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Federal Regulations.White improves her PR in leading DK girls at Portage
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Delton Kellogg boys were 21st and the
girls’ 26th Saturday at the annual Portage
Invitational at Portage West Middle School.
Delton Kellogg senior Joelle White contin-
ues to lead the Panther girls’ pack. She has
shaved nearly a minute and a half off the
fastest time from her junior season. She set a
new personal record Saturday while placing
78 th in 22 minutes 5.7 seconds. That time is
two and a half minutes faster than it was on
the same course her freshman season.
The top four Delton Kellogg girls all ran
their fastest race of the season Saturday.
Junior Lillian Lester dropped her personal
record to 26:03.6 in a 235th-place finish.
DK also had sophomore Johannah Hout-
kooper run a season-best time of 23:43.00 top
place 147th, sophomore Kylie Main run a
season-best time of 24:39.8 to place 186th,
and Maysse Wiessner placed 266th in 27:15.6.
Traverse City St. Francis won the D3 girls’
title in a field of 31 full teams Saturday in
Portage. St. Francis finished with 95 points to
beat out Hart 106, Lumen Christi 143, Benzie
Central 171 and Leslie 179 in the top five.
Hart sophomore Jessica Jazwinski was the
individual girls’ champion in D3 with a time
of 17:15.1, a new PR for her. The top three
girls all lowered their PR. Lumen Christi
junior Madison Osterberg came in at 18:04.
and Kent City sophomore Lila Volkers at
18:12.5.
Sophomore Ethan Rimmer led the Delton
Kellogg boys on the day with a season-besttime of 18:11.5. Delton senior Gage Vin-
cent was 93rd in 18:29.3, senior Micah
Martin 111th in 18:47.8, senior Isaac Shep-
ard 118th in 18:57.1 and senior Brett Harse-
voort dropped his PR to 19:14.0 in placing
147 th.
Delton Kellogg’s boys’ team also had
junior Rhys Bedford improve his PR to
20:38.5 in a 238th-place finish.
Hart senior Clayton Ackley won the D
boys’ race in 16:56.6, beating out Kent City
junior Samuel Martini who was second in
15:57.3.
Ackley’s Hart team took the boys’ champi-
onship with 71 points, ahead of Hanover-Hor-
ton 117, Traverse City St. Francis 136, Cove-
nant Christian 254 and Leslie 280 in the top
five of a field of 35 full teams.DK/TK/Hastings girls
defeat Union in the pool
Valerie Slaughter
Contributing Writer
The Delton Kellogg/Thornapple Kellogg/
Hastings co-op swim team defeated Grand
Rapids Union’s co-op team 89–57 at the Hast-
ings Community Education and Recreation
Center Pool Thursday.
The DK/TK/HHS team started out strong
with a sweep in the first event, the 200-yard
medley relay, taking all three scoring places/.
DK/TK/HHS was led by the first place team of
Bella Morey, Erin Daniels, Kasey Kapteyn
and Malia Hambly that finished in 2 minutes
25.70 seconds.
In the second event, DK/TK/HHS placed
first and third with the top time in the 200-yard
freestyle going to Aubrey Hawks (2:18.66)
and Lizzie Middleton finishing third (2:31.19).
Union took a first in the 200-yard individu-
al medley, with a second place going to DK/
TK/HHs’s Cadence VanOoy (2:48.88) and a
third place going to Erin Daniels (2:57.03).
DK/TK/HHS would come back in event four,
the 50-yard freestyle to sweep first through
third in the scoring spots with Holly Carpenter
finishing first for the team (26.90), Malia
Hambly finishing in second place (31.32) and
Zoe Watson third (32.54).At the break in swim for the diving compe-
tition, DK/TK/HHS was up 43–14. After com-
pleting the series of dives, DK/TK/Hastings’
divers finished first and third. Abby Dumond
took first place with a final score of 207.
points and TJ Myers finished in third place
with 169.70 points.
Back in the pool, the Union swimmer Lucia
Jacques took first in the 100-yard butterfly
followed by Morey who took second with a
time of 1:24.99. Sophia Marcukaitis finished
in first in the 100-yard freestyle (58.45) for
DK/TK/HHS and Abby Gaskill finished sec-
ond in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of
7:34.94.
The combined relay team of VanOoy,
Hawks, Carpenter and Marcukaitis finished
first in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time
of 1:53.54.
Hawks placed first again in the 100-yard
vackstroke (1:11.87) and Marcukaitis finished
with another first in the 100-yard breaststroke
(1:10.59).
The DK/TK/HHS girls are scheduled to
host Calvin Christian this evening, Oct. 13,
and will be back in action next Thursday at
home hosting Wayland for their annual cancer
awareness fundraiser.Saxons best Vikes in regular
season finale at Pierce Field
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
There was some internal debate amongst
the Hastings and Lakewood varsity boys’
soccer teams as to how hard they were going
to battle for a victory on Pierce Field Mon-
day night.
