Today in the MHSAA: 8/24/15
August 24, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
All MHSAA fall sports but football kicked off competition last week, with cross country, boys soccer, girls swimming and diving and volleyball starting Saturday.
Below are some notable headlines from the first weekend of this season, plus links to coverage.
Cross Country
St. Johns hosted its second “Under the Lights” meets Friday; Ithaca’s girls and Saugatuck’s boys bested fields loaded with much larger opponents – Lansing State Journal
The St. Joseph girls and Bridgman boys won championships at the Niles Stampede – the St. Joseph girls, who finished fourth in Lower Peninsula Division 2 last season, by a large margin – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium
Girls Golf
Maple City Glen Lake’s Nichole Cox, last season’s LP Division 4 individual champion, came back to defeat Brighton freshman Annie Pietila at the two-day Lober Invitational at Grand Traverse Resort – Traverse City Record-Eagle
Boys Soccer
Two of the state’s powers met in the championship game of the Detroit Country Day Tournament on Saturday – with 2013 Division 1 runner-up Bloomfield Hills downing the host Yellowjackets 1-0 in a shootout – Oakland Press
Girls Swimming & Diving
Howell won its Kenzie Klassic, which honors swimmer Mackenize Watts, who died in 2005 at age 15. The school also raised enough money to award three scholarships and begin funding cardiac-related causes – Livingston Daily
Volleyball
Novi won the Lakeshore Classic by coming back after losing the first two games to beat Grand Haven 3-2 in a rematch of a 2014 Class A Semifinal – Muskegon Chronicle
Battle Creek Harper Creek, for the first time, won the gold championship at the long-running Carrie Adams Memorial Tournament hosted by reigning Class D champion Battle Creek St. Philip – Battle Creek Enquirer
Good Read
Mike Steele, a Midland Dow grad and now pitching coach at Long Beach State in California, argues that parents need to raise their athletes to compete instead of providing specific training in one sport – Midland Daily News
Today in the MHSAA: 12/8/22
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
December 8, 2022
1. WRESTLING Division 1 top-ranked Detroit Catholic Central opened with a 47-15 win over No. 3 Hartland – Michigan Grappler
2. GIRLS BASKETBALL Ava Stack scored a school-record 37 points in Utica Eisenhower’s 60-24 win over Sterling Heights Stevenson – Macomb Daily
3. BOYS BOWLING Holton swept Ludington with Tuff Scott rolling a school-record 248 for the boys – Local Sports Journal
4. BOYS BASKETBALL Ambrose Horwath went over 1,000 career points to lead Hudson past Camden-Frontier 64-24 – Adrian Daily Telegram
5. WRESTLING Howard City Tri County edged Belding 39-37 during their match as part of a school assembly – Greenville Daily News
6. BOYS BASKETBALL Landon Klinesmith’s buzzer beater carried Vassar past Harbor Beach 59-57 – Saginaw News
7. GIRLS BASKETBALL Mackinaw City handed Cedarville/DeTour its first defeat, 57-46 – Petoskey News-Review
8. HOCKEY Traverse City Central scored the game’s lone goal in the second period of its win over Traverse City West – Up North Live
9. BOYS BASKETBALL Detroit Loyola scored 14 straight fourth-quarter points to get past Grosse Pointe South 59-56 – Detroit News
10. WRESTLING Reed City opened with wins over Clare and Mount Pleasant – Big Rapids Pioneer