Sports – Page 157

Hopkins, Wayland teams enjoy pre-season C-C scrimmage

August 13, 2019

A sure sign that autumn is just around the corner is the news Tuesday morning of a fun scrimmage in cross country between Wayland and Hopkins High School teams. A big part of the fun was the custom of individual runners predicting their times. The actual season will get under...

Hasse, Cronkright co-captains of Lady Wildcats’ cross team

July 31, 2019

Seniors Grace Hasse (left) and Riley Cronkright have been chosen as co-captains of the Wayland girls' cross-country team for the 2019 season. Cronkright was a qualifier for the state Division 2 meet as a sophomore. The Lady Wildcats, coached by Sue Brewer, will start practice in a couple of weeks....

Former Homer, FHN football coach new Wayland AD

July 15, 2019

Matthew Moffett Wayland Union Schools has hired Matthew Moffett as new athletic director/assistant principal at Wayland Union High School. Moffett has been athletic director and head football coach at Homer High School and most recently was a physical education teacher and head football coach at Forest Hills Northern. He received...

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O-K Silver to have only 4 football teams this fall

July 2, 2019

Hopkins this fall will play three O-K Silver Conference opponents twice . three schools are dropping football from league competition Calvin Christian, NorthPointe Christian and Wyoming Lee are leaving and Belding, Godwin Heights, Hopkins and Kelloggsville will remain to play each other twice to make up for the loss of...

Phil Regan back in the Bigs as Mets’ interim pitching coach

June 20, 2019

Phil Regan, the most famous athlete ever to graduate from Wayland High School (1955), has been named interim pitching coach for the New York Mets at the tender age of 82. It is his first Major League coaching job since 1999 when he was pitching coach for the Cleveland Indians. He...

Presley’s not done yet. She’ll go pro in Poland this winter

June 18, 2019

Apparently, Presley Hudson just can't get enough of playing basketball. She has just signed a contract to play professionally this winter in Europe for Politechnika Gdańska in Gdansk, Poland. Hudson, a 2015 Wayland High School graduate, daughter of now former Wildcat head basketball coach Mike Hudson and national free throw and...

Martin/Delton golfers 18th in state meet, Wayland places 5th

June 11, 2019

Alejandro Guevara, Javier Guevara and Damian LaFountaine, all Martin players on the combined Martin-Delton golf team. The Martin-Delton combined golf team last weekend finished 18th in the Division 3 state meet at the Katke golf course at Ferris State University. Coach Jim Hogoboom reported seniors Alejandro Guevara, Damian LaFountaine, Tanner...

Lady Wildcats soccer team bows out of tourney in regionals

June 5, 2019

The Wayland girls' varsity soccer season came to an end Tuesday night in the Division 2 regional semifinals with an 8-0 loss to state-ranked Forest Hills Northern. The Cinderella Lady Wildcats upset Byron Center and Grand Rapids Christian in the district tournament last week to advance to the regionals. (Photo...

Lady Wildcats’ softball season ends in district finals defeat

June 3, 2019

Cheri Ritz and her young Lady Wildcats. It’s been said in sports conventional wisdom that it’s extremely difficult for a team to beat another three times in one season Middleville Thornapple Kellogg’s softball squad, however, beat Wayland for the third time this spring, this time in the final round of...

Lady Vikings’ season ends; Wildcats play Allegan Monday

June 2, 2019

The softball season ended Saturday morning for Hopkins n the district tournament in an 11-1 loss to Middleville Thornapple Kellogg. The horrible weather conditions moved Wayland's district semifinal against Allegan at Hopkins to 2 p.m. Monday. The Lady Vikings finished their season with a 21-9 overall record. Middleville, now 27-4,...

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