Local Sports Journal It didn’t seem to matter who Coach Kevin Buchberger sent out to the mound. Each got the job done on Tuesday night in the Blue Bombers 1-0 victory over the Red Hawks in the Marsh Field All-Star Classic baseball game. The turnout for the evening was announced at 600. The only hit allowed came off starting pitcher Zach Zweigle, who allowed a one-out line single to center Read More ...
BASEBALL STATE FINALS Saturday (at Bailey Park, Battle Creek) Division 1 Bay City Western 1, Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice 0 Division 2 Grand Rapids Christian 3, Richmond 0 Division 3 – 3:30 pm Madison Hts. Bishop Foley 12, Grandville Calvin Christian 5 Division 4 – 6:30 pm Grosse Pte. Woods 3, Beal City 2 (eight innings)
BASEBALL SEMIFINALS (at Battle Creek) Friday Division 1 Bay City Western 2, Sterling Hts. Stevenson 1 Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice 5, Howell 0 Division 2 Grand Rapids Christian 1, Remus Chippewa Hills 0 Richmond 3, Milan 2 Division 3 Grandville Calvin Christian 3, Whittemore-Prescott 0 Madison Hts. Bishop Foley 5, Bridgman 0 Division 4 Beal City 15, Maple City Glen Lake 0 Grosse Pte. Woods U. Liggett 1, New Lothrop 0 Read More ...
Local Sports Journal Longtime assistant baseball coach Bill Lent has been named the new varsity coach at Mona Shores High School. Lent, a Mona Shores graduate and current faculty member, takes over for legendary coach Walt Gawkowski, who resigned following the recently completed season. Lent takes over just in time to begin working with Sailor players throughout the summer. “Coach Lent will do a fantastic job for Sailor baseball,” athletic Read More ...
BASEBALL Quarterfinal scores Division 1 Bay City Western 1, Rochester 0 Sterling Heights Stevenson 10, Detroit U-D Jesuit 7 Howell 11, Temperance Bedford 1 Birmingham Brother Rice 7, Lake Orion 3 Division 2 Grand Rapids Christian 7, Haslett 1 Remus Chippewa Hills 6, Mount Pleasant 5 Richmond 7, Center Line 0 Milan 1, Coldwater 0 Division 3 Madison Heights Bishop Foley 9, Flint Powers Catholic 1 Bridgman 5, Homer 2 Read More ...
Local Sports Journal Beal City used a fast start to claim a Division 4 regional baseball title over Muskegon Catholic on Saturday. The Aggies scored four runs in the first inning and went on for a 6-2 victory over the Crusaders, who ended their season at 27-2. Dom DeTorres, still healing from a foot injury, took the loss for MCC. He allowed five runs, four earned in 1 1/3 innings Read More ...
BASEBALL Regionals DIVISION 1 (at Hudsonville) Saturday Rockford 6, Forest Hills Central 1 Hudsonville 6, Mona Shores 2 Finals, Rockford 7, Hudsonville 0 DIVISION 2 (at Cadillac) Saturday Remus Chippewa Hills 6, Whitehall 4 Cheboygan 4, Gladwin 0 Finals, Remus Chippewa Hills 3, Cheboygan 1 DIVISION 3 (at Holton) Saturday Leroy Pine River 3, Kent City 0 Montague 4, Morley-Stanwood 0 Finals, LeRoy Pine River 3, Montague 0 DIVISION 4 Read More ...
Local Sports Journal Muskegon Catholic faced Gobles in the regional semifinals and came out with a 9-0 victory. Check out a few plays from the Crusader win.
Local Sports Journal Muskegon Catholic Central appeared in the state baseball rankings for the first time just a couple of weeks ago. For some reason, the Crusaders were shunned by voters until just recently. Maybe it was because the tournament was rolling around. Well, on Saturday, the Crusaders showed how they stack up in Division 4 with a 9-0 whipping of No. 2 ranked Gobles. MCC (27-1) came into the Read More ...
By Jim Goorman Local Sports Journal How do you replace a hall of fame icon coach of 32 years? Mona Shores will have to do just that after Walt Gawkowski announced his resignation recently. He will step down after this season, which continues this weekend when the Sailors compete in regional competition. “I am not retiring from coaching, I will be coaching again someday at perhaps a sub level position,” Read More ...
