Through the Years: Lacrosse 2005-2015
July 22, 2016
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
The MHSAA Girls and Boys Lacrosse Finals honored their 12th series of champions last month as four of the most successful programs in the sports' young histories added to their respective legacies.
Today's "Through the Years" takes a look at some of the prevailing stories that have emerged in just more than a decade of these sports having MHSAA sponsorship.
This feature is from the spring issue of benchmarks, built and written by Rob Kaminski. Scroll to the bottom of the page for a link to our previous installments. We'll look at more MHSAA postseason events every Tuesday and Friday throughout this summer and fall.
Previous installments
July 19: Boys/Girls Tennis - Read
July 15: Boys/Girls Golf - Read
July 12: Girls Soccer - Read
July 8: Boys Track & Field - Read
July 5: Girls Track & Field - Read
July 1: Baseball - Read
June 28: Softball - Read
Moment: Close Finish Goes Cranes' Way
May 21, 2020
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
The Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood boys lacrosse team finished 17-6 in 2013, with five of those losses by one goal apiece.
But the Cranes’ one-goal win on the last day of the season surely made those defeats almost immediately forgettable.
Matt Giampetroni scored with 20.2 seconds to play in the Division 2 Final that June 8, pushing Cranbrook past reigning champion Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central 10-9.
The goal was Giampetroni’s fourth of the game and came after Central had scored three straight to tie things up at 9-9 with 2:10 remaining.
Cranbrook had lost to Central 15-5 in the regular-season finale.
“We’ve played a lot of one-goal games this year, so we were used to playing in these games,” Giampetroni said. “I think we learned a lot from those tough losses we had earlier in the year. We were confident.”
Giampetroni, a junior that season, eventually went on to continue his career at Duke.
Check out coverage of the Final from Second Half and watch the game winner below from the MHSAA Network.