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: 11/7/22
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
November 7, 2022
1. BOYS CROSS COUNTRY Hunter Jones became the second Lower Peninsula runner to win four Finals championships, and Northville, East Grand Rapids, Hart and Wyoming Potter’s House Christian all won their first team titles – MHSAA.com
2. GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY Holland West Ottawa and Johannesburg-Lewiston were first-time Finals champions, and Otsego and Traverse City St. Francis returned to the top of their respective divisions – MHSAA.com
3. BOYS SOCCER Rochester Adams, Richland Gull Lake, Holland Christian and Muskegon Western Michigan Christian finished off championship runs – MHSAA.com
4. VOLLEYBALL Cheboygan went five sets with Boyne City in Division 2 to claim its first District championship since 2005 – Cheboygan Daily Tribune
5. VOLLEYBALL Brownstown Woodhaven came back from a 2-1 deficit to get past honorable mention Temperance Bedford in five sets in a Division 1 District Final – Southgate News-Herald
6. VOLLEYBALL Honorable mention White Lake Lakeland repeated as a Division 1 District champion with a sweep of Walled Lake Northern – Oakland Press
7. VOLLEYBALL The third set went to 29-27 and the fifth set to 22-20 as Rock Mid Peninsula outlasted Eben Junction Superior Central in a Division 4 District Final – Escanaba Daily Press
8. VOLLEYBALL Top-ranked Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central clinched its 22nd-straight District title with a sweep of Erie Mason in Division 3 – Monroe News
9. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Macomb L’Anse Creuse North continued its memorable season by winning the Macomb Area Conference White championship meet – Macomb Daily
10. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING The Traverse City Tritons co-op repeated as Coastal Conference champion – Traverse City Record-Eagle