Today in the MHSAA: 5/25/16

May 25, 2016

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Top Michigan teams in girls soccer and softball matched up Tuesday as most prepare for the start of District play next week – and check out also a great story of sportsmanship from the Muskegon area.

Baseball

Richmond downed Armada 4-0 to clinch a 17th straight Blue Water Area Conference championship – Port Huron Times-Herald

Boys Golf

Essexville Garber won its fourth Bay County championship in five seasons, led this time by Graham MacBride’s 78 – Bay City Times

Boys Lacrosse

Midland came back to edge Bloomfield Hills 15-11 in a Regional matchup of strong Division 1 hopefuls – Midland Daily News

Girls Soccer

Division 2 top-ranked DeWitt downed Division 3 No. 2 Williamston for the Capital Area Activities Conference Gold Cup championship – Lansing State Journal

Softball

Division 4 No. 2 Unionville-Sebewaing split with Division 2 top-ranked Saginaw Swan Valley 0-1 and 7-6, only days after beating Division 1 top-ranked Macomb Dakota in tournament play – Saginaw News

Petoskey’s Emme Williams tied her school's pitching record of 26 wins and broke the runs record with 53 in a sweep of Boyne City – Petoskey News

Track & Field

Lake Linden-Hubbell continued a dominant run by sweeping both girls and boys Copper Mountain Conference meet championships – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

Clare swept league titles in the Jack Pine Conference, the girls winning for the third straight season and the boys for the 13th consecutive spring – Mount Pleasant Morning News

Good Read

We love these stories of sportsmanship: North Muskegon soccer keeper Gus Keur made a big save during a collision in what was then a scoreless game, but after noticed the Muskegon Reeths-Puffer opponent who took the shot still on the ground – so Keur picked up her opponent and carried her toward the sideline. Reeths-Puffer scored not long after and won 1-0, but as Keur’s mother told her, more will remember her kind act than the goal she let by – Muskegon Chronicle

Today in the MHSAA: 9/11/24

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

September 11, 2024

1. BOYS SOCCER Division 1 No. 7 Troy Athens downed No. 4 Rochester Adams 2-0 in a matchup of top teams in the Oakland Activities Association Red and statewide – Oakland Press

2. VOLLEYBALL Keira Krans reached 2,000 career assists during Saginaw Heritage’s sweep of Midland Dow – WNEM

3. BOYS SOCCER Mason Mather scored five goals as Division 3 No. 4 Flint Powers Catholic held off Detroit Catholic Central 6-4 – WJRT

4. VOLLEYBALL Bronson swept Division 4 No. 9 Reading in a Big 8 Conference opener – Coldwater Daily Reporter

5. BOYS SOCCER Dearborn Divine Child also downed a highly-ranked opponent, Division 2 No. 3 Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood 4-1 – Dearborn Press & Guide

6. BOYS SOCCER Kalamazoo Loy Norrix won a matchup of now one-loss teams, downing Kalamazoo Central 5-0 – Kalamazoo Gazette

7. CROSS COUNTRY Benzie Central swept victories at the first Northwest Conference jamboree; the Benzie girls are ranked No. 7 in Lower Peninsula Division 3, and the boys are No. 10 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

8. VOLLEYBALL Zeeland East edged rival West by the slimmest of margins in the fourth set to clinch a 3-1 win – Holland Sentinel

9. CROSS COUNTRY The Bay City Western girls and LPD1 honorable mention Midland boys won at the first Saginaw Valley League jamboree – Midland Dow

10. VOLLEYBALL Division 4 No. 7 Mendon improved to 12-1-1 with a three-set win over Colon – Sturgis Journal