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The Hastings Banner — Thursday, May 18, 2023 — Page 13

NOTICE OF

PUBLIC HEARING OF

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF

BARRY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE

PROPOSED 2023-2024 BUDGET AT THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF BARRY

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT:

DATE OF MEETING: JUNE 13, 2023

PLACE OF MEETING BARRY ISD ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE

HOUR OF MEETING 8:30 A.M.

TELEPHONE NUMBER OF THE

SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE: (269) 945-

BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING

MINUTES ARE LOCATED AT: BARRY ISD ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE

535 WEST WOODLAWN AVENUE

HASTINGS, MI 49058-

A COPY OF THE PROPOSED 2023-

BUDGET INCLUDING THE PROPOSED

PROPERTY TAX MILLAGE RATE IS

AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION

DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS AT: BARRY ISD ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE

535 WEST WOODLAWN AVENUE

HASTINGS, MI 49058-

PURPOSE OF MEETING:

1. Public discussion on the proposed 2023-2024 budget. The property tax millage rate proposed to be levied to
support the proposed budget will be a subject of this hearing. The Board may not adopt its proposed 2023-
2024 budget until after the public hearing.
Deb Hatfield
Secretary, Barry Intermediate School District Board of Education

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Viking softball team sweeps its last

GLAC doubleheader with Perry girls

The Lakewood varsity softball team closed the
2023 Greater Lansing Activities Conference season
with a sweep of visiting Perry Monday afternoon.
The Lakewood girls took game one 7-4 and then
won game two 10-6.
Peyton Federau got the win in the circle in game
one allowing two earned runs on six hits and three
walks. She struck out two.
Audrey Hillard had a big game one at the plate for
Lakewood. She was 3 for 4 with a two-run double in
the fifth that tied the game at 3-3 at the time.
Maryssa Goble was 3 for 4 at the plate. Kerigan
Schroeder and Peyton Federau had two hits each.
Kendyl Steward had a double and Liv Woodman had

a single.

Hillard was 2 for 4 with a double in game two and

so was Peyton. Woodman and Ally Slater both had

two hits too. Lily Federau, Maycee Rusco, Goble and

Schroeder had one hit each.

Steward got the pitching victory in game two. She

gave up six earned runs in four innings. She walked

two and struck out two. The Ramblers managed ten

hits against her.

Federau closed out the final three innings for the

save. She allowed two earned runs on five hits.

The Lakewood ladies are home for a non-confer-

ence doubleheader with Ionia this afternoon and go to

Byron Center for a tournament Saturday.

Delton Kellogg wins game two after

wild opener with Saugatuck

Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Delton Kellogg varsity baseball team split a
pair with Saugatuck to close out the Southwestern
Athletic Conference Central Division season Monday.
The Trailblazers took a 19-18 win in the opener
before DK rallied for an 8-1 win in game two.
Wyatt Colwell got the win in game two. He struck
out six in four innings while giving up four hits and
just the one unearned run.
Dylan Fichtner was 2 for 2 with a double, a single
and four RBI’s for Delton Kellogg in game two. Adri-
an DeBoer also doubled and drove in a run. Torren
Mapes and Elliott Rogers had the other two Delton
Kellogg hits.
The two teams went back and forth in the wild
game one.
Saugautck led 13-5 after five innings, and upped the
lead to 14-5 in the top of the sixth before the Panthers
struck for six runs in the bottom of the sixth.
The Trailblazers struck for four runs that proved bit
in the top of the seventh to go in front 18-11. Delton

Kellogg scored seven times in the bottom of the sev-

enth to force an extra inning w in which the Trailblaz-

ers secured the one-run lead.

DeBoer was 5 for 5 in the loss to lead the Delton

Kellogg attack. He had four RBIs and two runs scored.

He homered once.

Mason Nabozny also hit a home run in the loss. He

was 1 for 4 with five RBI’s.

Cole Lane, Victor Gonzalez, Riley Bardo, Rogers

and Mapes had two hits each. Mapes had two RBI’s

and Bardo also drove in a run.

The Panthers had a similar pair Saturday at the

Lakewood Invitational. Three Rivers scored a 12-

win over the Panthers to close the day after Lakewood

took a 10-1 win over the Panthers in the day’s opener.

Fichtner had a double and two RBI’s in the loss to

Three Rivers. Bardo, Fichtner, Colwell, Rogers and

DeBoer each singled once. Tristin Boze was 2 for 2

with an RBI and two runs scored in the leadoff spot.

He walked once too.

