Today in the MHSAA: 1/18/22

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

January 18, 2022

1. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Midland Dow won the Tri-Cities Swimming Championship for the 19th-straight season – Midland Daily News

2. GYMNASTICS Rockford was first and Lowell second at the Red Arrows’ Military Salute Invitational – Coldwater Daily Reporter

3. WRESTLING Battle Creek Lakeview won its all-city championship and then finished runner-up as Cedar Springs claimed the overall All-City Challenge title – Battle Creek Enquirer

4. WRESTLING Competitors from 25 schools made up the field at the Boyne City Girls Wrestling Invitational, with the Ramblers’ Lydia Krauss named Most Outstanding Wrestler – Traverse City Record-Eagle

5. BOWLING The Oxford boys and Lake Orion girls won Oakland County Tournament championships – Oakland Press

6. BOWLING Warren Woods-Tower’s Kayla Tafanelli and Macomb Dakota’s Connor Rogus won Macomb County Invitational championships – Macomb Daily Girls | Boys

7. BOYS BASKETBALL Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice, No. 1 in Division 1 MPR, downed No. 6 Orchard Lake St. Mary’s 45-43 on a buzzer beater – Observer & Eccentric

8. HOCKEY Division 1 top-ranked Detroit Catholic Central opened with two first-period goals on the way to a 3-1 win over Division 3 No. 2 Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – Oakland Press

9. HOCKEY Division 2 No. 4 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice scored with less than 10 seconds to play to get past Division 3 No. 6 Houghton 3-2 – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

10. BOYS BASKETBALL Benzie Central, No. 15 in Division 3 MPR, won a matchup of undefeated teams 72-55 over Buckley – Up North Live

Also of note …

WRESTLING Longtime and recently-retired Lake Odessa Lakewood coach Bob Veitch will be inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in April – Lansing State Journal

Today in the MHSAA: 5/16/23

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 16, 2023

1. SOFTBALL Division 3 No. 8 Standish-Sterling swept Midland Bullock Creek to claim the Tri-Valley Conference Blue title, its first league championship since 1986 – Bay City Times

2. GIRLS SOCCER Division 2 No. 8 Trenton edged Brownstown Woodhaven 1-0 to lock up a repeat Downriver League championship – Southgate News-Herald

3. TRACK & FIELD The Fraser boys and Port Huron Northern girls won Macomb Area Conference White league meet titles – Macomb Daily

4. SOFTBALL Division 2 No. 3 Chelsea finished a Southeastern Conference White title run with a sweep of Pinckney – Ann Arbor News

5. GIRLS TENNIS Rockford edged Holland West Ottawa by a point in the league tournament to create a shared Ottawa-Kent Conference Red championship – Holland Sentinel

6. BASEBALL Division 2 No. 15 Adrian swept Tecumseh to clinch a share of the SEC White championship – Adrian Daily Telegram

7. GIRLS SOCCER Division 1 No. 7 Portage Central moved on to the Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference Tournament final with a 1-0 win over Division 2 No. 5 Richland Gull Lake – WWMT

8. BOYS GOLF Monroe shot a 308 to win the Monroe County Championship – Monroe News

9. BOYS GOLF Alpena’s season-low 324 placed atop the standings at the Saginaw Swan Valley Invitational – Alpena News

10. BOYS GOLF LPD2 No. 1 Grand Rapids Christian shot a 305 to finish 21 shots better than the field at the Muskegon Mona Shores Invitational – Local Sports Journal

Also of note …

BOYS BASKETBALL Grand Blanc coach Tory Jackson has left to take over at Detroit Catholic Central – Oakland Press

VOLLEYBALL Angie Compton, who led Reese to the Division 3 title in 2021, has resigned to become coach at Delta College – WJRT

OFFICIALS Big Rapids’ Jeff Greene is serving his 50th year as an MHSAA-registered official – MI Sports Now