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 [...]
WMA Game of the Week: Rockford v. Grand Haven, Part III
March 17, 2010
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Welcome to the Regional Championship edition of the WMA Game of the Week. Each week, West Michigan Allstar takes our blogging circus over hill and dale to a high school gymnasium around West Michigan. It’s traditionally one of the biggest games in the area, with the top players and teams [...]
Grand Haven suffocates Reeths-Puffer
March 11, 2010
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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
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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 [...]
Rockford rams Grand Haven in critical O-K Red matchup
February 20, 2010
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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 [...]
WMA Game of the Week: Grand Haven at Rockford
February 19, 2010
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Each week, West Michigan Allstar takes our blogging circus over hill and dale to a high school gymnasium around West Michigan. It’s traditionally one of the biggest games in the area, with the top players and teams duking it out against one another (we like to watch that stuff, too), [...]
Straight to the Pros — Noah Veach
January 19, 2010
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A weekly feature in which we spotlight a player from the West Michigan area, comparing him to his NBA or major NCAA counterpart based on his playing style, talent (relative, of course), appearance or anything else that warrants a comparison. Noah Veach (Grand Haven) — Gerald Wallace Spirit animal — [...]
Photo Blog: Grand Haven comes back to beat Rockford
January 16, 2010
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Sophomore is super in Grand Haven comeback win over Rockford
January 16, 2010
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Trailing by three points with under five seconds remaining, an entire court length between them and the basket, Grand Haven looked as though rival Rockford had them on the ropes. And then something crazy happened. After a deep inbounds pass that got the ball to half court with 2.7 seconds [...]
WMA Game of the Week: Rockford at Grand Haven
January 15, 2010
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Each week, West Michigan Allstar takes our blogging circus over hill and dale to a high school gymnasium around West Michigan. It’s traditionally one of the biggest games in the area, with the top players and teams duking it out against one another (we like to watch that stuff, too), [...]





