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PUBLIC NOTICECity of Hastings
2024 BOARD OF REVIEW MEETING SCHEDULE
The City of Hastings Board of Review for 2024 will be held at
Hastings City Hall, 201 E State St, on the following dates:Organizational Meeting: March 5th, 1:00 pmAppeal Hearings:
Tuesday, March 12th, 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Wednesday, March 13th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pmMeetings are by Appointment to schedule, contact: City Hall @ ph. 269-945-The Board of Review will meet as many more days as deemed necessary to hear
questions, protests and to equalize the 2024 assessments.By City Resolution, residents are able to protest by letter, provided the protest
letter is received prior to March 11th, 2024.The tentative ratios and the estimated multipliers for each class
of real property and personal property for 2024 are as follows:Commercial .........................49.34 ...........1.
Residential ..........................44.71 ...........1.
Industrial .............................49.02 ...........1.
Agricultural ..........................48.50 ...........1.
Personal Property ...............50.00 ...........1.Americans with Disabilities (ADA) NoticeThe City of Hastings will provide necessary reasonable services to individuals with
disabilities at the Board of Review meetings upon 3-day notice.Contact: Sarah Moyer-Cale 269-945-TK junior, Curtis, bested in
blood round at D2 Finals
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The lone member of the Thornapple Kel-
logg varsity wrestling team competing in the
MHSAA Division 2 Individual State Finals
over the weekend at Ford Field in Detroit
bowed out in the blood round.
Trojan junior Jayce Curtis, a state qualifier
for the first time, got off to a good start.
Twice Curtis turned Southgate Anderson’s
Lavelle Hughes onto his back in the second
period of their 165-pound opener. He got six
nearfall points for those two turns, and then
got Hughes on his back again in the third
period and pinned him this time.
It was the final win of the weekend for
Curtis who fell to Fenton senior Ben Triola in
their quarterfinal match, 7-1. Triola went on
to eventually place third at their weight class.
Curtis went on to the blood round, the sec-
ond round of consolation where the winners
guarantee themselves a state medal and their
opponents see their season come to an end.
De La Salle Collegiate senior Joseph Mon-
tiall took a 12-3 win over Curtis in that blood
round match.
Curtis ends the season with a 40-10 record.
Greenville senior Naythan Dobson won the
weight class, outscoring Allendale senior Har-
rison Meekhof 5-4 in their championship bout
Saturday afternoon. Triola bested Freeland
senior Gibson Shepard 4-3 in their consola-
tion final for third place Saturday. Montilla
closed the weekend sixth at their weight class.
Lowell was once against the big winner in
Division 2 at the state finals. The Red Arrows
followed up their team state championship
from the weekend before by having all 11 of
their guys medal at the finals. Lowell’s Carter
Cichocki at 120 pounds, Jarrett Smith at 106,
Owen Segorski at 144 and Jackson Blum all
won individual state titles.
The Red Arrows also had Veronica Tapia
place fourth in her girls’ 100-pound compe-
tition.
Curtis had three teammates competing in
the girls’ competition at the finals, Emma
Gibson and Rylee Alberts in the 125-pound
weight class and Raini Braska at 11 5.
Alberts and Gibson both had one win, like
Curtis, and bowed out in the blood round.
DK guys get one win
from championship finals
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
It was a heart-breaking way for day one
of the MHSAA Division 4 Individual Wres-
tling Finals to end for the Delton Kellogg
boys Friday afternoon in the championship
semifinals.
A late reversal and two nearfall points as
the first period clock ticked under five sec-
onds to go gave Union City junior Logan
Mears a 6-2 advantage in his 132-pound
semifinal bout with DK junior Gauge
Stampfler. It was a little too much for
Stampfler to overcome as Mears earned a
spot in the championship finals with an 8-
win over the Panthers’ returning state med-
alist.
Not long after, Delton Kellogg sopho-
more Mitchell Swift had a 1-0 lead at the
start of the third period of his 285-pound
championship semifinal bout against White
Pigeon junior Chas Underwood. He rode on
top of Underwood for a minute and 59 sec-
onds before Underwood managed the escape
that forced overtime – nearly getting a
reversal and the win right there.
It took 23 seconds of overtime before
Underwood got the sudden victory take
down to earn his spot in the 285-pound
championship match.
Just getting to the semifinals by opening
the state tournament with two wins had
already guaranteed Stampfler and Swift of
winning state medals, and the returned to
Ford Field Saturday. Both guys fell in their
first match of the medal rounds and then
closed the tournament with a win to place
fifth at their weight class.
The DK medal-winning duo was also
joined at the state finals by senior 175-pound-
er Luke Watson – a first-time state qualifier
who fell in his first two bouts.
“They were disappointed right away,”
Delton Kellogg head coach Dan Phillips
said of his two state medalists. “Both of
them wrestled very close [semifinal] match-
es. Mitchell lost in overtime. He was as
close to the finals as you could get. Actually
what happened was, Gauge came and
grabbed Mitchell and those two walked
away. They took about 15 minutes away
from everyone else and took a walk through
[Ford Field] and got their minds back on
what their goal was. It was kind of neat.”
“They recomposed themselves and refor-
mulated a plan. It was kind of nice to see
them do that. They came back and they were
refocused and in good sprits. Their attitudes
were right. Their mindsets were in the right
spot and they came back to wrestle strong.”
