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: 10/14/24
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 14, 2024
1. CROSS COUNTRY The Romeo girls – No. 1 in Lower Peninsula Division 1 – won their ninth-straight Macomb County championship, this time earning the top seven individual places, and Utica swept boys team and individual titles – Macomb Daily Girls | Boys
2. GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING Jenison’s Sophia Umstead, Holland Christian’s Camryn Siegers and Ann Arbor Skyline’s Adrienne Schadler were multi-event champions at the annual MISCA meet – MISCA
3. BOYS TENNIS Unranked East Grand Rapids was the champion at the LPD3 Regional at Holland, with No. 5 Grand Rapids South Christian second – Holland Sentinel
4. CROSS COUNTRY Okemos swept the Greater Lansing Invitational team championships; Okemos’ girls are No. 11 in LPD1 – Lansing State Journal
5. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD4 No. 2 Harbor Springs girls and LPD3 No. 7 Charlevoix boys won Northern Shores Conference championships – Traverse City Record-Eagle
6. CROSS COUNTRY The Trenton girls and Allen Park boys were Downriver Invitational champions – Southgate News-Herald
7. CROSS COUNTRY The LPD3 honorable mention Onsted girls and Adrian boys were Lenawee County champions – Adrian Daily Telegram
8. CROSS COUNTRY Muskegon Western Michigan Christian swept championships at the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association races; the WMC girls are No. 11 in LPD3, and the boys are No. 13 – Grand Haven Tribune
9. CROSS COUNTRY Bay City Western swept Bay County titles, the girls with their 12th-straight championship and the boys with their sixth consecutive – Bay City Times
10. BOYS TENNIS No. 4 Petoskey earned the LPD3 Regional title at Big Rapids, just ahead of the No. 6 Cardinals – Big Rapids Pioneer