Grayling Plays On as Healing Continues

December 15, 2014

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The Grayling community was rocked by a two-vehicle collision in 2013 that resulted in the deaths of a coach, a golfer and another passenger in the other vehicle, as well as numerous serious injuries, while the boys golf team was driving to a tournament. 

As the community began to heal, the team played the rest of the 2013 season for classmates who could not. Last spring, more than 30 golfers came out as the team fell just one place short of making the MHSAA Finals but sent an individual, Jake Hinkle, to the Lower Peninsula Division 3 tournament at Grand Valley State University.  

In a few short months, Grayling's boys golf team will again begin the journey to play at the Finals as a team, backed by a community that continues to rally. 

The NBC Golf Channel tells this incredible story below:

Today in the MHSAA: 10/2/24

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

October 2, 2024

1. BOYS SOCCER Milford finished its first championship run in this sport in nearly four decades with a 2-1 win over South Lyon in the Lakes Valley Conference – Hometown Life

2. BOYS SOCCER Marshall clinched the Interstate 8 Athletic Conference title with a 1-0 win over runner-up Coldwater – Battle Creek Enquirer

3. GIRLS GOLF Gibraltar Carlson won the final Downriver League event, but Brownstown Woodhaven finished as the overall league champion – Southgate News-Herald

4. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 6 Macomb Lutheran North finished runner-up in the Catholic High School League Bishop Tournament with a 3-0 loss to Toledo St. Francis de Sales – Macomb Daily

5. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 12 Elk Rapids downed No. 13 Traverse City St. Francis 2-0 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

6. VOLLEYBALL Troy Athens moved into first alone in the Oakland Activities Association White with a four-set win over Oxford – Oakland Press

7. BOYS SOCCER Division 2 No. 7 Mason downed East Lansing 3-1 in a Capital Area Activities Conference Gold Cup semifinal – Lansing State Journal

8. BOYS SOCCER DeWitt came back to defeat Okemos in a shootout also in CAAC Gold Cup play – Lansing State Journal

9. VOLLEYBALL Division 3 No. 4 Cass City swept Millington – WNEM

10. VOLLEYBALL Division 4 No. 10 Ubly swept Harbor Beach in its Volley for a Cure match – Huron Daily Tribune