Today In The MHSAA: 2/18/21
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
February 18, 2021
More league champions were celebrated in skiing Wednesday, with regional champions rising in Muskegon-area bowling and statewide elite facing off in competitive cheer, basketball and hockey.
1. Skiing: Harbor Springs’ girls clinched their 13th-straight Lake Michigan Conference title, and Great North Alpine claimed the boys title – Petoskey News-Review
2. Skiing: The Onekema girls and Benzie Central boys finished league title runs in the Lake Michigan Ski Conference – Traverse City Record-Eagle
3. Bowling: Whitehall’s girls won their first Greater Muskegon Athletic Association championship, while Fruitport’s boys repeated – Local Sports Journal
4. Competitive Cheer: Reigning Division 2 champion Allen Park topped reigning runner-up Gibraltar Carlson after the powers were separated by less than a point after Round 2 – Southgate News-Herald
5. Hockey: Division 3 No. 3 Flint Powers Catholic shut out Division 1 No. 4 Saginaw Heritage 5-0 – WJRT
6. Boys Basketball: Orchard Lake St. Mary’s got past Grand Blanc 65-52 in a matchup of highly-regarded contenders – Oakland Press
7. Hockey: Division 2 No. 4 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice downed Division 1 No. 2 Brighton 4-2 – Observer & Eccentric
8. Hockey: Division 1 No. 6 Traverse Bay Reps downed Division 2 No. 8 Traverse City Central 3-1 – Traverse City Record-Eagle
9. Girls Basketball: Carly McCrum went over 1,000 career points as Bay City John Glenn downed Alma 41-32 – Bay City Times
10. Girls Basketball: Although New Lothrop lost 52-47 to Linden, the Hornets’ Brooke Wenzlick went over 1,000 career points – Owosso Argus-Press
Also of note …
Athletic Directors: East Grand Rapids’ Tim Johnston, an MHSAA Bush Award honoree this past year, will retire this summer after 38 years in educational athletics – Grand Rapids Press
Today in the MHSAA: 10/26/22
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 26, 2022
1. BOYS SOCCER No. 6 Holland Christian outlasted top-ranked Grand Rapids Catholic Central through a 22-shot shootout to win a Division 3 Regional Semifinal 2-1 – Holland Sentinel
2. BOYS SOCCER No. 8 Rochester Adams also won a shootout to get past top-ranked Troy 4-3 in a Division 1 Regional Final – Oakland Press
3. BOYS SOCCER No. 2 Detroit Catholic Central advanced in Division 1 with a 3-1 overtime win over No. 4 Okemos – Oakland Press
4. VOLLEYBALL Division 1 top-ranked Bloomfield Hills Marian swept No. 8 Farmington Hills Mercy to claim the Detroit Catholic League Bishop championship – Oakland Press
5. BOYS SOCCER No. 9 DeWitt downed No. 4 St. Joseph 3-1 in overtime of a Division 2 Regional Semifinal – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
6. BOYS SOCCER No. 4 Imlay City advanced in Division 3 with a 2-1 win over No. 10 Frankenmuth – WJRT
7. BOYS SOCCER No. 3 Lansing Christian advanced with a 3-0 win over No. 8 Hillsdale Academy – Lansing State Journal
8. VOLLEYBALL Muskegon Mona Shores avenged a regular-season loss to Zeeland East to win the Ottawa-Kent Conference Green Tournament title – MuskegonSports.com
9. VOLLEYBALL Division 3 No. 3 McBain swept LeRoy Pine River to clinch a second-straight Highland Conference championship – Cadillac News
10. BOYS SOCCER No. 7 East Grand Rapids advanced in Division 2 with a 2-0 win over No. 14 Petoskey in a Regional Semifinal – Petoskey News-Review