Today in the MHSAA: 9/12/16

September 12, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Cross country, volleyball and soccer all saw matchups of some of the state’s elite over the weekend, and the Midland Dow boys tennis coach was quoted as saying Saturday was "the biggest day for Dow tennis in three seasons." 

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.

Cross Country

Northville’s girls outran Saline and Hudsonville to win the Class 1 meet at the competitive Bath Invitational – Observer & Eccentric

The Saline boys put five runners among the top 12 to outpace Rockford and Northville in their Class 1 meet at the Bath Invitational – Saline Post

The Ubly girls and Bad Axe boys bested a field of more than 400 runners at the Bad Axe Invitational – Huron Daily Tribune

Boys Soccer

Division 1 No. 9 Novi just got past No. 3 Rochester Adams 1-0, with the lone goal coming just more than six minutes into the second half – Oakland Press

Boys Tennis

Lower Peninsula Division 2 No. 2 Midland Dow improved to 10-0 with wins over No. 1 Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central, No. 4 Birmingham Groves and Holly – Midland Daily News

Volleyball

Class B No. 7 Buchanan took down a trio of impressive teams – Bronson, Temperance Bedford and Battle Creek Harper Creek – to win the Battle Creek Lakeview Invitational – Niles Daily Star

Class B top-ranked North Branch downed Class C No. 5 Brown City in the championship match of the Croswell-Lexington Invitational – Port Huron Times Herald

Good Read

Jackson’s Kallen Park has taken a spot in the soccer net for the Vikings this season first occupied by his father J. Scott Park, the keeper when Jackson started its boys soccer program in 1986 – Jackson Citizen-Patriot

Today in the MHSAA: 5/7/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 7, 2025

1. TRACK & FIELD The Romeo girls and Macomb Dakota boys clinched Macomb Area Conference Red championships – Macomb Daily Girls | Boys

2. GIRLS SOCCER Division 1 No. 2 Bloomfield Hills clinched a share of the Oakland Activities Association Red title with a 2-0 win over No. 8 Rochester Adams – Oakland Press

3. BASEBALL Parchment earned coach Rob Dreier his 500th career win with a 16-4 defeat of Lawton – Kalamazoo Gazette

4. GIRLS SOCCER Division 1 No. 10 Troy Athens remains in contention for a share in the OAA Red as well after a 2-0 win over No. 7 Troy – Oakland Press

5. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 11 Traverse City St. Francis avenged an earlier loss to Division 4 No. 3 Leland with a 2-0 win – MI Sports Now

6. BOYS GOLF Freeland and Saginaw Valley Lutheran’s Reid Schisler were Saginaw County Invitational champions – Saginaw News

7. SOFTBALL Coloma swept Division 3 honorable mention Watervliet, allowing a combined two runs over the two games – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

8. BOYS GOLF Cassopolis claimed the Scott Novak Memorial Cup championship – Niles Daily Star

9. TRACK & FIELD The Remus Chippewa Hills girls – No. 1 in Lower Peninsula Division 3 – pulled within a few more wins of a potential 22nd-straight league title, and Big Rapids’ boys also remained alive for a championship with a sweep – Big Rapids Pioneer

10. BASEBALL Gaylord St. Mary’s Daniel Jacobson went 5-for-6 in his team’s split with Johannesburg-Lewiston a day after pacing the golf team in a win by tying for the lead in his first high school golf event – Petoskey News-Review