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: 9/30/22

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

September 30, 2022

1. GIRLS TENNIS Iron Mountain repeated as Upper Peninsula Division 2 Finals champion – MHSAA.com

2. BOYS TENNIS Midland Dow – top-ranked in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – swept every flight to win the Saginaw Valley League Tournament with the max 32 points – Midland Daily News

3. BOYS TENNIS Flushing clinched a fifth-straight Flint Metro League title – WJRT

4. BOYS TENNIS Milan and Grosse Ile are Huron League co-champions after Milan won the league tournament by a point – Monroe News

5. BOYS TENNIS Rochester Hills Stoney Creek won six flight titles in claiming the overall Oakland Activities Association White Tournament championship – Oakland Press

6. BOYS TENNIS Traverse City Central won five flights to clinch the overall Big North Conference Tournament title – Traverse City Record-Eagle

7. GIRLS GOLF LPD4 No. 13 Harbor Springs finished a Lake Michigan Conference title run with a victory at the league tournament – Petoskey News-Review

8. CROSS COUNTRY The UPD1 No. 2 Houghton girls and UPD2 top-ranked Painesdale Jeffers boys won Ishpeming Tracy Strom Invitational titles – Upper Michigan Source

9. VOLLEYBALL Division 2 No. 3 Pontiac Notre Dame Prep swept honorable mention Warren Regina – Oakland Press

10. BOYS SOCCER Coldwater set itself up for a league title opportunity with a 3-0 win over Battle Creek Harper Creek – Coldwater Daily Reporter