Lady Blue Devils Race to State Title, Baseball Softball and Soccer Find Success

It’s playoff time.

It’s title time.

It’s the best time of the year for high school sports fans,

We’re going to start by taking a quick peek backwards to see just how the baseball and softball teams in your community fared this past week, then we’ll give our weekly shouts-out to those squads who turned in incredible performances in the postseason.

We have to start with the 2011 girls track state champion Blue Devils.

The Lady Blue Devils raced, threw and fought their way to a Division 1 championship. 

The squad’s 54 points was four points better than Detroit Cass Tech (50 points) and Ann Arbor Huron (50 points). 

Hannah Meier’s state-title-winning 1,600-meter run performance (4:42.60) paced the squad, and set a new MHSAA All Class/Division and Lower Peninsula Division I Finals Meet Record. 

Meier’s time broke the 4:45.20 mark set by Laura Matson back when big hair was cool and leg-warners were the rage -1985!

Congrats just doesn’t seem like enough for a history-making performance. So, we offer a double-congrats to Hannah and the Lady Blue Devils.

The titles don’t stop there either.

Grosse Pointe South and ’s baseball teams both captured district titles, as did the girls soccer squad from Grosse Pointe South and the softball team from .

The South boys lacrosse team also kept its state-title hopes alive - advancing to the state semifinals against East Grand Rapids June 8.

Congrats to all the teams who managed to survive in the state playoffs, and kudos, once again, to the girls track team from South.

Be sure to check next week’s POW for updates and results.