Today in the MHSAA: 9/16/2015
September 16, 2015
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
MHSAA Finals favorites in cross country and boys tennis got an early look at each other Tuesday, while a Corunna volleyball standout set a school record – literally.
Cross Country
Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart has become arguably the team to beat in Lower Peninsula Division 4 girls cross country, evidenced again by its win at the Beal City Invitational ahead of the reigning MHSAA champion Aggies – Mount Pleasant Morning Sun
Boys Soccer
Division 2 No. 14 Fruitport scored with six minutes to play to push past Division 3 No. 12 Ludington 4-3 – Muskegon Chronicle
Northville, ranked No. 4 in Division 1, improved to 8-0 with a 4-1 win over Livonia Stevenson – Detroit News
Boys Tennis
The top-ranked teams in LP Division 4 met Tuesday, with No. 1 Ann Arbor Greenhills prevailing in close matches to claim a 6-2 win over No. 2 Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett – Mlive-Detroit
We’ve heard of lots of traveling trophies in football, but this might be a first for tennis; Clio tied Swartz Creek 4-4, and with a 5-3 win as well this season, retained “The Rock” – Flint Journal
From Saturday, we’ve got a more detailed account of how the strong competition played out at the Grosse Pointe North Invitational – Grand Rapids Press
Girls Tennis
Iron Mountain, last season’s Upper Peninsula Division 2 runner-up, moved to 14-0 this season in a close match against reigning Division 1 runner-up Kingsford – Iron Mountain Daily News
Volleyball
Reigning Class A champion Romeo rode a strong finishing run by Miss Volleyball favorite Gia Milana to down always-powerful Marysville – Macomb Daily
Corunna’s Skylar Napier broke her school’s career assists record with 2,328 during a pair of wins over Lake Fenton and Montrose – Flint Journal
Midland Bullock Creek may be unranked, but at least locally has been nearly unstoppable, moving to 19-2-1 with a pair of wins Monday – Midland Daily News
Good Read
And a good cause – Okemos and Mason’s boys soccer teams introduced this season’s "Compete for a Cause" game, which will be played Sept. 26 under the lights at Okemos High School. The teams combined last season to raise $11,000 for childhood cancer research – Lansing State Journal
Today in the MHSAA: 5/5/23
By
Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor
May 5, 2023
1. GIRLS SOCCER Division 4 No. 13 Saugatuck clinched its first league title in this sport, defeating No. 12 Holland Black River 3-0 to win the Southwestern Athletic Conference Lakeshore – Holland Sentinel
2. SOFTBALL Division 1 honorable mention Brownstown Woodhaven avenged an earlier loss to No. 3 Allen Park with a 4-3 12-inning win – Southgate News-Herald
3. BASEBALL Unranked Portage Northern swept Division 1 No. 16 Mattawan 4-2, 3-2 – Kalamazoo Gazette
4. GIRLS SOCCER Oxford claimed the Oakland Activities Association White title outright with a 1-1 draw by Lake Orion and Berkley – Oakland Press
5. TRACK & FIELD The Cheboygan girls and Pickford boys won St. Ignace Kiwanis Invitational titles, with Cheboygan’s Keegan Mosher setting his school’s boys 100 record – Cheboygan Daily Tribune
6. BASEBALL Whitmore Lake and Brighton Charyl Stockwell split, with their aces both throwing no-hitters through seven innings in the opener – Livingston Daily Press & Argus
7. BASEBALL Traverse City Christian threw a pair of no-hitters in sweeping Suttons Bay – Traverse City Record-Eagle
8. GIRLS SOCCER Division 3 No. 3 Elk Rapids edged Traverse City St. Francis 2-1 – Up North Live
9. BOYS GOLF Quincy won a second-straight Big 8 Conference jamboree – Coldwater Daily Reporter
10. BASEBALL Rochester earned a 4-3 walk-off win to start a three-game series with Clarkston – Oakland Press