The Sun and News, Saturday, September 10, 2022/ Page 9Gold harriers open at Riverside Park
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Thornapple Kellogg leader
of the pack Ava Crews was the
only freshman or sophomore
girl to finish in the top ten at
the first OK Gold Conference
jamboree of the season
Wednesday at Riverside Park
in Grand Rapids.
Crews placed third with a
time of 20 minutes 8.57 sec-
onds to help the TK varsity
girls’ cross country team to a
fourth-place finish.
Forest Hills Eastern’s boys
and girls ran away with wins
on the day. The FHE boys
scored just 34 points to finish
51 points ahead of runner-up
Wayland. The FHE girls won
with 37 points finishing 23
points ahead of second-place
South Christian.
Ottawa Hills junior Selma
Anderson won the girls’ race
in 19:40.15 and FHE leader,
senior Sarah Dixon, was the
only other girl ahead of Crews
with a time of 20:06.22.
FHE had four girls in the
top ten. Ellor Clason was
fourth, Addison Washler fifth
and Ashlyn Smith tenth.
Behind FHE, the South
Christian girls had 60 points,
Ottawa Hills 94, Thornapple
Kellogg 125, Cedar Springs
132, Wayland 132, Kenowa
Hills 150 and Catholic Central
158.
TK senior Lucy VanDemark
was second of her team with a
27th-place time of 23:08.12.Fellow senior Lindsey Velting
was 34th in 23:39.93 and
senior Emma Thompson
placed 37th in 23:49.13.
Freshman Madison Kietzman
was in the middle of those two
for TK with a 36th-place time
of 23:48.81.
Junior Holly Velting was
right behind the top five for
the TK ladies with a 38th-place
time of 23:50.69.Junior Lucas VanMeter led
the TK boys with an 11th-place
time of 17:21.90. Junior
Kaden Hamming was 60th in
21:11.34. Freshmen Luke
Archer and Benjamin Postma
came in one after the other.
Archer was 70th in 21:35.
and Postma 71st in 21:40.54.
TK’s number five was sopho-
more Christien Miller who
was 76th in 22:29.71.Scots overwhelm North Farmington for 2-0 start
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Caledonia blew through its
non-conference slate to open
the 2022 varsity football sea-
son for a 2-0 start.
The Fighting Scots made
the trip across the state to face
North Farmington on the north
side of Detroit Friday, Sept. 2,
where it took a 68-14 win over
the Raiders. The Fighting
Scots built a 55-14 lead in the
first half and amassed 508
yards of offense for the night.
Quarterback Mason
McKenzie powered the
Caledonia attack rushing five
times for 154 yards and three
touchdowns while also com-
pleting 7-of-8 passes for 174
yards and two more scores.
Everybody got into the
action. Brody Betser took over
behind center and completed
his one pass attempt for an
eight-yard TD to teammate
Reed Vogeler in the thirdquarter.
DJ Walker had seven rush-
es for 65 yards and two touch-
downs for the Scots and Brock
Townsend rushed six times for
61 yards and two scores.
Derek Pennington had a
team-high 75 yards receiving,
on two catches. Justice Reed
had three catches for 54 yards
and two touchdowns.
Caledonia had four touch-
downs after its first eight
offensive snaps.The Scots jumped on the
Raiders from the very first
play as McKenzie took off on
an 80-yard TD run on the first
snap of the game.
The Scots’ second posses-
sion was a two-play drive.
McKenzie connected with
Pennington on a 46-yard pass
and then Townsend scored on
an eight-yard run. The Scots
started that drive at their own
46-yard-line after Jaxon
Engelberg recovered a Raiderfumble for the Caledonia
defense.
The third Caledonia drive
was a three-play drive, which
started with one of three inter-
ceptions. The Scots took over
at the North Farmington
26-yard-line and McKenzie
eventually found the end zone
from 16 yards out.
Caledonia upped its lead to
28-0 on a two-play drive mid-
way through the first quarter
that ended with a 23-yard TDpass from McKenzie to Reed.
The score was 35-7 at the
end of one quarter.
The Caledonia defense was
powered in part by three inter-
ceptions, one each for the
Scots’ Maddux Wysocki, Jett
King and Jace Lawton.
