Michigan
Michigan high school football scoreboard: Week 5
Here are scores and results from around Metro Detroit for Week 5 of the Michigan high school football season.
Dearborn Heights Crestwood 33, Romulus 22: Tristan Vigneux and Jordan Brooks each scored two touchdowns while Kevin Brooks scored a touchdown as well for Crestwood (3-2, 2-2 Western Wayne). Romulus is now 2-2, 2-3.
Detroit Denby 40, Detroit Cody 6: Shawntez Bowie Jr led the way with 225 all-purpose yards for Detroit Denby (3-2, 3-0 DPSL Gold). Chris Kendrick had four touchdowns and Kenny McClinton recorded eight tackles for loss and three sacks defensively for Denby. Detroit Cody (3-2, 2-1).
Detroit Edison 32, Detroit Voyager College Prep 20: Kayden Upshaw had over 200 all-purpose yards, including a 70 yard interception and a 75-yard fumble recovery for Detroit Edison (3-2, 2-2 Charter-Gold). Myles Matlock added 110 yards and two touchdowns through the air. Detroit Voyager College Prep falls to 4-1, 3-1 in the Charter-Gold.
Detroit Pershing 50, Detroit Communication Media Arts 0: Jalen Foster threw for 251 yards, ran for 94 yards, and scored four touchdowns for Detroit Pershing (4-1, 2-1 Detroit PSL-Gold). Deijhone Patterson of Detroit Pershing caught three passes for 113 yards. Detroit Communication Media Arts is now 0-5, 0-3 in the Detroit PSL-Gold.
Detroit Southeastern 14, Detroit Western 0: For Detroit Southeastern, Khalil Hayes ran the ball 21 times for 157 yards while Anthony Laster threw for 157 yards and two touchdowns. Tayjon Watkins had nine tackles for Detroit Southeastern (2-3, 1-2 Detroit PSL-Blue). Detroit Western is now 1-4, 0-3 in the Detroit PSL-Blue.
Garden City 25, Melvindale 12: Andre Davis led the way with 100 rushing yards and two touchdowns for Garden City (4-1, 3-1 Western Wayne). King Allen had 116 yards for Melvindale (0-5, 0-4 WW).
Riverview 52, Flat Rock 45: Nathan Pinkava had 232 rushing yards and four touchdowns, including the game winning touchdown in the fourth quarter for Riverview (5-0, 4-0 Huron). Lucas Thompson went 3-4 with 62 yards and a touchdown for Riverview. Graham Junge went 10-20 with 193 yards and four touchdowns with Ben Sulley rushing for 176 yards and two touchdowns for Flat Rock (4-1, 3-1 Huron).
Utica 41, Harrison Township L’Anse Creuse 23: Mahti Gwilly led with 125 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown on 15 carries with a receiving touchdown, Xavier Crosby added 100 rushing yards and a touchdown on 10 carries, and Johnny Hiegel finished 9-for-13 for 115 passing yards and a touchdown for Utica (2-3, 1-2 MAC White). Harrison Township is also 2-3, 1-2.
