Entries for '2017-18 Finals'

He’d seen a dropped third strike 100 times before Saturday’s championship game. Excuse Riverview Gabriel Richard’s Matthew Silka for getting caught up in the moment.

It was a big day for the Centreville softball team. After a long wait, the Bulldogs were finally able to see the sequel to "Incredibles." Oh, and they also won the first MHSAA Division 4 softball championship in school history.

Don’t get Beal City senior Brett Upton wrong. He wants all the attention on himself – in the biggest of moments. But he’s the first to deflect the credit to his teammates.

Wendy Goodline hadn’t given up hope Saturday with her Coloma softball team trailing by four runs after five innings. But she had started to reflect on how good her team’s season had been, win or lose.

Usually, goals scored during the final minute of a half are considered backbreakers. But there might have to be new terminology for what Bloomfield Hills Marian’s girls soccer team did in the final minute of the first half of Saturday’s Division 2 Final at ...

As soon as he saw the signal to intentionally walk teammate Davis Graham, Grosse Pointe South first baseman Anthony Dermanulian knew he had to buckle down and come through for his team. With the bases loaded and the MHSAA Division 1 championship game against Brownstown...

South Haven managed three hits Saturday, so it wouldn’t be accurate to say Escanaba sophomore Gabi Salo was unhittable in the MHSAA Division 2 softball championship game. But the University of Wisconsin recruit was pretty close.

The Flint Powers Catholic girls soccer team hadn’t experienced a figurative bolt of lightning like this during its MHSAA Tournament run.  Holding on to a one-goal lead and just over 20 minutes from clinching another title – and having not allowed a goa...

A 2009 Regional Semifinal loss to eventual state champion Hudsonville is the moment Caledonia softball coach Tom Kaechele points to as putting his program on the map. Sammie Gehrls was in the stands that day, watching her sister Alexa pitch in the 2-1, 14-inning thrill...

Never underestimate the importance of defense – especially when it comes down to one final game to decide it all. Stevensville Lakeshore played solid defense and took advantage of four Saginaw Swan Valley errors, and enjoyed a stellar pitching performance by seni...

It’s not the way the winning team would like to finish a game. But all the same, Madison Heights Bishop Foley did win, and the Ventures will play for a second consecutive Division 3 title.

Autumn Tubbs swears that “darn it” was as profane as she allowed herself to get. The Coleman senior shortstop was visibly frustrated with herself after turning out of the way of an inside pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth inning of a ti...

The first unexpected development in the eyes of many was that the game was about to go into overtime. The next unexpected development was that it didn’t.  Finally, the last unexpected development was that the team many figured would take home the runner...

Lansing Christian senior Kasey Jamieson scored nearly 200 goals during her terrific high school career. But it’s pretty obvious which one she’ll remember most: The last.  Playing in her final high school game Saturday, Jamieson scored what turned out t...

The moment. The venue. It all got to Beal City’s Keegan Haynes as he took the mound to begin his team’s Division 4 Semifinal against Gaylord St. Mary on Saturday. Haynes retired the first batter, gave up a base hit and proceeded to throw 10 straight balls w...

Gabbie Sherman never flinched Friday.  The Millington junior pitched her way out of three tight spots, including a tense bottom of the seventh inning, to lead the Cardinals to a 5-3 win against Sanford Meridian in an MHSAA Division 3 Softball Semifinal at Michigan...

The Escanaba softball team that returned to Secchia Stadium on Thursday may not be too different from those that made trips to the Division 2 Semifinals in 2016 and 2017 as well. But a couple of notable characteristics have the Eskymos sticking around for a few more da...

The best season in Brownstown Woodhaven’s history just got better. Woodhaven, which had never won a District baseball title before this spring, defeated perennial powerhouse Birmingham Brother Rice 7-3 in a MHSAA Division 1 Semifinal on Thursday at McLane Stadium...

Welcome back, Caledonia and Sammie Gehrls. Three seasons after finishing her freshman year at Secchia Stadium, the Fighting Scots’ ace once again has her team one more win from its first MHSAA softball championship.

Oli Carmody had been in pressure situations before, but nothing compared to what confronted the sophomore from Stevensville Lakeshore on Thursday. Back in November, Carmody – playing his first season as goalkeeper on the soccer team – made a diving stop of ...