SN 3-11-2023

The Sun and News, Saturday, March 11, 2023/ Page 9

Scots able to sneak in one last race before finals

Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Some of the finest winter
weather of the season waited
for March to arrive.
That’s too bad for the
Caledonia and Plainwell/
Thornapple Kellogg varsity
ski teams.
“I filed a waiver to hold the
race next Wednesday, but was
denied by the MHSAA,”
Caledonia varsity ski coach
Duane Petrosky said after his
team manged to get in at
late-season Caledonia
Invitational at Crystal Mountain
in Thompsonville Feb. 24. “I
guess it has to be approved by
the Representative Council and
they do not meet again until the
end of March. It was a tough
season for most of our teams
due to the weather, I am glad we
travel north as much as we do.”
Thornapple Kellogg senior
Lucy VanDemark, skiing one
last time for the Plainwell/TK
Trojan Ski co-op earned second
team all-state honors with her
11th-place slalom finish at the
MHSAA Division 2 Ski Finals
at Boyne Mountain Feb. 27.
Her team got to get one
more race in with the Fighting
Scots at Crystal Mountain
there between regionals and

the state finals.

Coach Petrosky expects the

late-season Caledonia

Invitational to become a year-

ly tradition.

“The weather at home has

just not cooperated, we have

only been able to hold two

conference races and I wanted

more for my skiers so I looked

into moving our final confer-

ence race to Crystal Mountain,

but there were scheduling con-

flicts with most of the teams in

the Southwest Michigan Ski

Conference,” Petrosky said.

“At that point, I decided to

book the race and invite a

group of teams that we race

against during the season.

Plainwell/TK was the only

conference school that could

make the date work and we

were excited to introduce them

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Caledonia’s Sean Rice crouches through the gates as he makes his way down

the GS course during the Caledonia Invitational at Crystal Mountain Feb. 24.

Plainwell/Thornapple Kellogg’s Sam Bacon races

down the hill to a 27th-place finish in the slalom at the

Caledonia Invitational at Crystal Mountain Feb. 24.

(Photo by Eric Hodges)

Mya Baldwin works her way to a medal for the
Fighting Scots in the slalom during the Caledonia
Invitational at Crystal Mountain Feb. 24.

The Trojan Ski team’s Anna Davis makes her way
down the GS run during the Caledonia Invitational
Feb. 24 at Crystal Mountain. (Photo by Eric Hodges)

Plainwell/TK’s Eli Korreck speeds down the GS course at Crystal Mountain

Feb. 24 during the Caledonia Invitational. He led the Trojan team in both the GS

and slalom races at the event. (Photo by Eric Hodges)