Today in the MHSAA: 9/23/19
September 23, 2019
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Today’s list of the weekend’s top achievers has a definite Grand Rapids-area tilt as teams from five schools from that part of the state emerged as invitational champions in either cross country, golf, volleyball or swimming & diving.
1. Cross Country: The East Grand Rapids girls – No. 1 Lower Peninsula Division 2 – honorable mention Tecumseh and Jackson Lumen Christi girls and LPD1 No. 4 Romeo, LPD3 No. 1 Hanover-Horton and Manchester boys all won championships at the Jackson Invitational – Athletic.net
2. Volleyball: Division 2 No. 5 Coopersville downed honorable mention Kingsley in two sets to win the Cadillac Tournament title – Traverse City Record-Eagle
3. Volleyball: Division 2 honorable mention Onsted improved to 24-0 with an undefeated run through its invitational, including sweeping Division 4 No. 9 Adrian Lenawee Christian in the final – Adrian Daily Telegram
4. Volleyball: Division 3 No. 5 Bronson also finished a perfect tourney run, taking the Portage Northern Invitational title by downing the host in that final – Coldwater Daily Reporter
5. Girls Swimming & Diving: LPD2 No. 10 Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central won the fastest wave of the Portage Central Invitational by a point over the host, ranked No. 5, and also ahead of No. 6 Midland Dow – Midland Daily News
6. Girls Golf: LPD2 top-ranked Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern shot a 297 to win the Greenville Invitational – Petoskey News-Review
7. Cross Country: The LPD2 No. 8 Sparta boys and No. 5 Cadillac girls won Muskegon Oakridge Invitational championships – Athletic.net
8. Cross Country: The LPD4 No. 8 Pittsford girls and LPD3 honorable mention Leslie boys won Pittsford’s invitational – Hillsdale Daily News
9. Volleyball: Stephenson downed Felch North Dickenson in the final to win the Crystal Falls Forest Park Invitational – Iron Mountain Daily News
10. Cross Country: Roscommon swept the big school championships at the Evart Invitational; the girls are ranked No. 13 in LPD3 – Big Rapids News
Today in the MHSAA: 5/19/26
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
May 19, 2026
1. BOYS GOLF Holland Christian came back from a double-digit deficit to claim the Ottawa-Kent Conference Black Tournament championship – Holland Sentinel
2. BOYS GOLF McBain Northern Michigan Christian – No. 2 in Lower Peninsula Division 4 – won the Highland Conference Tournament, with Blair DeZeeuw carding two eagles in finishing first individually – Traverse City Record-Eagle
3. GIRLS SOCCER Division 1 No. 7 Hartland handed Division 2 No. 5 DeWitt its only loss this season, 1-0 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
4. BOYS GOLF LPD2 No. 10 Macomb Lutheran North broke Warren De La Salle Collegiate’s three-year winning streak at the Macomb County Tournament, but the Pilots’ Julian Sinishtaj was the individual medalist – Macomb Daily
5. GIRLS TENNIS Bay City Western claimed six flights in winning the Bay County Championship – Bay City Times
6. SOFTBALL Division 3 top-ranked Evart swept McBain to finish its Highland Conference schedule undefeated – Cadillac News
7. BOYS LACROSSE Temperance Bedford opened its Division 2 Regional with a big win over Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central – Monroe News
8. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 5 Bay City Western downed Flint Powers Catholic in the first game of a Saginaw Valley League championship series – Bay City Times
9. GIRLS SOCCER Melanie Kolnitys had three goals in Midland Dow’s Senior Night win over Division 3 No. 8 Frankenmuth – Midland Daily News
10. GIRLS SOCCER Bay City John Glenn downed Saginaw Heritage – WNEM