Today In The MHSAA: 3/11/21

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

March 11, 2021

The regular seasons for Winter indoor sports quickly are drawing to a close, and that means nightly league championship celebrations with the latest in girls and boys basketball, girls bowling, hockey and wrestling.

1. Hockey: Division 2 No. 2 Hartland finished a Kensington Lakes Activities Association championship run with a win over No. 5 Novi – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

2. Girls Bowling: Brownstown Woodhaven downed reigning Downriver League champ Wyandotte Roosevelt 22-8 to clinch this season’s title – Southgate News-Herald

3. Boys Basketball: Linden downed Holly 56-21 to lock up a third-straight Flint Metro League Stripes championship – Flint Journal

4. Boys Basketball: Brethren downed Manistee Catholic Central 54-49 to clinch a share of a second-straight West Michigan D League championship – Manistee News Advocate

5. Girls Bowling: Whitehall completed a perfect run through the West Michigan Conference with a win at the league tournament – Local Sports Journal

6. Hockey: L’Anse Creuse Unified clinched the Macomb Area Conference Red title with a 7-0 win over Romeo – Macomb Daily

7. Boys Basketball: South Lyon East downed South Lyon 62-57 to clinch the Lakes Valley Conference championship – Oakland Press

8. Girls Basketball: South Lyon East also defeated South Lyon, 43-25, to clinch a share of the LVC girls championship – Observer & Eccentric

9. Wrestling: Midland swept Lapeer, Saginaw Heritage and Saginaw Arthur Hill to clinch the Saginaw Valley League championship – Midland Daily News

10. Wrestling: White Pigeon clinched the Southwest 10 Conference championship with wins over Bloomingdale and Cassopolis – Sturgis Journal

Also of note …

Boys Basketball: Mancelona and Gaylord St. Mary will share the Ski Valley Conference title – Traverse City Record-Eagle

Wrestling: Bloomfield Hills downed Birmingham Seaholm to close out the Oakland Activities Association White title – Oakland Press

Wrestling: Division 3 No. 10 Remus Chippewa Hills swept Central Montcalm, Newaygo and Howard City Tri County to complete an outright Central State Activities Association title run – Big Rapids Pioneer

Today in the MHSAA: 2/23/24

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

February 23, 2024

1. BOYS BASKETBALL Saginaw Heritage doubled up Flint Powers Catholic to clinch a share of the Saginaw Valley League title for the second time in program history – Saginaw News

2. BOYS BASKETBALL Baldwin clinched the West Michigan D League title with a 57-45 win over Pentwater – Big Rapids Pioneer

3. GIRLS BASKETBALL Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central defeated Jefferson 52-41 to clinch a share of the Huron League title, then ended up with the championship outright as Flat Rock edged co-leader Riverview 46-45 – Monroe News

4. BOYS BASKETBALL Harbor Light Christian downed Mackinaw City 71-32 to claim the Northern Lakes Conference title for the first time since 2011 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

5. BOYS BASKETBALL Dearborn Edsel Ford and Brownstown Woodhaven are co-champions of the Downriver League after Edsel’s 48-32 win – Southgate News-Herald

6. BOYS BASKETBALL Whitehall finished a perfect regular season and West Michigan Conference Lakes title run with a 75-57 victory over Muskegon Oakridge – Muskegon Chronicle

7. BOYS BASKETBALL Saginaw Nouvel clinched a repeat Tri-Valley Conference White title with an 81-40 victory over Michigan Lutheran Seminary – WJRT

8. GIRLS BASKETBALL Ann Arbor Father Gabriel Richard defeated Detroit Renaissance 54-39 to claim the Operation Friendship meeting of league champions – MLIVE-Detroit

9. BOYS BASKETBALL Bay City All Saints finished perfect in the North Central Thumb League Stripes, defeating Carsonville-Port Sanilac – Bay City Times

10. BOWLING Holton and Ravenna’s boys and girls teams advanced to Division 4 Finals, Ravenna finishing first and Holton second for girls and with the order reversed for the boys Regional – Local Sports Journal

Also of note …

BOYS BASKETBALL The Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan announced its Mr. Basketball Award finalists – Detroit Free Press

BOYS BASKETBALL Greg Lawson II became Davison’s all-time leading scorer as his team defeated Saginaw Arthur Hill 68-57 – Mid-Michigan Now

BOYS BASKETBALL Traverse City Central downed Alpena 71-49, but Alpena’s Tucker Bright reached 1,000 career points – Alpena News

HOCKEY No. 2 Marquette defeated Escanaba 7-1 in a Division 3 Regional, giving Marquette coach Doug Garrow his 200th win – Upper Michigan’s Source

GIRLS BASKETBALL Portage Central completed an outright championship run in the Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference with a 46-36 win over second-place Stevensville Lakeshore – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

BOYS BASKETBALL Portage Central also finished an outright SMAC run on the boys side with a 58-33 win over Lakeshore – Kalamazoo Gazette