Junior Henry DeKam swished a 12-foot jump shot from the left side as time expired and host Western Michigan Christian defeated Orchard View 57-55 in non-league boys basketball action on Tuesday night.

The Kalamazoo Kingdom club soccer team came up short in agonizing fashion in today's USL Super-Y League North American Championship.

Noah Veach, a 2010 Grand Haven graduate, is a member of an undefeated men's basketball team at Augsburg (Minn.) College.

Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series previewing the area varsity boys basketball teams. Today is Spring Lake, which opens its season tonight at home against Allendale.

It a start of what could be a promising season, the Spring Lake varsity swimming and diving squad captured first place at the Ludington Conference Relay meet on Saturday.

Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series previewing the area varsity boys basketball teams. Today is Fruitport, which opens its season on Tuesday at home against Ravenna.

The Fruitport Calvary Christian girls basketball team returns all of its players from last year's team that finished 10-12 overall and 5-7 in the Alliance League.

A majority of the honors in Lauren Hazekamp's athletic career have been associated with volleyball at Fruitport High School, but with her hot start in basketball, that could quickly change. The Trojans' senior point guard had her best performance of her three-year varsity career, scoring a career-high 25 points, and also tallying nine steals, seven assists and eight rebounds in Fruitport's huge 66-63 win over Fremont on Friday. The win improves the Trojans to 2-0 overall and 1-0 in league play.