Today in the MHSAA: 10/12/17

October 12, 2017

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Each weekday of the school year, we break down the top headlines courtesy of Michigan’s sports media.

Today's Top 10

1. Girls Golf: For the first time in 36 years, Sturgis won a Regional in this sport, claiming its Lower Peninsula Division 2 tournament by 21 strokes – Sturgis Journal

2. Boys Soccer: Division 1 No. 5 Detroit Catholic Central shut out Division 2 No. 3 Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood 4-0 to win the Detroit Catholic League A-B championship – Observer & Eccentric

3. Boys Soccer: Division 1 No. 9 Northville won its first boys soccer championship in the Kensington Lakes Activities Association with a 1-0 victory over No. 12 Plymouth – Observer & Eccentric

4. Boys Soccer: Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard got past Madison Heights Bishop Foley 4-1 to earn its first Catholic League C-D title in the sport – Oakland Press

5. Cross Country: Ithaca’s boys and girls teams finished a sweep of Tri-Valley Conference West jamborees to claim league titles; the boys team is No. 14 in LPD3 – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

6. Cross Country: Shepherd did the same as Ithaca but in the TVC Central, with both teams sweeping all three jamborees to earn conference championships; the girls are ranked No. 9 in LPD3, and the boys are No. 11 – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

7. Boys Soccer: Division 3 No. 15 Whitehall took back a share of the West Michigan Conference title with a 4-0 win over North Muskegon in the league tournament final after North Muskegon won the regular-season share and beat the Vikings for the championship in 2016 – Local Sports Journal

8. Boys Soccer: Marysville clinched its first league title in boys soccer since 2011 with a 2-1 win over St. Clair – Port Huron Times Herald

9. Cross Country: The Indian River Inland Lakes girls and Johannesburg-Lewiston boys won Ski Valley Conference championship meet titles – Traverse City Record-Eagle

10. Wrestling: Manistee hired its third coach in three years, this time bringing in longtime Saginaw Swan Valley leader Darrell Burchfield, who led the Vikings to a 432-91 record from 2003-16 – Manistee News-Advocate

Also for note:

Girls Cross Country: From Tuesday, Sault Ste. Marie senior Mackenzie Kalchik added a fourth Straits Area Conference individual championship to her impressive career work which this season includes pacing the top-ranked team in Upper Peninsula Division 1 – Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

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