Today in the MHSAA: 8/30/16

August 30, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Close finishes in three sports highlighted Monday’s action, although a reigning MHSAA golf champion’s big win might be the most telling of all the results posted by our media across Michigan. 

Each weekday during the school year, we’ll gather and post media links covering the most significant and intriguing high school events from all over the state.

Girls Golf

Reigining Lower Peninsula Division 1 champion Traverse City West continued its dominating start by winning the Brighton Invitational, shooting a 321 to finish ahead of Saline and Brighton among others – Traverse City Record-Eagle

South Lyon edged Ann Arbor Pioneer on a fifth-player tie-breaker to win the Tecumseh Invitational – Observer & Eccentric

Boys Soccer

Tawas downed Lincoln Alcona 5-3, but Alcona keeper Conner McCoy set a school record with 34 saves – Alpena News

Birmingham Brother Rice’s goal with seven minutes to play was the decider in a 2-1 win over Farmington – Oakland Press

Volleyball

Grand Rapids Christian downed Grand Haven 17-15 in the deciding set of the championship match of the Buccaneers’ home tournament – Grand Haven Tribune

Saline finished 5-0 at the Southeastern Conference jamboree, downing among others Temperance Bedford in two sets – Saline Post

Today in the MHSAA: 3/3/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

March 3, 2025

1. WRESTLING A total of 70 champions were crowned at the Individual Finals, including three who became the 38th, 39th and 40th four-time winners in MHSAA history – MHSAA.com

2. COMPETITIVE CHEER – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek and Allen Park repeated as Finals champions, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep returned to the top and Hanover-Horton claimed its first title – MHSAA.com

3. GIRLS BOWLING Grandville, Swartz Creek, Livonia Clarenceville and Ravenna claimed Finals team championships, and Novi, Tecumseh, Standish-Sterling and Bronson won singles titles – MHSAA.com

4. BOYS BOWLING Utica United, Flint Kearsley, Standish-Sterling and Allen Park Cabrini were team Finals winners, and Wayne Memorial, Vicksburg, Almont and Saginaw Nouvel Catholic Central won in singles – MHSAA.com

5. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Saline – No. 4 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – claimed its first league title since 2016, winning the Southeastern Conference Red meet to share the overall championship with top-ranked Ann Arbor Pioneer – Chelsea Sun Times News

6. HOCKEY Top-ranked Flint Powers Catholic came back from a 4-1 deficit to defeat No. 7 Marquette 5-4 in overtime and win a Division 2 Regional title – WNEM

7. GYMNASTICS Hartland scored a school-record 149.175 to claim a third-straight Regional title – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

8. HOCKEY Division 2 No. 2 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice downed No. 3 Trenton 4-2 to clinch a Regional title – Oakland Press

9. HOCKEY No. 6 Salem defeated No. 5 Brighton 7-4 in a Division 1 Regional Final – Hometown Life

10. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING LPD2 honorable mention DeWitt claimed the Capital Area Activities Conference Blue title, its sixth-straight league championship – WILX

Also of note …

BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Allen Park claimed a share of the Downriver League title, with LPD3 No. 9 Trenton, with a league meet victory – Southgate News-Herald

BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING LPD2 No. 8 Portage Central broke Battle Creek Lakeview’s Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference title streak with a league meet win – Battle Creek Enquirer