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 26, 2021 Local SportsJournal.com The Michigan High School Athletic Association released the dates and start times for the first-round games in the high school football playoffs. A total of 13 area high school football teams qualified for the post-season. Teams hosting opening-round game... READ MORE
Oct 24, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com Spring Lake's girls cross country team placed three runners in the top 10 and claimed the Mel Hall Invitational on Saturday. Those high finished helped the Lakers overtake Hart, which had the top two finishers in the race. Spring Lake won the event 47-57... 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 23, 2021 Local SportsJournal.com The Reed City Coyotes jumped out to a nine-point first quarter lead and forced Whitehall to play catch up all evening as Reed City beat the Vikings 38-28. The ground game was essential for both teams as the Coyotes rushed for 268 yards on 50 carries ... 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 17, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com One of the more hotly contested football races in recent memory produced tri-champions in the West Michigan Conference. Montague, Oakridge and Whitehall all finished atop the standings with 6-1 records. And to the victors go the spoils, namely on the West... READ MORE
Oct 17, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com The Montague Wildcats captured their second straight Division 4 state title in girls golf on Saturday. The Wildcats and Lansing Catholic actually tied for the lead with a two-day total of 675. However, the tiebreaker favored the Wildcats as the team’s f... READ MORE
Oct 17, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com It was what you might call a photo finish in the boys portion of the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association cross country meet. The Whitehall Vikings edged the Fruitport Trojans by the narrowest of margins on Saturday, winning 63-64. In the girls race, Mo... READ MORE
Oct 16, 2021 By Tom Kendra LocalSportsJournal.com WHITEHALL - It took a super performance by a sophomore to bring “The Bell” back to Whitehall for the first time since 2014. Sophomore quarterback Kyle Stratton put on a show for the first three quarters on Friday night - not with hi... READ MORE
Oct 15, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com The Greater Muskegon Athletic Association cross country meet is set for Saturday at Oak Ridge Golf Course, located at 513 W. Pontaluna Road in Norton Shores. Reeths-Puffer comes as the defending champions in both the boys and girls races. The boys bring a... READ MORE
Oct 14, 2021 By Greg Gielczyk LocalSportsJournal.com At least a share of the West Michigan Conference title will be riding on the outcome of Friday’s game between the Montague Wildcats and the host Whitehall Vikings. Gametime is 7 p.m. The visiting Wildcats enter this week leading the... READ MORE
Oct 14, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com The Whitehall boys soccer team opened the MHSAA state tournament with a tight 1-0 Division 2 win over Fremont on Wednesday. The Vikings snuck past Packers on a lone goal from Jack McDowell that was assisted by Kyren Bluhm. Andon Palmer played phen... 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 13, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com Whitehall's Rayne Thompson became the fourth volleyball player in program history to reach 1,000 career kills on Tuesday. The senior reached the milestone in the Vikings' convincing non-league win over Sparta. Whitehall won in three games, 25-9, 25-... READ MORE
Oct 13, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com The West Michigan Christian volleyball team took down Orchard View in their final Lakes 8 duel of the season on Tuesday. The Warriors won in four games with scores of 25-16, 25-19, 18-25 and 25-6. For the Warriors, Ashley Binnendyk had 15 digs and... READ MORE
Oct 12, 2021 LocalSportsJournal Nothing like a clean sweep and that's what the Hart Pirates accomplished a soggy West Michigan Conference cross country championship. The meet was run at Shelby. Both the girls and the boys came away with first-place finishes and both victories came in convi... READ MORE
Oct 12, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com The Greater Muskegon Athletic Association volleyball is set for Saturday at two sites, Mona Shores High School and Orchard View High School. The teams are seeded 1-8 with Western Michigan Christian being the top seed. WMC is followed by Oakridge, Reeths-P... READ MORE
Oct 12, 2021 LocalSportsJournal.com The Whitehall volleyball team moved its season record to 24-3-1 at the 16 team Jenison Invitational on Saturday. The Vikings struck down Durand and Grand Rapids South Christian but split with Coopersville before falling to eventual gold bracket ch... READ MORE
Oct 09, 2021 by Craig Beilfuss LocalSportsJournal.comThe Whitehall Vikings made quick work of the Hart Pirates on Friday evening, racking up 465 yards of total offense en route to a convincing 46-6 West Michigan Conference victory. The Vikings scored on four of their five first half pos... READ MORE
