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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 [...]

Forest Hills Central girls open with big win over Rockford

December 4, 2010 Comments { 0 }

In the first game of the young season, the Forest Hills Central Rangers overcame a talented Rockford basketball team to walk away with a 44-31 home victory.  Get the full story from FHCRangers.com. Janelle Bauchan paced the Rangers with 12 points, while teammates Christina Bowman and Jillian Hendrickson each scored [...]

Brett Egnatuk Returns and Ready to Ramp Up his Ram Defense

August 25, 2010 Comments { 0 }

Rockford linebacker Brett Egnatuk is back from his knee injury and ready to ramp up his Ram defense. Read the full story with The Grand Rapids Press: “Rockford linebacker Brett Egnatuk…”

Hudsonville's Hibbits pitches complete game shut out against Rockford

May 19, 2010 Comments { 1 }

Superbly talented pitching really stands out in high school baseball. High school baseball tends to be dictated by powerful offense, so when a dominant pitcher steps on the mound, the impact is immediately noticeable in both the game and the teams record. Exhibit A: a six-hit (three in the 7th), [...]

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 [...]

WMA Game of the Week: Rockford v. Grand Haven, Part III

March 17, 2010 Comments { 0 }

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 [...]

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 [...]

WMA Game of the Week: Grand Haven at Rockford

February 19, 2010 Comments { 4 }

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), [...]

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