Jason Landstrom, Author at Leader Publications

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 ... Read more

by Jason Landstrom, Saturday, March 14, 2015 6:53 pm

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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. Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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. Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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. Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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 ... Read more

by Jason Landstrom, Sunday, January 19, 2014 9:33 am

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