Tag Archives: semifinals

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

June 9, 2010 Comments { 0 }

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 [...]

WMA takes attendance: district semifinals in the books

March 11, 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 Grand Rapids [...]

Wayland refocuses, survives scare from Caledonia

March 9, 2010 Comments { 4 }

High quality, professional action prints from the game available from David Chandler Photography. In the process of winning 20-consecutive ballgames, some funny things can tend to happen to a team’s sense of itself.  Whether you describe it as ego, confidence, swagger or anything else, the team can often view itself [...]

Games to Watch Semifinals: Worlds Apart

November 19, 2009 Comments { 2 }

Once the dust settled on the regional finals, two West Michigan hopefuls were missing.  Still in the hunt for postseason glory, seven teams remain standing, committed to fighting until the very last moment to earn something that they will remember for the rest of their lives. Two games now stand [...]

Will Lowell and EGR bring hardware back from Ford Field?

November 17, 2009 Comments { 0 }

As part-2 of yesterday’s conversation detailing what would be required for West Michigan to retain their position atop the football totem pole, today we discuss the other half of the equation: Division-2 and Division 3.  Along with multiple victories by Muskegon County teams, West Michigan is counting on strong showings [...]