Below is a list of all the games for teams, organized by league, covered by outlets in the MediaNews Group Michigan cluster — the Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun, the Macomb Daily, the Oakland Press, the Royal Oak Tribune, the Voice, the Dearborn Press & Guide, and the Southgate News Herald — for Friday, Jan. 31, 2025.

Check back throughout the night, to see as scores come in, with links to coverage from all of the papers in our cluster.

 

GIRLS BASKETBALL

(Friday, Jan. 31, 2025)

CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE

Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard 76, Bloomfield Hills Marian 46

Farmington Hills Mercy 69, Orchard Lake St. Mary’s 40

Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 50, Madison Heights Bishop Foley 25

Royal Oak Shrine 52, Macomb Lutheran North 46

Warren Regina 66, Dearborn Divine Child 48

Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes 52, Marine City Cardinal Mooney 35

Wixom St. Catherine 59, Allen Park Cabrini 27

CENTRAL STATE ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION

Reed City 50, Chippewa Hills 19

 

CHARTER SCHOOL CONFERENCE

Romulus Summit Academy North 57, Melvindale AB&T 2

Warren Michigan Collegiate 57, Mt. Clemens 46

Harper Woods Chandler Park Academy at Arts & Technology Academy of Pontiac

 

FLINT METRO LEAGUE

Holly at Fenton

 

HURON LEAGUE

New Boston Huron 50, Monroe Jefferson 40

Riverview 55, Grosse Ile 25

 

INDEPENDENT

Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 50, Madison Heights Bishop Foley 25

 

JACK PINE CONFERENCE

Shepherd 28, Midland Bullock Creek 15

St. Louis 47, Farwell 21

Clare at Standish-Sterling

Harrison at Sanford Meridian

 

KENSINGTON LAKES ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION

Brighton 60, Novi 39

Dearborn 57, Livonia Franklin 45

 

LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE

Lakeland 54, Walled Lake Central 27

Milford 52, Flint Carman-Ainsworth 41

South Lyon East 59, Detroit Henry Ford 14

Walled Lake Northern 67, Walled Lake Western 17

Waterford United at South Lyon

 

MICHIGAN INDEPENDENT ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

Plymouth Christian Academy 51, Bloomfield Hills Roeper 16

Southfield Christian 35, Westland Hope Christian Academy 11

Sterling Heights Parkway Christian 47, Novi Christian 9

Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest at Allen Park Inter-City Baptist

 

MID-STATE ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION

Breckenridge 49, Coleman 26

Merrill 35, Fulton 29

St. Charles 50, Montabella 33

Vestaburg 60, Ashley 41

 

OAKLAND ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION

Clarkson 48, West Bloomfield 41

Pontiac 58, Oak Park 13

Rochester 45, Troy 21

Royal Oak 38, Birmingham Seaholm 30

Southfield A&T 70, Berkley 68 (OT)

Stoney Creek 48, Lake Orion 46

Troy Athens 48, North Farmington 22

Auburn Hills Avondale at Harper Woods

Birmingham Groves at Bloomfield Hills

 

SAGINAW VALLEY LEAGUE

Midland 49, Mt. Pleasant 41

 

TRI-VALLEY CONFERENCE

Alma 30, Bay City John Glenn 26

Ithaca 73, Carrollton 3

 

WESTERN WAYNE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

Melvindale at Dearborn heights Annapolis

Dearborn Heights Robichaud at Dearborn Heights Crestwood

Romulus at Redford Thurston

 

The Michigan Sports Writers high school girls basketball poll for the week of Jan. 28, 2025

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BOYS BASKETBALL

(Friday, Jan. 31, 2025)

BLUE WATER AREA CONFERENCE

Almont at Richmond

 

CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE

Allen Park Cabrini 46, Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes 43

Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice 70, Toledo St. John’s Jesuit 60

