On a sunny, albeit chilly, fall Saturday afternoon, lightning still managed to strike at Novi High School during the Division 1 boys soccer championship game.  But instead of from the sky above, it came on the field from Ann Arbor Skyline.

John Dougherty stood tall for 100 minutes of soccer. And then some.  Under constant pressure Saturday at Comstock Park from undefeated and top-ranked Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern, Dougherty, the senior goalkeeper for Detroit Country Day, made save after save...

Hudsonville Unity Christian junior Jordan Bruckbauer was likely the only player on his team who remembered his first goal of the 2018 season, which came earlier this fall before the playoffs began. But it’s a safe bet nobody on his team, or anyone else in the Uni...

All season long, the Leland boys soccer team has been an offensive force. Heading into Saturday's MHSAA Division 4 title game at Comstock Park High School, the Comets had scored 158 goals over 27 games, and out-scored their opponents by 139.

Shepherd’s Amber Gall set the bar for Hart’s Adelyn Ackley back in middle school. It was the desire to beat Gall, whose times caught her attention, that drove Ackley to start training seriously back then.

Other states have reputations for producing great athletes in other sports, but Michigan is known for cranking out elite high school cross country runners. The latest running phenom to come out of the state is freshman Abby VanderKooi of Muskegon Western Michigan Chris...

Caro senior Yami Albrecht has secured a special place in Michigan high school cross country history. Albrecht won a kick to the finish with Jeremy Kloss of Harbor Springs for the second straight year to win his third MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 3 individual champion...

Saugatuck senior Corey Gorgas raised his arms as he hit the finish line, but the day wasn’t all about him. Moments after he completed a solo victory lap to the finish Saturday to win the MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 4 individual cross country championship at Mi...

Tying together all four MHSAA Boys Soccer Finals to a common theme is impossible this season.  But all four games have stories to tell.

Camden-Frontier junior Jordan Stump did a lot of many things well in leading Camden-Frontier on Saturday to clinch its first league championship in more than a decade, filling the stat sheet with 36 kills, 46 assists, six aces and 38 digs during the Southern Central Ath...

The first of this week’s District titles were awarded Thursday – we found coverage of 31 District championships in all – and we’ve filled today’s list with 10 of them.

The field of 288 a week ago became 144 teams still playing. Starting tonight, 11-player teams will compete for District titles and 8-player contenders will aim to celebrate Regional championships. And this round presents more than a few familiar matchups from either ea...

Tim Wooer does not have the ability to wave a wand and make victories on the football field appear out of thin air. The Kingsley football program is certainly grateful for the magic Wooer has brought back to the gridiron in no time at all, however.

Michigan International Speedway will showcase Saturday the last MHSAA Finals for a pair of the most successful champions all-time in this state. Hart’s Adelyn Ackley will run for her third individual championship while attempting to lead her team to a repeat in L...

Team and individual history is waiting to be made at Saturday’s Lower Peninsula Boys Cross Country Finals at Michigan International Speedway. A year ago, the final state rankings predicted all four champions – and if they’re accurate again, Plymouth w...

Small school. Big tradition. That’s pretty much the way it is at Chassell High School, which captured both the girls and boys Upper Peninsula Division 3 cross country championships Oct 20 at Munising.

This week, MHSAA officials coordinator Sam Davis explains how high school football overtime differs from extra play at the college level.

The Boys Soccer Finals field is set after a night that saw nearly half of the Semifinals go to overtime and the winner of our No. 1 game below advance to the season’s final game for the first time.

The understudy has become the star for the Muskegon Mona Shores football team. James Gilbert was supposed to be “the other guy” this season, the receiver on the opposite side from Division I recruit Damari Roberson, who has committed to Western Michigan Uni...

Girls Volleyball Districts rolled on with a rivalry renewed in Division 2 and an MHSAA record tied in Division 3, along with a cross country county championship sweep from a busy Tuesday.