Oct 27, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com Area cross country teams will be hitting three courses over the next three days with the intent on qualifying for the state finals. Several area teams and individuals will be looking to make headlines at regionals. The action begins Thursday with a Divis... READ MORE
Oct 23, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com It was a great night to be a senior at Grant as the Tigers ran past Kent City with a 19-0 shutout at home on Senior Night. Grant quarterback Brady Jacobs showed up and showed out on both sides of the ball for his last game of the season. The sen... READ MORE
Oct 23, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com Week 9 football, is in the books. The 2021 high school football season started back on Aug. 25 and continued to entertain fans around west Michigan each Friday night. Big Reds fans have once again been treated to another conference title, as M... READ MORE
Oct 21, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com Some area football teams appear to have clinched berths in the MHSAA playoffs, while others are on the bubble as the 2021 regular season concludes this weekend. With strength of schedule now entering into the picture, a few teams with 5-4 records, or even... READ MORE
Oct 20, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com Kent City's boys’ cross country team survived a tight race with White Cloud on Tuesday. The Eagles pulled out a narrow 31-34 victory in the CSAA Silver Championships in an event hosted by Lakeview. It wasn’t so close for the Eagles’ girls who ran a... READ MORE
Oct 17, 2021 by Craig Beilfuss LocalSportsJournal.com There’s no better way to celebrate homecoming than to get off to a fast start and never look back. On Saturday afternoon, the Kent City Eagles scored on their first six possessions and defeated Hartford 46-6. Six different Eagles fou... READ MORE
Oct 15, 2021 By Greg Gielczyk LocalSportsJournal.com When the Kent City football team hosted Newaygo to kick off the 2021 season, there was more than the normal excitement for the start of a new gridiron campaign. They were playing on their new artificial surface for the first time. The fi... READ MORE
Oct 14, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com The Kent City volleyball team routed Hesperia in three games in Wednesday's CSAA matchup. The Eagles won with scores of 25-19, 25-11 and 25-11. Leading for the Eagles was Lexie Bowers with four aces and four kills, Kaden Perkins made 12 digs and p... READ MORE
Oct 13, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com There is plenty at stake as area teams head into Week 8 of the high school football season. There are conference championships to be won, there are bragging rights on the line and there is positioning for the playoffs, which being in two weeks. No area ga... READ MORE
Oct 10, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com Hart's girls cross country team came away with a dominating victory8 in the Division 3 portion of the Portage Cross Country Invitational on Saturday. Hart finished with 83 points, while runner-up Jackson Lumen Christi had 102. Kent City finished third. T... READ MORE
Oct 09, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com Kent City marched down the field on its opening possession and never looked back in a 50-14 over White Cloud. Dylan Sutton’s key interception in the endzone set the tone for the Eagles as they got out to an impressive 28-0 lead at halftime. Mason Westb... READ MORE
Oct 08, 2021 By Craig Beilfuss Local Sports Journal.com It’s here already. Week 6 of Friday night high school football has arrived and the Local Sports Journal will be covering 14 games tonight. There are some interesting matchups, rivalry games and games that could determine some confere... READ MORE
Oct 05, 2021 By Greg Gielczyk Local SportsJournal.com It's often said in sports that there's nothing better than home cooking. You won't find the White Cloud boys cross country team arguing with that premise after it gobbled up the third CSAA Conference cross country jamboree that it hosted... READ MORE
Oct 02, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com Week 6 high school football is on the books. Here are the headlines from Friday night's games. Oakridge hangs on over North Muskegon, Vanderputte leads Eagle ground game with 265 yards (+PHOTO GALLERY) Muskegon Catholic Central breaks int... READ MORE
Oct 02, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com Kent City outlasted Holton in an eruptive offensive battle on Friday. The Eagles offensive firepower was on display in their 50-38 victory on the road against Holton. Most of the fireworks were fired in the first half as the score was 36-24 i... READ MORE
Oct 01, 2021 *Today's story can be found in hard-copy print in the LocalSportsJournal.com September magazine at area outlets in west Michigan. By Tom Kendra LocalSportsJournal.comSpring Lake football is having a ton of fun this fall, racking up wins behind a raucous student section and ... READ MORE
Sep 25, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com Week-5 high school football came through with surprising wins and challenging losses on all sides of the ball. Take a look at the LSJ's Friday high school football headlines for September 25. The Ludington Orioles disrupt Lakes 8 race,... READ MORE
Sep 23, 2021 by Craig Beilfuss LocalSportsJournal.com Friday evening’s Kent City vs. Hesperia CSAA Silver football game has been cancelled for Covid related reasons. It will mark the second consecutive week that Kent City will not be in action, as they forfeited to Morley-St... READ MORE
Sep 22, 2021 by Craig Beilfuss LocalSportsJournal.com With five girl’s finishing in the top ten, the Kent City Eagles, easily took top team honors at the CSAA Silver Jamboree at Baker Woods (Hesperia) on Tuesday afternoon. The Eagles, ranked 10th in the latest LP Girl’s, Division ... READ MORE
Sep 21, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com The Kent City Eagles volleyball team made it to the semifinals of the Montabella Invitational on Saturday. The Eagles fell to Meridian 2-0 with scores of 14-25 and 22-25. Kent City opened up pool play by demolishing Carson City Crystal with scores... READ MORE