Clarkston Everest Collegiate 60, Muskegon Heights Academy 35

Dearborn Divine Child 66, Ann Arbor Greenhills 20

Detroit Loyola 57, Macomb Lutheran North 44

Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett 69, Madison Heights Bishop Foley 35

Riverview Gabriel Richard 68, Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood 35

Royal Oak Shrine 47, Marine City Cardinal Mooney 45

Warren De La Salle 73, Toledo Central Catholic 61

Detroit Catholic Central at Detroit U-D Jesuit

Toledo St. Francis De Sales at Orchard Lake St. Mary’s

 

CENTRAL STATE ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION

Chippewa Hills 60, Reed City 45

 

CHARTER SCHOOL CONFERENCE

Dearborn Henry Ford Academy 50, Detroit Community 45

Detroit Leadership Academy 39, Southfield Bradford 33

Ecorse 77, Detroit Public Safety Academy 52

Melvindale AB&T 70, Pontiac Academy for Excellence 59

Romulus Summit Academy North 81, Harper Woods Chandler Park Academy 42

Arts & Technology Academy of Pontiac at Mt. Clemens

Detroit Edison at Warren Michigan Collegiate

 

DOWNRIVER LEAGUE

Taylor 50, Wyandotte Roosevelt 41

Trenton at Woodhaven

 

FLINT METRO LEAGUE

Holly at Fenton

Ortonville Brandon at Owosso

 

HIGHLAND CONFERENCE

Beal City 88, McBain Northern Michigan Christian 53

 

HURON LEAGUE

Flat Rock 53, Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central 43

Monroe Jefferson 41, New Boston Huron 38

Riverview 37, Grosse Ile 28

 

INDEPENDENT

Pontiac Notre Dame Prep 67, Ypsilanti Arbor Prep 53

 

KENSINGTON LAKES ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION

Dearborn 65, Livonia Franklin 42

Dearborn Fordson 63, Livonia Stevenson 55

Novi 46, Brighton 45

 

LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE

South Lyon 65, Waterford Kettering 39

South Lyon East 50, Birmingham Seaholm 42

Waterford Mott 50, Milford 47

Walled Lake Central 57, Lakeland 40

Walled Lake Western 47, Walled Lake Northern 31

 

MACOMB AREA CONFERENCE

Anchor Bay 58, Utica Ford 43

Center Line 61, Eastpointe 47

Clintondale 69, Madison Heights Madison 37

Grosse Pointe North 54, Fraser 42

Marysville 62, Warren Mott 38

Port Huron 57, New Haven 48

Port Huron Northern 57, Roseville 48

Romeo 56, Sterling Heights Stevenson 46

Sterling Heights 73, Hazel Park 62

St. Clair 52, St. Clair Shores Lakeview 39

St. Clair Shores South Lake 67, Marine City 34

Warren Lincoln 62, Macomb Dakota 51

Clawson at Madison Heights Lamphere

Grosse Pointe South at Chippewa Valley

L’Anse Creuse at Warren Cousino

L’Anse Creuse North at Utica

Warren Fitzgerald at Utica Eisenhower

Warren Woods Tower at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore

 

MICHIGAN INDEPENDENT ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

Bloomfield Hills Roeper at Plymouth Christian Academy

Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest at Allen Park Inter-City Baptist

Royal Oak 57, Southfield Christian 53 (OT)

Sterling Heights Parkway Christian 63, Novi Christian Academy 40

 

MID-STATE ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION

Ashley at Vestaburg

 

OAKLAND ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION

Clarkston 72, West Bloomfield 60

Detroit University Prep 69, Birmingham Groves 55

Royal Oak 57, Southfield Christian 53 (OT)

 

SAGINAW VALLEY LEAGUE

Mt. Pleasant 67, Midland 47

 

TRI-VALLEY CONFERENCE

Bay City John Glenn 83, Alma 71

Ithaca 73, Carrollton 42

 

WESTERN WAYNE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

Melvindale 2, Dearborn Heights Annapolis 0 (forfeit)

Romulus 48, Redford Thurston 47

Dearborn Heights Robichaud at Dearborn Heights Crestwood

The Michigan Sports Writers high school boys basketball poll for the week of Jan. 28, 2025

The 2025 preseason baseball coaches poll from the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association has been released.

