Grant High School

Update for HS basketball games today (Tuesday).

All games, JV and Varsity, vs Sparta have been canceled for tonight.

Varsity boys and girls will play tomorrow (Wednesday) at Sparta. We will post an update in regards to JV playing at home tomorrow (Wednesday) as soon as possible.

After regularly scheduled tournaments at Northview and Sparta were cancelled, the Tiger wrestling team competed at the Warrior Duals at Chippewa Hills on Saturday. Grant opened with a win over Newaygo 42-24, before falling to Okemos 35-48, Mount Pleasant 27-54, and GRCC 26-48. Tiger individuals went 23-5 in the duals. Going 4-0 on the day were Antonio Santana (3 pins), Cameron Espinoza (2 pins), Kashton Atwood (2 pins), and Markie Davis (3 pins). Kaden Smith and Gary Jacobson (2 pins) each picked up 3 wins. Grant wrestles Big Rapids and Newaygo in their final CSAA duals this coming Wednesday.

On Friday night Grant extended its winning streak to 12 games, downing the Vikings of Tri County 83-46. Once again, Zaiden Phillips led all scorers with 24 points and three of his teammates also hit double figures. Jack Swanson (15), Blake Rider (14), and Austin Gragg (13) while Kohen Obenauf added 9 points.

Coach Dan George: "It's sometimes difficult to keep the focus on doing things right when you have a big lead. We still have some room for improvement in that area, but overall there were a lot of things for me to like about this game."

Grant Athletics January 26-31

Update on Grant Tiger athletics today (Friday)

MS Wrestling @ Lakeview - Canceled

JV and Varsity Girls/Boys basketball games will be played and all games will take place at Tri County High School.

JV Girls will have a 3pm start time followed by JV boys, Varsity Girls and then Varsity boys.

Both JV Girls and Boys games for tonight have been canceled - sorry about the late notice as we just got word.

At tonight CSAA wrestling tri we were able to recognize 3 amazing Senior wrestlers; Kashton Atwood, Cameron Espinoza, and Aiyana Carlisle. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication over the years. Finish the season strong!

Come help us celebrate our Senior Wrestlers tonight. We are hosting Kent City and Chippewa Hills in a CSAA tri.

Girls Basketball Update......

The Girls game AT Montague tonight is on. JV will start at 5:30 and the Varsity will start at 7pm.

Grant Athletics Update for Tuesday, January 20th.

Boys JV/V basketball at HOME vs. Ravenna is on. JV at 530 and Varsity at 7pm

A injury and sickness depleted Tigers wrestling team went to the 41st annual Reed City invite on Saturday. Sophomore Antonio Santana took home bronze at 113lbs. His only loss came to the number one seed by one point. Junior Malachi Dawe won the consolation bracket after an early loss at 120lbs. The Girls team traveled to Northview. Junior Markie Davis dominated her first two opponents, winning by a combined 25-0 score. In the championship match against the #1 State ranked wrestler at 145lbs it was deadlocked at 0-0 thru the first 6 minutes of regulation. In the overtime period her Three Rivers opponent came out on top after a scramble to win 3-0. Markie took home the Silver Medal.

MS girls Basketball update

Here is a look at the upcoming Athletics schedule for the week of the 19th. Please note that the BOYS JV and Varsity basketball games vs Ravenna on Tuesday is a HOME game.

We will also be recognizing our senior wrestlers on Wednesday at their home tri.

BOYS AND GIRLS VARSITY BASKETBALL GAMES AT BIG RAPIDS ARE CANCELED! We will post a make up date and time as soon as we have it.

Varsity boys and girls games are ON for tonight at Big Rapids.

Tonight the JV and Varsity teams each took home victories.

The Varsity game was a showdown of unbeatens and the home town folks went home happy as the Tigers downed the Hornets from Central Montcalm, 82-56 and moved their record to 10-0. Zaiden Phillips continued his outstanding senior season, knocking down 30 points and leading all scorers again. "He wasn't hitting from the outside at the start of the game, but he just kept doing Zaiden things, seeing the whole court, passing to open teammates, playing tough defense and most of all rebounding and scoring on put backs. He put on a show of doing the little things right," said Coach Dan George.

Blake Rider and Kohen Obenhauf added 14 points each and Austin Gragg also hit double figures with 10 for the Tigers. Evan Rolston had 26 points for Central Montcalm and Zayne Cooper hit for 16 for the Hornets.

"It seemed we couldn't buy an outside shot in the first half," said Coach George, "but our work ethic on defense and rebounding got us to the second half where we started to connect from the outside."

The Tigers travel to Big Rapids onf Friday night for a 7 pm start.

The Tigers placed 3rd out of 18 teams at the Unity Christian Invite on Saturday December 11th. All 8 Grant wrestlers that competed made the medal round of matches. 3 Tigers took home gold medals and championship posters for their weight classes. Sophomore Antonio Santana won 113lbs with 2 pins and a major decision in the finals bout. Senior Cameron Espinoza had a pin and tech fall before winning by 6 points over his Comstock Park State ranked opponent at 126lbs. Senior Kashton Atwood took home the 132lbs championship with 2 pins and a tech fall. Freshmen Gary Jacobson (pins) and Junior Malachi Dawe (1 pin) met in the 3rd place match at 120lbs, with Jacobson taking home the bronze medal. Sophomore Kaden Smith lost in the 215lbs third place match against his Colon opponent, picking up 3 wins on the day. Freshmen Bodie Semlow lost an early match, but came back through with 2 pins to win the consolation finals at 138lbs. Freshmen Brayden Schullo had 2 pins at 106lbs before falling in the 3rd place match by one point in a back and forth tight match.

Grant hosted it's first ever Assembly Dual in front a raucous school crowd against Montague on Thursday January 8th. Spotlights, entrance music, awesome wrestler introductions, and fog machines brought the student body to a roar that kept building as the Tigers started strong with freshmen Brayden Schullo pinning his opponent in the first match of the night. Antonio Santana and Gary Jacobson followed with 2 more pins. Junior Malachi Dawe won by tech fall 15-0, before seniors Cameron Espinoza and Kashton Atwood each pinned their opponents. The Wildcats upper weights then took over to give them a 46-35 victory. Junior Markie Davis finished out the competition with a tech fall 16-1 over Trevino from Montague.