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Clippers have outstanding track debut performances

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The Martin High School varsity track team had some outstanding individual and relay team performances at its season-opening meet at Holland Black River. The host school, Martin, Saugatuck and Holland Calvary participated in the four-team meet last Wednesday. Earning first places or demonstrating solid performances for the Clippers were: •...
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Viking boys 6th, girls 7th at Hastings team track meet

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The Hopkins boys’ varsity track team placed sixth and the women were seventh in the Hastings Team Invitational Friday. The Vikings boys collected 552.5 team points for the day. Hudsonville won with 924. The Lady Vikings accumulated 507 points and Grand Ledge won with 1007. Nine male and female squads...
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Hopkins loses softball doubleheader at Hamilton

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It was a bad day at Hamilton Thursday afternoon for the Hopkins softball team. The Lady Vikings dropped both ends of a doubleheader, 13-3 and 9-2, and saw their overall season record evened at 2-2. Dahlia Veldhouse, who was sidelined for much of the previous season by injury, started on...
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Wildcat softballers split in twin bill season opener

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It was a strange softball season opener for Wayland Thursday afternoon in an afternoon doubleheader against Byron Center. The Wildcats suffered a five-inning defeat by mercy rule, 14-3 in the first game with the Division I powerhouse Bullldogs. They bounced back, however, in the nightcap to take an 8-6 decision....
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Former Wildcat pitching ace 1-hits Albion College

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Former Wayland High School ace pitcher Emma Ludema continues to impress at Calvin College this spring. The freshman Knights hurler tossed a one-hit shutout at MIAA rival Albion Tuesday in the nightcap of a doubleheader sweep. Ludema, now 7-2 on the mound for the season, walked only one and struck...
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Martin softball sweeps doubleheader in opener

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The Martin Varsity softball team opened its season with a doubleheader sweep of Hastings, 12-1 and 13-2. Junior Makala Goddard took charge from the mound and completed the game with 16 strikeouts. Liz Reinke and Alley Bacon both had two runs batted in for the first game. Marybeth Ritchie pitched...
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Frosh Evie Mathis officially owns school vault record

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Wayland High School freshman Evie Mathis officially broke the school record in the pole vault by clearing 11-6 Tuesday at a tri-meet at Middleville Thornapple Kellogg. The downside was that Mathis, who sat out the season-opening meet with an injury, had to settle for a tie for first place with...
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Lady Vikings win season opener by football score

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The Hopkins varsity softball team’s debut Tuesday afternoon was cut short to just three innings in its 20-0 rout of Wyoming Godwin Heights. The Lady Vikings plated 10 runs in each of the first two innings and sophomore Hannah Brinks tossed a three inning shutout, yielding only one hit and...
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Wildcat basketball star to play at Hope College

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Brett Bultsma, the leading scorer for the Wayland boys' high school basketball team this past winter, has signed a letter of intent to play hoops for the Hope College Flying Dutch next season. Bultsma was an all-star selection for O-K Gold Conference, as the Wildcats finished the season with a...
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Martin all-state QB decides to play for Trine in MIAA

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J.R. Hildebrand, Division 7 all-state quarterback for the state champion Martin Clippers, has committed to play football next fall at Trine University in Angola, Ind. Trine is a member of the MISAA, the oldest athletic conference in the nation, which includes Albion, Hope, Calvin, Alma and Adrian colleges, among others....
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