Caledonia was scheduled to
visit Jenison to open the OK
Red Conference season last
night, Sept. 9. Caledonia will
be home to face Hudsonville
Sept. 16.Scots outpace TK teams in early morning C.C. opener
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Caledonia senior Natalia
Quigley ran a sub 20-minute
race for the first time on the
blisteringly fast course at
Riverside Park in Grand
Rapids during the 2020 OK
Red Conference
Championship.
She couldn’t quite get
below that 20-minute mark as
a junior, but is clearly finding
her stride at the start of her
final varsity season. She hit
the finish line in 19 minutes
59.0 seconds, just over a sec-
ond off her PR from that soph-
omore season conference
championship race, to take
first in her team’s dual with
visiting Thornapple Kellogg
Friday morning, Sept. 2.
The Caledonia boys and
girls showed off their speed
and their depth as they took
victories over the Trojans.
The Caledonia girls scored
a 19-42 win.
TK sophomore Ava Crews
was the runner-up in the girls’
race with a time of 20:26.
The next four girls across
the finish line were Fighting
Scots. Senior Leah Thompson
was third in 21:25 and senior
Madelyn Fennema fourth in
21:37. Scot junior Alyssa
DeFields placed fifth in 22:
and sophomore Adysen
Daman was sixth in 22:22.
TK junior Holly Velting
was her team’s number two,
hitting the finish line seventh
overall in 22:42.
“Ava and Holly were once
again doing Ava and Holly
things,” TK head coach SamWilkinson said. “Ava led early
in the race, but she was in con-
trol of her effort and put up a
great fight against a very
strong veteran in Caledonia’s
Quigley, and she did a great
job of being our leader at the
pointy end of the race. Holly
was in a war of sorts with
Caledonia’s mid-pack for a
long time and again ground
out the kind of finish she
should be proud of.”
A Trojan pack filled the
13-16 spots in the overall
standings at the end of the
morning. Katherine Powers
was 13th in 24:25, Madison
Kietzman 14th in 24:26,
Megan Schuurmans 15th in
24:31 and Emma Thompson
16th in 24:34.
Coach Wilkinson said
Thompson did a good job ofbeing a veteran presence lead-
ing that group for much of the
race.
“It was kind of a bummer
for Emma that she was over-
taken in the end by her team-
mates, but I am super proud of
her because she pulled her
younger teammates along, set-
ting them up for a really
respectable showing,”
Wilkinson said. “I’m not so
sure they would have been in
the position they were in if
Emma hadn’t set the tone.”
Just a bit behind Velting,
Caledonia had a trio of girls
who set new personal record
times, junior Anastasia Ledford
who was eighth in 23:11, soph-
omore Hannah Dupuis who
was ninth in 23:20 and sopho-
more Leah Williams who was
12th in 24:24.“Overall I thought the girls
did really well. It can be intim-
idating for any team going head
on into Fighting Scot territory
and I thought they did a fantas-
tic job of keeping their wits
about them and going about the
business of giving their best,”
coach Wilkinson said. “This is
a great group of young ladies
and they represented TK well
today. I’m proud of them.”
Of the first 21 boys across
the finish line 20 were Fighting
Scots.
Caledonia senior Jordan
Domany won the race in
17:00.4. Senior Blake Elliott
was second in 17:26.5, sopho-
more Kort Thompson third in
17:55.4, junior Levi Moss
fourth in 17:56.5 and junior
Micah Nagel sixth in 18:14.1.
The only guy breaking upthat pack for TK was junior
Lucas VanMeter who placed
fifth in 17:59.7, finishing in
less than 18 minutes for the
third time in three races this
season.
It was the first race of the
season for the Fighting Scots.
The Caledonia team had 18
guys finish the race in less
than 20 minutes.
TK sophomore Christien
Miller was 22nd overall and
second for his team with a
time of 20:24.0. Freshman
Benjamin Postma was 26th
overall for TK in 21:05.0 and
junior Kaden Hamming was
right behind in 27th with a
time of 21:08.0. Freshman
Mark Gielincki placed 30th
for the Trojans in 21:38.1 and
TK’s number five was Hunter
Tietz who was 33rd in 21:56.0.NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS
THORNAPPLE TOWNSHIP
PLANNING COMMISSION
MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 2022, at
7:00 P.M.Please be advised the Thornapple Township Planning
Commission will hold public hearings on September
26, 2022, at 7pm or as soon thereafter as possible.
