Today in the MHSAA: 1/10/18
January 10, 2018
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. Boys Basketball: Grand Ledge handed East Lansing its first loss this season, 59-53, breaking the Trojans 45-game regular-season winning streak – Lansing State Journal
2. Girls Basketball: Coldwater upset previously undefeated Battle Creek Pennfield, one of the top-ranked teams in Class B, 54-45 – Coldwater Daily Reporter
3. Boys Basketball: McBain extended its regular-season winning streak to 52 with a 66-56 win over rival Manton after losing to Manton in last year’s District – Cadillac News
4. Boys Basketball: Reigning champion Buckley handed the first loss this season to Maple City Glen Lake in a matchup of Northwest Conference contenders – Traverse City Record Eagle
5. Boys Swimming & Diving: Grand Haven, an honorable mention in Lower Peninsula Division 1, relied on impressive depth to get past LPD3 No. 4 Spring Lake 105-81 – Grand Haven Tribune
6. Boys Basketball: Olivet handed Perry its first loss this season in a matchup of top teams in the Greater Lansing Activities Conference – Battle Creek Enquirer
7. Girls Basketball: Howell improved to 8-1 with a 48-42 overtime win over rival Hartland – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
8. Boys Basketball: Josh Palo’s free throws during the closing seconds gave Howell a 52-50 win over Hartland – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
9. Girls Basketball: Munising improved to 7-1 with a 56-52 win over Bark River-Harris, ending the Broncos’ eight-game winning streak – Marquette Mining Journal
10. Boys Basketball: Brownstown Woodhaven moved to 6-1 with a buzzer-beating win over Lincoln Park, 58-55 – Detroit News
In Memoriam: Chip Mundy (1955-2023)
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
August 16, 2023
When the MHSAA took a significant step in telling the stories of school sports with the introduction of the Second Half website in 2012, Chip Mundy was a natural to lend his expertise after a career doing the same in the Jackson area.
He always took special care in searching out the human interest side of our “stories behind the scores” – and today we remember that dedication as we mourn his death Monday. He was 68.
Mundy was a graduate of Jackson Parkside and then served as sports editor at the Brooklyn Exponent and Albion Recorder from 1980-86. He then became a fixture in high school sports coverage as a reporter and later copy editor at the Jackson Citizen Patriot from 1986-2011.
Mundy was one of the original correspondents when Second Half took on a regional component beginning with the 2015-16 school year, thoughtfully providing biweekly features from the “Southeast & Border” area that includes Jackson, Ann Arbor, Monroe and the host of smaller communities north of the Michigan/Ohio line. Before the beginning of 2H’s “Region Reports,” Mundy also was among the first to begin producing coverage of MHSAA Finals for the site as Second Half started in part with a mission of covering all MHSAA championship events.
He admittedly ended up reporting on some sports he’d rarely or never covered before, and admittedly often wrote a little longer than he’d intended – but in his own words, because “there were so many stories” or “the story was so good.”
Click to read many of his features for the Second Half website.