Entries for 'Saline'

Swimming may be the sport most reliant on a training schedule, with athletes purposefully prepping for a specific championship day. This season’s plan dissolved in November for Lower Peninsula Girls Swimming & Diving Finals participants – but in its p...

Dave Sontag could tell something was wrong. The gymnasium at Petersburg-Summerfield High School is bigger than most in Monroe County. But when Sontag, a veteran official, was running up and down the floor, he felt unusually tired and began feeling pain in his back.

The MHSAA Girls & Boys Basketball Finals the last two weekends showed off many of the best teams and players who took the courts across Michigan this winter. The championships also provided an opportunity to celebrate a few more accomplishments with the Basketball ...

A trio of football games pitting schools with 2-0 records highlights this week’s schedule on MHSAA.tv.

Farmington Hills Mercy certainly perfected the notion during Saturday’s MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 1 Finals that you don’t have to win events to become a swimming & diving champion. The Marlins didn’t have an individual finish first in any eve...

A change in division by one state power could change things up significantly at two of this weekend’s Lower Peninsula Girls Swimming & Diving Finals. Regular favorites are expected to contend again in Division 1 after Rockford emerged to claim its first title...

Five of 12 teams occupying top-three spots in this week’s Michigan Interscholastic Golf Coaches Association state polls have never won an MHSAA championship. That fact alone sets this up to be a weekend of change. But there are other factors to consider heading i...

Five times, Scott Theisen had brought a team to an MHSAA championship game.  Five times, his Saline Hornets had come up empty.

Connor Ziparo kept things simple for Northville on Thursday. Chances are good that things will become more complicated for the Mustangs on Saturday, as they and Saline play each other both seeking a first MHSAA championship.

Great stories abound among this weekend’s 16 semifinalists vying for MHSAA baseball championships. Ten teams are seeking their first baseball titles. Six hope to play in a Final for the first time. Two entered the postseason with sub-.500 records. And a small-sch...

High expectations.  Attending a prestigious school such as Birmingham Brother Rice, where academics and athletics success stories are the norm and somewhat expected, Andrew Biskup understands the pressures that came with the tradition-rich territory.

Two teams – one familiar with the Finals, another a first-time finalist – checked into Saturday's MHSAA hockey championship game in Division 2 with victories in the Semifinals on Thursday at USA Arena in Plymouth.

Only one Lower Peninsula boys swimming & diving program has won at least four straight MHSAA Finals championships over the last two decades. Birmingham Brother Rice in Division 1 and Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood in Division 3 have the opportunity this weeke...

Seven of 12 teams playing in this weekend's Ice Hockey Semifinals find themselves a mere two victories from the first MHSAA championship in their programs' histories.  If pre-tournament rankings continue to play out, at least one of those hopefuls will celebrate S...

The MHSAA has selected 13 student-athletes from Class A member schools to receive scholarships through the MHSAA-Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award program. Click to find out more about all 13 scholarship recipients, who will be honored at halftime ceremonies ...

Saline's Dakota Hurbis is finishing a high school career that will rank among the most prolific in Michigan high school diving history, and over the last year he’s been on a particular tear.  Hurbis earned the Michigan Army National Guard “Performance ...

During the final climactic moments of Saturday’s drama-saturated MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 1 Girls Swimming and Diving Championship Meet, possibly the coolest customer in the jam-packed Oakland University natatorium was the one bearing the most pressure &ndas...

A total of 17 past MHSAA individual champions will lead the charge into this weekend's Lower Peninsula Girls Swimming & Diving Finals, which begin with preliminaries at noon today.  Among those reigning winners, 10 seniors are hoping to finish by climbing the ...

The Saline girls golf team, ranked No. 3 in the Lower Peninsula Division 1 state poll, does not have a senior among its top four players. It's easy to look ahead to next year with hope and anticipation. But the future is now for the talented Hornets.

Michigan athletes enjoyed another banner showing at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro that wrapped up Sunday.  We cheered for them all – but paid special attention to a handful who previously competed in MHSAA sports before achieving more at the internat...