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

May 10, 2011 Comments { 0 }

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, [...]

Orchard View girls basketball beats West Michigan Christian

December 9, 2010 Comments { 0 }

Orchard View girls basketball team topped West Michigan Christian 49-47. Orchard View’s Tiera Hill had a buzzer beater shot. Yonique McClure led Orchard View with 19 points, Hill scored 14 and Summer Eddy finished with 10 rebounds. Read the full story with The Muskegon Chronicle: “Buzzer beater leads Orchard View over…”

Mike Mattson’s Area Football Rankings

October 13, 2010 Comments { 0 }

Mike Mattson’s area football rankings: DIVISIONS 1-4 Grand Haven 6-1 Muskegon 5-2 Fruitport 6-1 Spring Lake 6-1 Orchard View 3-4 DIVISIONS 5-8 Oakridge 5-2 Shelby 6-1 Muskegon Heights 3-4 Grant 6-1 Montague 5-2 Read the full story with The Muskegon Chronicle: “Mike Mattson’s rankings…”

Oakridge and Orchard View to play in second “Birds Battle Cancer”

October 6, 2010 Comments { 0 }

Oakridge and Orchard View will play in the second “Birds Battle Cancer’’ event on Oct. 22 in order to help to raise money to support cancer patients.  The game will be hosted by Oakridge. last year the teams raised over $13,000 of the patients at the Johnson Cancer Center. Read the full [...]

WMA takes attendance: Climax-Scotts defeats Portage Northern to keep perfect record

June 2, 2010 Comments { 0 }

A look around the wide world of high school sports and the web that covers it. Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles. In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye. So look closely: North Muskegon beats [...]

WMA takes attendance: Kailey Hanson's hat trick helps Ravenna win over North Muskegon

May 27, 2010 Comments { 1 }

A look around the wide world of high school sports and the web that covers it. Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles. In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye. So look closely: East Kentwood shuts [...]

WMA takes attendance: Portage Central beats Portage Northern in baseball

May 26, 2010 Comments { 2 }

A look around the wide world of high school sports and the web that covers it. Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles. In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye. So look closely: Monty Porter’s dominating [...]

WMA take attendance: watch out for the splash zone!

April 14, 2010 Comments { 1 }

A look around the wide world of high school sports and the web that covers it. Well, not the whole world, mostly just the distance between Lake Michigan and somewhere-in-the-vicinity-of-Lansing, give or take about 50-miles. In an order wholly indecipherable to the naked eye. So look closely: Forest Hills Northern’s [...]

Games to watch in Week-5: Battle of the big timers

September 24, 2009 Comments { 0 }

Just about at the halfway point of the 2009 football season, and things are certainly cooking along nicely.  So far AGF’s ESP is a bit on the fuzzy side, as evidenced by the moderately successful 9-4 prediction record (3-0 for week-4).  But his prescience is there, I think, as 9-4 [...]

Games to watch in Week 1

August 27, 2009 Comments { 2 }

Finally, at long last, football is here!  Week one should be chock full of great matchups, and may have more than a few surprises in store.  One thing’s for sure: when the dust settles after Friday’s matchups, we’ll certainly have a much clearer picture. Now then, let’s talk about what [...]