Today in the MHSAA: 3/3/20
March 3, 2020
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
The Girls Basketball District Tournament tipped off Monday and the biggest wave came out of the Upper Peninsula, where Gladstone set the tone as top-two seeds won 90 percent of their games but the other 10 percent earned most of the biggest headlines.
1. Girls Basketball: Gladstone earned the biggest upset of District opening night, draining a last-second 3-pointer to get past previously-undefeated Menominee 46-45 in Division 2 – Escanaba Daily Press
2. Girls Basketball: Flint Carman-Ainsworth won a Division 1 matchup of league champions, downing Flushing 48-38 – WJRT
3. Girls Basketball: Cadillac won a matchup of league champions in Division 2, downing Ludington 43-39 – Cadillac News
4. Girls Basketball: East Kentwood ended Byron Center’s 19-game winning streak with a 50-43 win in Division 1; both teams were league champions this winter – WZZM
5. Girls Basketball: Eaton Rapids upset a league champion in Chelsea 58-49 in overtime in a Division 2 opener – Chelsea Sun Times News
6. Girls Basketball: Mayville got past a league champion in Kinde-North Huron 43-41 in Division 4 – Huron Daily Tribune
7. Girls Basketball: Bridgeport also upset a league champion, downing Caro 56-35 in Division 2 – Saginaw News
8. Girls Basketball: Jackson Lumen Christi ended the season for another league champion in Springport, 42-39 in Division 3 – Jackson Citizen Patriot
9. Girls Basketball: Cass City opened Division 3 play with an upset, downing Harbor Beach 46-34 – Huron Daily Tribune
10. Girls Basketball: Megan Matson led a Division 4 upset with 33 points in Munising’s 51-47 win over Rock Mid Peninsula – Escanaba Daily Press
Also of note …
Girls Basketball: Kent City may have set an MHSAA record with 40 points in the first quarter of a big Division 3 win over Ravenna – Muskegon Chronicle
Boys Basketball: From Friday, Kinde-North Huron earned a share of the North Central Thumb League Stripes title with a big win over Akron-Fairgrove – Huron Daily Tribune
Boys Swimming & Diving: From Saturday, Battle Creek Lakeview – tied for No. 10 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – locked up the Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference championship – WWMT
Boys Swimming & Diving: From Saturday, LPD1 Ann Arbor Pioneer finished nearly 200 points ahead of a field that included three more top-10 teams to win the Southeastern Conference Red championship meet – We Love Ann Arbor
Today in the MHSAA: 2/15/23
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
February 15, 2023
1. GIRLS BASKETBALL Dansville clinched a share of the Central Michigan Athletic Conference championship with a 43-38 overtime win over Fowler – Lansing State Journal
2. SKIING The Cadillac girls and East Grand Rapids boys claimed Division 2 Regional titles – Cadillac News
3. BOWLING Bay City John Glenn swept the Bay County Championships for the third-straight season – Bay City Times
4. BOYS BASKETBALL Muskegon earned a share of the Ottawa-Kent Conference Green championship with a 68-41 win over Grand Rapids Union – Local Sports Journal
5. GIRLS BASKETBALL Blissfield clinched a share of the Lenawee County Athletic Association title with a 62-30 win over Dundee – Adrian Daily Telegram
6. GIRLS BASKETBALL Harbor Springs defeated Elk Rapids 53-40 as Olivia Flynn went over 1,000 career points as only a sophomore – Traverse City Record-Eagle
7. BOYS BASKETBALL Kalamazoo Central edged Benton Harbor 74-69 – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
8. BOYS BASKETBALL East Kentwood and Hudsonville remain tied for first in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Red after wins – FOX 17
9. BOYS BASKETBALL Iron Mountain swept a season series with Kingsford, this time 62-58 in overtime – Iron Mountain Daily News
10. SKIING Brighton swept Division 1 Regional championships, as did Pontiac Notre Dame Prep in Division 2 – MHSAA.com
Also of note …
GIRLS BASKETBALL Gabby Reynolds went over 1,000 career points as Holland West Ottawa defeated Caledonia 64-57 – Holland Sentinel
GIRLS BASKETBALL Siena McNitt went over 1,000 career points as Garden City downed Southgate Anderson 47-21 – Observer & Eccentric
BOYS/GIRLS BASKETBALL Burton Madison Academy/Flint New Standard’s Terrence Smith went over 1,000 career points in his team’s big win over International Academy of Flint, and Burton Bentley’s Naavia Jones went over 1,000 points in her team’s loss to Flint Hamady – Flint Journal
BOYS BASKETBALL MJ Yeager went over 1,000 career points for Saginaw Nouvel during a 71-65 loss to Standish-Sterling – Saginaw News