Today in the MHSAA: 5/23/16

May 23, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

It’s been an exciting few days especially for our track & field and girls tennis teams, which competed in Regionals over the weekend – with some of the many highlights among those linked below.

Baseball

Battle Creek Lakeview’s Ethan Eldridge threw a shutout to lead his team over Harper Creek for their all-city championship, 3-0 – Battle Creek Enquirer

Division 1 No. 4 Rockford swept Division 3 No. 1 Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett 4-1 and 4-2 – Detroit Free Press

Girls Soccer

Pontiac Notre Dame Prep won its first Detroit Catholic League A-B championship in this sport, downing Warren Regina in an overtime shootout – Oakland Press

Softball

Sierra Stoepker drilled a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 14th inning to lead Lake Odessa Lakewood to a 10-9 win over DeWitt in the championship game of the Lansing Softball Classic – Lansing State Journal

Napoleon (32-1) outscored its opponents 32-5 to win a second straight Al Glick Tournament championship, beating Parma Western 3-0 in the final – Jackson Citizen-Patriot

Petoskey won the Lansing Waverly Invitational, opening with a 5-4 win over two-loss Grand Ledge – Petoskey News

Division 3 No. 4 Clinton beat Division 2 No. 7 Muskegon Oakridge and later Division 3 No. 9 Reese for the Best of Michigan Tournament title at Byron Center – Adrian Dailey Telegram

Girls Tennis

Bay City All Saints won its first Regional and qualified for the MHSAA Finals for the first time since 1992 – Bay City Times

Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern edged East Grand Rapids by three points to win its 15th straight Regional, in Division 2 – Grand Rapids Press

Edwardsburg claimed its first Regional title as well, dominating the field to finish six points ahead of the rest in Division 3 – Kalamazoo Gazette

Ludington shared its Division 3 Regional title with Whitehall, and in the process No. 1 doubles pair Julia Flewelling and Claire Maltbie won their 100th match to break the school’s doubles record – Muskegon Chronicle

Division 4 No. 3 Kalamazoo Hackett swept singles to finish ahead of No. 5 Kalamazoo Christian in their Regional – Kalamazoo Gazette

Track & Field

Lake Linden-Hubbell swept boys and girls Regionals for the first time since 1998 – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

The Reese girls edged Frankenmuth 122-121 to win their first Regional title in 22 years – Saginaw News

The Addison boys won their first Regional since 1995, beating Petersburg Summerfield by 12 points, 124-112 – Jackson Citizen-Patriot

The Blanchard Montabella girls won their first Regional title, with the Division 4 victory also the school's first at that level of tournament competition in any sport since 2003 – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun

Good Read

The Grandville Calvin Christian baseball team will take part this week in fundraising for the medical care of Kyle Petrlich, who is awaiting a second heart transplant and in December required CPR from her brother Griffin, a player on the Calvin Christian baseball team – Grand Rapids Press

Today in the MHSAA: 5/2/23

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

May 2, 2023

2. SOFTBALL Gracie Maloney got all 21 outs by strikeout in Division 1 top-ranked Macomb Dakota’s 9-1 two-hitter win over honorable mention Grosse Pointe North – Macomb Daily

2. BASEBALL Birmingham Seaholm’s Nick Shenefelt threw his second-straight no-hitter in the Division 1 No. 17 Maples’ 4-0 win over Bloomfield Hills – Oakland Press

3. BOYS GOLF Howell carded a 309 to win the 16-team Jim Sander Memorial – Livingston Daily Press & Argus

4. GIRLS SOCCER Division 2 No. 9 Linden moved to 9-0 with a 7-0 win over Fenton – WJRT

5. GIRLS SOCCER Montague defeated Whitehall for the first time in at least a decade – CatchMark SportsNet

6. GIRLS SOCCER Fremont scored the game’s lone goal during the second half to get past Ludington – MI Sports Now

7. GIRLS SOCCER Manistee improved to 7-1-1 with a 1-0 win over Hart – Manistee News Advocate

8. BASEBALL Division 4 No. 15 Ubly swept Brown City with two five-inning, one-hit shutouts – Huron Daily Tribune

9. GIRLS SOCCER Clinton remained perfect in Lenawee County Athletic Association play with an 8-1 win over Onsted – Adrian Daily Telegram

10. GIRLS TENNIS Petoskey went indoors to defeat Alpena 7-1 – Petoskey News-Review