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Northview earns scrappy win

Despite being out-hit 11-4, the Northview Wildcats scrapped their way to a 4-2 victory in the opening game of Saturday’s double header with the visiting Kenowa Hills Knights. A leadoff walk by Ian Mikowski set up a run-scoring single by Kody Alber with two outs, giving Northview an early lead [...]

Huskies Win Dogfight

Thanks to a four run first, which was capped off by a towering three run Nathan Krikke homer, the Huskies of Forest Hills Northern defeated the Byron Center Bulldogs 5-2, in first-round action at East Kentwood High School’s Jeff Bosma Tournament. Starting on the mound for Byron Center was Zachary [...]

Kelloggsville Overcomes Five Run Hole in Seventh

Down by five coming into the home half of the seventh inning, things appeared bleak for the Kelloggsville Rockets.  However, following a couple singles here, and a walk there, the Rockets found that they had put Wyoming Park on the ropes, and only needed one more blow to finish their [...]

Where are the now? Brandon Bongard. Presented by Davenport University.

Each week a local alum of West Michigan High School sports will be featured in our ‘Where Are They Now?’ piece. All of these students have moved on to continue their athletic careers at Davenport University as the Panthers continue to find success athletically in nearly every sport they participate [...]

Baseball All Star Final Results!

After a week and a half of voting for the best ball players in West Michigan we have tallied all of the votes and come up with our final totals. Three pitchers were selected along with a trio of outfielders and four infielders. Pitchers: Sean Cunningham  Forest Hills Northern 258 votes [...]

West Michigan Baseball All-Stars Poll is OPEN!!!

We have taken in all of the nominations from WMA as well as nominations collected at West Michigan High School Baseball and we have formulated our poll for you the fan to vote on for this years team. You may choose a combination of 3 Pitchers or Catchers, 4 Infielders [...]

WMA opens its Baseball All Star voting!!

The time of the year has come (despite the weather) where WMA invites you the fans to cast your vote for the best baseball players that West Michigan has to offer. We’ve teamed up with our good buddies over at West Michigan High School Baseball and provided our base list [...]

Spring Lake picks up a vital Lakes 8 win behind Keller’s Gem.

The Lakes 8 features a bit of a log jam behind league leading Howard City Tri-County and the Spring Lake Lakers and Orchard View Cardinals are right in the thick of it. Weather and a lack of pitching depth had been the bugaboo so far this season for the Lakers, [...]

Warriors With Dramatic Win

On a chilly, overcast afternoon Western Michigan Christan righty Austin Sandin provided late drama as the Warriors won a 3-2 nail-biter against the Freedom Christian Falcons in the first game of a double header. With the Warriors playing as the home team in the first game of double header, Sandin [...]

Late Homer Powers Eagles to Victory

The teams may have taken the field a day late, but as the saying goes, the show must go on, and that’s exactly what happened as the Grandville Bulldogs went to nearby Hudsonville to play the conference-leading Eagles.  West Michigan All Star was on hand to cover the first game [...]