Stampfler did lose another tough one Sat-
urday in the consolation semifinals, 1-0 to
Gabriel Richard’s Luke Harrington, but then
closed his tournament run with a 7-3 winover Cameron Perez from Lakeview in the
match for fifth.
Swift had a similar Saturday. He was
downed 2-0 by Leslie’s Tanner Craft in the
consolation semifinals and then pinned Cass
City’s Rylan Kruse in the match for fifth.
That was Swift’s second pin of Kruse as the
tournament. Swift pinned Benzie Central’s
Ryan Kincaid to open the 285-pound weight
class and then stuck Kruse in the quarterfi-
nals.
Stampfler opened his tournament run
with an 11-1 win over Benzie Central’s
Nathan Higgins and then best out
Hanover-Horton’s AJ Fielder 4-1 in the
quarterfinals.
Stampfler finished the season with a
record of 53-7. He was one step higher on
the medal stand than he was at the end of his
sophomore season where he placed sixth at
the finals.
Coach Phillips said Stampfler was a bet-
ter conditioned wrestler this winter and he
became more of a cerebral wrestler. Stamp-fler was more likely as a junior to go into
match with a plan than to just go out and
wrestle.
Swift just missed the state finals as a
freshman heavyweight, falling in the blood
round of the Panthers’ regional tournament.
“Obviously, he is a year older,” Phillips
said. “He was just a freshman last year. He
was a good freshman, but he put in a lot of
offseason work, did a lot of maturing. He is
stronger, he is bigger and faster than he was
last year and he has that extra year of expe-
rience.”
“Coming to high school from being a mid-
dle school heavyweight is a bigger differ-
ence than any other weight class. It took him
a while to adjust to wrestling heavyweights
that are 285 pounds and 285 pound men.
Grown men. He adjusted well, but he became
stronger and more physical this year.”
Watson’s tournament run ended with him
on his back twice in the 175-pound weight
class. He had a 5-1 lead half a minute into
the second period of his first consolation
match, against Marlette’s Westley Chapin,
but managed an escape, a take down and
turned the DK senior with 24 seconds to go
in the period.
“He just ended up with the short end of
that draw,” Phillips said of Watson. “He
wrestled a top notch kid and then his second
match he ended up wrestling a kid who was
pretty good too. Luke was winning in that
second match where he got eliminated. He
got caught and got chin-whipped, but he
was winning and controlling that match.”
The DK program also had freshman Oliv-
ia Post competing in the girls’ 125-pound
weight class over the weekend at Ford Field.
“I am so proud of the guys and my coach-
es too,” Phillips said. “[Assistant coaches
Clint Post and Hunter Belew] are top notch.
They worked really well with the boys and
the girl. Those coaches were willing to do
whatever it takes to be successful which
means wrestling with a 260-pound heavy-
weight who is a state placer heavyweight
and that’s not easy on the body every day ...
I wrestled with him maybe twice. I told the
other coaches I am older, I break. They
wrestle with Mitchell.”
“I always say a successful program is
defined by the people who are around it all
the time,” Phillips added. “So, I try to sur-
round myself with coaches that are smarter
than I am and better than I am so it makes
me look good.”Thornapple Kellogg junior Jayce Curtis is lifted off the mat by Southgate Anderson's
Lavelle Hughes during their opening round match in Division 2's 165-pound weight
class at the MHSAA Individual Wrestling Finals hosted by Ford Field in downtown
Detroit Friday, March 2. Curtis earned a pin in the third period of their bout, but fell in
his next two matches the finals. (Photo by Brett Bremer)Delton Kellogg junior Gauge Stampfler awaits a choice from Benzie Central's
Nathan Higgins in the opening round of Division 4's 132-pound weight class at the
MHSAA Individual Wrestling Finals hosted by Ford Field in downtown Detroit Friday,
March 2. Stampfler is now a two-time state medalist after wrestling his way to a fifth-
place finish over the weekend. (Photo by Brett Bremer)
Delton Kellogg senior 175-pounder
Luke Watson makes his way around Ford
Field beside Bangor's Fernando Muñoz
during the Grand March before the start
of the 2024 MHSAA Individual Wrestling
Finals Friday in Detroit. (Photo by Brett
Bremer)BARRY TOWNSHIP
BOARD OF REVIEW
The Barry Township Board of Review will meet on Wednesday,
March 6 at 9:00 am to receive and review the assessment roll. Meetings
to hear assessment appeals will be held Tuesday, March 12, from 9am to
noon & 1pm to 4pm and Thursday March 14, from 2pm to 5pm & 6pm to
9pm. Written appeals must be received before March 11, 2024 and must
include a completed Michigan form L-4035, “Petition to Board of Review”.The tentative ratios and multipliers for each class of real property
for 2024 are as follows:
CLASS RATIO MULTIPLIER
Agricultural 46.44% 1.
Commercial 51.54% 0.
Industrial 44.43% 1.
Residential 44.53% 1.Please contact Barry Township with any questions by writing the Barry
Township, P.O. Box 705, Delton, MI 49046 or phone 269-623-5171.212530Delton Kellogg sophomore Mitchell Swift works for control with White Pigeon's Chaz
Underwood (right) during their Division 4 285-pound semifinal match Friday afternoon
at the MHSAA Individual Wrestling Finals hosted by Ford Field in Detroit. Underwood
pulled out a 3-1 win in a sudden victory overtime period, but Swift wrestled his way
back Saturday to place fifth at the weight class. (Photo by Brett Bremer)