Oct 19, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The following are pairings for this week’s Division 1, 2, 3 and 4 boys’ soccer Michigan High School Athletic Association district tournaments involving area teams. The winners of each district tournament will advance to regional tournament play t... READ MORE
Oct 19, 2017 By Dave Tomczak LocalSportsJournal.com It’s been five weeks since my last LSJ Editors Gridiron Picks victory, but I have finally returned. It took a late Muskegon touchdown to do it, but I finished with a 14-1 record. So did Dave Hart, but I beat him in the tie-breaker, ... READ MORE
Oct 18, 2017 By Steve Gunn LocalSportsJournal.com Last week it was Muskegon and Mona Shores battling it out in a showdown of the two best big school football teams in the area. This week there's another potential classic - Montague at Muskegon Catholic, in a battle of the area's two be... READ MORE
Oct 13, 2017 By Steve Gunn LocalSportsJournal.com MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP - Reeths-Puffer's Jayme Brantsen was in second place near the end of the race at the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association City Cross Country Meet on Friday. She had one girl to beat down the stretch - her friend and t... READ MORE
Oct 12, 2017 By Dave Hart LocalSportsJournal.com It looks like I've won the LSJ Editors Gridiron Picks competition once again, beating Nate Thompson in a tie-breaker. We each posted sparkling 14-1 records last week. Nate obviously had a good week. But overall, this is my third victory ... READ MORE
Oct 12, 2017 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com It's getting to be an annual challenge for the Whitehall football team. Every year for the past three seasons, the Vikings have entered Week 8 of the season needing at least one victory to qualify for the playoffs. This year they... READ MORE
Oct 11, 2017 By Steve Gunn and Nate Thompson LocalSportsJournal.com It's the game everybody's been waiting for all season. Muskegon vs. Mona Shores. Both teams are 7-0 overall. Both are 4-0 in the O-K Black Conference. Muskegon is ranked No. 1 in the state in Division 3 while Mona S... READ MORE
Oct 05, 2017 By Nate Thompson LocalSportsJournal.com It’s about time. I came into the LSJ Editors Gridiron Picks competition thinking I’d be dominating on a weekly basis, since I competed in a similar format during my time as a staff writer at the Grand Haven Tribune. Well, it h... READ MORE
Sep 30, 2017 By Steve Gunn LocalSportsJournal.com MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP - The Mona Shores and Whitehall boys’ tennis teams have been tops in the area for several years now, which is obvious every fall at the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association City Tennis Tournament. The two teams figh... READ MORE
Sep 28, 2017 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com I’m back, folks. I figured I would be soon. I was the Week 5 winner of the LSJ Editors Gridiron Picks competition, just like I was in Week 1. I tied Nate Thompson for the top spot with a 13-2 record, then won in a tie-breaker, ... READ MORE
Sep 27, 2017 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com TWIN LAKE – Reeths-Puffer dominated the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association Girls City Golf Tournament for the second straight year at Stonegate Golf Club on Wednesday. After winning in 2016 by 39 shots, the Rockets won this yea... READ MORE
Sep 27, 2017 By Steve Gunn LocalSportsJournal.com It’s getting to that point of the season when conference championships are on the line. Two of LSJ’s Week 6 Spotlight Games will go a long way toward determining who will collect the title trophy in two local leagues. Perennial p... READ MORE
Sep 20, 2017 By Steve Gunn LocalSportsJournal.com Rivalries between neighboring schools are half the fun of high school football. Forget for a moment the mega-conferences, playoffs and 150-mile road trips to games. There’s nothing like whipping the guys down the street. There’s ... READ MORE
Sep 14, 2017 By Dave Hart LocalSportsJournal.com They say life is filled with ups and downs. I was reminded of that once again a few days ago, in a profoundly painful way. On Saturday, the Muskegon Heights football team knocked off Detroit Community, which I accurately predicted. Th... READ MORE
Sep 13, 2017 By Steve Gunn LocalSportsJournal.com The Mona Shores and Reeths-Puffer football teams both missed the playoffs last season, and both are eager to return. Both teams are off to very good starts in their pursuit of the postseason, with perfect 3-0 records. But one team’... READ MORE
Sep 07, 2017 By Dave Tomczak LocalSportsJournal.com Any time I try to do something, I always find I get the best results when the task doesn’t involve numbers. So after losing a tie-breaker for first place in the Week 1 LSJ Editors Gridiron Picks, which was based on guessing the to... READ MORE
Sep 06, 2017 By Steve Gunn LocalSportsJournal.com It’s still very early in the high school football season, but fans throughout the area are already buzzing about the looming O-K Black Conference showdown between Muskegon and Mona Shores on the Sailors’ home field on Oct. 13. Both ... READ MORE
Aug 30, 2017 By Dave Hart LocalSportsJournal.com The second week of the 2017 high school football season will feature another three days of exciting action. LocalSportsJournal.com will have full reports on all the games involving area teams, including a busy 12-game schedule on Thursda... READ MORE
Aug 30, 2017 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com The only thing I love as much as picking football winners is working my way through all-you-can-eat buffets. I’m really good at both – as my LSJ colleagues know very well - so I’m sure they weren’t surprised when I won the W... READ MORE
Aug 21, 2014 By Steve Gunn Local Sports Journal Lorenzo Rodriguez' life story almost reads like a Disney movie. The former factory worker and school custodian became the head coach of the woeful, last-place Shelby High School football program in 2006. Eight years later he's turned the T... READ MORE