Thursday
Detroit PSL
Detroit Central 59, Detroit Osborn 0
Detroit Denby 40, Detroit Cody 6
Detroit Douglass 20, Detroit Northwestern 8
Detroit Renaissance 30, Detroit Mumford 0
Friday
Catholic
Ann Arbor Father Gabriel Richard 44, Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood 12
Birmingham Brother Rice 22, Toledo St John’s Jesuit (OH) 21
Clarkston Everest Collegiate 63, Madison Heights Bishop Foley 6
Jackson Lumen Christi 35, Dearborn Divine Child 0
Macomb Lutheran North 49, Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett 13
Orchard Lake St Mary’s 64, Waterford Kettering 0
Riverview Gabriel Richard 29, Detroit Loyola 8
Royal Oak Shrine Catholic 14, Allen Park Cabrini 7
Toledo Central Catholic (OH) 27, Cleveland St Ignatius (OH) 26
Toledo St Francis De Sales 28, Detroit U of D Jesuit 21
Charter
Arts & Technology Academy of Pontiac 26, Southfield Bradford Academy 6
Detroit Edison 32, Detroit Voyageur College Prep 20
Detroit Lincoln-King 42, Detroit Leadership Academy 0
Ecorse 1, Romulus Summit Academy North 0 (forfeit)
Harper Woods Chandler Park 1, Detroit University Prep 0 (forfeit)
Melvindale Academy for Business & Tech 14, Detroit Community 6
Mount Clemens 35, Detroit Old Redford 6
Detroit PSL
Detroit Cass Tech 40, Detroit East English 6
Detroit Martin Luther King 39, Detroit Henry Ford 0
Downriver
Allen Park 33, Dearborn Edsel Ford 7
Gibraltar Carlson 63, Southgate Anderson 13
Taylor 43, Woodhaven 7
Trenton 42, Wyandotte Roosevelt 7
Huron
Monroe St Mary Catholic Central 32, Milan 0
New Boston Huron 39, Monroe Jefferson 21
Riverview 52, Flat Rock 45
KLAA
Belleville 35, Livonia Franklin 6
Brighton 42, Hartland 17
Dearborn Fordson 14, Dearborn 10
Howell 27, Northville 12
Livonia Stevenson 14, Livonia Churchill 7
Novi 35, Salem 28
Plymouth 49, Canton 20
Westland John Glenn 59, Wayne Memorial 0
Lakes Valley Conference
South Lyon 51, Walled Lake Central 16
South Lyon East 20, Waterford Mott 7
Walled Lake Western 42, White Lake Lakeland 7
MAC
Grosse Pointe South 38, Roseville 21
Clinton Township Clintondale 44, Hazel Park 24
Madison Heights Madison 46, New Haven 6
Marine City 56, St Clair Shores South Lake 16
Port Huron Northern 30, Port Huron 23
Romeo 21, New Baltimore Anchor Bay 14
St Clair 46, Center Line 20
St Clair Shores Lake Shore at Sterling Heights
St Clair Shores Lakeview 42, Macomb L’Anse Creuse North 0
Utica 41, Harrison Township L’Anse Creuse 23
Utica Eisenhower 35, Sterling Heights Stevenson 13
Warren Fitzgerald 18, Madison Heights Lamphere 7
Warren Mott 49, Fraser 28
MIAC
Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest 42, Sterling Heights Parkway Christian 7
Whitmore Lake 54, Lutheran Westland 23
OAA
Berkley 14, Royal Oak 7
Birmingham Groves 28, Harper Woods 12
Birmingham Seaholm 14, Farmington 6
Bloomfield Hills 19, Pontiac 6
Clarkston 35, West Bloomfield 20
Lake Orion 28, Rochester Adams 25
North Farmington 14, Troy Athens 7
Oxford 28, Rochester 10
Rochester Hills Stoney Creek 17, Southfield Arts & Technology 0
Troy 31, Oak Park 6
Southeastern
Chelsea 35, Adrian 10
Dexter 63, Ann Arbor Skyline 0
Pinckney 24, Tecumseh 18
Saline 48, Ann Arbor Huron 0
Temperance Bedford 24, Ypsilanti Lincoln 21
Ypsilanti Community 27, Jackson 20
Western Wayne
Dearborn Heights Crestwood 33, Romulus 22
Others
Orchard Lake St Mary’s 64, Waterford Kettering 0
Porter Martone becomes first teenager to score game-winning goals in his first two NHL playoff games.
Porter Martone becomes first teenager to score game-winning goals in his first two NHL playoff games.
Three Michigan State recruits will represent Team USA at the world U18 hockey championships in Bratislava and Trencin, Slovakia.
The U.S. opens against Czechia on Wednesday (10 a.m., The Hockey Network).
The future Spartans are: defenseman Nick Bogas (Royal Oak), defenseman Tyler Martyniuk (Washington Township) and forward Brooks Rogowski (Brighton).
Other local commits include: defenseman Abe Barnett (University of Michigan) and goalie Luke Carrithers (Western Michigan).
