Today in the MHSAA: 8/28/15
August 28, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Thursday saw the start of varsity football season, and nearly half of Michigan’s teams kicked off their fall.
Football’s first week in review will be posted Monday afternoon; in the meantime, there is more good news to report from today’s statewide headlines.
Cross Country
The Croswell-Lexington girls and Yale boys won the Mike Jackson Invitational, with Port Huron’s Rachel Bonner – fourth at the Lower Peninsula Division 1 Final last season – taking the girls individual title by 59 seconds – Port Huron Times-Herald
Girls Golf
Spring Lake set a school record shooting 321 to win the Big Rapids Invitational, also placing the top two individuals – Grand Haven Tribune
Good Reads
Longtime cross country and track and field official Doug Steward was quoted as saying he was close to retiring – in 2009. But this fall, after 51 years, he indeed will start his final races – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
The Lac Vieux Desert Tribe presented Watersmeet schools with $174,000 earlier this year that in part went to a new gym floor complete with the school's nationally-recognized Nimrod logo – Ironwood Daily Globe
Today in the MHSAA: 10/29/24
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 29, 2024
1. VOLLEYBALL Division 4 No. 5 Crystal Falls Forest Park swept Bark River-Harris to finish a third-straight Skyline Central Conference title run – Upper Michigan Source
2. VOLLEYBALL Division 1 honorable mention Traverse City Central finished 3-0 at the annual ABCD quad that also included Kinglsey, Division 3 No. 6 Traverse City St. Francis and Leland – Traverse City Record-Eagle
3. CROSS COUNTRY Jackson Lumen Christi swept champonships at the Chris Jensen Invitational in Jackson; Lumen's girls are ranked No. 6 in Lower Peninsula Division 3, and the boys are ranked No. 2 – Jackson Citizen Patriot
4. VOLLEYBALL Division 2 honorable mention Birch Run and No. 10 Freeland were victorious in matches – WNEM