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: 9/12/22

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

September 12, 2022

1. CROSS COUNTRY The Holland West Ottawa girls – top-ranked in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – followed record-setter Helen Sachs to a Bredeweg Invitational title; the LPD1 No. 2 Grand Haven boys won their race – Holland Sentinel | Athletic.net

2. BOYS TENNIS LPD1 No. 3 Troy won a loaded Novi Invitational, followed by the No. 4 Wildcats, No. 7 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice and No. 10 (tie) Ann Arbor Huron – Oakland Press

3. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD1 No. 7 Saline, LPD2 No. 4 Goodrich and LPD3 No. 8 Leslie girls and LPD1 top-ranked Northville and LPD3 No. 9 Hanover-Horton boys were among winners at the Bath Invitational – Athletic.net

4. VOLLEYBALL Houghton avenged last season’s championship match loss in defeating Kingsford to win Gladstone’s Rock Invitational – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

5. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD1 No. 8 Traverse City West girls and Canton boys won at the Northwood Invitational – Midland Daily News | Athletic.net

6. VOLLEYBALL Traverse City Central won every set including sweeping Kingsley in the final to win its home invitational – Traverse City Record-Eagle

7. GIRLS GOLF Sturgis shot a 412 to win its inaugural Team Choice Invitational – JoeInsider.com

8. CROSS COUNTRY The Hartland girls and LPD2 No. 3 Adrian boys won Rambling Rock Invitational titles – Livingston Daily Press & Argus | Atheltic.net

9. VOLLEYBALL Manton swept all seven of its matches to win its home invitational – Cadillac News

10. CROSS COUNTRY The Plymouth girls and Monroe boys were victorious at the Woodhaven Warrior Classic – Southgate News-Herald | Athletic.net