Team USA’s head coach is Nick Fohr (Dexter) with Kevin Porter (Northville) and Dan Darrow (Livonia) among the assistant coaches.
The tournament features 10 countries with the final scheduled for May 2.
Bruins tie series with Sabres
The visiting Boston Bruins scored three second-period goals and held off a late Buffalo Sabres rally to post a 4-2 win on Tuesday and even their Eastern Conference quarterfinal playoff series at one victory apiece.
Viktor Arvidsson scored in the last two periods, giving the Bruins 1-0 and 4-0 leads. Morgan Geekie and Pavel Zacha also lit the lamp for Boston, which heads home for Game 3 of the best-of-seven series on Thursday.
Jonathan Aspirot, Casey Mittelstadt and David Pastrnak each dished out two assists for the Bruins, and Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves.
Bowen Byram and Peyton Krebs scored as Buffalo climbed within 4-2 in the closing minutes.
Sabres goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen allowed four goals on 19 shots before Alex Lyon entered in relief following Arvidsson’s second marker, which came just 16 seconds into the third period.
Buffalo had a 36-26 shot advantage, including 20-8 in the third period, but its power play went 0-for-5. Boston finished 1-for-6 on the man advantage.
The physical contest featured 47 penalty minutes for each team.
Following a scoreless opening period, the Bruins took over in the second, scoring on three of their 11 shots against Luukkonen.
Arvidsson broke the deadlock 4:54 into the middle frame, taking Aspirot’s lob pass in ahead of the defense and beating Luukkonen five-hole with a backhander from the left circle.
A gaffe by Luukkonen helped Boston double its lead with 3:31 left in the period, as Geekie’s high backhanded dump from the far side of center ice eluded him over the glove.
The Bruins’ power play got in on the action 1:41 later. After Geekie’s one- handed keep-in at the blue line extended the play, Zacha tipped in Pastrnak’s shot from the top of the right circle while stationed in the bumper position.
Arvidsson made it 4-0 early in the third, prompting Sabres coach Lindy Ruff to change goaltenders. Aspirot banked a long feed off the boards to set up the play, leading Arvidsson down the left wing to score on a 2-on-1 rush with Zacha.
The Sabres struck twice in a 1:14 span to make things interesting. Byram accepted Beck Malenstyn’s back pass for a wrister from the top of the right circle to break Swayman’s shutout bid with 6:06 left.
Krebs soon made it 4-2, batting down and scoring the rebound of a Rasmus Dahlin point shot that caromed off the post and back into the crease.
Detroit Red Wings received six A’s in The Detroit News’ final grades for the 2025-2026 season.
Grades and key takeaways for Finnie, Gibson, Seider, Larkin, Raymond and DeBrincat after the Wings’ late collapse.
Michigan mother of three talks about how she broke her kratom addiction
Melanie Clark, 35, of Kincheloe in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has fought a four-year-long addiction to kratom, the so-called “gas station heroin.”
Michigan lawmakers are debating a complete ban on the sale of kratom products in the state, citing cases of addiction and instances of death from people consuming the herbal supplement known as the “gas station heroin.”
Here is what to know about this unregulated herbal substance commonly sold in convenience stores, gas stations and tobacco shops across Michigan:
What is kratom?
Kratom is a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia whose leaves contain compounds that can produce stimulant effects at low doses and opioid-like effects at higher doses. It is manufactured and sold in different forms: liquid tonics, tablets, gummies, powders and capsules.
What is kratom used for?
Kratom is marketed as a herbal supplement for energy, mood, pain relief or opioid withdrawal, though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved any of those uses. Some kratom users take it to get off heroin or fentanyl, according to University of Michigan researchers.
How is kratom pronounced?
Kratom is pronounced KRA-tum. The letter “a” takes a short “a” sound, as in crab or crack.
What is 7-OH?
