If you were almost bewildered by the sheer volume of tweets, posts, photo galleries and stories flowing out of East Lansing over the weekend \u2014 and the week leading up to the MHSAA finals \u2014 don\u2019t worry.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n
We sorta felt that way, too.<\/p>\n
Oakland County came into last week with 11 teams alive for state championships \u2014 and none of them seemed to want to go home early.<\/p>\n
All but two of them survived until the finals. Four of them brought home championships.<\/p>\n
There were five baseball teams (at least one in each division) that made it through the regional final\/quarterfinal duo the weekend prior, gaining themselves a spot in this weekend\u2019s semifinals: Detroit Catholic Central and Rochester Adams in Division 1, Orchard Lake St. Mary\u2019s in D2, Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest in D3 and Royal Oak Shrine in D4.<\/p>\n
For girls soccer? Again, one in each division made it out of regionals the week prior, and all of them won in Tuesday and Wednesday\u2019s semifinals: Troy in D1, Bloomfield Hills Marian in D2, Detroit Country Day in D3, and Shrine with another championship-hunting team in D4.<\/p>\n
Softball had just two regional winners \u2014 Walled Lake Northern in D1, and a surprising contender in Farmington Hills Mercy in D2 \u2014 but both survived Tuesday\u2019s quarterfinals to earn berths in the semis.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s \u2026 a lot.<\/p>\n
Having a handful of teams make it to the final weekend of prep sports has been pretty standard for Oakland County. This was twice that.<\/p>\n
So if it seemed like we were all over the place \u2026 well, we were.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how it went down:<\/p>\n
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Monday: Calm before the storm.<\/p>\n
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Tuesday: Two soccer semifinals, two softball quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Walled Lake Northern softball finally gets past its quarterfinal hump; Mercy continues its surprising postseason push. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Troy scores late to earn its first finals appearance since 2013; Shrine beats Schoolcraft to return to the finals. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Wednesday: Two soccer semifinals.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u00a0Country Day used its stellar defense to shut down high-scoring Goodrich. \u00a0STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Seemingly on a mission, Marian rolls past New Boston Huron. (Got an assist from the writer for our sister paper, the Macomb Daily, on this one.) STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Thursday: Two baseball semifinals, two softball semifinals.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u00a0OLSM baseball beats Dearborn Divine Child to get back to the finals for the first time since the 2022 title season. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Lutheran Northwest\u2019s season comes to an end with a semifinal loss to defending champ Traverse City St. Francis. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Walled Lake Northern scores late to beat Northville, move on to first-ever title game. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Farmington Hills Mercy earns a shot to play for first title in a decade after beating Ogemaw Heights. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Friday: Two soccer finals, three baseball semifinals.<\/p>\n \u2022 Shrine shut out by Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart in D4 baseball semifinals. (We got an assist from our sister paper in Mt. Pleasant on this one). STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Detroit Catholic Central makes it two Catholic League Central baseball teams in the finals with a win over Mattawan in the D1 semis. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Adams earns first baseball finals trip in 30 years with a win over Woodhaven, setting up an all-Oakland County D1 final. (We got an assist from our sister paper, the Southgate News Herald, on this one). STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Shrine can\u2019t convert scoring changes into goals, falling in the D4 soccer finals to Harbor Springs. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 \u00a0Rockford wins heavyweight battle with Troy in D1 soccer finals, winning, 2-0. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Saturday: Two soccer finals, two softball finals, two baseball finals.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u00a0Top-ranked OLSM rallies from down 4-0 to beat Kenowa Hills, claim record-tying seventh state title in baseball. STORY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Detroit Catholic Central fulfills its goal of playing on the season\u2019s final day, grabbing its first title since 1999 with a win over Adams. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Detroit Country Day\u2019s defense shone again in a 1-0 win over Grand Rapids West Catholic, earning a seventh state title for the Yellowjackets. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Hudsonville Unity Christian\u2019s defense was too stiff for Marian, which fell 2-0 in the D2 title game. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Mercy\u2019s surprising run in softball ends with loss to first-time champion Armada in D2. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 Walled Lake Northern gets a late homer from Shaela Byrnes, and wins its first-ever state title in any sport. STORY<\/a> | PHOTO GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n (We got an assist from our sister paper, the Macomb Daily, on the softball stories)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A total of 19 games covered in a five-day span (20, if you count picking up the Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart-Marcellus baseball final for the Morning Sun on Saturday).<\/p>\n Yeah, it\u2019s a lot, but \u2014 just like the participants \u2014\u00a0there\u2019s nowhere else we\u2019d rather be in mid-June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you were almost bewildered by the sheer volume of tweets, posts, photo galleries and stories flowing out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2044,143,145,144,127],"class_list":["post-361536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-high-school-sports","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}