Nov 02, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com While area high school football teams and fans are gearing up for deep playoff runs, it's hard to forget the thrilling regular season. The November Local Sports Journal Magazine, which hits news stands this week, reviews the big showdown games betw... READ MORE
Oct 11, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com PEAK Training Academy is hosting a special wrestling clinic Saturday Oct. 14 at its downtown Muskegon location for high school and middle schoolers. The clinic will be led by Grand Haven assistant wrestling coach Jeremy Wiebenga, who is the former hea... 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
Mar 05, 2017 By Andrew Johnson and Jason Goorman LocalSportsJournal.com You can likely count Gerrit Yates as someone who believes in the old saying “third time is the charm” after finally winning a state championship on Saturday evening. Yates, a junior at Hesperia, pinned Zack M... READ MORE
Mar 02, 2017 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com GRAND HAVEN - Sometimes life’s small decisions can lead to really big things. Grand Haven wrestler Drake Morley knows all about that. Morley is a three-sport athlete, but he almost dropped down to two sports when he arrived at ... READ MORE
Feb 23, 2017 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com WHITEHALL - Nobody would have been shocked if the Whitehall wrestling team had taken a step back this season after losing eight wrestlers from last year’s state semifinal squad. But that’s not the case. The Vikings hav... READ MORE
Feb 19, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com Thirteen area high school wrestlers captured championships in their respective weight classes at individual regional tournaments on Saturday. The 13 champions, along with 38 other wrestlers who finished in the top four of their weight classes, all qua... READ MORE
Feb 17, 2017 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP - In nearly every varsity sport, the season is over when a team is eliminated from the state tournament. But that’s not the case with wrestling. The Reeths-Puffer wrestling team was eliminated by Greenville in... READ MORE
Feb 16, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Hart wrestling squad bowed out of the Division 4 state team tournament on Wednesday night with a heartbreaking 34-28 loss to Carson City-Crystal in a regional championship match at Hesperia High School. The Pirates defeated Kent City 65-12 earlie... READ MORE
Feb 15, 2017 By Steve Gunn LocalSportsJournal.com BELDING - District and regional championships are becoming pretty routine for the Whitehall wrestling team. Now the Vikings would like to find out what it’s like to win a state championship, and they will begin that push next week. ... READ MORE
Feb 12, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com Seventeen area high school wrestles claimed championships in individual district tournaments at various locations on Saturday. Dozens of other wrestlers also qualified for next week’s individual regional round, which is the final step before the sta... READ MORE
Feb 10, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Whitehall wrestling team won its sixth straight Division 4 wrestling title on Thursday evening at Montague High School. Whitehall defeated Grant 40-27 in the district semifinals before dominating host Montague 70-7 in the finals. Wrestlers who ... READ MORE
Feb 10, 2017 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com MUSKEGON - Brock Johnson already knows what it feels like to be a state champion. He was a four-year member of the Muskegon Catholic football team, which won its fourth straight Division 8 state title last November. But Johnson i... READ MORE
Feb 09, 2017 By Andrew Johnson LocalSportsJournal.com SHELBY - Winning a district championship is difficult enough. Winning a championship for the first time since 1992, by beating a defending state semifinalist, and then your archrival, is even more difficult. But that’s exactly ... READ MORE
Feb 08, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Fruitport wrestling squad won the Division 2 district title on Wednesday night as the host of the tournament. The Trojans defeated Kenowa Hills in the district semifinals by a 47-21 margin, then cruised past Coopersville 54-24 to claim their first... READ MORE
Feb 07, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The following are pairings for this week’s Division 1, 2, 3 and 4 team wrestling district tournaments, to be held at various locations throughout the area. Each district tournament will be on a single day, with two semifinal matches occurring at the... READ MORE
Feb 05, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Grand Haven wrestling team finished fourth in Saturday’s O-K Red Conference tournament, and fourth overall in the final league standings. Grand Haven’s Drake Morley won an individual championship at the conference tournament in the 215-pound w... READ MORE
Feb 05, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Reeths-Puffer wrestling team won the O-K Black Conference tournament on Saturday, and in the process locked up the overall league championship. Reeths-Puffer finished first in the conference in regular season team duals, earning six points in the ... READ MORE
Feb 04, 2017 LocalSportsJournal.com The Muskegon Catholic Central wrestling team clinched the Lakes 8 Conference championship on Friday in front of its home fans. The Crusaders’ victory in Friday’s conference tournament in their own gym, along with their first-place finish in the re... READ MORE