7-hydroxymitragynin, or 7-OH, is an alkaloid found in kratom leaves. It is manufactured in a synthetic form to produce an opioid-like sensation of pain relief or sedation. It is more potent than pure leaf kratom and sometimes referred to as the hard liquor version of kratom (if pure leaf kratom were considered beer, which typically has a much lower percentage of alcohol by volume compared with distilled liquor).
Is kratom an opioid or addictive?
Kratom users, substance abuse counselors and doctors report symptoms of dependence and withdrawal from the substance, particularly when users exceed the recommended serving size.
The Drug Enforcement Agency has warned that kratom has “sedative effects” that “can lead to addiction.”
On July 29, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration moved to declare certain 7-hydroxymitragynine synthetic kratom products a Schedule I controlled substance, the same class of drugs as heroin, ecstasy and peyote. As of April 9, the substance had not yet been formally added to the list of Schedule I drugs, which would effectively ban 7-OH nationwide.
Does kratom have side effects?
The FDA has warned that kratom use can lead to liver toxicity, seizures or substance use disorder.
Withdrawal from the substance can lead to increased anxiety, insomnia and psychiatric episodes, according to University of Michigan researchers.
Dr. Eliza Hutchinson, a family physician based in Ann Arbor who is a clinical instructor at UM, said her substance abuse patients describe withdrawal from kratom as “the worst influenza of your life — times 10.”
CARE Southeastern Michigan, a recovery advocacy group, has reported some individuals experiencing psychotic episodes after taking 7-OH, the synthetic form of kratom.
The FDA has also said kratom is “not appropriate for use as a dietary supplement” and unsafe as an additive to food. The powder and liquid forms of kratom are sometimes marketed as an additive to shakes and smoothies.
Does kratom show up on a drug test?
Yes, if it’s part of a specialized screening of narcotics and other substances that looks for active ingredients in kratom products.
Some substance abuse clinics in Michigan are starting to test for it, said Madison Lauder, a counselor at The Guidance Center in Southgate.
“We see you so often, we have added into our (drug test) panel,” Lauder said.
Is there any age restriction on buying kratom in Michigan?
No, Michigan has no laws governing the sale of kratom and related synthetics, such as 7-OH.
But retailers set their own rules. Some stores won’t sell to anyone under age 21.
Some of the 7-OH kratom products on the shelves of stores are labeled “21+.”
But there’s no law on the books in Michigan requiring buyers to show a photo ID when buying kratom, as is required to purchase alcohol, tobacco or marijuana.
Which states have bans on selling kratom?
Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin have outright bans on the sale of kratom.
In December, Ohio’s Board of Pharmacy used the state’s controlled substance laws to ban the retail sale, distribution and possession of 7-OH and other synthetic forms of kratom, board spokesman Cameron McNamee said.
The Ohio Board of Pharmacy has a separate proposal to ban natural kratom products that remains in the rulemaking process, McNamee said.
Some cities and counties across the country have imposed varying local sales bans, including Anaheim, Calif., Spokane, Wash., and the New York City suburbs of Nassau County on Long Island, according to published reports.
What’s the status of legislation to ban kratom in Michigan?
On March 18, the Republican-controlled Michigan House voted 56-48 on legislation that would completely ban the sale of kratom products in Michigan. All 46 Democrats and two Republicans opposed the legislation.
Democrats cited a lack of any committee hearings on the legislation.
“There is no question of the growing concern around this product, and no one is saying, with this vote or otherwise, that the concern isn’t justified,” the House Democratic caucus said in a statement. “What we are saying is an outright ban, without any testimony or dialogue, is not the solution.”
The bill moved to the Democratic-controlled Senate, where Majority Leader Winnie Brinks, D-Grand Rapids, assigned it to her Government Operations Committee.
Some kratom industry interests and individual users have advocated for a ban on just the 7-OH synthetic form of kratom.
Sen. Kevin Hertel, the St. Clair Shores Democrat who chairs the Senate Health Policy Committee, said the House’s passage of a total ban on kratom has changed the debate toward prohibition, which he favors until the FDA can further study the substance and its impact on the human body.
clivengood@detroitnews.com
Staff Writers Anne Snabes and Beth LeBlanc contributed.
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