Today in the MHSAA: 10/20/20

October 21, 2020

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Boys Soccer Districts and Cross Country Pre-Regionals for both girls and boys kept those two postseasons moving ahead Monday.

1. Boys soccer: Okemos downed No. 15 (MPR) Fenton in a shootout in a Division 1 District Semifinal – WJRT

2. Cross Country: Benzie Central’s teams swept Lower Peninsula Division 3 Pre-Regional races on their home course; the Benzie girls are ranked No. 4 and the boys are No. 10 – Benzie County Record Patriot

3. Cross Country: Petoskey’s teams also swept at Benzie Central, in Division 2 Pre-Regionals; the Northmen girls are ranked No. 2 in LPD2 and the boys are No. 15 – Petoskey News-Review

4. Cross Country: Gladstone locked up girls and boys Mid-Peninsula Conference championships; Gladstone’s boys are No. 3 in UPD1 – Escanaba Daily Press

5. Cross Country: Hanover-Horton swept Cascades Conference championship races; Hanover-Horton’s boys are No. 8 in LPD3 – JTV

6. Boys Soccer: Henry Reinick scored four of his team’s six goals in No. 14 (MPR) Traverse City Christian’s Division 3 District Semifinal win over Grayling – Up North Live

7. Boys Soccer: Muskegon Mona Shores moved on in its Division 1 District with a shootout win over Grand Rapids Union – Local Sports Journal

8. Volleyball: Petoskey defeated Kingsley, Sault Ste. Marie and Elk Rapids in a home quad – Petoskey News-Review

9. Volleyball: Division 4 No. 1 Mendon defeated Sturgis and Delton Kellogg but fell in three sets to Battle Creek Harper Creek – Sturgis Journal

10. Volleyball: Brown City came back after losing the third and fourth sets to defeat Division 4 honorable mention Ubly in five – Huron Daily Tribune

Also of note …

Officials: The Midland area is mourning the death of longtime official Steve Weiger, who recently lost his fight with brain cancer – Midland Daily News

Today In The MHSAA: 5/9/22

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 9, 2022

1. TRACK & FIELD The Montague girls, No. 9 in Lower Peninsula Division 3, and Whitehall boys won Greater Muskegon Athletic Association championships, Montague for the first time in at least 25 years – Muskegon Chronicle

2. BOYS GOLF Hudsonville – No. 15 in LPD1 – shot a two-day 645 to win the Traverse City Tee-Off, with the Eagles’ Foster Faber the medalist – Traverse City Record-Eagle

3. SOFTBALL Ravenna avenged a previous league sweep to Division 2 No. 7 Muskegon Oakridge with a 7-4 win in the GMAA Tier 1 championship game – CatchMark SportsNet

4. SOFTBALL Tori Briggs was the star as Fowlerville won the Portland Invitational with victories over the Raiders, Saranac and Traverse City Central – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

5. BASEBALL Division 1 No. 5 Muskegon Mona Shores downed Reeths-Puffer to clinch its fourth-straight GMAA title – MuskegonSports.com

6. GIRLS SOCCER Cadillac outscored its three opponents by a combed 17-0 to win the Birch Run Invitational – Cadillac News

7. BOYS GOLF LPD4 No. 10 Kalamazoo Hackett Catholic Prep was first and Sturgis three strokes back at the latter’s invitational – JoeInsider.com

8. GIRLS TENNIS LPD4 No. 4 North Muskegon edged Mona Shores by two points at the top of the standings to clinch the GMAA title – Local Sports Journal

9. GIRLS SOCCER Division 2 No. 6 Plainwell shut out Portage Northern to move to 10-0 without giving up a goal this season – WWMT

10. BASEBALL Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern downed Division 2 No. 16 Zeeland East 4-3 to win East’s Invitational, but East’s Trevor Raade threw a no-hitter in his team’s semifinal win – Holland Sentinel