Today in the MHSAA: 10/8/20

October 8, 2020

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The fields for this season’s Lower Peninsula Girls Golf and Boys Tennis Finals continued to fill Wednesday, with a new-look District format changing things up on the courts.

1. Girls Golf: Top-ranked Rochester Adams won its first Regional in more than two decades, with No. 9 Bloomfield Hills and No. 8 Troy also advancing in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – Oakland Press

2. Girls Golf: No. 3 Plymouth (326), No. 2 Northville (330) and unranked Ann Arbor Pioneer (349) advanced from another strong LPD1 Regional – We Love Ann Arbor

3. Boys Tennis: No. 11 Allegan advanced with a tie-breaker win over No. 7 Holland Christian in an LPD3 District Final – Holland Sentinel

4. Boys Tennis: No. 2 Traverse City St. Francis earned its 13th-straight Finals weekend berth, with an LPD4 District title – Traverse City Record-Eagle

5. Girls Golf: No. 10 Haslett, No. 9 Okemos and No. 7 Fenton took the top three places, respectively, at the LPD2 Regional at The Emerald – Flint Journal

6. Volleyball: Division 1 top-ranked Farmington Hills Mercy moved to 23-0 this fall with a second win this season over No. 3 Bloomfield Hills Marian – Observer & Eccentric

7. Girls Golf: No. 5 Michigan Center, No. 10 Adrian Lenawee Christian and unranked Hanover-Horton qualified from an LPD4 Regional at Cascades – JTV

8. Boys Soccer: Division 1 No. 3 (MPR) Detroit Catholic Central clinched the Detroit Catholic League Bishop championship with a 3-0 win over Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – Oakland Press

9. Boys Soccer: McBain Northern Michigan Christian downed Cheboygan 2-0 to claim its first Northern Michigan Soccer League title – Cadillac News

10. Boys Tennis: No. 13 Traverse City Central received a bye and then defeated No. 15 Midland in an LPD2 District Final to advance to a sixth-straight Finals weekend – Traverse City Record-Eagle

Also of note …

Cross Country: From Tuesday, the Fairview boys and Rogers City girls clinched North Star League championships – WBKB

Today in the MHSAA: 9/20/23

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

September 20, 2023

1. VOLLEYBALL No. 4 Brighton won the first set, but top-ranked Northville won the next three of this matchup between top teams in Division 1 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

2. BOYS SOCCER Division 2 top-ranked Richland Gull Lake delivered Division 1 No. 8 Portage Central’s first defeat this fall, 2-0 – WWMT

3. VOLLEYBALL Division 3 No. 7 Lake City swept Manton in Highland Conference play – Cadillac News

4. BOYS SOCCER Chesaning won a matchup of first-place teams in the Mid-Michigan Activities Conference, 1-0 over Byron – WJRT

5. VOLLEYBALL Division 1 honorable mention South Lyon East stands atop the Lakes Valley Conference thanks to a four-set win over Walled Lake Northern – Oakland Press

6. BOYS SOCCER Division 1 No. 12 Royal Oak remains first in the Oakland Activities Association White after a scoreless draw with Bloomfield Hills – Oakland Press

7. BOYS SOCCER Petoskey sits alone atop the Big North Conference after a 6-1 win over Cadillac – Petoskey News-Review

8. VOLLEYBALL Davison earned a five-set road win at rival Grand Blanc – Mid-Michigan Now

9. VOLLEYBALL Escanaba won the third set 31-29 to finish a sweep of Gladstone – Escanaba Daily Press

10. VOLLEYBALL Three of four sets were decided by three points or fewer as Union City got past Concord – Coldwater Daily Reporter