'Prepapalooza' Kicks Off 3-Week Celebration
May 31, 2016
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Nearly 30,000 athletes will take part over the next six days in what will again be the busiest week of the MHSAA calendar, with teams in all nine spring sports competing for District, Regional or Finals championships at sites across both peninsulas.
The first Finals champions of this spring will be awarded Wednesday in Upper Peninsula boys tennis (UPDATE: both U.P. tennis Finals have been moved to Thursday due to rainy weather concerns), followed by six more in Upper Peninsula boys and girls golf Thursday. Four divisions of Lower Peninsula girls tennis start their two-day tournament Friday, and on Saturday, more than 7,000 athletes will join them competing in four Lower and three Upper Peninsula Track & Field Finals.
In addition, baseball, softball and girls soccer teams begin District action tonight, with most of those tournaments wrapping Saturday. Girls and boys lacrosse teams continue Regional play this week, and Lower Peninsula boys golf teams will play Regionals on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Second Half again will serve as your home for all MHSAA Finals coverage, with correspondents providing stories and photos, along with full results, from all of the Upper Peninsula Finals this week and then all 18 LP and UP Finals this weekend, Lacrosse and LP Golf Finals on June 14, and Baseball, Softball and Soccer Finals being played June 19-21.
Check back as well for video highlights from most competitions and sign up to watch all broadcast tournament action over the next three weeks for only $9.95 on MHSAA.tv. All schedules, lists of competitors and tournament brackets updated with scores real-time can be found on MHSAA.com. Keep connected as well with the MHSAA’s social media on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
PHOTO: The Unionville-Sebewaing softball team celebrates last season's Division 4 championship.
Today in the MHSAA: 10/3/23
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 3, 2023
1. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 8 Alma shut out Frankenmuth to clinch the Tri-Valley Conference Red title outright – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
2. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 9 Elk Rapids downed Kalkaska 1-0 to clinch the Lake Michigan Conference championship – Up North Live
3. BOYS TENNIS Holland West Ottawa – No. 10 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – clinched a share of the Ottawa-Kent Conference Red title with a 7-2 win over Rockford – Holland Sentinel
4. GIRLS GOLF Traverse City Central carded a 371 to win its invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle
5. BOYS SOCCER Division 4 No. 4 Bloomfield Hills Roeper improved to 13-1-1 with a 2-0 win over Genesee Christian – Hometown Life
6. BOYS SOCCER North Muskegon is tied for first in the West Michigan Conference after a 2-1 win over Ludington – Local Sports Journal
7. BOYS SOCCER Fremont is tied with North Muskegon atop the WMC, having kept pace with a 4-1 win over Whitehall – FOX17
8. BOYS TENNIS LPD2 top-ranked Midland Dow finished the regular season 23-0-1 with a shutout of Bay City Western – Midland Daily News
9. BOYS SOCCER Brady Cotton’s late goal pushed Grand Haven past Caledonia in a first-round O-K Red Tournament game – Grand Haven Tribune
10. BOYS SOCCER Brownstown Woodhaven edged Gibraltar Carlson to stay in the Downriver League title mix – Southgate News-Herald