The Hastings Banner — Thursday, May 18, 2023 — Page 11Delton Kellogg girls outscore
Parchment for fifth victory of spring
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Delton Kellogg’s varsity girls’ soccer
team took a 4-1 Southwestern Athletic
Conference win at Parchment Friday.
Avery Barker scored off an assist
from Carlie Ritchie for the only goal of
the first half, and then the Panthers
eventually built a 4-0 lead in the second
half.
Baker scored off another assist from
Ritchie in the second half and Adelynn
Stampfler and Ritchie scored goals too.Johannah Houtkooper made ten saves
in goal for Delton Kellogg.
The DK girls are now 5-8-1 overall
this season.
The DK girls followed up the win
with a 2-2 draw at home against Fenn-
ville Monday evening.
Delton Kellogg scored the game’s
opening goal 14 seconds in, but Fenn-
ville righted itself to go in front 2-1 at
the half. With 11 seconds left in a back
and forth second half, Stampfler put the
game-tying goal past the Fennvillekeeper.
Houtkooper had 14 saves in net in the
win.
Last Wednesday, May 10, the DK
girls took a 2-0 win over Bridgman in
Delton.
Barker and Piper McArther scored
the two Delton Kellogg goals with
Stampfler recording two assists.
The DK girls close the regular season
at Watervliet Monday and then start the
state tournament with a district match at
Fennville May 26.TK ladies catch Bengals in
final race, but not in standings
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Trojans weren’t going to catch
the Bengals in the standings, but they
were certain they were going to catch
them before the finish line.
The Thornapple Kellogg 4x400-me-
ter relay team of Lindsey Velting, Pay-
ton Gater, Kenady Smith and Brooklyn
Harmon took the OK Gold Conference
championship in the final race of the
day at Forest Hills Eastern High School
Friday – shaving nearly five seconds
off their previous best time in the race
this season.
The put up a time of 4 minutes 8.
seconds to take a little bit of the sting
off finishing second to the Bengals
overall in the final OK Gold Confer-
ence standings.
Ottawa Hills clinched the conference
championship with 149 points Friday.
TK was second with 129.5 ahead of
Kenowa Hills 81, Wayland 70.5, Forest
Hills Eastern 70, Cedar Springs 57,
Catholic Central 52 and South Chris-
tian 52.
Forest Hills Eastern handily won the
boys’ championship outscoring Way-
land 152.5 to 106.75 at the top of the
standings.
Velting opened the 4x400-meter relay
with her fastest split of the season in the
race and then got the baton to Gater,
who was in third place when she took it.
She chased down two competitors with
a 60-second split before getting the
baton to Smith who soon caught up to
Ottawa Hills’ Madisen Washington.
Smith waited to swing by Washington
until the final 100 meters of their leg
and created a little bit of a gap before
handing things off to Harmon.
Harmon got to the finish a second and
a half before the Bengals’ anchor Enna
Wainer.
It was the fourth top three finish of
the day for the sophomore Harmon, and
her third victory. She took the 100-
meter hurdles in 15.84 seconds and
lowered her personal record to 46.
seconds in winning the 300-meter low
hurdles. She was pushed to a PR in that
race by Kenowa Hills sophomore Mel
Holman who hit the finish line in 46.61.
Of the first 11 finishers in that 300-
meter hurdle event, one set her season
best time and the other ten all ran a newPR. That group included TK freshman
Mia Hilton who was sixth in 50.85 and
junior Joselyn DeBoer who was eighth
in 51.10.
Harmon also placed third in the long
jump with a leap of 14 feet 10 inches.
The four members of the 4x400-me-
ter relay team, junior Eva Corson and
sophomore Ava Crews all earned
all-conference honors for the TK girls.
Corson was the runner-up in the high
jump with a personal record leap of 5-2.
That heigh was matched by Smith who
was third and by Kenowa Hills junior
Lauren Rokos who won the event on
attempts.
Corson was also a part of the fourth-
place 4x200-meter relay team for TK
and the fifth-place 4x100-meter relay
team, and placed seventh in the 200-
meter dash.
Crews set her personal record in the
1600-meter run. She was sixth in that
race in 5:29.27. She also placed fourth
in the 3200-meter run with a time of
11:51.99 and was a part of the Trojans’
fifth-place 4x800-meter relay team.
Velting led the TK ladies in the
sprints. She was third in the 100-meter
dash and fifth in the 200-meter dash.
Ottawa Hills sophomore Semaj Robert-
son won both those races, and the Ben-
gals had three of the top four finishers in
both. Robertson was also a part of the
Bengals’ winning 4x100-meter relay
and 4x200-meter relay teams.
Robertson’s Bengal teammate, junior
Selma Anderson, won the 3200-meter
run in 11:27.54, the 1600-meter run in
5:13.05 and the 800-meter run in 2:21.
and was as part of her school’s winning
4x800-meter relay team.
Forest Hills Eastern’s Addison Wash-
ler broke up the Bengals’ sweep of the
individual running events by taking the
400-meter dash in 58.38 seconds. The
top eight girls in that race all set a new
PR including Gater who was fourth in
1:02.51 and Smith who was fifth in
1:03.05.
In the field, TK had senior Elizabeth
Guant and junior Elizabeth Middleton
place third and fourth respectively in the
shot put. Middleton improved her Pr to
29-6 and Gaunt had a mark of 29-10.5.
