Entries for 'Mason'

The Flint Powers Catholic boys golf team gained plenty of experience playing after extensive weather delays this season. That experience paid major dividends during the second round of the Lower Peninsula Division 2 Finals on Saturday.

Austin Boone doesn't know too much about losing during the winter sports season. Wrestling for Lowell, it's easy to understand why.

Of the thousands of girls who have run in the MHSAA Cross Country Finals at Michigan International Speedway, only one had ever broken the 17-minute barrier. Winning the 2009 Lower Peninsula Division 1 meet in 16:54.8 just a month before winning the national Foot Locker ...

The MHSAA video crew visited three opening-night football games Thursday to capture the atmosphere of another start to high school football season.  Check out this compilation by Jeremy Sampson, an award-winning sportscaster who joined the MHSAA staff this fall.

Orchard Lake St. Mary’s coach Sean Clouse said his team felt the pressure of defending the school’s track and field championship all season. Noah Jacobs of Corunna said the goal of breaking the nine-minute mark in the 3,200-meter run has been with him since ...

East Lansing’s Cole Smith took 36 shots in a boys lacrosse game April 18 against Swartz Creek – and made them count, setting a record with 18 goals in a 27-8 win.  Click below for more on his record-setting performance and other recent record book addi...

Check out how Jackson area officials are restocking their ranks, plus a story of kindness between league schools, the history behind a basketball celebration and a couple of follow-ups on past Second Half features. 

Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central, Mason, Grand Rapids South Christian and Burton Genesee Christian won MHSAA boys soccer championships Saturday. Click below for MHSAA.tv highlights from all four games, plus links to watch them in full.

The soccer season ended Saturday similarly to how it started for Mason. The big difference was that the Bulldogs were hoisting the Division 2 championship trophy at the end.

At this point in the season, it’s a rarity that any team has not tasted defeat. But Saturday’s Boys Soccer Finals feature two teams undefeated this fall – including one seeking its first MHSAA championship.

Nearly 2,000 fans filled the Okemos High School soccer stands Saturday, Sept. 26, to watch two of Michigan’s top high school teams face off in one of mid-Michigan’s most heated rivalry games – and also to help those rivals support research and treatmen...

Reigning champions will abound at this weekend’s Lower Peninsula Girls Tennis Finals. But a few have opportunities to cement themselves in the MHSAA record book as well.  

The Mason volleyball team defeated Portage Central 3-2 in a Class A Regional Semifinal on Tuesday. Click below for highlights and a link to watch the match in full. 

Three weeks remain in the MHSAA’s 2014 fall season, and we’ve collected a few notes to pass along as we wind down the final three sports before moving inside (except for skiing) for the winter.

Okemos' Josh Duren was 11 when his sister Paige was diagnosed with cancer. Still, he understood most of what was happening and what it could mean. “There wasn’t a lot I could do,” said Josh, now a high school junior. “I tried to talk to her more...

Hundreds of runners including those on the Dearborn Divine Child’s girls cross country team competed at Saturday’s MHSAA Lower Peninsula Finals at Michigan International Speedway. But one of the team’s most special moments this fall came a few days be...

A Parma Western shot streaked by Josh Flamme’s reach Tuesday night, seemingly on its way to becoming one of few to make it past him and into the net this season. But – as if shoved off course – the ball caromed off a post, keeping another shutout intac...

This spring’s high school sports season long will be remembered for having some of the worst weather in years. While the wet and cold weather hampered many teams across the state, the Chelsea boys track team used it to its advantage. And the payoff was an MHSA...

Quality depth is a big key to success in high school track and field. And over the past four years, no Lower Peninsula Division 2 girls track team has boasted the depth of Dearborn Divine Child.

Only three wrestling teams have won at least four straight championships since the first MHSAA Team Finals in 1988. This weekend, St. Johns will seek to become the fourth to pin down that accomplishment.  But this might be the Redwings toughest road to finishing t...