Entries for 'Saline'

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...

The 2015-16 high school sports year concluded early Saturday evening at Old College Field on the Michigan State University campus, as the last champions of MHSAA Tournaments were crowned in Baseball, Softball and Girls Soccer.

A bunch of young Warren DeLaSalle Pilots earned their wings Saturday. And from the looks of it, DeLaSalle baseball could be flying high for a while.

The first day of the MHSAA Baseball & Softball Semifinals at Michigan State University’s Old College Field began under rainy conditions Thursday, but finished under a flourish of sunshine as four teams punched their tickets into Saturday’s Finals.

Wildly effective, and his record is deceptive. Both phrases accurately described Warren DeLaSalle sophomore Nino Puckett as he pitched – and won – the biggest game of his life Thursday.

Reigning MHSAA champions Hartland and Jackson Lumen Christi will return to Michigan State University's McLane Stadium this weekend hoping to enjoy another celebration on the final weekend of the 2015-16 school year.  But nine of 16 contenders at this season's Semi...

Players and coaches on the Saline baseball team know how it feels to enter the MHSAA Tournament as the top-ranked team in the state. They did it last year and just might do it again this year. They also know how it feels to be the top-ranked team and end up four victor...

On paper, it appeared the Birmingham Brother Rice boys swimming and diving team had an easy road to winning the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 1 Swimming and Diving Finals at the Holland Aquatic Center. But winning the title, Brother’s Rice’s third consecut...