Entries for '2014-15 Finals'

On Wednesday, Carney-Nadeau’s Hunter Eichhorn took the afternoon off school to play a practice round at Irish Oaks in Gladstone, where the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 3 Finals would be played the next day. Last year, when Eichhorn won medalist for the second ...

Grand Rapids South Christian rarely plays a girls basketball game it’s not expected to win. So labeling the Sailors "underdogs" probably was an exaggerated assessment heading into Friday’s Class B Semifinal again reigning champion Detroit Country Day.

Located in talent-rich and depth-laden Oakland County, Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood often has to depart the county’s borders to claim championships in boys swimming and diving. Found lurking in the shadows of Division 1 and Division 2 state powerhouses ...

The close of June officially ends of another school year. And this season’s MHSAA Finals provided another strong finish with a number of memorable moments sure to be recalled for years to come. Below is one person’s list of the 10 most significant, drawn fr...

A total of 90 schools won one or more of the 127 Finals team championships awarded by the Michigan High School Athletic Association during the 2014-15 school year. Five programs won the first MHSAA team titles in any sport for their respective schools.

When Nicholas Holt needed it, he dug deep.  Holt allowed 17 hits, but got the biggest outs when he needed them Saturday as Muskegon Catholic Central topped Centreville in a 10-8 thriller in the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 4 championship gam...

Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central softball fans had to wait 41 years for a glimpse of the MHSAA championship trophy, so what was a few more minutes?  The trophy was in the possession of sophomore pitcher Meghan Beaubien, who was being interviewed while the rest of...

Before John Fleming took the mound, he was already a touchdown ahead. When he left it a couple hours later, he and his Jackson Lumen Christi teammates were Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 3 baseball champions.

Saline helped redefine the term “team soccer” this season.  The Hornets put together one of the most impressive seasons in Class A/Division 1 history, cultivated by a 4-0 blanking of Grand Blanc in the Division 1 Final on Saturday at Michigan State Un...

The softball coaches at Unionville-Sebewaing don't need to waste much time talking about tradition to their incoming players. Nearly every athlete who comes into the program has already witnessed that tradition first-hand.

Grandville Calvin Christian has joined some elite company. The top-ranked Squires became just the second girls soccer program to win four straight MHSAA championships by edging Lansing Christian, 2-1, in the MHSAA Division 4 Final at Michigan State University’s ...

None of the players on the Orchard Lake St. Mary’s roster had ever been on a Regional championship baseball team.  Most every starter returned this spring for Mount Pleasant, the defending Division 2 champion.

The goal for Warren Regina after eight games wasn't to win an MHSAA softball championship. It was much simpler than that: Just win one game. 

It should have been one of the happiest moments in Leigha Morse's young life, but she couldn't keep from breaking down in tears. Morse apologized several times for crying while talking about her two-homer performance in Wayland's 11-0 victory over Frankenmuth in the M...

Brett Oliver delivered when it mattered the most. John Baker did it all day long in pitching Hartland through 10 innings to its first MHSAA baseball championship.

Richland Gull Lake in Division 2 and Hudsonville Unity Christian in Division 3 won MHSAA girls soccer championships Friday at Michigan State University’s DeMartin Stadium.

The second sessions of MHSAA Softball Semifinals were played Friday at Secchia Stadium at Michigan State University. Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central and Bronson in Division 3 and Kalamazoo Christian and Unionville-Sebewaing in Division 4 advanced to Saturday’s ch...

The second sessions of MHSAA Baseball Semifinals were played Friday at McLane Stadium at Michigan State University. Jackson Lumen Christi and Buchanan in Division 3 and Muskegon Catholic Central and Centreville in Division 4 advanced to Saturday’s championship gam...

The final kicks of 2015 came down to gut feelings for Richland Gull Lake goalkeeper Regan Troff. She closed her eyes and said a prayer. And then she made saves that extended one of the most impressive championship runs in MHSAA girls soccer history.

The winning pitchers in the Division 4 Semifinals went all seven innings and combined to give up just three hits on Friday at McLane Stadium on the campus of Michigan State University. A stoic Devin Comes gave up a single to the first batter, and that was all in leadi...