Grand Haven Storms Back Into Contention: Bucs Hit 2-0 for First Time Since 2018

Our Grand Haven Buccaneers are off to their first 2-0 start since 2018, and they earned every inch of it — a triple-overtime survival test against Spring Lake, then a road win up at Muskegon Reeths-Puffer. Fourth-year coach Andrew Biedenbender, a Mount Pleasant native who played offensive line at Grand Valley State, has this group believing. Left-hander Easton Hintz has been dealing: 28-of-42 for 359 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions, plus 168 yards and a score on the ground. Ferris State commit Amani Frierson has 11 catches for 151 yards, and junior tight end Grayam Beyer — 6-6, 225, with five Division I offers already — visited Ohio State last Saturday. The emotional heartbeat here is Andrew Willemsen, who rushed for 1,321 yards as a sophomore and tore his ACL for the second-straight summer in July. That's the kind of gut punch that tests a locker room. Now the Bucs open Ottawa-Kent Conference Red play at defending champion Hudsonville, and this is the measuring stick.