Today in the MHSAA: 9/9/19

September 9, 2019

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Unranked – and probably soon-to-ranked – volleyball and soccer teams dominated the top half of today’s list of achievers from an invitational-filled weekend across a number of sports. 

1. Volleyball: Unranked Beaverton defeated Division 3 No. 4 Bronson in the final to claim Bay City Central’s Mitten Bay Invitational title – Midland Daily News

2. Volleyball: Also-unranked Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern downed Division 1 No. 6 Grand Haven and then honorable mention Northville to win the Grand Haven Invitational – Grand Haven Tribune

3. Cross Country: The East Grand Rapids, Ada Forest Hills Eastern and Pewamo-Westphalia girls and Ann Arbor Skyline, Haslett and Hanover-Horton boys won championships at the Bath Bret Clements Invitational – Athletic.net 

4. Boys Soccer: Unranked Portage Northern made a number of stops in getting past Division 2 top-ranked Mattawan 1-0 – JoeInsider.com

5. Girls Swimming & Diving: Chelsea, No. 4 in Lower Peninsula Division 3, edged LPD2 honorable mention Grand Rapids Northview to win the DeWitt Invitational – Chelsea Sun Times News 

6. Cross Country: Brighton’s boys and Troy’s girls won Gold division Averill Invitational championships at Kensington Metropark – Athletic.net

7. Cross Country: Traverse City teams swept titles at the Bullock Creek Lancer Invitational, the West girls and St. Francis boys claiming championships – Traverse City Record-Eagle

8. Volleyball: Petoskey finished the day 6-0 and defeated Midland Dow in the final to win its home invitational – Petoskey News-Review

9. Cross Country: The Petoskey girls and Charlevoix boys won Charlevoix Mud Run championships – Petoskey News-Review

10. Volleyball: Kingsford repeated as the Great 8 Tournament champion at West Iron County – Iron Mountain Daily News

Today in the MHSAA: 9/19/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

September 19, 2025

1. BOYS SOCCER Division 1 No. 4 Okemos finished an outright title run in the Capital Area Activities Conference Blue with a 3-2 win over Grand Ledge – WILX

2. BOYS SOCCER Traverse City Central ended a 20-game losing streak against Division 1 No. 10 West with a 1-0 victory – Up North Live

3. VOLLEYBALL Division 3 No. 4 Kingsley defeated honorable mention Manton, Lake City and Reed City all in two sets – Traverse City Record-Eagle

4. VOLLEYBALL Marysville defeated Fraser in four sets in a matchup of Macomb Area Conference White leaders – Macomb Daily

5. CROSS COUNTRY Frankenmuth swept girls and boys races at its invitational; Frankenmuth’s girls are ranked No. 14 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – Saginaw News

6. VOLLEYBALL Fruitport remains undefeated in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Silver after a five-set win over Hopkins – MuskegonSports.com

7. BOYS TENNIS LPD2 top-ranked Birmingham Seaholm downed Rochester Hills Stoney Creek 6-2 – Oakland Press

8. VOLLEYBALL Kingsford remains undefeated after sweeping Marquette – Upper Michigan’s Source

9. BOYS TENNIS Gibraltar Carlson handed Trenton its first Downriver League loss, 6-2 – Southgate News-Herald

10. BOYS SOCCER Division 1 No. 5 Hartland improved to 15-0-1 with a 4-2 win over Brighton – Livingston Daily Press & Argus