Today in the MHSAA: 10/20/17

October 20, 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. Football: Bellevue is having an incredible first season of 8-player football, and quarterback Gino Costello is building on an already impressive effort with a heavy heart after his mom died after a fight with cancer at the start of this month – Battle Creek Enquirer

2. Football: West Bloomfield kicker Nick O’Shea lost his father unexpectedly from a heart attack just 10 days ago. But how he and West Bloomfield’s coaches and players have rallied is also truly inspiring – Detroit Free Press

3. Volleyball: Harbor Springs Harbor Light Christian finished a perfect run through the Northern Lakes Conference with a sweep of Vanderbilt – Petoskey News-Review

4. Volleyball: Class B No. 8 Spring Lake clinched a share of the Ottawa-Kent Conference Blue title with a win over Comstock Park – Grand Haven Tribune

5. Boys Soccer: No. 7 Coldwater earned a rematch with No. 6-ranked Marshall by getting past perennial power Mason 2-0 to advance in Division 2 – Coldwater Daily Reporter

6. Volleyball: Class C No. 8 Unionville-Sebewaing clinched its sixth Greater Thumb Conference West title in seven seasons with a four-set win over Reese – Huron Daily Tribune

7. Cross Country: The Highland Milford girls (No. 10 in LPD1) and White Lake Lakeland boys (No. 5 in LPD1) clinched the inaugural Lakes Valley Conference championships – Observer & Eccentric Girls | Boys

8. Boys Soccer: Walled Lake Northern dealt rival Division 1 No. 15 Walled Lake Central a draw this year as the Vikings finished 15-0-1 in the Lakes Valley Conference, but Central avenged that tie with a 3-0 Division 1 win – Oakland Press

9. Volleyball: Houghton claimed the Copper Spike traveling trophy for the fourth straight season with a sweep of rival Hancock – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

10. Conference realignment: The Western Peninsula Athletic Conference is set to expand significantly with most of the Upper Peninsula’s 11-player football schools filling out the league – Marquette Mining Journal

Today in the MHSAA: 10/6/23

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

October 6, 2023

1. BOYS TENNIS Midland Dow – No. 1 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – won the Saginaw Valley League Tournament for the 18th straight season, claiming all eight flight titles as well – Midland Daily News

2. BOYS SOCCER DeWitt downed Holt 1-0 to claim its first Capital Area Activities Conference Gold Cup since 2011 – Lansing State Journal

3. BOYS SOCCER Division 4 No. 11 Harbor Springs set a school record for shutouts at 13 in a 4-0 victory over Boyne City – Petoskey News-Review

4. VOLLEYBALL Division 1 No. 2 Hudsonville is in first place alone in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Red after a 3-1 win over No. 9 Jenison – FOX 17

5. VOLLEYBALL Division 3 No. 3 Clarkston swept honorable mention Lake Orion in a key Oakland Activities Association Red matchup – Oakland Press

6. BOYS SOCCER Mitch Harrington set Grayling’s single-season scoring record during a 2-2 draw with Kalkaska – Traverse City Record-Eagle

7. BOYS SOCCER Ezekiel Bargas scored all three goals as Lake Orion downed Rochester – Oakland Press

8. VOLLEYBALL Bay City Central came back from two sets down to defeat Saginaw Heritage – Bay City Times

9. VOLLEYBALL Hanover-Horton also came back, from a set down to defeat Brooklyn Columbia Central in four – Jackson Citizen Patriot

10. VOLLEYBALL Mount Pleasant got past Flint Powers Catholic in a sweep – WJRT