Soccer
Boys soccer regional pairings for 2019 MHSAA postseason
Boys soccer regional tournaments DIVISION 1 Regional 1 (hosted by Rockford) Regional semifinal G1: Traverse City West 5, Portage Northern 2 G2: Okemos 7, Grand Haven 4 Regional final G3: Traverse City West 1, Okemos 0 (Traverse City West advances to Semifinal 2) Regional 2 (hosted by Dearborn) Regional semifinal G1: Ann Arbor Pioneer 4, ...
Football
Number of automatic qualifiers is up to 165 after Week 8 action: Who’s in, who’s out, who’s close
Week 8’s action saw 55 new teams punch their ticket with a sixth win (or fifth win, if they only had eight games scheduled), pushing the total of qualified playoff teams to 165 with one week to go in the regular season. To get to the 256 teams needed for the playoff field, the remaining ...
Football Soccer
Battle Creek Lakeview disqualified from boys soccer postseason for playing too many games
The MHSAA announced Wednesday afternoon that Battle Creek Lakeview’s boys soccer team had been disqualified from further competition in the Division 1 state tournament, having exceeded the number of regular-season games allowed by rule. By rule, no team may play more than 18 regular-season contests. Lakeview is credited with a 13-5-2 record, without counting forfeit ...
Football
Number of automatic qualifiers for playoffs doubles to 110 in Week 7, with nearly 90 more on the doorstep
After 58 squads clinched playoff berths in Week 6, that number roughly doubled in Week 7, expanding to 110 teams with berths locked up. Another 86 teams are on the precipice, sitting one win away from locking up a berth in Week 8. Here’s a look at who’s clinched a playoff berth, and who’s right ...
Soccer
Boys soccer district pairings for 2019 MHSAA postseason
DIVISION 1 District 1 (Geographic hosts) District First Round Wednesday, Oct. 9 G1: Saginaw Heritage 1, Midland 0 Thursday, Oct. 10 G2: Traverse City Central 10, Saginaw Arts & Sciences 0 District Semifinals Tuesday, Oct. 15 G4: Traverse City Central 2, Midland Dow 0 G5: Traverse City West 3, Saginaw Heritage 1 District Final Saturday, ...
Football
Fifty-eight teams qualify for automatic bid to MHSAA football postseason with wins in Week 6
Reservations have been made. Week 6 was the first in which a team could clinch a playoff berth, and 58 teams took advantage of that, punching their tickets to the postseason by earning the requisite six wins for an automatic spot in the playoffs. Three teams with less than a full slate of scheduled games ...
Football
PSL’s Douglass Academy pulls plug on season, due to lack of numbers
Due to declining enrollment and participation, Detroit Frederick Douglass Academy will not have a football team this season, after forfeiting to Detroit Community in Week 1. The school’s head football coach and athletic director, Shaheed Saleem, confirmed that news to STATE CHAMPS! in an email. Douglass’ scheduled Week 2 opponent, Zeeland East (1-0), will now ...
Football
Catholic League temporarily switches venue for football championships
ORCHARD LAKE — While the Catholic High School League’s annual fall football media day doesn’t usually rule anyone out definitively, this year’s event emphatically delineated who won’t be going to Ford Field for the CHSL championships. And that’s everybody. Given a scheduling conflict with the venue — which is hosting the third of three days’ ...
Eleven Michigan players earn all-North Region honors from National Fastpitch Coaches Association
Eleven Michigan players were honored by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association with all-region honors, announced Tuesday, five of them earning first-team All-North Region. Division 1 runner-up Howell led all Michigan teams with four honorees, three of them on the first team, while D1 semifinalist Clarkston had three second-teamers. Richland Gull Lake, Portage Central, Walled Lake ...
Golf
The MIGCA’s 2019 boys golf all-state teams, led by Mr. Golf, Grosse Pointe South’s Coalter Smith
2019 Michigan Interscholastic Golf Coaches Association All-State Boys Golf Teams 2019 MR. GOLF: Coalter Smith, Sr., Grosse Pointe South SUPER TEAM Jack Brockie, Jr., Hanover-Horton Charlie DeLong, Sr., DeWitt Erik Fahlen, Sr., NorthPointe Christian Austin Fauser, Sr., Clinton Mitch Lowney, Sr., Clarkston Everest Collegiate Coalter Smith, Sr., Grosse Pointe South Brad Smithson, Sr., Grand Rapids Forest ...
Track and Field
The Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association’s 2019 Dream Teams, with Mr. and Ms. Michigan Track and Field
The Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association’s Dream Teams for 2019 GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD DREAM TEAM 2019 LONG JUMP — Kennedy Jackson, Jr., Walled Lake Western — (18-feet-10.5) DISCUS — Belle Okoroafo, Soph., East Kentwood — (140-feet-10) SHOT PUT — Sarah Marvin, Soph., Byron — (44-feet-11.5) HIGH JUMP — Elizabeth Knoll, Jr., Muskegon Mona Shores — (5-feet-6) POLE VAULT — ...