Aug 23, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Holton volleyball team downed Kent City in straight sets on Wednesday night in CSAA Silver Division action. Holton won by scores of 25-14, 25-23, and 25-16. Madi Baker led the Red Devils with 10 kills. Haylee Brant and Paige Byrnes added had 12... READ MORE
Aug 23, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Muskegon Community College volleyball team opened its season with a straight-set victory over Jackson College on Wednesday. The set scores were 25-12, 25-15, 25-12. Leading the Jayhawk attack was Robbie Berg with 15 kills and seven service aces... READ MORE
Aug 22, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Muskegon Catholic volleyball squad posted a 1-1 record at the North Muskegon tri-match on Tuesday. The Crusaders cruised past Muskegon with a two-set sweep with match scores of 25-13 and 25-4 and then fell short against North Muskegon in a three-... READ MORE
Aug 22, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Grand Haven volleyball team posted a 3-2 record on Tuesday at their annual Early Season invitational. The Buccaneers went 1-2 in pool play after defeating Portage Northern and falling to Lapeer and Mona Shores. Grand Haven closed out the tourna... READ MORE
Aug 21, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Pentwater volleyball team opened the season with a 25-13, 25-10, 25-11 win over host Evart Monday. Taylor Wilkinson led the Falcons with 13 kills and Julia Hall added eight kills. Taylor Ruggles finished with 16 service points and two aces.... READ MORE
Aug 20, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Grant volleyball squad took second place in the Allendale Invitational on Saturday, its second tournament in two days. In pool play, the Tigers defeated Holland (25-21, 26-24) and Allegan (25-9, 25-10) and lost to Kingsley (13-25, 19-25). In brack... READ MORE
Aug 20, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Mona Shores volleyball team posted a 5-1 record on Saturday and rolled to the championship at the Reeths-Puffer Invitational. In pool play, the Sailors rolled to straight set victories over Fremont, North Muskegon and Reeths-Puffer, and beat Whi... READ MORE
Aug 19, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Hesperia volleyball team rallied and beat Oakridge 18-25, 25-22, 15-11 in the championship match of the Holton Invitational on Saturday. The Panthers beat Oakridge in the first round of play in three sets, then defeated Holton and Newaygo to quali... READ MORE
Aug 19, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com What a great start to the season. The Fruitport volleyball team posted a perfect 6-0 record and won the Traverse City Central Invitational on Saturday. The Trojans beat Caledonia (24-26, 25-23, 15-13), Midland (25-20, 19-25, 15-12), Wayland (25-14,... READ MORE
Aug 19, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Holton volleyball team kicked off the 2017 season by winning one of three matches on Saturday. The Red Devils beat Manistee 27-26, 25-19, then dropped matches to Hesperia (25-22, 25-18) and Western Michigan Christian 25-13, 25-18). Morgan Mur... READ MORE
Aug 19, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Grant volleyball team advanced all the way to the finals of the Michigan Volleyball Officials Association tournament on Friday. The Tigers split two sets with Thornapple-Kellogg, then beat Cedar Springs (25-11, 26-24) and Pewamo-Westphalia (25-23,... READ MORE
Aug 19, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Ravenna volleyball team got the 2017 season off to a good start by posting a 2-1-1 record at the West Michigan Officials Association Tournament on Friday. In pool play, Ravenna split with Allendale 18-25, 25-20, then defeated Covenant Christian ... READ MORE
Aug 19, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Ludington volleyball team posted a 3-2 record on Friday at its own invitational tournament. Erin Maltbie paced the Orioles on the day with 25 kills while Abby Milspaugh added 24 and Kennedy Kirby had 15. Mackenzie Luce had 45 digs and 11 aces, ... READ MORE
Aug 19, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Montague volleyball team opened the season by winning four of six matches on Friday. The Wildcats defeated Sparta (25-22, 25-14), North Muskegon (21-25, 25-17, 15-7), Laingsburg (25-14, 18-25, 15-4) and Grand Rapids Union (25-4, 25-5). They los... READ MORE
Jun 29, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com With the decline of daily newspapers, local media coverage of high school sports has been disappearing in recent years. For the past five years, the staff at Local Sports Journal has been working hard to fill that void by covering high school sports a... READ MORE
Apr 22, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com Don’t forget to get your team signed up for the first annual Local Sports Journal Golf Outing, slated for Friday, June 2 at Oakridge Golf Club! The 18-hole scramble, with four-player teams, will start at 9 a.m. The event will include lunch at the tu... READ MORE
Nov 16, 2016 LocalSportsJournal.com For two sets on Tuesday, the Shelby volleyball team looked like it was headed to Battle Creek for the state semifinals. The Tigers swept the first two sets from Brown City in the Class C state quarterfinals in Saginaw. But then they let their opponent... READ MORE
Nov 15, 2016 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com HUDSONVILLE – The Grant volleyball team had a storybook season in 2016, and rewrote the school record books in the process. But the story ended on Tuesday night when the Tigers lost in three straight sets to Buchanan in the Class ... READ MORE
Nov 11, 2016 LocalSportsJournal.com The Grant volleyball team won the first regional championship in program history by beating Holland Christian in straight sets on Thursday at Fremont High School. The set scores were 25-17, 25-20 and 25-19. The Tigers have now won three championsh... READ MORE
Nov 11, 2016 By Steve Gunn LocalSportsJournal.com EAST KENTWOOD - The Grand Haven volleyball team can say it left everything on the court in its Class A regional final showdown against Rockford on Thursday. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite enough. The Bucs bravely rallied from a... READ MORE