It was easy to see why at the end. Hastings
senior Bayne Signeski walked out of the stadi-
um on senior night with a good-sized ice bag
strapped to his leg. Lakewood senior Colby
Carter was headed for stitches in his lip.
Next up for both teams is the state tourna-
ment where you win or see your season end,
and both teams played like elimination games
had already started Monday as Hastings
pulled out a 4-3 win over the visiting Vikings.
Hastings is slated to visit Interstate-8 Ath-
letic Conference champion Parma Western
for its Division 2 district opener tonight,
Oct. 13, with the winner of that match
advancing to the district semifinals in Mid-
dleville Monday against either Charlotte or
Marshall.
Lakewood is the top seed for its Division 3
District Tournament. The Vikings will face
either Pennfield or Williamston in the district
semifinals in Eaton Rapids Wednesday, Oct.
19, at 7 p.m. The district final in Eaton Rap-
ids is planned for Oct. 22 at noon.
“It wasn’t good for the blood pressure, but
a game is a game and a win is a win. You
can’t take anything away from that,” Hast-
ings head coach Francisco Lopez said.
The Saxon coach wasn’t exceptionally
pleased with his team’s performance, but he
could understand his guys being a little dis-
combobulated while mixing the emotions ofsenior night, the final game of the regular
season and a match against familiar foes. A
number of Saxons and Vikings have spent
time playing club ball together in the Hast-
ings F.C. in recent seasons.
The Saxons were also looking for some
redemption after falling 3-0 to the Vikings a
year ago.
“I wasn’t really expecting a perfect game.
I knew they were going to come out and look
like Energizer bunnies without the control,
but we got the win,” Lopez said.
The two teams went back and forth all eve-
ning long Monday. Lakewood has 1-0, 2-
and 3-2 leads only to see the Saxons pull back
to even every time it went in front. Saxon
senior Cohen Smith took away the last Lake-
wood lead with 12 minutes and 28 seconds to
play in the second half when a free kick from
the left corner rolled into a crowd in front of
the Viking net and Smith put his foot on it to
put it by Lakewood keeper Ben Scobey.
Ten minutes later Hastings freshman Dan
Jensen sent a long cross into the Viking box
from left to right and Smith was again waiting
on the back side to head the ball into the net.
Smith had a hat-trick with three goals in
the ballgame. He also scored the Saxons’
opening goal in the fifth minute, ten seconds
after Lakewood opened the coring with Gar-
rett Feighan finishing off a corner kick from
teammate Drew Marquoit.
Feighn had two goals for the Vikings, beat-
ing everyone to a loose ball between the
Saxon defense and its keeper Zach Chipman,
to find space for an open shot that put his
team up 2-1 with a little over five minutes to
play in the first half.
Hastings had an answer again. This time
it was senior Kearan Tolles finishing off a
long ball in at the far post from teammate
Troy Hokanson less than three minutes
before the break.
Before being bloodied, Carter put the
Vikings back in front 3-2 with 17:48 to play.
The Saxon defense deflected one shot by
Carter towards the left corner, but his Viking
teammate Ty Evans put the ball right back in
front for Carter who directed it into the goal.
That Lakewood lead lasted only five min-
utes before Smith scored his final two goals
to give the Saxons the win.
Smith did an excellent job of finishing
crosses to find the net for the Saxons, a tactic
that also worked well for his team in the I-
finale against Pennfield the previous week.
The offense can be dangerous with Smith on
one post and Tolles on the other. Lopez said
he is happy to see his offense at full strength
after some early season injuries.
Hastings is 9-6-1 on the season after the
win. Lakewood closes the regular season at
13-4-1.Hastings senior Drew Thompson pushes through the midfield with the ball during
the Saxons' non-conference win over visiting Lakewood on senior night at Pierce Field
Monday. (Photo by Brett Bremer)
Hastings senior Juan Osorio gets a
hug from head coach Francisco Lopez
during the senior night ceremony at half-
time of the Saxons win over the Lakewood
Vikings on Pierce Field in Hastings
Monday. (Photo by Brett Bremer)Saxon junior Sergynho Arias punches the ball towards the offensive zone in from of
Lakewood's Donald Wells during the second half Monday evening on Pierce Field in
Hastings. (Photo by Brett Bremer)
Delton Kellogg/Thornapple Kellogg/Hastings' Maelea Martin gets off the board in
the diving competition during her team's win over Grand Rapids Union Thursday night.
(Photo by Valerie Slaughter)DK/TK/Hastings' Cadence VanOoy moves through the water in the 100-yard butter-
fly during her team's win over visiting Grand Rapids Union at the CERC in Hastings
Thursday. (Photo by Valerie Slaughter)