Today in the MHSAA: 12/18/19

December 18, 2019

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

The 2019 calendar year refuses to finish without making some significant early impacts on this basketball season, with Tuesday including a few that will be remembered.

1. Girls Basketball: Saginaw Swan Valley delivered Hemlock’s first regular-season season defeat in nearly two calendar years, 67-50 – Saginaw News

2. Boys Basketball: Grand Rapids Christian locked down Grand Rapids Catholic Central for a 60-54 win – FOX 17

3. Boys Basketball: Beaverton got past reigning league champ Sanford Meridian 40-38 in a matchup of the two best from the Jack Pine Conference in 2018-19 – Midland Daily News

4. Girls Basketball: Hartland slowed down Okemos for a 41-23 win – State Champs Sports Network

5. Boys Swimming & Diving: Holland West Ottawa had the top finisher in eight races on the way to a 112-72 win over Zeeland – Holland Sentinel

6. Girls Basketball: Carlee Crabtree scored her 1,000th career point as Coldwater earned its first win this season, 62-22 over Hastings – Coldwater Daily Reporter

7. Girls Basketball: Saline moved to 5-0 with a 71-24 win over Dearborn Henry Ford Academy as Ella Stemmer set a school record with eight 3-pointers – Saline Post

8. Boys Basketball: Tyson Acuff scored 44 points including the winning basket in Detroit Cass Tech’s 65-64 win over Henry Ford – Detroit News

9. Girls Basketball: Marquette held on for a low-scoring 35-32 win over Negaunee – The Upbeat

10. Girls Basketball: Morgan Case made a half-court shot at the buzzer to push Blissfield past Erie Mason 50-47 – Adrian Daily Telegram

Also of note …

State Champs Sports Network produced its MHSAA Finals shows for Volleyball, Girls Swimming & Diving and Football

Today in the MHSAA: 1/27/22

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

January 27, 2022

1. WRESTLING Division 3 top-ranked Dundee defeated Division 4 No. 1 Hudson 56-16 in Lenawee County Athletic Association competition – Adrian Daily Telegram

2. HOCKEY Division 2 top-ranked Hartland continued to ride Ben Pouliot’s scoring surge to a 3-1 win over No. 2 Livonia Stevenson – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

3. HOCKEY Division 1 No. 2 Brighton won 4-3 over Toledo St. Francis, the reigning Ohio champion – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

4. BOYS BASKETBALL Pittsford defeated Jackson Christian 56-35, giving coach Mike Burger his 300th career victory – Hillsdale Daily News

5. WRESTLING Division 3 No. 9 Kingsley defeated Division 4 No. 8 LeRoy Pine River and Mancelona – Traverse City Record-Eagle

6. BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING Ann Arbor Skyline – No. 3 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – won 131-52 at honorable mention Dexter – We Love Ann Arbor

7. BOWLING Monroe’s girls and Temperance Bedford’s boys won matches with first-place implications – Monroe News

8. COMPETITIVE CHEER Merrill was first and Marion second at the Remus Chippewa Hills Invitational – Ludington Daily News

9. GIRLS BASKETBALL Rochester defeated Lake Orion 39-22 to take over first alone in the Oakland Activities Association White – Oakland Press

10. WRESTLING Macomb Area Conference Blue leader Utica Eisenhower handed St. Clair its first league loss and also defeated Port Huron Northern – Macomb Daily