upper Peninsula Division 1 runner-up Marquette handed a first loss of the season to reigning UPD2 champion Ishpeming Westwood – Marquette Mining Journal

3. Cross Country: Hartland swept the Corunna Earlybird Invitational titles, both teams edging runner-up St. Johns by just a few points – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

4. Cross Country: Charlevoix topped a strong boys field to win the East Jordan Invitational – Petoskey News-Review

5. Cross Country: Pewamo-Westphalia’s girls edged Ithaca’s by two points to win the Yellowjackets’ home invitational – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

6. Volleyball: Onsted moved to 7-0 with wins over Napoleon, Division 3 honorable mention Manchester and host Adrian Madison at a quad – Adrian Daily Telegram

7. Volleyball: Division 3 No. 5 Muskegon Western Michigan Christian moved to 11-2 with wins over Zeeland East, Allendale and Montague – Local Sports Journal

8. Cross Country: Pewamo-Westphalia’s boys won the six-team Ithaca Invitational ahead of a host of Division 4 state contenders – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

9. Boys Tennis: Holland won Nos. 1 and 2 singles, but West Ottawa won the other six flights to earn a 6-2 team victory – Holland Sentinel

10. Volleyball: Freeland downed Gladwin, Bay City Western and Beaverton to move to 7-1 – Midland Daily News

Today in the MHSAA: 11/10/15

November 10, 2015

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

This is a transition week for many schools in Michigan, as some winter sports either started practice or started their second week, while volleyball teams and divers are prepping for MHSAA Regionals. Check out some of the headlines we uncovered during our daily drive around statewide media sites.

Cross Country

Farmington’s Maddy Trevisan and Rockford’s Isaac Harding were named Miss Cross Country and Mr. Cross Country, respectively, by the Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association – MITCA.org

Girls Swimming and Diving

Bay City John Glenn continued its reign in the Independent Swim Conference over the weekend as four seniors finished their league careers with four championships – Bay City Times

Volleyball

The last two seasons, Holland Christian has won District titles after beating teams that had beaten them twice earlier those seasons – and will follow setter Kenedy Schoonveld into its Regional Semifinal against another team it lost to earlier this fall – Holland Sentinel

The coaches at Utica and Utica Eisenhower high schools are rivals by virtue of the programs they lead. They’re also married to each other, which obviously makes the fall interesting at the LaPratt home – Macomb Daily

Girls Basketball

Practice started Monday – and here’s the first story we’ve run across. Port Huron Northern is starting out with a little less experience after graduating three key seniors from a year ago – Port Huron Times-Herald