Category: Sports

Both the Hopkins boys’ and girls’ varsity cross-country teams were runners-up in the first O-K Silver Conference jamboree of the season Tuesday at Wise Farms in Hopkins. Both squads finished second to Grandville Calvin Christian. The Lady Vikings scored 52 points to Calvin’s 31 while the guys came in 59...

The Wayland High School varsity volleyball team tied for fifth place out of 24 teams Saturday at the Portage Northern Invitational. The Lady Wildcats won their pool by beating Okemos and splitting with Battle Creek Lakeview and Dowagiac. In bracket play, they beat Schoolcraft before losing in the quarterfinals to...

Week Four — Overall records for football teams in the O-K Gold, O-K Silver and Southwestern Athletic Conferences.         Ottawa-Kent Gold                                                                            Ottawa-Kent Silver GR Catholic Central 3-1                                               GR North Point Christian 4-0 Hastings 2-2                                                                                                  Hopkins 1-3 Middleville 1-3                                                                                        Kelloggsville 2-2 GR Ottawa Hills 2-2                                                      Wyoming...

Hopkins has had a history of mastery over North Pointe Christian on the gridiron and it's had a history of winning or sharing the O-K Silver Conference championship. One of the two fell by the wayside Friday night in the Vikings’ 33-6 defeat at Comstock Park High School. The custom...

It wasn’t much more than two years ago that Wayland’s football team ended a 17-game losing streak. Now the Wildcats are staring at a 14-game losing skid that stretches back to November 2013. No. 14 came Friday evening at Greenville in a 31-6 verdict. The much-maligned defense did a much...

It’s been a big week for freshman cross-country runner Laura Velderman of Hopkins. The first-year running sensation captured individual medalist honors in her division at the Michigan State University Spartan Invitational Friday in East Lansing. She won in 21:13, by 16 seconds over senior Kayla DelaCruz of Salem. Earlier in...

The Wayland girls’ varsity cross-country team finished 13th and the boys were 18th at the MSU Spartan Invitational meet Friday at the Forest Akers Golf Course, East Lansing. The Lady Wildcats had 434 team points in the competition, which included 43 teams. Linden won with 116 points and Benzie Central...

It was the Hopkins girls’ best day yet this season on the cross-country course. The Lady Vikings took second place among eight teams in the Delton-Gilmore Invitational Thursday by scoring 67 points, two fewer than third-place Hastings. And freshman sensation Laura Velderman was the individual medalist in 20:42.59. The boys’...

Grand Rapids Catholic Central halted the Wayland boys’ varsity soccer team’s three-gamer winning streak Thursday with a 6-1 decision in O-K Gold Conference play. The Wildcats started things well, getting on the scoreboard first when Mitchell Dykstra found a streaking Tristen Ortiz, who rounded the keeper and found the back...