MHSAA records set to fall in coming weeks
Jets boys hoops could set win streak record on Jan. 27
In the next few weeks, two long-time Michigan boys basketball records may be broken.
North Central, with a win on Monday over Rapid River, has won 63 straight games, dating back to the beginning of the 2014-15 season. If the Jets win their next two games, they could break Chassell’s 1956-58 mark of 65 straight wins. The record-setting win would come against the Jets’ arch-rival Bark River-Harris in a home game on Jan. 27.
If the streak stands heading into that game, the Michigan High School Athletic Association will stream the game live on the MHSAA.tv website.
Roy Johnston, a long-time coach at Beaverton, enters this week with 725 coaching wins in Michigan, three short of the 728 wins by Lofton Greene of New Buffalo and River Rouge from 1942 to 1984. Johnston could surpass Greene’s mark in a Feb. 1 home game against Farwell.
Here are the longest winning streaks in the MHSAA record book:
Baseball
75 games — Homer (opening day 2004 to June 17, 2005)
Boys Basketball
65 games — Chassell (Feb. 1, 1956 to Nov. 23, 1958)
Girls Basketball
78 games — Carney Nadeau (1989 to 91)
11-player Football
72 games — Hudson (Sept. 20, 1968 to Nov. 22, 1975)
8-player Football
26 games — North Central (2015 and ’16 seasons)
Softball
80 games — Allen Park Cabrini (2006 to 2008)
Boys Tennis
71 dual meets — Okemos (1990 to 1997)
Girls Tennis
107 dual meets — Traverse City Central (1989 to 2000)
Girls Volleyball
192 matches — Marysville (1996 to 2000)
Wrestling
88 dual meet wins — Grandville (1982 to 1986)