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: 10/2/24
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
October 2, 2024
1. BOYS SOCCER Milford finished its first championship run in this sport in nearly four decades with a 2-1 win over South Lyon in the Lakes Valley Conference – Hometown Life
2. BOYS SOCCER Marshall clinched the Interstate 8 Athletic Conference title with a 1-0 win over runner-up Coldwater – Battle Creek Enquirer
3. GIRLS GOLF Gibraltar Carlson won the final Downriver League event, but Brownstown Woodhaven finished as the overall league champion – Southgate News-Herald
4. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 6 Macomb Lutheran North finished runner-up in the Catholic High School League Bishop Tournament with a 3-0 loss to Toledo St. Francis de Sales – Macomb Daily
5. BOYS SOCCER Division 3 No. 12 Elk Rapids downed No. 13 Traverse City St. Francis 2-0 – Traverse City Record-Eagle
6. VOLLEYBALL Troy Athens moved into first alone in the Oakland Activities Association White with a four-set win over Oxford – Oakland Press
7. BOYS SOCCER Division 2 No. 7 Mason downed East Lansing 3-1 in a Capital Area Activities Conference Gold Cup semifinal – Lansing State Journal
8. BOYS SOCCER DeWitt came back to defeat Okemos in a shootout also in CAAC Gold Cup play – Lansing State Journal
9. VOLLEYBALL Division 3 No. 4 Cass City swept Millington – WNEM
10. VOLLEYBALL Division 4 No. 10 Ubly swept Harbor Beach in its Volley for a Cure match – Huron Daily Tribune