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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
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Today in the MHSAA: 9/22/22
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
September 22, 2022
1. GIRLS GOLF Montague – No. 8 in Lower Peninsula Division 4 – won a third-straight Greater Muskegon Athletic Association Tournament title, shooting a 361 to outpace the field by 27 strokes – CatchMark SportsNet
2. GIRLS TENNIS Escanaba edged Marquette by two points to claim the Great Northern Conference Tournament championship – Upper Michigan Source
3. BOYS SOCCER Buckley moved into first place alone in the Northwest Conference with a 2-1 win over Division 4 No. 14 Leland – MI Sports Now
4. GIRLS GOLF Traverse City Central shot a 344 to win the Cadillac Invitational – Cadillac News
5. GIRLS GOLF East Jordan edged Cheboygan by four strokes to win the Charlevoix Invitational – Cheboygan Daily Tribune
6. BOYS SOCCER Midland Bullock Creek avenged its lone league loss this fall with a 5-1 win over Saginaw Valley Lutheran – Midland Daily News
7. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD4 No. 10 Beal City girls and Manton boys won the first Highland Conference jamborees – Cadillac News
8. BOYS SOCCER Midland Dow handed Saginaw Heritage its first league loss, 5-1 – Midland Daily News
9. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 13 Frankenmuth shut out Freeland 3-0 – Mid-Michigan Now
10. VOLLEYBALL Stevensville Lakeshore swept St. Joseph in a match where the first two sets were decided by three and two points, respectively – St. Joseph Herald-Palladium