A Day in the Life of an Official (Port Huron Times Herald)

September 25, 2012

At least six days a week and occasionally seven, officials all over Michigan suit up to manage our competitions.They do so mostly under the radar, as is the goal.

The Port Huron Times Herald's Joseph Hayes shines a small spotlight on this key part of making our games go. He took us inside the workings of an experienced football crew from that corner of the state, led by Marysville's Joe Venia.

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Today in the MHSAA: 9/23/25

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

September 23, 2025

1. GIRLS GOLF Okemos – No. 2  in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – carded a program-record 300 to win the Capital Area Activities Conference Open by 20 strokes ahead of LPD2 top-ranked Dexter – WILX

2. VOLLEYBALL Flat Rock earned its first victory ever over Division 3 top-ranked Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central, winning in five sets – Monroe News

3. GIRLS GOLF LPD1 No. 9 Brighton won the team title and Midland Dow’s Sophia Lee and Oxford’s Katie Pill were co-medalists at the Dow Invitational – Midland Daily News

4. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 14 Freeland edged No. 8 Frankenmuth, 3-2 – Saginaw News

5. VOLLEYBALL Freeland downed Division 3 honorable mention Cass City 3-1 – WNEM

6. BOYS SOCCCER Sterling Heights Stevenson avenged an earlier loss to Utica Ford with a 4-1 win – Macomb Daily

7. CROSS COUNTRY The Bellaire girls and Grayling boys won the latter’s invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle

8. BOYS SOCCER Flat Rock scored late to get past Riverview 2-1 – Southgate News-Herald

9. BOYS SOCCCER Division 4 No. 7 Muskegon Western Michigan Christian downed Whitehall 1-0 – Local Sports Journal

10. BOYS TENNIS Sturgis swept singles in defeating Otsego 6-2 – Sturgis Journal