The public hearings will take place in the Township
Hall, 200 E. Main St., Middleville.The public hearings will address the following:1) Special Use #158/Site Plan #118 – Applicant, Stephen
Koster, is seeking special use and site plan approval
to operate a Beauty/Nail Salon as a Major Home Oc-
cupation at 5030 Squire Lane, Middleville, MI (parcel
08-14-015-016-80) per Thornapple Township Zoning
Ordinance, Special Uses, Section 19.43 Home Based
Businesses.
2) Special Use #115/Site Plan #102 – Applicant, Rod
Janose & Oetman Excavating, is seeking special use
and site plan approval to renew their permit for mineral
extraction at 2496 Bender Road, Middleville, MI (parcel
08-14-034-008-00) per Thornapple Township Zoning
Ordinance Sec. 19.53.
3) Special Use #157/Site Plan #117 – Applicant, Nick
Suwyn of “3497 North M37 LLC”, is seeking special
use and site plan approval to construct and operate
self-storage units on parcel 08-14-027-002-09 located
on M37 Highway just south of the Village of Middleville
limits. (Pending Thornapple Township Trustee approv-
al of Rezoning parcel from Ag Residential to General
Commercial at their meeting on 9-12-22)Any interested person may attend the public hearing
to learn about the extent and location of Special Use
requests to offer comments to the Planning Commis-
sion. A copy of the applications noted above may be
examined in the Township offices at the address noted
above during regular business hours. Monday – Thurs-
day 9am- 4pmWritten comments regarding these applications may be
addressed to: Secretary, Thornapple Township Plan-
ning Commission, P.O. Box 459, Middleville, MI 49333.
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Cindy Willshire, Thornapple Township ClerkCHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CALEDONIA
BOARD OF TRUSTEESMeeting Minutes
The minutes for the August 17, 2022 Township Board of
Trustees Meeting which were approved on September 7, 2022,
are posted at the Township Offices at 8196 Broadmoor Ave., and
on the website at http://www.caledoniatownship.org.Scots entangled with Eagles in Red
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Caledonia is in a battle for
the number two spot in the OK
Red Conference this fall.
The Fightings Scots hosted
the OK Red Conference varsi-
ty girls’ golf teams at
Broadmoor Country Club
Thursday and finished third
behind league-leading
Rockford and the Hudsonville
girls. The Fighting Scots were
third behind those two teams
at the opening jamboree of the
season and nudged up to a
second-place finish when
Grandville hosted the confer-
ence Tuesday.
Rockford won Thursday’s
jamboree in Caledonia with a
score of 158, ahead of
Hudsonville 179, Caledonia
187, East Kentwood 189,
Grandville 194, Jenison 211,
Grand Haven 216 and West
Ottawa 224.
Copelin O’Krangley led
Caledonia with a two-un-
der-34 on the back nine shoot-
ing birdies on the two par 5s,
ten and 14. She hit par on her
other seven holes.
Codie O’Krangley shot a 48for the Scots, Elizabeth
Honhart a 51 and Sara Flynn a
54.
Rockford junior Jessica
Jolly managed to outdo
Copelin, scoring a 33. Elise
Fennell, a junior from East
Kentwood, was also under par
at 35.
The top four for Rockford
also included a 39 from
Morgan Vanos, a 42 from
Aubrey Wilson and a 44 from
Megan Calkins.
At the jamboree hosted by
Grandville at LE Kaufman
Tuesday, Rockford shot a 165,Caledonia 180, Hudsonville
183, East Kentwood 203,
Grandville 210, Jenison 215,
Grand Haven 224 and West
Ottawa 225.
Copelin O’Krangley,
Fennell and Jolly tied for the
day’s lead with 36s.
Codie O’Krangley fired a
45 for the Scots. Kiana
Haywood, a senior, was also
in the 40s for the Scots –
shooting a 48 to help boost
her team in front of the
Eagles for second place.
Flynn added the Scots’ fourth
score, a 51.