The Hastings Banner — Thursday, September 22, 2022 — Page 13NOTICE TO THE RESIDENTS OF BARRY COUNTY
Notice is hereby given that the Barry County
Zoning Board of Appeals
will conduct a public hearing for the following:Case Number V-6-2022 - Richard Kesler (Applicant/Property
Owner)
Location: 9747 North Avenue Dowling, MI 49050 Section 31 of
Maple Grove Township.
Purpose: Request a variance to construct a 24 x 32 detached
accessory building with a 10 ft sideyard setback and a 10 ft rear yardsetback (the minimums are 20 ft) in the A (Agriculture) zoning district.MEETING DATE: October 10, 2022 TIME: 7:00 PM
PLACE: Tyden Center Community Room, 121 South Church Street,Hastings, Michigan 49058Site inspections of the above described property will be completed by the Zoning
Board of Appeals members before the hearing. Interested persons desiring to
present their views upon an appeal, either verbally or in writing, will be given the
opportunity to be heard at the above mentioned time and place. Any written
response may be mailed to the address listed below, faxed to (269) 948-4820,
or emailed to Barry County Planning Director James McManus at jmcmanus@
barrycounty.org.
The variance application is available for public inspection at the Barry County
Planning Department, 220 West State Street, Hastings, Michigan 49058, during
the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday. Please call the Barry County
Planning Department at (269) 945-1290 for further information.
The County of Barry will provide necessary auxiliary aids and services, such as
signers for the hearing impaired and audio tapes of printed materials being
considered at the meeting, to individuals with disabilities at the meeting/hearing
upon ten (10) days notice to the County of Barry. Individuals with disabilities
requiring auxiliary aids or services should contact the County of Barry by writing or
calling the following: Michael Brown, County Administrator, 220 West State Street,
Hastings, Michigan 49058, (269) 945-1284.Pamela A. Palmer, Barry County Clerk
188040Tournament attendance rebounds
to near pre-pandemic total
After two school years requiring limited
tournament attendance due to the COVID-
pandemic, the 2021-22 school year saw a
total of 1,327,633 fans attend Michigan High
School Athletic Association postseason com-
petitions for which attendance is recorded.
That total is 4.2 percent less than attendance
during 2018-19 – the last school year before
COVID-19 resulted in either the cancelation of
championship events or lower spectator num-
bers due to restrictions in place to limit the
spread of the coronavirus. Still, the 2021-
spectator totals showed higher turnouts than
their most recent restriction-free postseason in
four sports, including records at two levels and
overall for the MHSAA Baseball Tournament.
The MHSAA annually tracks attendance
for all sports except golf, skiing and tennis –
for which admission typically is not charged.
The 2021-22 attendance totals included
889,155 fans for boys tournament events and
438,478 for girls postseasons. The girls spec-
tatorship nearly reached its pre-COVID total,
coming up just 2.3 percent short of 2018-19,
while boys spectatorship was down 5.1 per-
cent from that most recent restriction-free
school year.
Baseball set a District attendance record
this past spring with 35,649 fans, besting the
record set just the season before, in 2021, of
34,484 spectators. Baseball also set a Quar-
terfinals record of 7,203 fans, with the previ-
ous record set during the 2013 season. The
spectator total for the entire baseball postsea-
son was 59,941 fans, which also bested a
record set in 2021, this one by 5.3 percent.
Three more boys sports drew larger overall
postseason crowds during 2021-22 than in
their most recent restriction-free postseason.
Ice Hockey drew 47,293 fans across its three
playoff rounds, an increase of 12 percent
from the 2019 playoffs, the most recent to be
played to their completion before COVID-19.
The hockey total was the highest since the
2017 postseason.
Boys soccer set a District record of 18,
fans in Fall 2021, besting the previous record
for that round set during the 1999 season.
Soccer’s overall postseason attendance of
40,546 was its highest since setting a record
of nearly 43,000 during the 2005 season.
