Michigan High School Athletic Association cross country regional races took place Friday and Saturday, and several runners from Argus-Press-area schools qualified for Saturday’s state meets.
OWOSSO –The Owosso girls’ cross country team placed second at the first two Flint Metro League Stars Division jamboree of the season in what has already been a good autumn for the Trojans.
CHESANING – Clay Powell crossed the finish line second, helping his Ovid-Elsie boys’ cross country team to a win at the first of three Mid-Michigan Athletic Conference jamborees.
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OWOSSO — Jerome Murphy (a.k.a. “Murfâ€) has seen a lot in 34 years of covering sports for The Argus-Press.
LAINGSBURG — Laingsburg sophomore Noah Devereaux has been named The Argus-Press 2023 All-Area Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year in an extremely tight vote.
ELSIE — Clio defeated Ovid-Elsie, 4-2, Wednesday as the 2023 Marauders fell to 0-2 in boys soccer action.
Chesaning senior Levi Maier, flanked by his parents Marty and Jennette Maier, signed his national letter of intent to attend Michigan State University and run for the Spartans Tuesday afternoon at Chesaning High School. Maier plans to compete for Michigan State in track and field and possibl…
CHESANING — Levi Maier of Chesaning ran his final mile of his high school cross country career the only way he knows how — with reckless abandon.
DEWITT — The Corunna boys qualified for the upcoming Division 2 state cross country finals as a complete team by running third at Saturday’s D-2 regionals.
ALMONT — Tryce Tokar accounted for three touchdowns, including the game winner with 1:50 to go, and Ovid-Elsie went on the road and upset Almont 21-14 Friday in the first round of the Division 6 football playoffs.Tokar ran for 103 yards and two TDs, also completing 5 of 15 passes for 86 yard…
WEBBERVILLE — Whitmore Lake swept the regional titles at Friday’s Division 4 regional, winning both girls and boys competitions.
PERRY — Perry sophomore Teagen Hallock ran 12th overall at Saturday’s Greater Lansing Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships at Perry High School.
It’s always nice to see a “classic†live up to its name. One-sided rivalries get old in a hurry, which is why I’m sure there were more than a few Ohio State football fans that where secretly happy that Michigan was able to give the Buckeyes the business in 2021 — not that anything short of a…
CORUNNA — Owosso’s Libby Summerland and Josie Jenkinson both captured first-team all-league honors as the Trojan girls finished third in the final Flint Metro League cross country team standings.
GRAND LEDGE — Corunna junior Kenny Evans ran 19th overall Saturday at the Greater Lansing Cross Country Championships, finishing the course in 17:00.13.
So far this season, I’ve been leading off College Notes with a peek at local football alumns, because, frankly that’s where the bulk of the action is. We’ve got native sons associated with some of the very best NCAA Division II programs in the country, and it’s fun to track their comings and…
NEW LOTHROP — Five New Lothrop seniors were honored before Tuesday’s match with Ovid-Elsie. Two of them — setter Taylor Moore and outside hitter Carley Martin — were especially hard to stop for the visiting Marauders.
ST. JOHNS — Twice is nice.
MT. MORRIS — The Corunna boys finished eighth out of 23 teams Saturday at the Greater Flint Cross Country Championships.
From a College Notes perspective, the headline event of the past week in sports would have to be Saturday’s “Battle of the Valleys†gridiron clash between then 17th-ranked Saginaw Valley State and the (still) second-ranked Grand Valley State Lakers in Allendale.
FLINT — Ayva Sholty supplied 16 ace serves as Morrice defeated Flint Beecher 25-15, 24-26, 25-18, 25-23 in volleyball action Tuesday.
SWARTZ CREEK — Swartz Creek topped Corunna 4-2 in boys soccer action Monday at Swartz Creek.
HOLLY — Libby Summerland ran fourth in 19:48.87 and Josie Jenkinson scampered sixth in 20:07.68 to lead the Owosso girls cross country team to a third-place team finish at Wednesday’s Flint Metro League jamboree at Springfield Oaks County Park.
CHESANING — Chesaning’s Levi Maier won his second straight MMAC boys cross country jamboree but had little room to spare Tuesday at Showboat Park.
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