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Rockford holds off Grand Haven for gritty win

January 7, 2011 Comments { 1 }

At first, it looked like a mismatch.  Rockford’s stifling defense held Grand Haven to only nine points in the first half, as the Rams made the Bucs look lost on the offensive end of the floor. But that type of defensive intensity is hard to maintain.  The Bucs rallied from [...]

Photo Blog: West Ottawa overcomes Grand Haven

September 11, 2010 Comments { 4 }

The Panthers started out sluggish in their first O-K Red Conference matchup of the season.  They found themselves behind by nine after only three minutes had been played.  But they didn’t panic, and behind strong performances by quarterback Desmond Morgan and tailback Zac Boersema, West Ottawa came back  to defeat [...]

Kalamazoo Central plays like Giants in win over Grand Haven

March 24, 2010 Comments { 4 }

WMA’s own David Chandler Photography captured all the action and drama.  Prints are available online Since 1997, only two greater Grand Rapids area Class-A teams have made the state finals — Ottawa Hills (’97) and Rockford (’03). Unfortunately, GR won’t have any Class-A representation at the Breslin Center in 2010 [...]

Preview: Elite-8 matchups will decide West Michigan bragging rights

March 23, 2010 Comments { 0 }

Among the quarterfinal basketball matchups involving West Michigan teams, two are particularly appetizing as they involve only West Michigan teams.  Kalamazoo Central vs. Grand Haven in Class-A, and Gull Lake vs. Holland Christian in Class-B.  If one were the type to stir up dramatics, the pair of matchups could be [...]

Nate VanArendonk dunks the Rams

March 18, 2010 Comments { 0 }

High quality, professional action prints from the game are available from David Chandler Photography. This game story was to start out much differently before Grand Haven’s Nate VanArendonk shattered the backboard on the “Dunk heard round the state,” the “VanArenDunk,” or simply “the Dunk.”  Late in the third quarter, VanArendonk [...]

Grand Haven's VanArendonk shatters the backboard

March 17, 2010 Comments { 18 }

UPDATE: We have pictures (from David Chandler Photography), and video (from WZZM13.com and from FOX17.com), people! This is just sick.  From the Venerable One: Grand Haven’s Nate VanArendonk shuffled toward the basket, grabbed the basketball with two hands and went up strong and slammed it through the hoop, bending the [...]

Grand Haven suffocates Reeths-Puffer

March 11, 2010 Comments { 0 }

High quality, professional action prints from the game available from David Chandler Photography. A defensive team through and through, Grand Haven sure does have a knack for starting out on fire.  After giving up the game’s first basket against Reeths-Puffer, the Bucs answered with four three-pointers in rapid succession before [...]

WMA Game of the Week: Reeths-Puffer vs. Grand Haven

March 10, 2010 Comments { 0 }

Each week, West Michigan Allstar takes our blogging circus over hill and dale to a high school gymnasium around West Michigan.  Although the WMA Game of the Week might not be getting primetime media coverage, it’s traditionally one of the biggest games in the area (we like to watch that [...]

Create-a-Caption: start 'em practicing young

March 1, 2010 Comments { 0 }

This week’s Create-a-Caption picture is from Rockford’s convincing victory over Grand Haven.  Well, sort of.  The picture was taken during the game, but the impact that the events depicted in the picture actually had on the game itself is certainly debatable. I mean, they might have, if that mini-football errantly [...]

Rockford rams Grand Haven in critical O-K Red matchup

February 20, 2010 Comments { 0 }

High quality professional prints from the game available from David Chandler Photography. The Grand Haven Buccaneers (14-3) traveled into a hostile black-out crowd for a battle with the Rockford Rams (12-5) Friday night. The Bucs held a slight, one game lead going into the affair, and needed a win to [...]

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