Today in the MHSAA: 4/16/19
April 16, 2019
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Winter’s overnight brief return didn’t keep teams from kicking off the third week of April on the diamonds and soccer and lacrosse fields Monday.
1. Softball: Ann Arbor Skyline swept Ann Arbor Huron, with Mayah Alam throwing a five-inning no-hitter in the second game – We Love Ann Arbor
2. Baseball: Livonia Stevenson downed rival Livonia Churchill 6-2 to move into a first-place tie with Churchill in the Kensington Lakes Activities Association Black – Observer & Eccentric
3. Girls Soccer: Division 1 No. 13 Portage Central downed Mattawan 5-1 with Jaclynn Sibley scoring a hat trick – JoeInsider.com
4. Baseball: Boyne City swept Kingsley with a pair of one-hitters – Traverse City Record-Eagle
5. Softball: Centreville swept White Pigeon, earning coach Scott Logan his 100th career win – Sturgis Journal
6. Girls Soccer: The North Bay co-op team improved to 5-1 with a 4-2 win over Leland – MI Sports Now
7. Boys Lacrosse: Midland’s co-op team moved to 6-0 with a 17-7 win over Saginaw Heritage – Midland Daily News
8. Baseball: Grosse Pointe South got past Clinton Township Chippewa Valley 3-1 on Nick Raicevich’s one-hitter – Detroit News
9. Softball: Saline rallied in the eighth inning to win the first game of a sweep of Ann Arbor Pioneer – We Love Ann Arbor
10. Baseball: Ann Arbor Huron carried a 10-0 lead into the sixth inning but had to hold on for a 10-9 win over Skyline – We Love Ann Arbor
Also of note …
Bowling: The Division 1 and 2 Finals were covered by Bowling Showcase and appeared on the March 23 show on WADL in Detroit.
In Memoriam: Chip Mundy (1955-2023)
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
August 16, 2023
When the MHSAA took a significant step in telling the stories of school sports with the introduction of the Second Half website in 2012, Chip Mundy was a natural to lend his expertise after a career doing the same in the Jackson area.
He always took special care in searching out the human interest side of our “stories behind the scores” – and today we remember that dedication as we mourn his death Monday. He was 68.
Mundy was a graduate of Jackson Parkside and then served as sports editor at the Brooklyn Exponent and Albion Recorder from 1980-86. He then became a fixture in high school sports coverage as a reporter and later copy editor at the Jackson Citizen Patriot from 1986-2011.
Mundy was one of the original correspondents when Second Half took on a regional component beginning with the 2015-16 school year, thoughtfully providing biweekly features from the “Southeast & Border” area that includes Jackson, Ann Arbor, Monroe and the host of smaller communities north of the Michigan/Ohio line. Before the beginning of 2H’s “Region Reports,” Mundy also was among the first to begin producing coverage of MHSAA Finals for the site as Second Half started in part with a mission of covering all MHSAA championship events.
He admittedly ended up reporting on some sports he’d rarely or never covered before, and admittedly often wrote a little longer than he’d intended – but in his own words, because “there were so many stories” or “the story was so good.”
Click to read many of his features for the Second Half website.