The Hastings Banner — Thursday, February 8, 2024 — Page 13Slater is first Lakewood lady
with a conference mat title
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Lakewood was 13th in the full
field of 21 teams at the Capital Area
Activities Conference Champion-
ship hosted by Mason Saturday.
Vincent Stamm and Bryan Aguil-
era had the top finishes in the boys’
competition for the Vikings, both
placing third, and Allison Slater
became the first Lakewood lady to
win as conference championship
taking the girls’ 120-pound weight
class at the tournament.
Slater pinned Holt’s Olivia Root in
the 120-pound championship match
making it three pins in three matches
for her on the day.
The Viking team also had Sophie
Colborn third in the girls’ 125-pound
weight class. She scored a pin in the
consolation semifinals and then bat-
tled for a 6-4 win over Olivet’s Paige
Tschirhart in the match for third place.
Stamm reached the semifinals
before falling to Grand Ledge’s Eden
Abdo in the boys’ 120-pound weight
class. He closed his day with a 4-
win over St. Johns Sean Pettigrew.
Aguilera also earned a spot in the
semifinals, where he was pinned by
St. Johns’ Ryan Dimmick. Aguilera
bounced back for a 6-2 win over
Mason’s Kaleb Parrish in the match
for third at 285 pounds.
The Viking boys’ team also had
Jaden Manhart sixth at 215 pounds,
Chris Webb seventh at 150 pounds
and Lydon Rodgers at 144 pounds
and Mason Livermore at 132 pounds
both place eighth.
Mason was the day’s overall
champion with 228.5 points ahead of
Grand Ledge 210, Fowlerville 182,
DeWitt 143.5 and Holt 139.5 in the
top five.
Portland, the regular season
champs from the CAAC-White, were
the top team from the CAAC-White
Saturday with an eighth-place score
of 105.5 points.
Lakewood was scheduled to visit
Portland for its MHSAA Division 3
Team District Tournament last night,
with a bye into the semifinals to face
the winner of the opening round
match between the host Raiders and
Central Montcalm.
The Vikings will be at Montrose
High School Saturday for their
MHSAA Division 3 Individual Dis-
trict Tournament.Cougars win at TK to stay
perfect in OK Gold
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Thornapple Kellogg varsity girls’ basket-
ball coach Brandi James said her team is
calling it the revenge tour as her team looks
to improve its 2-5 record from the first half of
the OK Gold Conference schedule in the sec-
ond half of the conference season.
So far though, the results have played out
the same way they did on the first run
through. TK opened the second half of the
conference slate with a win over Forest Hills
Eastern Feb. 2 and then fell for the second
time to Grand Rapids Catholic Central as the
Cougars visited Thornapple Kellogg High
School in Middleville Tuesday night.
Catholic Central has matched its confer-
ence performance in the second half of the
conference slate too improving to 9-0 in
conference play with its 58-31 win over the
TK ladies.
“We’ll dissect this film,” James said Tues-
day. “We have to learn. We’re on a revenge
tour we’re calling it, because we have Ottawa
Hills, who we beat the first time, then we
have South and Wayland, who we could have
beat both of them last time we just let it slip
away in the end parts of those games. We’ll
come for them.”
The TK ladies travel to Ottawa Hills Fri-
day night looking for a second win over the
Bengals and then travel to South Christian
Feb. 13 and Wayland Feb. 16.
Catholic Central junior Emily VanTim-
meren was the only girl for either side in
double figures Tuesday night in Middleville.
She finished with ten points as the Cougars
rolled girls in and out all evening. Junior Lau-
ren Meerman had nine points for the Cou-
gars, senior Claire Marosi and sophomore
Hailey Durland had eight points apiece and
sophomore Lily Engstrom chipped in seven
points. Junior Grace McKinney finished with
six points.
The Trojans spent time in a diamond-and-
one defense working to contain VanTim-
meren in the paint, but also played their fair
share of man-to-man defense as the Cougars
were on fire from behind the three-point line.
“I was proud of our man-to-man,” James
said. “We have been working on having a
better man-to-man defense, so I was proud of
that. We had a lot of offensive rebounds, we
just could not buy a basket. Some of the
things we focused on went really well, but
some of the things we focused didn’t go very
well at all – like turnovers. We had 38 turn-
overs the first time we played them.”
“This is a tough, tough team. They all hus-
tle to everything. They’re all very fast. They
have 15 players, and they play 10 players
deep. They can play fast, and we struggle at
that speed. They play fast for us. We’re
young. It happens.”
