Today in the MHSAA: 4/17/19

April 17, 2019

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Big-time matchups in soccer, baseball and softball highlighted a busy day of spring sports action across the state Tuesday.

2. Girls Soccer: No. 6 Hartland scored a major win over No. 10 Brighton, 3-1, in a matchup of top teams in Division 1 – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

2. Baseball: Two-time reigning Division 2 champion Stevensville Lakeshore claimed a pair of one-run wins over Division 1 No. 9 Portage Northern – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium

3. Softball: South Lyon East handed Division 1 honorable mention Walled Lake Northern its first loss, but Northern came back to take the second game of the doubleheader – State Champs Sports Network

4. Softball: Traverse City West and Kalkaska each handed the other its first loss in a doubleheader split – Traverse City Record-Eagle

5. Baseball: Hudsonville won the first game and was leading the second against Division 1 No. 16 Rockford in a key Ottawa-Kent Conference Red matchup – FOX 17

6. Boys Lacrosse: Traverse City United came back from a halftime deficit to edge Petoskey 8-7 – MI Sports Now

7. Track & Field: Alpena’s boys defeated Traverse City Central 92-71, highlighted by Gabe Bullis breaking his school pole vault record by seven inches at 15-7 – Alpena News

8. Baseball: Division 2 No. 10 Detroit Country Day emerged from a matchup of sharp pitchers to down Birmingham Groves 3-1 – Observer & Eccentric

9. Softball: Division 2 honorable mention Chelsea improved to 7-0 in handing Dexter its first losses of the season – Chelsea Sun Times News

10. Baseball: Kingsley earned what could become a key Northwest Conference sweep over Frankfort – WPBN

Also of note …

Boys Basketball: Southfield Christian coach Josh Baker has stepped down to take a job at University of Alabama under Nate Oats, who formerly coached at Romulus before turning Buffalo into a mid-major power – MLive-Detroit

Wrestling: Hudson’s Jordan Hamdan was named Mr. Wrestler by the Michigan Wrestling Association – Adrian Daily Telegram

Today in the MHSAA: 10/6/23

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

October 6, 2023

1. BOYS TENNIS Midland Dow – No. 1 in Lower Peninsula Division 2 – won the Saginaw Valley League Tournament for the 18th straight season, claiming all eight flight titles as well – Midland Daily News

2. BOYS SOCCER DeWitt downed Holt 1-0 to claim its first Capital Area Activities Conference Gold Cup since 2011 – Lansing State Journal

3. BOYS SOCCER Division 4 No. 11 Harbor Springs set a school record for shutouts at 13 in a 4-0 victory over Boyne City – Petoskey News-Review

4. VOLLEYBALL Division 1 No. 2 Hudsonville is in first place alone in the Ottawa-Kent Conference Red after a 3-1 win over No. 9 Jenison – FOX 17

5. VOLLEYBALL Division 3 No. 3 Clarkston swept honorable mention Lake Orion in a key Oakland Activities Association Red matchup – Oakland Press

6. BOYS SOCCER Mitch Harrington set Grayling’s single-season scoring record during a 2-2 draw with Kalkaska – Traverse City Record-Eagle

7. BOYS SOCCER Ezekiel Bargas scored all three goals as Lake Orion downed Rochester – Oakland Press

8. VOLLEYBALL Bay City Central came back from two sets down to defeat Saginaw Heritage – Bay City Times

9. VOLLEYBALL Hanover-Horton also came back, from a set down to defeat Brooklyn Columbia Central in four – Jackson Citizen Patriot

10. VOLLEYBALL Mount Pleasant got past Flint Powers Catholic in a sweep – WJRT