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: 9/26/24
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
September 26, 2024
1. GIRLS GOLF Freeland – No. 4 in Lower Peninsula Division 3 – capped a Tri-Valley Conference championship run with another jamboree win – Saginaw News
2. BOYS TENNIS LPD2 No. 10 Traverse City Central claimed the Big North Conference Tournament title – Traverse City Record-Eagle
3. BOYS TENNIS LPD2 top-ranked Midland Dow finished a perfect dual match run through the Saginaw Valley League with a sweep of Davison – Midland Daily News
4. BOYS SOCCER Division 2 No. 6 Holland earned a 3-0 league win over No. 15 Zeeland East – FOX 17
5. GIRLS GOLF Petoskey edged Cadillac by two strokes to win the Vikings’ invitational – Cadillac News
6. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD1 top-ranked Romeo girls and Utica boys won the latest Macomb Area Conference Red jamborees – Macomb Daily
7. VOLLEYBALL Coldwater came back from a 2-1 deficit to defeat Parma Western in five during its annual Purple Week matchup – Coldwater Daily Reporter
8. VOLLEYBALL Allen Park Cabrini ended a six-match losing streak to Riverview Gabriel Richard with a sweep – Southgate News-Herald
9. BOYS SOCCER Farmington downed rival North Farmington 3-1 – Oakland Press
10. VOLLEYBALL A late second-set rally helped Orchard Lake St. Mary’s to a sweep of Macomb Lutheran North – Oakland Press