Jun 03, 2019 LocalSportsJournal.com Western Michigan Christian's Abby VanderKooi pulled it off. The freshman distance runner was nervous headed into the 3,200-meter run at the Michigan High School Athletic Association state track and field finals on Saturday. It was her first chance to ... READ MORE
May 20, 2019 LocalSportsJournal.com A total of 29 individual area athletes, as well as four relay teams, won championships at regional track and field meets at various locations on Friday and Saturday. Many other local athletes also did very well in their regional events, and joined the... READ MORE
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May 04, 2019 By Steve Gunn and Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com FRUITPORT - They say tradition and excellence never graduate, and that's certainly the case for the Reeths-Puffer girls and Fruitport boys track teams. Athletes come and go, but those squads remain great, season after sea... READ MORE
Mar 04, 2019 LocalSportsJournal.com The following are matchups, sites and times for this week's Division 1-4 high school boys basketball regional tournaments involving area teams. Each team reached regionals by winning district tournaments last week. The winner of each regional tourname... READ MORE
Feb 27, 2019 LocalSportsJournal.com Two area girls high school bowling teams and two individual bowlers won championships last weekend in regional competition, and qualified for the state tournament in the process. In Division 2 regional action at Northway Lanes in Muskegon, the Mona Sh... READ MORE
Feb 20, 2019 LocalSportsJournal.com A total of nine individual wrestlers won championships last Saturday at various Division 1-4 high school wrestling individual regional tournaments. Those champions and 39 other local wrestlers qualified for the Michigan High School Athletic Associatio... READ MORE
Feb 13, 2019 By Steve Gunn LocalSportsJournal.com MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP - There’s nothing worse than coming close to a championship, then falling just short. That’s what happened to the Ravenna boys bowling team last year at the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association Bowling Tournament,... READ MORE
Feb 12, 2019 LocalSportsJournal.com A total of 87 local wrestlers qualified for the MHSAA individual regional tournaments at various locations during district competition on Saturday. Of the 87 qualifiers, 24 took home individual district championships in their respective weight cla... READ MORE
Nov 02, 2018 LocalSportsJournal.com The following are pairings, sites and times for this week's high school volleyball district tournaments involving area teams. Champions of each district will move on to regional tournaments the following week. The Michigan High School Athletic Asso... READ MORE
Oct 29, 2018 LocalSportsJournal.com A total of 83 local athletes, including five regional individual champions and 10 teams, qualified for the state cross country finals with strong performances at various regional meets on Saturday. In Division 1, the Grand Haven boys team took home a ... READ MORE
Oct 25, 2018 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com KENT CITY – It may be the day before the start of the 2018 Michigan High School Athletic Association football playoffs, but Kent City is already celebrating. That’s because the Eagles were chosen by Fox Sports Detroit to hav... READ MORE
Oct 21, 2018 LocalSportsJournal.com The Reeths-Puffer girls golf team finished second this weekend at the Division 2 state finals at Forest Acres West golf course at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The Rockets finished with a two-day point total of 680. They finished 24 sho... READ MORE
Oct 21, 2018 LocalSportsJournal.com All season long, high school football coaches keep stressing the importance of getting six wins during the regular season, to guarantee a state playoff berth. But sometimes five wins is good enough. Three area teams proved that on Sunday night, whe... READ MORE
Oct 19, 2018 LocalSportsJournal.com The following are pairings for this week's Division 1,2,3 and 4 boys district soccer tournaments involving area teams. The winners of each district will advance to regional competition the following week. The MHSAA boys state finals are scheduled f... READ MORE
Sep 29, 2018 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP – The 2018 Greater Muskegon Athletic Association boys tennis tournament at Reeths-Puffer High School had a sense of familiarity on Saturday afternoon. Senior Andrew Swirczek of Mona Shores repeated as the No. 1 s... READ MORE
Sep 20, 2018 By Mitchell Boatman LocalSportsJournal.com Local rivalries are the backbone of high school football. When it comes to the Greater Muskegon area, and even the state of Michigan, rivalries don't get much more intense or entertaining than Whitehall versus Montague. The “... READ MORE
Sep 20, 2018 By Nate Thompson LocalSportsJournal.com My birthday was on Monday the 17th. And for all of you wondering at home, I've hit the ripe old age of 38. So yes, I only have a couple good years left. Or is that just what all those young punks like Mitchell Boatman and Andrew Joh... READ MORE
Sep 13, 2018 By Mitchell Boatman LocalSportsJournal.com Believe it or not, the high school football regular season is already one-third of the way over. As area teams move to the middle of the season, it’s time for playoff pushes and conference races to start heating up. This week... READ MORE
Sep 06, 2018 By Mitchell Boatman LocalSportsJournal.com After two weeks of exciting, mostly non-conference, high school football action, it’s time for many area teams to move on to league play. While West Michigan Conference play began last week, teams in the O-K conferences, the CSA... READ MORE
Sep 05, 2018 By Steve Gunn LocalSportsJournal.com Finally I found a way to win! OK, it wasn't exactly a clean win, because I screwed up. But I was a co-winner, and since there was no way to declare a clean winner, I am selfishly taking the bow this week. Let me explain. It's my j... READ MORE