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Good GMC West Michigan Allstar — Garrett Cullen

This week’s Good GMC West Michigan All Star is Garrett Cullen, a senior leader on the Forest Hills Eastern cross country team.

Forest Hills Eastern, ranked at #5 in the state entering the Regional round, have been looking up at 1st place Ionia the entire season. The Hawks have had an extremely successful season by any [...]

Good GMC West Michigan Allstar of the Week — Brad Fargo

This week’s Good GMC West Michigan Allstar is Brad Fargo, senior captain of Grandville’s water polo team.  Fargo’s goal against arch-rival Jenison helped spark a second-half rally that saw Grandville emerge with a 10-3 win, reclaiming the coveted Flat Ball trophy and improving their overall record to 7-1.  Fargo attributed the mid-game turnaround to a [...]

Good GMC West Michigan Allstar of the Week — Erica Hippe

EK's Erica Hippe has a future as a motivational speaker

This week’s Good GMC West Michigan All-Star is Erica Hippe, junior cross country runner for East Kentwood.

On September 8th, the first day of school, Hippe was rushed to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy.  The operation was successful in removing an appendix that likely would [...]

Good GMC West Michigan All Star – Heidi Scholten

The Good GMC West Michigan All Star Award goes to Heidi Scholten, senior forward for Hudsonville Unity Christian’s girls soccer team.

After five consecutive Division 3 state championships, three in which Heidi played an integral part, it’s safe to say that the Crusaders girls soccer team represents the closest thing to a dynasty existing in West [...]

Understanding the Summer Dead Period

You are about to enter … the Dead Period.

Dee dee dee doo dee dee dee doo dee dee dee doo…

The summer dead period is defined by the MHSAA as:

a period of seven full consecutive calendar days after school is out in June and after a school’s participation in MHSAA tournaments is completed. Each school determines [...]

Good GMC West Michigan All Star – Ryan Elble

Ryan Elble (#3) heads home after slugging a walkoff home-run in the Division 2 quarterfinals.

The Good GMC West Michigan All Star Award goes to Ryan Elble, sophomore shortstop for the East Grand Rapids varsity baseball team.

Elble’s long, blonde locks of hair have long been the subject of jokes in the dugout.  His East Grand [...]

West Michigan All Stars baseball team voting open

The ballots are now open on the 2009 West Michigan All Stars – a team of All-Stars selected from the elite baseball players around West Michigan.  This contest is sponsored by the good folks at Good GMC Isuzu and WOOD Radio 1300am.

The West Michigan All Stars are determined entirely by you, the WMAS reader.  So [...]

2009 West Michigan baseball All Stars – Candidates 6/8/09

Nominations are streaming in at a steady clip for the 2009 West Michigan All Stars baseball team, sponsored by Good GMC Isuzu and Wood Radio 1300.  Through your submissions we’ve compiled an excellent list of the best-of-the-best high school baseball players in all the O-K Conferences around West Michigan. If this pace keeps up, we [...]

2009 West Michigan Baseball All Star team

WMAS is now accepting nominations for the first annual West Michigan All Stars, a team of elite baseball players assembled from all the varsity teams around West Michigan.  The lineup will consist of players nominated and voted on by you, our valued WMAS reader.  Click the following link to nominate a player for the West [...]

CONTEST: 2009 West Michigan Baseball All Stars

We here at West Michigan All Star, along with title sponsor Good GMC Isuzu, and WOOD 1300AM, will be putting together a lineup of the elite baseball players in West Michigan – the 2009 West Michigan Baseball All Stars.

Of course we have our own ideas as to who should make the grade, but our ideas [...]

Good GMC West Michigan All Star – Jordyn Castor

May 22, 2009 -

(Photo by Rex Larsen | The Grand Rapids Press)

The Good GMC West Michigan All Star award for the week of May 22, 2009 goes to Jordyn Castor, a sophomore track & field athlete at East Kentwood high school. Jordyn has thrown the discus for the past two years, and recently made [...]

Good GMC West Michigan All Star – Becca Addison

May 15, 2009 –

The Good GMC West Michigan All Star award for the week of May 15 goes to senior runner Becca Addison, of Grand Haven High School.  She’s not a track star, and she’s not a cross-country star.  Becca is both.

Becca recently broke her second all-time area track record by running a 10:36.95 [...]

Good GMC West Michigan All Star – Austin Shipaila

May 8, 2009 –

The inaugural West Michigan All Star Award, sponsored by your and my favorite truck dealer, Good GMC Isuzu, goes to Austin Shipaila of East Kentwood High School.

Austin is a junior defenseman on the Falcons ice hockey team.  He’s skated for seven years, and has worked extremely hard to be able to [...]

Olree pitches Grand Rapids Christian over East Grand Rapids

Senior pitcher Chris Olree took off his mitt, placing it in his travel bag.  He packed his things in the back of the visitor’s dugout at Remington Field, indistinguishable among twenty-odd players and coaches dressed in identical, white jerseys.  Grand Rapids Christian had just won the third game of a three-game series with East Grand [...]

Rasmussen, Forest Hills Central close the door on Kenowa Hills

Two up, two down, and everything was going according to plan for Forest Hills Central and pitcher Mick VanVossen.  He’d walked a couple batters, true, but after five and 2/3 innings VanVossen had struck out seven, allowing only three singles in the process.  He had Kenowa Hills backed into a corner.

Except Kenowa Hills is at [...]