Today in the MHSAA: 10/7/15
October 7, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
A record-setting cross country run tops today’s sampling of headline makers from across Michigan, and we finish the list with an intriguing boys basketball coaching hire.
Cross Country
Mount Pleasant’s Mac LaBelle broke a school record set in 1983 by running a 16:07.3 to win the DeWitt Invitational earlier this season; he went 15:58.73 on Tuesday – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
The first-year Engadine cross country program, featured three weeks ago on Second Half, hosted its first home meet Tuesday – Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
Girls Golf
Adrian Madison, which debuted in the state poll this week at No. 2 in Lower Peninsula Division 4, won the Lenawee County Tournament by 51 strokes with a score of 364 – Adrian Daily Telegram
Boys Soccer
Division 2 No. 2 Mattawan defeated Division 1 No. 8 Portage Central in a matchup of one-loss teams and with a berth in the Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference final on the line – Kalamazoo Gazette
Sixth-seeded and unranked Grand Ledge upset third-seeded and Division 2 No. 5 Mason 3-2 in the first round of Capital Area Activities Conference Gold Cup play – Mlive-Lansing
Volleyball
Class A No. 8 Birmingham Seaholm edged honorable mention Clarkston 3-2, defeating the Wolves in league play for the first time since 2005 – Oakland Press
Boys Basketball
Battle Creek Central has named former Albion coach Durant Crum as the program’s new leader; Crum led Albion teams to Class B Semifinals and Class C Quarterfinals over 11 seasons before that school closed in 2013 – Battle Creek Enquirer
Today in the MHSAA: 10/16/24
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 16, 2024
1. BOYS SOCCER Top-ranked Fruitport downed Spring Lake 2-1 in a Division 2 District Semifinal improving on the one draw Fruitport played to during the regular season while otherwise going undefeated – Local Sports Journal
2. BOYS SOCCER No. 15 Riverview advanced with a shootout win over No. 13 Melvindale in Division 2 – Southgate News-Herald
3. CROSS COUNTRY The Otsego girls – No. 4 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – and No. 15 Three Rivers boys won Wolverine Conference championships – Sturgis Journal
4. CROSS COUNTRY The No. LPD1 10 Traverse City West girls and No. 10 Central boys secured Big North Conference titles – Traverse City Record-Eagle
5. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD2 No. 10 Freeland girls and No. 6 Frankenmuth boys claimed Tri-Valley Conference championships – Saginaw News
6. CROSS COUNTRY McBain’s LPD3 No. 11-ranked girls and Lake City’s boys finished championship runs in the Highland Conference – Cadillac News
7. CROSS COUNTRY The Remus Chippewa Hills girls, honorable mentions in LPD3, clinched the Central State Activities Association title – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
8. VOLLEYBALL Reed City clinched a share of the CSAA Red title with a sweep of Howard City Tri County – Big Rapids Pioneer
9. BOYS SOCCER Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker advanced in Division 4 with a 2-1 overtime District win over Saginaw Nouvel – Huron Daily Tribune
10. BOYS SOCCER No. 7 Traverse City West edged Midland Dow 1-0 in Division 1 – MI Sports Now