BASEBALL Regionals DIVISION 1 (at Hudsonville) Saturday Rockford vs. Forest Hills Central Mona Shores vs. Hudsonville Finals, TBD DIVISION 2 (at Cadillac) Saturday Whitehall vs. Remus Chippewa Hills, 10 a.m. Cheboygan vs. Gladwin, noon Finals, 2 p.m. DIVISION 3 (at Holton) Saturday Kent City vs. Leroy Pine River Morley-Stanwood vs. Montague Finals, TBD DIVISION 4 (at Muskegon Catholic) Saturday Gobles vs. Muskegon Catholic, 10 a.m. Pentwater vs. Beal City, 12;30 Read More ...
Local Sports Journal Montague relied on the arm of Chayce Lohman in its 2-1 baseball district championship win over Mason County Central in 10 innings. Lohman pitched all 10 innings and struck out 10 batters. The Spartans managed just four hits off Lohman. “Chayce Lohman was awesome on the mound holding MCC to four hits and one run,” said Montague head coach Keven Buchberger. Tristen Schultz capped off a 10th-inning Read More ...
Local Sports Journal The Eagles of Kent City repeated as Division 3 district baseball champions with a convincing 10-4 win over Oakridge. Kent City took a 7-2 lead with a five-run fifth inning and tacked on three more runs in the seventh. Pitcher Jake Krueger lasted 5 1/3 innings for Kent City, giving up 14 hits and four earned runs. Krueger also had two strikeouts and gave up no walks. Read More ...
BASEBALL District results Division 1 (at Kenowa Hills) Mona Shores 9, Grand Haven 4 Reeths-Puffer 8, Kenowa Hills 5 Finals: Mona Shores 5, Reeths-Puffer 4 Division 2 (at Orchard View) Orchard View 7, Fremont 3, 12 innings Whitehall 12, Ludington 6 Final: Whitehall 12, Orchard View 3 Division 2 (at Fruitport) Sparta 5, Spring Lake 3 Allendale 5, Fruitport 1 Final: Allendale 2, Sparta 0 Division 3 (at Chippewa Hills) Grant Read More ...
Local Sports Journal Kent City pitchers were nearly perfect in its 2-0 win over Grant. The Eagles combined for a no-hitter and allowed just one walk. Austin Thompson struck out three and allowed one walk in his three innings of work. Jake Krueger came in relief and went three innings and struck out two. Randy Thompson entered in the seventh and shut down Grant for the save. Tyler Hawkins led Read More ...
Local Sports Journal Howard City Tri-County had its way with Ludington by shutting down the Orioles 7-0 in Game 1 and 9-0 in the nightcap. Ludington managed just five hits in the opener. Peter Lovtao, Blake Collins, Ryan Bowen, Evan Kroeze and Nolan Stark each had hits for the Orioles. Kroeze led Ludington in Game 2 with two hits.
Local Sports Journal Whitehall scored four runs in the fourth inning and went on to a 6-4 baseball victory over the Reeths-Puffer Rockets. Consecutive hits by Zach Zweigle, Ray Copley and Ian Zweigle led teh uprising. The Vikings were also aided by 2 sacrifice bunts in the inning including a suicide squeeze by Cheston Manns. Ian Zweigle had two hits and scored two runs. Caleb Sheffer added a solo home Read More ...
Local Sports Journal The Western Michigan Christian Warriors took Game 1 and the Shelby Tigers took Game 2 in a nonleague baseball twinbill on Friday. The Warriors captured Game 1 in 11 innings, 8-6, and the Tigers came back to win the second game 6-3. In the opener, Matt VanderPloeg pitched six innings and struck out three. Eric Bourdo came on to pitch five scoreless innings and picked up the Read More ...
Muskegon Catholic Central pitching stymied Reeths-Puffer bats as the Crusaders cruised to a 6-0 Game-1 win and won 6-1 in Game 2. Nick Holt pitched a two hitter for MCC in the opener. Holt struck out seven in six innings pitched and walked three. Jacob Holt led MCC at the plate with two hits. Parker Richardson had both hits for Reeths-Puffer. Zach Huston was the winning pitcher for MCC in Read More ...
Local Sports Journal Hart split its two games with Baldwin, falling 12-8 in the opener and winning 5-4 in Game 2. Baldwin scored all 12 of its runs in the first three innings. Aaron Hepworth and Connor Boundy each had a single and two RBI for Hart. Hart won the nightcap on James Freeman’s sixth-inning RBI single which drove in Thomas Stoneman. Boundy had two hits and Brandon Amstutz had Read More ...