That turnover total seemed likely similar to
Tuesday’s number. TK struggled with the
Cougars’ full-court pressure leading to some
easy buckets for Catholic Central.
“We have to break things through the mid-
dle,” James said of facing the Cougars’ pres-
sure. “They were directed to break them
anywhere but outside the volleyball court
[lines in the center of the basketball court].
That press is designed to push us outside, and
we let it push us outside and across and we’d
go into traps. We have to break things with
passes. When we see each other, and we com-
municate well, and we occupy the middle we
can break through things, because we’re also
fast, but we do it with dribbles and then we
get ourselves in trouble because then we have
to pick it up eventually.”
The Cougars had the lead early on scoring
the first nine points in the games first two
and a half minutes. The Catholic Central
lead hit double figures for the first time on a
three by senior Emma Picarazzi in transition,
as the clock ticked under four minutes to
play, and the lead was double figures for the
rest of the night.
“We came out more calm and level-headed
[than in the first meeting], and the first few
shots we had were good looks that we just
didn’t hit,” James said. “On that stretch
where they hit 6-for-7 from the three-pointline, that’s just tough to overcome. Then, we
start to hang our heads down and that’s tough
to overcome.”
Sophomore Marlee Shuford had a team-
high seven points for TK. Sophomore Tealy
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Decedent’s Estate
CASE NO. and JUDGE 23-296782-DE
William Michael Doherty
Court Address: 206 W. Court, Hastings, MI 49058
Court Telephone No.: 269-945-Estate of Carole Loosemore Wiggs. Date of birth:
September 19, 1939.
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Creditors of the decedent are notified that all
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sweep duals with Saxons
The Saxons won both Baker games at
Hastings Bowl Tuesday afternoon, but it
wasn’t quite enough for the Hastings varsity
girls’ bowling team to pull out a win over the
visiting Marshall Redhawks.
The Marshall girls took a 16-14 win to
drop the HHS girls to 2-5 in the Interstate-
Athletic Conference so far this season. The
Marshall boys also took a win, outscoring the
Saxon boys 24-6 to move the HHS boys’
record to 3-4 in the conference this season.
The Hastings girls rolled games of 146 and
132 in their two Baker wins.
Ally Herder took a point for the Hastings
girls with her 168 game and teammate Kaylin
Schild won as point with a 157. The Saxon
team also had Heaven Simmet earn a point
with a 130 while also rolling a 140 game that
was bested by her Marshall foe.
Megan Ramey added a high game of 114
for the Saxons and Mya Norman earned a
point with a 149.
The Hastings boys won all six of their
points with a victory in the Bakers. The Sax-
ons won one of the Baker matches with a 178and finished with the most total pins in the
two Bakers too.
In the regular games Hastings had high
games of 171 by Miles Lipsey and Hunter
Pennington. Jackson Byers rolled a 137,
Cohen James a 131 and Kenny Vastine III
tallied a 146.
The Saxons are back at it in the Interstate-
Athletic Conference Friday at M-66 Bowl
taking on Pennfield.
The Jackson Northwest teams took confer-
ence wins over the Saxons last Thursday at
JAX 60 in Jackson.
The Mounties won the boys’ match 22-8.
The Hastings boys again took the overall
Baker total winning one of the games with a- Vastine III earned a Saxon point with a
189 and Pennington took one with a 178.
The Northwest girls took a 27-3 win over
the Saxons.
The Saxons got two points from Herder
who rolled games of 142 and 163 and Simmet
who scored a 155. Kass Harton also bowled a
155 in her opening game, but was bested by
three pins by her Northwest foe.
Maple Valley girls get
their second victory
The Maple Valley varsity girls’ basket-
ball team won for the second time this
season as it outscored Wyoming Lee 28-
in a non-conference ballgame at Maple
Valley High School Tuesday.
The Lions got six points apiece from AliMater and Taylor Casey in the victory.
Maple Valley moves to 2-13 overall this
season with the win. It’s the first victory for
the Lions since the calendar flipped to 2024.
The Lions return to action against Big 8
Conference foe Quincy Thursday evening.Thornapple Kellogg sophomore Tealy Cross (right) and Grand Rapids Catholic
Central junior Emily VanTimmeren chase after a loose ball near mid-court during the
first half of their OK Gold Conference ballgame in Middleville Tuesday evening. (Photo
by Brett Bremer)Thornapple Kellogg freshman Reece Ritsema gets a shot up after getting hit by
Catholic Central's Emma Picarazzi in the paint while her Cougar teammate Kate
Passinault (10) looks on during the first half Tuesday in Middleville. (Photo by Brett
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