Oct 27, 2013 FOOTBALL Here are the district football pairings for the 11 area teams that earned playoff berths. Division 2 Region 1 District 2 Mona Shores (7-2) at Lowell (9-0) Reeths-Puffer (7-2) at Muskegon (8-1) Division 4 Region 1 District 2 Fremont (6-3) at Comstock Park ... READ MORE
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Oct 27, 2013 Local Sports Journal Muskegon and Reeths-Puffer faced off against each other on Friday in an OK-Black title game. The LSJ's newest video correspondant, Nate Taylor, was on hand to get the highlights. Deshaun Thrower was the man of the night scoring three touchdowns on th... READ MORE
Oct 26, 2013 Local Sports Journal FREMONT – The Fremont Packers did the unthinkable Friday night. Not only did the Packers earn their first playoff berth since 2009, they also defeated Montague for the first time in 53 years. Down 14-6 at the half, the Packers scored 22 unanswered ... READ MORE
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Oct 26, 2013 By Mark Lewis Local Sports Journal MUSKEGON – The Muskegon Catholic Crusaders didn’t start the season the way they wanted, opening with two narrow losses to Mona Shores and Grand Rapids Catholic Central. But boy, did they finish the regular season hitting every r... READ MORE
Oct 26, 2013 Local Sports Journal The Kent City Eagles finished the season on a high note with a 61-0 thrashing of Wyoming Lee Friday night in non-league football action. The Eagles (3-6) held Lee to 51 total offensive yards. Kent City's offensive scored four times through the air an... READ MORE
Oct 26, 2013 Local Sports Journal HART – Hart head coach Steve Hlady said this past summer that it was his team’s goal to take a close game into the fourth quarter. “Hey,” Hlady told his kids, “keep the game close in the third quarter and then anything can happen.” At Fri... READ MORE
Oct 26, 2013 Local Sports Journal Mona Shores closed out its regular season with a 56-12 win over Grand Rapids Union on Friday night. Dom Shermeta and Marquon Sargent both scored three touchdowns to lead the Sailors. Shermeta scored on a pair of 1-yard runs and from 15 yards. Sarg... READ MORE
Oct 26, 2013 By Steve Gunn Local Sports Journal MUSKEGON - Deshaun Thrower the punter let Reeths-Puffer back in the game. But Thrower the runner made sure Muskegon won its first conference championship since 2008. Thrower, the Big Reds’ standout quarterback, also performs punting ... READ MORE
Oct 26, 2013 Local Sports Journal Grant earned its first victory in the last game of the season with a 30-21 win over Whitehall Friday in non-league football action. The Tigers took a 13-0 first quarter lead on Garrett Bomay’s 22-yard pass to Brian Hitts and Kaleb Hepinstall’s 24-... READ MORE
Oct 25, 2013 By John Jarvi Local Sports Journal GRAND HAVEN -- The Grand Haven Buccaneers saved the best game of the football season for the last one for Friday night. The Buccaneers played hard again and came away with a 38-0 victory over the Grandville Bulldogs in the Bucs' Pride Game t... READ MORE
Oct 25, 2013 Local Sports Journal David Thompson caught three touchdown passes and Josh Kohanski rushed for a pair of scores as Ravenna closed its season Friday with a 58-21 win over Tri-County. Thompson caught scoring passes of 6, 32 and 23 yards from quarterback Jake Sied. Kohansk... READ MORE
Oct 25, 2013 Local Sports Journal North Muskegon’s playoff hopes took a big hit Friday night with a heartbreaking 17-14 loss to host Maple City Glen Lake. The Norse will have to wait to see if they can sneak in to the playoffs with a 5-4 record. The state playoff brackets will be ... READ MORE
Oct 25, 2013 Local Sports Journal The Fruitport Trojans may have lost their chance for a state playoff bid after falling 31-7 to DeWitt Friday night. The Trojans are now 5-4, and will have to wait until Sunday to see if they can sneak in the playoffs. Six wins would have clinched a post... READ MORE
Oct 25, 2013 Local Sports Journal Oakridge scored 39 first-half points and rolled to a 46-0 win over host Orchard View Friday night in nonconference football action. The Eagles, who improved to 8-1 and are headed for the state playoffs, led 15-0 after one quarter as Austin Wright sc... READ MORE
Oct 25, 2013 By Jason Goorman Local Sports Journal Can anyone believe it’s Week 9 already? It seems like yesterday we were planning our football tab for area pigskin fanatics. How many memories were made this season and how many more are right on the edge of becoming a dream come tru... READ MORE
Oct 24, 2013 For Fairfield and Jewett, the battle for OK Black title will come down to which team is toughest By Mark Lewis Local Sports Journal MUSKEGON – This past August, who could have imagined heading into Week 9 of the 2013 high school football season that the Muskegon/Reeths... READ MORE
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Oct 24, 2013 Senior end set to take talents to Ivy League – But only after helping to lead Crusaders on another title run By Mark Lewis Local Sports Journal MUSKEGON – Everyone is busy. But there’s busy, and then there’s BUSY. Muskegon Catholic Central’s Ian T... READ MORE
Oct 24, 2013 By Jim Moyes [email protected] The 2013 regular high school season comes to a close this weekend, featuring a couple of blockbuster matchups as well as a few of our local teams needing a win to advance into the playoffs. Who could have ever envisioned, when this season got un... READ MORE
Oct 22, 2013 Local Sports Journal Daily newspapers have downsized, and their coverage of local sports has decreased. That has left many of our local athletes - particularly high school kids - without the full recognition they deserve. The reporters at Local Sports Journal are dedicated ... READ MORE
Oct 19, 2013 Local Sports Journal It's been seven years since Orchard View won on homecoming. It's been eight years since the Cardinals beat Grant. Both of those cold spells came to an end Friday with Orchard View's 49-6 thumping of Grant in Lakes 8 Conference football action. Th... READ MORE