NOVI — It was a historic showing for Novi High School’s doubles flights at the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 1 State Finals at Hope College June 3.

NOVI — Throughout the month of April, Novi sophomore Uli Fernsler had yet to pitch in a regular season game due to a knee injury.

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — The list of uncertain things was much larger than the list of expectations that surrounded Dakota baseball this season.

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — Grosse Pointe South baseball’s 2023 senior class continued the culture and tradition that coach Dan Griesbaum has established at south for the 40 years he’s held the head coach position.

GROSSE POINTE WOODS — It’s been a staple at Grosse Pointe North girls soccer practices in the nine seasons that head coach Olivia Dallaire has been at the helm.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Michigan State University’s men’s golf program is getting a good one in Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice senior Lorenzo Pinili.

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Chippewa Valley boys track and field has progressed in every phase each season as they inch one step closer to a state title.

STERLING HEIGHTS/SHELBY TOWNSHIP/MACOMB TOWNSHIP — There’s a reason that the Utica Ford II softball team got  massive applause at the school’s graduation.

MACOMB COUNTY — In 2017, United Shore Professional Baseball League Westside Woolly Mammoths manager Taylor Grzelakowski, a Fraser high school graduate, received the news of a lifetime. The Minnesota Twins had signed Grzelakowski and Randy Dobnak, then his Utica Unicorns teammate, to the organization.

ORCHALD LAKE — Playing against the likes of Catholic High School League rivals Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice and Detroit Catholic Central on a consistent basis can cloud the accomplishments that Orchard Lake St. Mary’s boys golf has achieved the past few years.

WARREN — It’s a tradition unlike any other for Warren De La Salle Collegiate boys golf.

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Chippewa Valley boys track and field has progressed in every phase each season as they inch one step closer to a state title.

BIRMINGHAM — For over 10 years, Roeper High School’s Zelia Newhard has trained endlessly in both the classroom and in the sport of fencing.

METRO DETROIT — As the Professional Golf Association’s Rocket Mortgage Classic makes its return to the Detroit Golf Club on June 27, the field has already drawn commitments from two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and RMC defending champion Tony Finau, but there’s no card more stacked than this year’s AREA 313 Celebrity Scramble commitments.

TROY — Troy Athens girls soccer, like many schools, leans on their seniors to be the voice of the team’s culture and legacy to the underclassmen.