Tag Archives: Playoffs

Catholic Central’s Win: Through The Eyes Of The Players

What a week of Hockey this past week as teams continued to fight for the top spot in the state. We were unable to make it out to the big game between South Christian and Catholic Central yesterday, but we were able to get a first hand account of the [...]

District Recap and Outlook Round 1.

Although we try our best to be at every game we possibly can, it’s just not a reality for us. What we can do however is provide you with a detailed layout of the District brackets as they begin to take shape and we will continue to do this for [...]

Fennville’s Wes Leonard chats it up with WMA

My name is Marvin Ramirez many people only know me by my football pen name: “acng90bronco.” I’m the Top-20 guy on West Michigan Allstar, and I love high school football. I was intrigued by Fennville’s Wes Leonard’s performance last week vs. Bloomingdale (484 yards passing, seven touchdowns, no interceptions), so I [...]

Friday night lights, last chance for some teams

Week 9 means that it is a last chance for a lot of teams: go undefeated, make the playoffs, and conference championship. Zeeland East and East Grand Rapids both have to opportunity to have an undefeated season. and it’s the last chance for several area schools to make it to the [...]

The rally cry for Grand Rapids West Catholic baseball

With the hopes of an entire region riding on their shoulders, the Grand Rapids West Catholic Falcons brought home the victory at Friday morning’s state semifinal baseball game.  Only one more to go. A balanced lineup still hasn’t let down West Catholic’s streaking baseball team. Even with a trip to [...]

LAX game to watch: East Grand Rapids @ Forest Hills Central

This time of year, every game is the most important game of the season.  Lose, and you start summer vacation.  Win, and go on to play an even bigger most important game of the season.  This is the position in which Forest Hills Central and East Grand Rapids lacrosse find [...]

Western Michigan Christian holds off Covert, now focused on history

One more game to make history.  The last time a boys basketball team from West Michigan won three consecutive state titles, Kalamazoo Central in 1949-51, people watched the game on this doohickey.  You wanna talk greater Grand Rapids area?  Well, then you’re talking Grand Haven in 1933-35, when they didn’t [...]

On paper, Western Michigan Christian should win third straight Class-D championship

In a sporting environment that breeds competition between the left and right sides of the state, state championships are the points by which we determine the winner.  In recent years the basketball crown has been firmly atop the head of East Michigan — except in Class-D.  In Class-D, Muskegon Western [...]

Holland Christian survives East Grand Rapids in an all out war

High quality, professional action prints from the game available from David Chandler Photography. One clear thing can be said about the regional semifinal matchup between East Grand Rapids and Holland Christian on Monday night, the only thing more intense than the crowd in the stands was the action on the [...]

Two unlikely upsets: the beauty and the beast of the state tournament

After logging over 15-victories during the regular season, there are certain expectations placed on a team regarding how they will perform in the state tournament.  The higher that number, the higher the expectations. But apart from one or two teams each year who are simply out of everybody else’s league, [...]