The Individual Wrestling Tournament also
saw an improvement from its most recent
restriction-free postseason, drawing a total of41,925 across its three tournament weekends- an increase of 2.7 percent from the 2020
season before crowd restrictions were put in
place for 2021.
Football drew the most fans of any
MHSAA postseason with 297,425. Boys bas-
ketball was the next most-attended sport with
279,255 fans at postseason games. Basketball
was the most attended girls sport for postsea-
son play with 141,448 spectators, with vol-
leyball also reaching six figures at 113,572.
Joining baseball, four more spring tourna-
ments returned from COVID-canceled 2020
to set overall attendance records in 2021 –
girls soccer, girls lacrosse, boys lacrosse and
girls and boys track & field (which is compet-
ed simultaneously). During the 2022 season,
girls soccer was only 294 fans off its previous
year’s record pace with 35,143 spectators.
Girls and boys track & field drew 37,
spectators this past spring – 4.8 percent off its
2021 record pace, but still its second-highest
attendance since the MHSAA began tracking
spectators with the 1990-91 school year. This
spring’s boys lacrosse attendance of 15,
was the second-highest since that sport began
with MHSAA sponsorship in 2004-05.
K-Christian boys and girls fastest
at first SAC jamboree
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Delton Kellogg varsity boys’ cross
country team got off to a solid start in the
Southwestern Athletic Conference placing
fifth at the first conference jamboree at Lake
Township Park in Bridgman last Wednesday.
The fifth place finish was in a field of 15
full boys’ teams.
The Delton Kellogg girls were tenth on the
day.
Kalamazoo Christian narrowly edged Sau-
gatuck’s boys 102-108 for the day’s win.
Hackett was third with 118 points, ahead of
Bridgman 130, Delton Kellogg 140, Black
River 151, Constantine 167, Coloma 193,
Parchment 230 and Allegan 236 in the top ten.
Delton Kellogg was led by a trio of seniors.
Micah Martin placed 11th in 18 minutes
32.49 seconds. Isaac Shepard was 20th in
19:09.28 and Gage Vincent 30th in 19:38.22.
DK also had sophomore Ethan Rimmer right
behind with a 31st-place time of 19:40.92.
DK’s number five was senior Brett Harse-
voort who finished 52nd in 20:34.79.
Parchment senior William winter was the
runaway champion in the boys’ race. He hit the
finish line in 16:59.51. Coloma junior Boden
Genovese was the runner-up in 17:21.80.
Kalamazoo Christian was led to the win by
senior Isaac Bogard who was ninth in
18:04.67, which was a season best time for
him. Saugatuck’s leader was Charlie Stormer
who placed seventh in 17:58.16.
Kalamazoo Christian won the girls’ meet too
with 51 points. Schoolcraft was second with 81
points, ahead of Bridgman 111, Lawton 117,
Hackett Catholic Prep 136, Fennville 164,
Black River 168, Watervliet 180, Parchment
196 and Delton Kellogg 238 in the top ten.Lawton didn’t have enough runners to earn
a team score, but the two fastest girls in the
race were Blue Devils. Junior Kendra Koster
won it in 19:12.45 and senior Sofia Oertel
was the runner-up with a personal record time
of 20:49.82.
Kalamazoo Christian had three girls in the
top ten led by senior Annika Sytsma who
placed fourth in 21:20.79. Schoolcraft senior
Caley Kerwin was third overall in 21:15.43.
The leader of the Delton Kellogg girls’
pack was sophomore Johannah Houtkooper
who placed 32nd overall in 23:49.84, which
is a new season best time for her. DK junior
Summer Ritchie was 41st in 24:40.56. Pan-
ther sophomore Kylie Main was 62nd in a
season-best time of 26:32.01.
Delton’s four and five came in together
with junior Maysse Wiessner 74th in 27:32.
and junior Lillian Lester 75th in 27:34.98.Saxons into meat of I-8 season;
prepping for Mepham Day
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Hastings varsity boys’ soccer team had
a five match win streak brought to an end last
week Thursday in a 1-1 draw with Inter-
state-8 Athletic Conference foe Coldwater at
Hastings High School.
