This Week in High School Sports: 12/4/24

By Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

December 4, 2024

In this week's edition, we review this past weekend's 11-player football championship games and present Game Balls to high achievers in basketball and hockey as we close the fall season and turn our focus to winter sports. 

MI Student AidThe 5-minute program each week includes feature stories from MHSAA.com or network affiliates, along with "Be the Referee," a 60-second look at the fine art of officiating.

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Previous 2024-25 Editions

Nov. 27: 8-Player Football Finals review, 1975 Football Finals recollection - Listen
Nov. 20:
8-Player Football Finals history, Southwest 10 Conference Legacy officials - Listen
Nov. 13:
"Flashback 100" series, flashback to Escanaba's football championship - Listen
Nov. 6:
Boys Soccer Finals, Lower Peninsula Cross Country Finals review - Listen
Oct. 30:
2024 Football Playoffs, Lower Peninsula Boys Tennis Finals review - Listen
Oct. 23:
Lower Peninsula Girls Golf Finals, Upper Peninsula Cross Country Finals reviews - Listen
Oct. 16:
MHSAA Football Playoffs primer, MHSAA/Farm Bureau Scholar-Athlete Awards - Listen
Oct. 9:
National High School Hall of Fame, Upper Peninsula Girls Tennis Finals - Listen
Oct. 2:
MHSAA record book, 2024 Boys Soccer Tournament schedule - Listen
Sept. 25:
NFHS Network streaming, DeWitt's high-scoring football matchup - Listen
Sept. 18:
Cheboygan broadcaster Mike Grisdale, Michigan's national participation ranking - Listen
Sept. 11:
MHSAA baseball stars in MLB, 2024 Boys Soccer Tournament - Listen
Sept. 5:
Highlighting MHSAA record setters, 50th Football Playoffs - Listen
Aug. 28:
MHSAA Summer Olympians, "Century of School Sports" celebration - Listen

Today in the MHSAA: 10/20/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

October 20, 2025

1. BOYS CROSS COUNTRY Sault Ste. Marie’s Gabe Litzner finished a career Finals championship sweep and Marquette, Painesdale Jeffers and Crystal Falls Forest Park won team titles at the Upper Peninsula Boys Cross Country Finals – MHSAA.com

2. GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY L’Anse claimed its first team championship and Marquette and Rudyard also won titles at the Upper Peninsula Girls Cross Country Finals – MHSAA.com

3. GIRLS GOLF Northville, Dexter, Grand Rapids Catholic Central and Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian won Lower Peninsula Finals – MHSAA.com

4. BOYS TENNIS Troy passed three-time reigning champion Bloomfield Hills to win the Lower Peninsula Division 1 championship – MHSAA.com

5. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING West Bloomfield’s Elizabeth Eichbrecht and Holland Christian’s Camryn Siegers won multiple individual races, and Zeeland won a pair of relays to highlight performances at the annual MISCA meet – MISCA

6. BOYS SOCCER No. 4 Romeo edged reigning Division 1 champion Rochester Adams 1-0 in a District Final – Macomb Daily

7. CROSS COUNTRY The Shepherd, Lower Peninsula Division 3 No. 10 Traverse City St. Francis and LPD4 No. 6 Grand Traverse Academy girls and Alpena, LPD3 No. 7 Central Montcalm and LPD4 No. 4 Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart boys won at the Northern Michigan Meet of Champions – Athletic.net

8. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Muskegon Mona Shores swept Fruitport to win a fourth-straight Greater Muskegon Athletic Association title – Local Sports Journal

9. CROSS COUNTRY The Frankenmuth girls and Saginaw Heritage boys won Saginaw County titles – Saginaw News

10. CROSS COUNTRY Utica Ford locked up the Macomb Area Conference White boys championship, while three teams shared the girls title – Macomb Daily