A trio of Trojans scored in the discus
with senior Preslee Hall fifth, junior
Mollie Moore sixth and junior KailynVandenboss seventh. Senior Emmerson
DeVries cleared 8-6 to tie for ffifth in
the pole vault. Sophomore Emma Dyk-
house went 14-3 to place seventh in the
long jump.
Kenowa Hills was third in the boys’
meet, behind FHE and Wayland, with
100 points. Cedar Springs was fourth
with 85 points ahead of Catholic Cen-
tral 81.75, South Christian 47.25,
Thornapple Kellogg 44.75 and Ottawa
Hills 44.
Freshman Nate Shoemaker had the
top finish on the track for the TK boys.
He set his PR at 42.79 to place fourth in
the 300-meter intermediate hurdles.
Senior sprinter Tyler Gavette was
sixth in both the 100-meter dash and
the 200-meter dash for TK. He set his
Pr at 23.63 in the 200.
TK had two top eight finishes in the
400-meter dash. Junior Jaxan Sias was
sixth in 54.03 and senior Alejandro
Rodas improved his PR to 54.41 to
place eighth.
Lucas Van Meter, a junior, improved
his 800-meter PR to 2:02.36 to place
sixth in that race for TK.
The top relay finish for the TK boys
was in the 4x400-meter event with the
team of junior Ethan Bonnema, senior
Gabe LaJoye, senior Tyler Busman and
Sias third in 3:31.12.
The Trojan team had two scorers in
the long jump. Junior Kyle VanHaitsma
moved his PR to 19-6 to place seventh
and Shoemaker was eighth at 18-10.5.
In the pole vault, Bushman placed
seventh by clearing the bar at 10-6.
Rodas moved his PR to 5-10 in the high
jump to place eighth. Senior Drake Sny-
der improved his PR to 42-2 to place
eighth in the shot put.
Forest Hills Eastern was powered to
the win by victories in all four relay
races on the boys’ side, wins by senior
Bryson Kuzdzal in the 100-meter dash
and the 200-meter dash, senior Aiden
Sullivan in the 400-meter dash and a
1-2 finish from teammates Henry
Dixon and Brendan Hoving in the
3200-meter run.
The Trojans travel to Sparta Friday,
May 19 for their MHSAA Lower Penin-
sula Division 2 Regional Meet. The TK
ladies will also be a part of the May 26
MITCA Division 2 Team State Finals
hosted by Berrien Springs.Parma Western pulls out
two wins over Saxons
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Saxons are at the Holland Invitational Satur-
day and then close out the 2023 varsity baseball reg-
ular season with Interstate-8 Athletic Conference
doubleheaders with Marshall and Jackson Northwest.
Hastings is still chasing its first Interstate-8 Ath-
letic Conference victory of the season. The Saxons
fell to 0-10 in conference play with a pair of tough
losses to visiting Parma Western Tuesday afternoon.
The Panthers took the opener 5-1 and then won
game two 9-2.
Senior Austin Benson gave up just two earned runs
in the complete game loss in game one. He struck out
two, gave up eight hits and didn’t walk a batter.
Back to back doubles by the Panthers to start the
top of the fourth inning tied the ballgame at 1-1, and
then the go-ahead run came around to score on a
Saxon error with two outs.
The Saxons had two runners on in the fourth and the
seventh innings, but couldn’t scratch out another run.
Lars Sorensen, Diego Coipel, Tyler Morris and
Landon Steward each singled once and Benson had
his team’s lone RBI.
The Panthers scored four more unearned runs in
game two and built an 8-0 lead through the first five
innings.
Hastings scored its two runs in the bottom of the
seventh. Coipel and Jackson Hayes singled to lead off
the inning and the Saxons worked their way around
the bases with Hayes, and Chase Rathburn in for
Coipel, each stealing a base and the Panthers throw-
ing the ball around a bit.
The Saxons had seven hits in the loss, by seven
different players. Steward doubled. Eastin Tibble,
Sorensen, Benson, and David Jiles each singled once.
Morris took the loss on the mound. He allowed
four runs, one earned, in three innings. He struck out
three, walked three and allowed two hits. Steward
threw four innings of relief. He gave up four earned
runs on ten hits and a walk. He struck out six.
The Saxons were bested in two ballgames by the
Greater Lansing Activities Conference champions
from Olivet last Friday, 14-0 and 9-1 in Hastings.
A single by Tibble was the only hit for the Saxons
in game one.
Benson and Sorensen both singled in game two,
with Sorensen driving in Benson for their team’s lone
run in the bottom of the sixth inning of game two.
The Saxons are on the road for their two with Mar-
shall Tuesday, May 23, and close the regular season
at home against Northwest May 30.199628City of Hastings
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199757City of Hastings
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and/or oral comments from the public
concerning amending Chapter 90, Article
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of the Hastings Municipal Code of 1970. The
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the second floor of City Hall, 201 East State
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City ClerkAiden Benson pitches for the Saxons during game one of their doubleheader against visiting
Parma Western Tuesday at Hastings High School. (Photo by Brett Bremer)
Hastings shortstop Eastin Tibble looks to first
after scooping up a ground ball during game one
of his team's I-8 doubleheader with visiting
Parma Western Tuesday afternoon. (Photo by
Brett Bremer)The Saxons' Landon Steward knocks a single to left during the bottom of the seventh inning of
game one against visiting Parma Western Tuesday at Hastings High School. (Photo by Brett Bremer)