A single by Fichtner was the only hit for the DK

team in the loss to Lakewood.

Rice wins

championship

at WAAM

Finals

Local wrestler Kobe Rice cele-

brates his championship at the

WAAM Wrestling State Finals May 6

at Lansing Eastern’s Don Johnson

Event Center. Rice pinned all there

of his opponents in the 8U 58-pound

weight class to earn the state cham-

pionship.

Saxon senior Benson makes

plans to join baseball team

at Grace Christian

Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
At the start of his senior varsity baseball
season the Saxons’ Aiden Benson made his
plans for his freshman baseball season on the
college level.
Benson decided to accept a place on the
Grace Christian University
Benson joined the Hastings varsity base-
ball team as second baseman at the start of his
sophomore spring. An injury to a teammate
forced a move to shortstop and it has been his
home ever since.
“Since I can remember, I have had a glove
in my hand and I’m swinging a bat,” Benson
said.
He played in the South Central Michigan
Young Baseball league, on teams coached by
his father Michael Benson, and over the past
few years spent time with the Elite Grand

Rapids club and the West Michigan Warriors.

Micheal coached Aiden with Elite in 2019

before the move to the Warriors following the

Covid stymied freshman year.

“He coached me a lot throughout my life,”

Aiden said of his dad. “He played some col-

lege baseball [at Southwest Michigan Col-

lege] and that is what kind of made me want

to do it, to kind of follow his footsteps.”

Aiden said once he stepped on Grace

Christian University’s campus he knew he

wanted to attend. He has plans on studying

criminal justice and sports management.

By the end of his sophomore season, Aiden

was pretty comfortable at shortstop. He

knows his bat is going to have to improve to

face college pitchers. He said an injury

slowed down his bat early this spring, but he

is starting to feel like he is in the swing of

things now.

Trojan baseball team drops first two

against Cedar Springs in Gold set

Brett Bremer

Sports Editor

It has been a tough May for the Trojans.

The Thornapple Kellogg varsity baseball

team is still pushing for its first win of the

month. The Trojans get their next chance this

afternoon in an OK Gold Conference ball-

game against visiting Cedar Springs.

The Red Hawks took a pair from the visit-

ing Trojans Tuesday afternoon – scoring 3-

and 7-0 wins.

Brody Wiersma started and took the loss

for TK in the opener. He allowed three earned

runs on four walks and four hits. He struck

out seven in 5 2/3 innings.

Maddix Ferden came on to get the final out

for the Trojans in the sixth.

The ballgame was tied 1-1 heading into the

sixth when Cedar Springs added a pair of

runs.

TK got its one run to tie the ballgame in the

top of the fourth. Anson Verlinde reached on

an error and then Logan Snelling singled

behind him to put runners on first and second

with nobody out. They moved up a base on a

Cedar Springs error and then Verlinde scored

from third on a ground out by Ferden.

TK had three hits in the game with Gavin

Snelling adding a double and Graysen Stahle

a single.

The lone TK hits were singles by Gavin

Snelling and Verlinde in the game two shut

out.

TK fell in its final ballgame of a three

game set with Kenowa Hills, in Grand Rap-

ids, last Thursday 9-2.

East Kentwood came to Middleville Satur-

day morning and took two non-conference

wins over the Trojans.

The Falcons took game one 3-1 and then

won game two 9-6.

Singles by Wiersma and Verlinde were the

only TK hits in game one. Gavin Snelling had

an RBI.

Verlinde allowed three runs on five hits

and four walks in five innings on the mound.

He struck out three. Gavin Snelling came on

in the sixth and thew a pair of scoreless, hit-

less innings of relief. He struck out two and

walked two.

East Kentwood trailed 6-3 after three

innings in game two, but rallied for a four-run

fourth and then went on to the 9-6 win.

Verlinde was 2 for 3 at the plate for TK.

Logan Snelling was 1 for 3 with two RBI’s.

Isaac Kimbel also drove in a run for TK.

Wiersma, Stahle and Ben Koster each sin-

gled once.

Hastings senior Aiden Benson (seated center) was joined by family and coaches as
he signed his letter of intent to join the Grace Christian University Men's Baseball
Program next season.

Thornapple Kellogg's Gavin Snelling pitches in relief during game one of his team's

Saturday doubleheader with East Kentwood in Middleville. (Photo by Brett Bremer)

Thornapple Kellogg second baseman Ben Koster moves into position to scoop up

a ground ball during game one against East Kentwood Saturday in Middleville. (Photo

by Brett Bremer)