Coldwater took a 1-0 lead on a penalty
kick with 13 minutes to go in the second
half, but the Saxons rallied to even the score
with three minutes left to play on a goal by
Kearan Tolles. Tolles fired a blast from near-
ly 40 yards out that was something of a
desperation shot that made its way past the
Cardinal keeper.
Hastings head coach Francisco Lopez said
it was a very chippy game, and that his team
had a number of good scoring chances lead-
ing up to Tolles finally finding the back of
the net.
“It was one of those games that is not good
for the blood pressure,” Lopez said.
Zach Chipman made seven saves in goal
for the Saxons.
Hastings is now 6-3-1 overall this season.
The Saxons split two games at a tournament
hosted by Allegan Saturday and then saw
their Interstate-8 Athletic Conference record
evened at 1-1-1 in a 2-0 loss at Harper Creek
Tuesday.
Hastings fell in a PK shootout to Allegan in
its first match of the day Saturday after the
two teams battled to a 2-2 tie in regulation.
In game two of the tournament, the Saxons
scored a 2-1 win over Paw Paw.
Caleb Gurtowsky had two goals at the
tournament for the Saxons and Cohen Smith
and Tolles both scored once. Troy Hokanson
had the Saxons’ only assist at the tournament.
The Saxons have another tough I-8 test at
home against Marshall this evening on Pierce
Field and then will play host to Ionia for a
non-conference match Saturday. The Saxons
are on the home turf inside Baum Stadium at
Johnson Field Tuesday, Sept. 20, taking on
Parma Western.
Hastings will also be home Oct. 4 to take
on Pennfield on what will be a special eve-ning on Pierce Field as the Saxons host Doug
Mepham Day.
The founder of the Hastings High School
soccer program was diagnosed with ALS in
May of 2021. The Saxons will wear read to
spotlight ALS and a GoFundMe account has
been set up by the program to raise funds for
the Susan Mast ALS Foundation.
That link can be found on the Doug
Mepham Day Facebook page that has been
created for the event. There is also a link to
purchase “Mephdawgs” Saxon soccer appar-
el which will also help support the fundraiser.
“It is something that will unite the whole
community and it’ll be something we can all
get behind something that is bigger than soc-
cer essentially,” Lopez said.
“This guys is as good as it gets when it
comes to a community figure and outright
human being,” he said of Mepham, who will
also be celebrating his birthday on the day of
the event.
The JV game Oct. 4 begins at 4 p.m. fol-
lowed by the varsity contest around 5:30.Delton scores
with three ticks left
to tie Lakewood boys
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Lakewood varsity boys’ soccer
team had a seven-match win streak stunt-
ed by Delton Kellogg at Lakewood High
School Thursday afternoon.
While it was the Vikings in control on
the scoreboard for almost the entire
match, Lakewood head coach James
Leveque said that was not the feeling on
the field.
“They suffocated us defensively. They
were hungry. They were more aggressive
from the get-go and once they had the
momentum it never let up,” Leveque.
Had the Panthers let up for a few sec-
onds they may not have secured the draw.
Delton Kellogg’s Isaac Shepard scored
his first goal of the season with three sec-
onds left, chipping a shot from the edge of
the Viking box over keeper Ben Scobey
and into the far side of the net.
“It just wasn’t a great threat. [Shepard]
just happened to put it in the one place
where the goalie couldn’t make a save,”
Leveque said. “They had plenty of other
opportunities to tie the game or take the
lead.”
Leveque said his team’s defensive back
line was not aggressive enough in the first
half, allowing the Delton Kellogg attack
space and time, and the midfielders were
a bit slow to help out as well.
The Vikings managed to make the most
of a few of their counters though.
Colby Carter and Ty Evans scored early
on in the first half to give the Vikings a
2-0 lead.
James Blackburn scored the first of his
two goals for Delton Kellogg to get his
team within 2-1, and Lakewood answered
with Alex Russell outran the DK defense
to a through ball to score just before the
half and put his team back up two goals.
