Class B
Edwardsburg wins second straight district title
It took a second half rally, but the Edwardsburg boys basketball team captured its second straight Class B District championship at Coldwater High School Friday ...
Jason Landstrom, Author at Leader Publications
Dowagiac
Winchester-Jones picking up his game
If you were to talk to any one of the fans who fill the Dowagiac High School gym on game nights, or any of the ...
by Jason Landstrom, Monday, January 26, 2015 9:57 pm
Brandywine Education
Watervliet ends Brandywine’s season
For the players, coaches and fans of the Brandywine Bobcats’ football program, Halloween must’ve seemed like a cruel trick perpetrated by Mother Nature, the football ...
by Jason Landstrom, Saturday, November 1, 2014 8:09 am
High school football
Vikings fall to Gull Lake 24-19
Whatever magical playmaking abilities aided the Niles Vikings football program in its incredible upset of the St. Joe Bears last week completely vanished for the ...
by Jason Landstrom, Saturday, October 18, 2014 8:06 am
BCS Athletic Conference
Brandywine wrecks Bronson 45-14
Calculated, precise, merciless, unwavering and unabashed are all adjectives one could use in describing the nature of a wrecking ball.
by Jason Landstrom, Saturday, October 4, 2014 6:48 am
Brandywine Education
Ward helps revive Brandywine football program
For the fans of the Brandywine program, the past few seasons must have felt like a blur, as the Bobcats have suddenly found themselves in ...
by Jason Landstrom, Thursday, October 2, 2014 2:54 pm
high school soccer
Niles soccer defeats Lakeshore 5-3
It took 10 minutes, four goals and a responsible stretch of defensive play for the Niles to do something it hasn’t done in a great ...
by Jason Landstrom, Thursday, September 25, 2014 8:44 am
BCS Athletic Conference
Mendon gets past Brandywine
When it comes to high school football in Michigan, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone with a resume that comes close to resembling that ...
by Jason Landstrom, Saturday, September 20, 2014 7:34 am
College football
Golson’s 5 TDs lift Irish in opener
Throughout a preseason that had been marred in potential distractions such as the alleged further shirking of tradition by switching the playing surface of Notre ...
by Jason Landstrom, Sunday, August 31, 2014 11:45 am
BCS Athletic Conference
Bobcats open BCS era with big victory
The Brandywine football team looked like it was in mid-season form as it throttled host Bridgman 40-14 in the inaugural game of the BSC Athletic ...
by Jason Landstrom, Friday, August 29, 2014 12:15 am
Brandywine Education
Niles wins fifth straight VanDenBerg title
The Niles soccer team got its new campaign under way as it hosted local rivals Brandywine, Buchanan, and Cassopolis for the annual VanDenBerg Invitational Tournament ...
by Jason Landstrom, Monday, August 25, 2014 8:26 pm
Niles City Golf
Zavitz reclaims Niles city title
“Golf is twenty-percent mechanics and technique; the other eighty-percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.” — Grantland Rice. Fifty-four of ...
by Jason Landstrom, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 8:45 am
Division 3 Districts
Brandywine falls to Coloma in championship game
The Brandywine softball team saw the curtain fall on its 2013-14 campaign as a topsy-turvy Division 3 District Tournament witnessed the Bobcats weather a familiar ...
by Jason Landstrom, Sunday, June 1, 2014 8:06 am
Division 3 Districts
Buchanan rally ends Bobcats’ season
The Brandywine Bobcats found themselves on the receiving end of one the most excruciating season-ending losses a team can endure in the opening round of ...
by Jason Landstrom, Sunday, June 1, 2014 7:53 am
cassopolis
Ruff anchors Cassopolis defense
The Cassopolis Rangers girls’ soccer program started out the season with the monumental task of replacing two all-state players, Jessica Waldschmidt and Meagan Ruff, who ...
by Jason Landstrom, Friday, May 9, 2014 4:27 pm
Edwardsburg
Shaw overcomes plenty to return to pitch
The story of Edwardsburg sophomore Makalya Shaw is one marred with both trial and tribulations.
by Jason Landstrom, Friday, April 25, 2014 11:52 am
College football
Quarterback play highlights Blue & Gold Game
Historically speaking, college football’s spring games have always served more as an eccentric promissory note of football’s return to the national airwaves, rather than an ...
by Jason Landstrom, Sunday, April 13, 2014 1:06 pm
cassopolis
Big second half lifts Rangers to victory
The Cassopolis boys’ basketball team used a stifling defensive effort and an electrifying second half scoring surge to corral the River Valley Mustangs 54-17 in ...
by Jason Landstrom, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 7:31 am
Brandywine Education
Bison end Brandywine’s title reign
All good things must come to an end.
by Jason Landstrom, Saturday, March 1, 2014 8:20 am
High school wrestling
Smith, Vikings stand tall as Niles falls to Lowell
Though the Niles Vikings wrestling team’s impressive run in the state tournament and stellar season came to an end Saturday morning at the hands of ...
by Jason Landstrom, Sunday, February 23, 2014 9:19 am
High school wrestling
Niles advances to state semifinals
For the second consecutive year, the Niles wrestling team will get to showcase its skills in the semifinal round MHSAA State Team Finals at the ...
by Jason Landstrom, Friday, February 21, 2014 8:50 pm
Buchanan
Buchanan slips past Cassopolis 60-59
In Friday night’s Lakeland Conference basketball match up between Buchanan and Cassopolis, spectators were treated to a game that left even the most casual of ...
by Jason Landstrom, Saturday, February 15, 2014 7:29 am
Division 2
Niles wins back-to-back regional titles
The Niles Vikings are headed back to Battle Creek.
by Jason Landstrom, Thursday, February 13, 2014 8:04 am
cassopolis
Vikings roll past Cassopolis 77-55
After starting the season 0-5, the Niles boys basketball team has turned a corner according to veteran coach Todd Pawielski.
by Jason Landstrom, Wednesday, February 5, 2014 8:24 am
Dowagiac
Niles rolls to second straight win
The Niles boys basketball team finished off what has to be perceived as a momentum shift in its season as the Vikings took down the ...
