Unionville-Sebewaing was one out away from another chance to score just one run and end the 2013 Division 3 Softball Final. Over the next many minutes, and in multiple ways, Vanessa Ewing took that opportunity away.

Eight student-athletes who will be juniors at their schools during the 2020-21 academic year have been selected to serve two-year terms on the MHSAA’s Student Advisory Council. 

Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice, Midland Dow, Detroit Country Day and Ann Arbor Greenhills concluded the first decade of the 2000s with Lower Peninsula boys tennis championships. They also gave previews of a successful decade the come.

Bloomfield Hills Marian entered the 2019 Girls Soccer Finals with the third-most championships in the sport in MHSAA history, and seeking to become the seventh program to win three in a row. A familiar opponent awaited. And eventually so too did sophomore Maria Askouni...

On Monday, the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association became the 51st and final NFHS member state high school association to cancel its spring sports championships due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Through the first six games and 76 more minutes of the 2018 Division 1 Girls Soccer Tournament, Grand Blanc hadn’t given up a goal. But with the championship game rolling toward the end of regulation, Avery Fenchel capitalized on a rare opportunity.

The addition of seeding at the Regional level in ice hockey and adjustments to provide byes for top-seeded teams in basketball and soccer were among the most notable actions taken by the MHSAA Representative Council during its annual Spring Meeting on May 4.

Maddy VanDyke already was known to be one of the state’s top soccer players – after graduating from Hudsonville Unity Christian, she went on to start most of four seasons for Michigan State. But she also showed at the end of her last MHSAA Final to be quite...

Madison Heights Bishop Foley owns MHSAA girls soccer records with 17 Finals appearances and 12 championships. The Ventures’ most recent in both categories came down to the final minutes and a memorable “moment” supplied by their skillful star forward.

Recurring injuries happen — and they're especially common among single-sport athletes or people who focus on one type of exercise, like runners.  The reason: You're working the same muscles repeatedly. The end result: Your joints, muscles and tissues get wor...

Winning the 2009 Division 1 championship was a major accomplishment – of course – for the Portage Central girls soccer program. But it made a pretty loud statement as well for all of girls soccer on the west side of the state.

We kick off our girls soccer week of #MHSAA Moments with one of the brightest stars in MHSAA history. Laura Heyboer graduated from Hudsonville Unity Christian in 2008 with 167 goals, and she remains tied for sixth-most over a career all-time. Certainly, the last she ne...

Hillman and Athens combined to scatter 15 runs on 18 hits during the 1992 Class D Final, one of the highest-scoring baseball championship games in MHSAA history. And calling them all was a familiar voice that should bring comfort to baseball fans at least 35 and older ...

We’re all missing high school sports, while doing our best to fill the void this spring with memories from seasons past. For a limited time, the NFHS Network is allowing you to download a favorite memory from its vast library – and save it to watch over and ...

Baseball “Walk-off Week” finishes today with Homer crossing home last spring to set up its first Finals championship on the diamond since 2004. Jacob Wilson’s smash into left field drove in the game-winning run as the Trojans downed Pewamo-Westphalia ...

Few upperclassmen receive the opportunity to make the memories Luke McLean made as a sophomore on the Rockford baseball team last season. But at the end, he was just hoping to do his part to make more for the seniors who led the Rams to the Division 1 Baseball Semifina...

Hartland and Portage Northern both entered the 2015 Division 1 baseball championship game as frequent contenders, but both pursuing their first Finals title on the diamond. Over the last five seasons, both have gone on to claim what previously had been elusive – ...

Cory Huston had allowed only one hit, two walks and an unearned run through eight innings of Decatur’s Division 3 Semifinal against Gladstone on June 13, 2014. And in the bottom of that final inning, he did what’s often yelled from baseball dugouts when the...

When Nick Dunstan singled up the middle to drive in Joe Barnes in the bottom of the seventh inning of the 2007 Division 1 Final, he sent Lake Orion past Farmington 4-3 to clinch what remains the Dragons’ only MHSAA championship in the sport. That alone makes for ...

A labor shortage caused by World War I had taken out spring high school sports in Michigan in 1917. The global spread of a devastating strain of influenza interrupted the football season in Michigan in 1918. But prep athletics would roar through the 1920s and survi...