Today in the MHSAA: 9/22/15
September 22, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Check out these close calls in golf and soccer and milestone finishes in tennis that highlighted Monday’s action from across the state.
Girls Golf
Bay City Western won the closest Bay County Girls Golf Championship in the event's 20-year history, scoring 423 to edge reigning champion Bay City Central by a stroke – Bay City Times
Boys Soccer
Two of the top teams in Division 1 faced off in Macomb Area Conference Red play, with No. 4 Utica Eisenhower downing No. 8 Fraser – Macomb Daily
Lapeer’s Eric McGeary scored the winning goal on his team’s Senior Night for the second straight year, this time to down Saginaw Heritage – Flint Journal
Division 2 No. 2 Holland Christian and reigning Division 3 champion Hudsonville Unity Christian tied 1-1 in a meeting of Ottawa-Kent Conference Green contenders; they play each other again Oct. 7 – Grand Rapids Press
Boys Tennis
Parma Western, No. 10 in Lower Peninsula Division 3, downed Jackson Lumen Christi for the first time in nearly a decade – Jackson Citizen-Patriot
Top-ranked LP Division 2 Portage Central (see today’s 2H feature) won all eight flights to sweep the Greater Kalamazoo Tournament, and didn’t give up a set – Kalamazoo Gazette
Whitehall, No. 5 in LP Division 4, moved to 4-0 in the Coastal Conference with a shutout of Fruitport – Muskegon Chronicle
Division 2 No. 7 Birmingham Groves stayed a step ahead of rival and No. 8 Seaholm in Oakland Activities Association Red action – Observer & Eccentric
Volleyball
Cadillac, No. 3 in Class B, took a step toward unseating Class A honorable mention Traverse City West atop the Big North Conference standings with a three-set win Monday – Cadillac News
From Saturday, Class D honorable mention Crystal Falls Forest Park downed also-honorable mention Stephenson in the final of the Trojans’ tournament – Iron Mountain Daily News
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