State Champs! Michigan: Hockey Time Episode 5
January 12, 2023
Join Jonathon Kidd and Sean Baligian for a special edition of State Champs! Hockey Time from the Upper Peninsula.
1:41 - Northville at Calumet - Game Recap
2:26 - Novi at Houghton - Game Recap
3:35 - Brighton at Calumet - Game Recap
4:42 - Riverview Gabriel Richard at Liggett - Game Recap
5:21 - Grosse Pointe South at Lake Orion - Game Recap
5:45 - Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Midland Dow - Game Recap
6:23 - Warrior Player of the Year Update
7:16 - DAC Athlete of the Year Promo
8:32 - Coaches Corner - Corey Markham - Houghton High School
12:18 - Wall Award Update
Moment: Heritage Soars to 1st Final
April 9, 2020
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Saginaw Heritage has ascended to the ranks of the state’s high school hockey elite these last few seasons. And it’s fair to say Matte Cole scored one of the defining goals of that rise.
Cole actually tallied two goals during the Hawks’ 3-2 overtime win over Traverse City West in a Division 1 Semifinal on March 9, 2018. The second came 59 seconds into overtime to secure the victory, which sent Heritage to its first MHSAA Final in hockey.
"If you would have told us at the beginning of the year that we would be in the championship game I don't think that realistically … many people outside of our locker room would have given us that opportunity," Heritage coach J.J. Bamberger said that day. "But everyone in the locker room believed in it. We have kids who have won championships at younger levels and they showed today they're winners and they refused to lose."
Click for game coverage from the Saginaw News – Saginaw Heritage tops Traverse City West in OT, advances to first state championship game – and watch the game winner below with coverage from the NFHS Network.