Today in the MHSAA: 10/24/24

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

October 24, 2024

1. BOYS SOCCER No. 2 Flint Powers Catholic edged No. 3 Imlay City in a Division 3 Regional Semifinal – Port Huron Times Herald

2. BOYS SOCCER No. 5 Mason advanced in its Division 2 Regional with a shootout win over Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – Oakland Press

3. BOYS SOCCER Top-ranked Pontiac Notre Dame Prep downed Frankenmuth 4-1 in Division 3 – WJRT

4. BOYS SOCCER No. 4 Allendale downed Coldwater 3-0 in a Division 2 Regional Semifinal – WTVB

5. VOLLEYBALL Division 1 honorable mention Traverse City Central finished a season sweep of rival West – Traverse City Record-Eagle

6. VOLLEYBALL Alpena came back from losing the first set to defeat Gaylord in four on Senior Night – Alpena News

7. VOLLEYBALL Hancock earned a road sweep at Lake Linden-Hubbell – Houghton Daily Mining Gazette

8. VOLLEYBALL Midland Bullock Creek and Beaverton earned Jack Pine Conference sweeps – Midland Daily News

#SocialStudies V 2.1

September 13, 2012

By Andi Osters
Second Half social media guru

Welcome back, video mongers! A new school year has begun, and with it #SocialStudies 2.0.

Ready for your weekly dose of clips to peep? I hope so. 

A quick refresher on #SocialStudies – I give you a selection of video clips I spotted in my never-ending quest to find the end of the Internet (which I’m convinced involves a cat video of some sort). These videos will typically highlight the amazing, dazzling, funny or weird side of sports – some high school, some college, some pro… and some which defy categorization.

And sometimes, we’ll simply show you a clip that is interesting and/or unique enough to be worth sharing.

We welcome your submissions and ideas for this weekly feature, so feel free to email us a link or raw footage. Seriously: we love videos. That said, let’s get to the meat & potatoes.

1. Give him a hand (he needs only one)

Here’s a high school football player from South Carolina who apparently was born with mattress springs attached to his legs instead of feet.  The slo-mo replay of this interception (courtesy of PlayOn! Sports) is simply jaw-dropping.


2. Oh, Buddy ...

If Blake Griffin was at a gymnasium and I also happened to be in that very same gymnasium, I would absolutely tell my dignity to have a seat and allow that monster NBA dunk-master slam one over my head.  I’d probably react to the experience just like this guy did, too.


3. Swing, swing a song

And now, for something completely un-sporty. Well, almost. There’s definitely activity happening in this brief short about an art installation in Montreal. I’m always fascinated by the intersection of musical creation and physical motion. Enjoy this giant human-powered instrument.


4. Summer School

And file this last one under In-Case-You-Missed-It-Over-The-Summer – here’s a recap of our Student Advisory Council’s 2nd Annual camp retreat to Mystic Lake in June.  The 16-member council enjoyed time on the high ropes course, team building activities, bonfires and strategizing an action plan for the 2012-13 school year. 


That's enough for this school year's first lesson. See something over the weekend that caught your eye? Snag something at a pep assembly that we should see? Upload it to YouTube and send it on over.

You might just see it on Second Half’s #SocialStudies.

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