An absolute gem of a high school baseball game, and a shame that one team had to come out on the losing end.

That’s sports, and that’s baseball.

Mickey Moody knew what he was doing when he angered Dundee pitcher Vanessa Ewing.

As the Vikings’ softball coach, Moody knows which buttons to push to motivate his senior. When he took her out of the MHSAA Division 3 Semifinal on Friday, he expected Ewing to respond with a vengeance in the championship game.

Grand Rapids South Christian girls soccer coach Jason Boersma likes to shift senior Kayla Diemer between playing defense and forward.

Boersma let out a hearty laugh Saturday afternoon when Diemer was asked which position she preferred. He anticipated the response.

As the scores were being posted at Saturday’s MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 1 Boys Golf Final, a familiar, painful and sinking feeling came over senior Matt Garland and his Battle Creek Lakeview teammates.

"We can’t lose by one stroke again – that’s what I was thinking,” said Garland, who was individual medalist one year ago as a junior when his team finished one stroke behind Birmingham Brother Rice.