Page 14/The Sun and News, Saturday, September 17, 2022Scots and Trojans collect trophies at Coach B race
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Speed was on display on
the flat fast track along Gun
Lake at Thornapple Kellogg's
annual Coach B Invitational
at Yankee Springs State Park
Monday.
Caledonia had five of its
seven fastest girls run their
fastest race ever to win the
Thornapple Division cham-
pionship for big schools and
the Thornapple Kellogg girls
earned some hardware at
their home invitational for
the first time since 2019 in a
runner-up finish.
“Granted, we did not host
this meet in 2020, but I’ve
been feeling anxious to have
our team hold a trophy at this
meet for some time now,”
TK girls' coach Sam
Wilkinson said. “It’s a spe-
cial meet because we get a
chance to honor Coach B
(Tammy Benjamin, former
Hall of Fame Coach of the
TK girls' cross country team)
and it makes it all the more
special when we are at least
in the top two and holding
hardware in the photo op.
with Coach B.”
Among TK's top seven
there were two season-best
times and a personal record
for junior Katherine Powers
who was the Trojans' number
seven finisher with a tine of
23 minutes 46.23 seconds.
Caledonia senior Natalia
Quigley dropped her person-
al record time to 19:53.45 to
win the individual title at the
race. TK sophomore Ava
Crews was third with a time
of 20:65.63 to lead her team.
The Caledonia girls and
Caledonia boys both won
championships in the
Thornapple Division on the
day. Championships in the
Kellogg Division races for
smaller schools went to the
Grand Rapids Track Club
Peregrines as the Peregrine
team had the first eight guys
across the finish line in their
race and the first seven girls
across the finish line in
theirs.
Caledonia outscored the
TK girls 26-64 at the top of
the Thornapple Division
girls' standings. Waylandwas third with 83 points
ahead of Hopkins 86,
Hamilton 137 and Lakewood
144.
Of the seven fastest
Caledonia girls, five ran their
fastest time ever. Madelyn
Fennema placed fourth with
a new PR of 20:7.57 and jun-
ior Alyssa DeFields lowered
her PR to 21:15.75 to placesixth.
Caledonia senior Leah
Thompson was seventh over-
all in 21:35.7 and while she
didn't set a new PR she was
nearly 50 seconds faster than
she was on the course last
fall as a junior.
Junior Kloe Kimbrell set
her PR at 21:42.24 in placing
eighth, sophomore AdysenDaman ran her fastest race of
the season to place tenth in
22:00.99 and sophomore
Hannah Dupuis ran her fast-
est race yet to place 13th in
22:06.05.
The girls' outside the scor-
ing seven recorded a number
of PRs too for the Scots.
Junior Holly Velting was
ninth in 21:55.38 for the TKladies. Seniors Lucy
VanDemark and Lindsey
Velting had their season-best
times to place 15th and 18th
respectively for TK.
VanDemark hit the line in
22:19.68 and Lindsey
Velting in 22:40.20.
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The Caledonia varsity girls’ cross country team celebrates its Thornapple Division championship at Thornapple Kellogg’s annual Coach
B Invitational at Gun Lake Monday afternoon.The Caledonia varsity boys’ cross country team celebrates with its trophy after winning the Thornapple
Division title Monday at Thornapple Kellogg’s annual Coach B Invitational at Gun Lake.Trojan senior Lindsey Velting works her way around
the course at Gun Lake Monday during the annual
Coach B Invitational a few strides ahead of Caledonia’s
Avalynn Klapmust and TK teammate Emma
Thompson.Thornapple Kellogg’s Kaden Hamming looks to
overtake Caledonia’s Ian Kimbrell as they close in on
the finish line during the Coach B Invitational at Gun
Lake Monday.See COACH B, page 15