A team of Grand Haven eighth-graders capped their baseball season with a Lakeshore Middle School tournament championship over the weekend, defeating three teams over last Friday and Saturday.

MUSKEGON — It took eight hours of baseball, but Spring Lake left Muskegon Oakridge as the last team standing during Saturday’s Division 2 district tournament.

SPRING LAKE — Gerrit Lyyski and Spring Lake’s baseball seniors got an extra home game to close out their season, hosting Tuesday’s pre-district game against Orchard View.

NORTON SHORES — There was a path toward a district title for Grand Haven baseball this week, with a winless Muskegon team waiting in the semifinal.

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Saturday marks the pinnacle of Michigan’s high school sports calendar.

SPRING LAKE — Each of Spring Lake’s four seniors had their moment on senior night Thursday against Coopersville.

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GRAND HAVEN TWP. — No week in the OK Red is ever a laughing matter – Grand Haven baseball has learned that well in the past three weeks.

Grand Haven softball’s final home games of the season were ones to forget on Tuesday, as second-ranked Hudsonville showed why they’re among the favorites to win next month’s regionals thanks to 9-1 and 11-3 victories.

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They haven’t found themselves in hotly-contested matches too often this season, but Grand Haven boys volleyball needed to buckle down in order to confirm a conference championship on Wednesday night.

At Tuesday’s home game with Lowell, Spring Lake boys lacrosse held a pregame ceremony for alum Jarred Coleman, who died in 2018 following a car crash in California.

FRUITPORT — Low-scoring games have become the norm in the OK Blue this season, and to decide their series on Thursday afternoon, Fruitport and Spring Lake baseball kept right in line with the trend.

GRAND HAVEN TWP. — Some days have felt like two steps forward, one step back for Grand Haven baseball.

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Tied at 6 as the fourth quarter trickled down, Spring Lake boys lacrosse started to feel the pressure at home against Caledonia on Thursday night.

FRUITPORT — Baseball coach Nick Reed knows sophomore Ryan Bosch is still “a bit of a goofball.”

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SPRING LAKE — Games against conference opponents are what matter, so high school baseball teams are hesitant to toss out their main pitching rotations on the weekend.

FRUITPORT — If three one-run defeats against Allendale rang a small fire alarm for Fruitport baseball last week, Tuesday’s pair of defeats to Hudsonville Unity Christian raised the heat considerably.

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SPRING LAKE — Versatility is a beautiful thing to have in baseball, and Spring Lake’s already feeling the positive effects of having players that can do a little bit of everything.

Wednesday’s OK Blue meet between Fruitport and Allendale was the first official high school track meet on the Trojans’ resurfaced running track – they’ll host eight other teams on Friday for a home invitational.

GRAND HAVEN TWP. — The strikes flowed early and often for junior righty Nick Wilson, and they just kept coming.

GRAND HAVEN TWP. — It feels more and more like the lines between high school sport seasons are shrinking, but Mother Nature has tried already this spring to send local student-athletes back inside as they prepare for the coming months.

Scores and more from the week’s action:

PEORIA, Ariz. — Like a violin virtuoso using a new music stand, San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado noticed a difference right away.

LAKELAND, Fla. — There are seasons in which spring roster battles are largely manufactured, a way to keep everyone engaged during the long days in the sun.

LAKELAND, Fla. — Two years ago, Miguel Cabrera hit his 500th home run, and last season he reached 3,000 hits.

MINNEAPOLIS — Red Sox manager Alex Cora has quite the way of explaining baseball. When the league decided in 2020 that extra-inning games would include placing a base runner on second base to start each half-inning, Cora pushed for chaos.

GRAND HAVEN TWP. — The baseball program at Grand Haven High School did not have to look far for their new varsity baseball coach.

High-stakes college athletics can be a dangerous game.