Here are the preseason top 20 teams in each division:

 

DIVISION 1

1 Birmingham Brother Rice

2 Bay City Western

3 Novi

4 Jenison

5 West Bloomfield

6 South Lyon

7 Hudsonville

8 Detroit Catholic Central

9 Anchor Bay

10 Lake Orion

11 Grand Blanc

12 Saline

13 Sterling Heights Stevenson

14 Portage Northern

15 Midland

16 Mattawan

17 Hartland

18 Northville

19 Rochester

20 Dexter

DIVISION 2

1 Orchard Lake St. Mary’s

2 Ada Forest Hills Eastern

3 Pontiac Notre Dame Prep

4 Standish-Sterling

5 New Boston Huron

6 Trenton

7 Flint Powers Catholic

8 Spring Lake

9 St. Clair

10 Flat Rock

11 Dearborn Divine Child

12 Coopersville

13 Grand Rapids Christian

14 Richland Gull Lake

15 Macomb Lutheran North

16 Richmond

17 North Branch

18 Williamston

19 Grand Rapids West Catholic

20 Detroit Country Day

 

DIVISION 3

1 Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett

2 Jackson Lumen Christi

3 Detroit Edison

4 North Muskegon

5 Traverse City St. Francis

6 Algonac

7 Hemlock

8 Ottawa Lake Whiteford

9 Ann Arbor Greenhills

10 Hanover Horton

11 Blissfield

12 Lansing Catholic Central

13 Schoolcraft

14 Kalamazoo Christian

15 Watervliet

16 Negaunee

17 Elk Rapids

18 Onsted

19 Ecorse

20 Brooklyn Columbia Central

 

DIVISION 4

1 Beal City

2 Portland St. Patrick

3 Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart

4 Marine City Cardinal Mooney

5 Kalamazoo Hackett

6 Fowler

7 Merrill

8 Vermontville Maple Valley

9 Marcellus

10 Norway

11 Plymouth Christian

12 Riverview Gabriel Richard

13 Muskegon Catholic Central

14 Decatur

15 Rudyard

16 Indian River Inland Lakes

17 Rogers City

18 Ubly

19 East Jordan

20 Maple City Glen Lake

While he now spends his nights roaming the sidelines with a camera during Holly High School football games, documenting the successes by his son’s team, Bill Keenist spent 36 years roaming the turf and press boxes of the Pontiac Silverdome and Ford Field, helping others document the Detroit Lions’ successes.

The Oxford resident is one of three former public relations directors who have been named to the fourth class of recipients for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s ‘Awards of Excellence,’ it was announced on Thursday.

The three — Keenist, former Dolphins senior vice president of communications and community affairs Jason Jenkins, and former special assistant to the commissioner Pete Abitante — will e honored during an awards luncheon in Canton, Ohio, next June 25-26.

Keenist was hired by then-owner William Clay Ford’s Lions organization in May 1985, and worked at several roles in the front office — assistant public relations director; PR director; director of marketing, broadcasting and communications; and senior vice president for communications — before his retirement in 2021, having spent nearly two decades in the last role.

Despite the absence of his employer in the NFL’s key event, Keenist worked 29 Super Bowls, five times acting as ‘co-captain’ of the public relations team for the event.

His NFL career included a Super Bowl ring during his short stint with the Washington Redskins (1981-83), then he worked for the USFL’s Pittsburgh Maulers (1983-84), before joining the Lions.

Billy Keenist Jr. is the head football coach at Holly.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Awards of Excellence program started in 2022, to recognize the “behind-the-scenes” contributors in public relations, athletic training, equipment management and film/video directors. Each group set up its own selection committees and criteria for choosing new honorees in their area of expertise.