Lakewood led its 3-1 lead for much of
the second half. Delton Kellogg pulled
within 3-2 on a goal by Blackburn with tenminutes to go. Hector Jimenez earned an
assist on all three Delton Kellogg goals.
A 6-1 win over visiting Saugatuck
Monday moved the Delton Kellogg’s
record to 8-1-1 on the season.
The Panthers put a lot of pressure on
offensively right from the start, but the
Saugatuck defense and goalkeeper were
able to hold off the Panthers for a while.
The DK team did find the net twice in
the first half and then put the game away
in the second half.
Warner and Jimenez had three goals
and two assists each for Delton Kellogg
and Myles Hatton added an assist as well.
The tie with Lakewood came one day
after a 1-0 win at Holland Black River last
week for DK. Jimenez assisted on a goal
by Warner with ten minutes left to play to
put the Panthers in front in Holland.
Lakewood followed up the tie with
Delton Kellogg by scoring a 5-3 win over
visiting Charlotte in another non-confer-
ence match Monday.
The Vikings are now 8-2-1 overall this
season.
Lakewood played three games last
week without one of its top players, Jack-
son MacKenzie, who was out with an
injury. Garrett Feighan, Drew Marquoit,
Joel Apsey and Carter all shared some
time at MacKenzie’s attacking central
midfield spot in the match with Delton.
The Viking attack wasn’t slowed much
in a conference match against visiting
Stockbridge last Wednesday. Lakewood
improved to 5-0 in the Greater Lansing
Activities Conference/Central Michigan
Athletic Conference with an 8-1 win over
the Stockbridge Panthers.
Feighan had three goals, Carter two and
Russell, Troy Acker and Marquoit had
one each on a night when the Lakewood
reserves were able to get a lot of playing
time, especially after the starters put in
the seventh and eighth goals of the game
early in the second half.Lakewood girls still chasing
Bees on GLAC golf greens
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Lakewood varsity girls’ golf team
was second only to Bath as the Greater Lan-
sing Activities Conference got together at
The Medalist for the jamboree hosted by
Olivet Thursday.
Bath put together a score of 200 to best
the Vikings’ 216, Olivet at 223, Perry 241
and Laingsburg 301.
Makenzie Vasquez led the Lakewood
team with a 47 which put her in second
place for the day. Ellie Benham shot a 56,
Karmyn Winkler a 56 and Audrey Hillard a
57.
Anna Schaibly was the medalist leading
Bath with a score of 43. Bath’s Aubrie
Schaibly shot a 48 and Olivet’s Drue Allen
a 49 at the top of the leaderboard.
League-mate Perry hosted the Dick Sport-
ing Goods Invitational Friday and Lake-wood placed tenth in a field of 17 full teams.
South Lyon took the day’s championship
with a score of 324, ahead of Rochester
Adams ‘B’ 358, South Lyon ‘B’ 364, How-
ell 395, Frankenmuth 410, Almont 415,
Lansing Catholic 415, Notre Dame Prep
423, Flushing 426 and Lakewood 428 in the
top ten.
Vasquez led Lakewood with a 96.
Hillard shot a 103, Winkler a 109 and
Benham a 120. Hillard celebrated a birdie
on the par-5 number six at the tournament.
South Lyon sophomore Kaylyn Wisniews-
ki was the day’s individual champion with a
score of 75. Senior teammate Gabriella
Tapp shot a 79. Rochester Adams got an 81
from Katie Fodale.
Lakewood hosted the GLAC at Centenni-
al Acres in Sunfield Tuesday, but that league
jamboree was cut short due to the storms
that moved through the area.The Saxons' Kearan Tolles (3) controls the ball in the midfield during his
team's I-8 match with visiting Coldwater inside Baum Stadium at Johnson Field
Thursday. (Photo by Dan Goggins)The Saxons' Caleb Gurtowsky gets his head
on the ball in front of teammate Dan Jensen
during their I-8 match with visiting Coldwater
Thursday in Hastings. (Photo by Dan Goggins)