The Martin High School football juggernaut is off to yet another terrific start this fall.
The Clippers, who captured back-to-back state championships in eight-man football for the 2022 and 2023 seasons, now are 3-0 and their stats are nothing short of eye popping.
Martin Friday night did in a Holton team that has struggle thus far by a 63-8 count and the game wasn’t as close as the final score indicated. Martin jumped out to a 49-0 cushion at the half and outpointed the Red Devils 14-8 under a running clock for the latter half of the ballgame.
So the Clippers have outscored their three opponents by a combined count of 165 to 42.
They’ll finally get a stern test next Friday when they battle another undefeated high scoring outfit in Gobles. The Tigershave scored a whopping 142 points in their three season-opening victories.
Middleville Thornapple Kellogg 41 Wayland 14
So the Wildcats started their season with an impressive victory, dropped a heart-breaking contest to Sparta by one point the following week and then were not really in serious contention Friday night in a 41-14 loss to perennial rival Middleville Thornapple Kellogg.
The Trojans enjoyed a 28-7 lead at intermission and seemed to coast the rest of the way.
Wayland will get another tough test next Friday with a Forest Hills Eastern outfit that won its first two ballgames.
Belding 8 Hopkins 7
The Vikings, now 2-1 overall, scored their only touchdown and kicked the extra point in the first half to take a 7-0 lead into the halftime break. Brayden Harnish, who finished the game with 125 rushing yards, broke loose for an 81-yard TD run. QB Merek Zapolnek finished with 46 passing yards. and Hopkins rushed for more than 200 yards as a team. Vincente Garza kicked the extra point.
However, Belding came up with a 60-yard touchdown run and two-point conversion in the second half to win it.
The Vikings and Black Knights often are the principal rivals in the battle for the O-K Silver crown. Both now own 2-1 records.
