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CHS girls fall in regular season
finale, on to postseason
East Grand Rapids, ranked
seventh in the Michigan Power
Rankings, bested the
Caledonia varsity girls’
lacrosse game in the Scots’
final match of the regular sea-
son Monday, 17-6.
The Caledonia girls end the
season with an 11-4 mark.The Scots were set to open
the state postseason at home
Friday taking on Spring Lake
in an MHSAA Division 2 Pre-
Regional contest. The winner
from Friday night advances to
the first round of regionals to
take on Grand Ledge, in Grand
Ledge, Wednesday, May 22.The Caledonia girls set a
pair of school records in recent
games. Megan Bushart tallied
14 draw controls in one match
and Ellie Hudson set a new
program high for points in a
match with 13. She tallied nine
goals and four assists in one
contest.Caledonia girls fall 1-0 in
final two conference
tournament games
A pair of 1-0 wins over
Caledonia and then Grand
Haven earned the Rockford
varsity girls’ soccer team the
OK Red Conference
Tournament title this week.
Rockford bested the
Caledonia girls 1-0 in the tour-
nament semifinals Tuesday
while the Grand Haven girls
were upsetting the top-seededteam from Hudsonville.
The Scots got to face the
Hudsonville girls in their
consolation match for third
place Thursday in
Hudsonville and fell 1-0 to
the Eagles.
The Scots opened the con-
ference tournament the previ-
ous week with a 2-1 win over
East Kentwood. The twoteams played to a 1-1 draw in
their regular season meeting.
They will meet again
Wednesday in Kentwood in
the opening round of their
MHSAA Division 1 District
Tournament. Game time is
set for 6 p.m. The winner
advances to the district semi-
finals at West Ottawa May
29.Fedewa and Hager earn all-
conference at Red meet
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Caledonia senior Ian
Fedewa added 21 inches to
his personal record in the
discus to win the OK Red
Conference championship in
the event Friday, May 10, at
Jenison High School.
Fedewa fired off a throw
of 152 feet. He didn’t need a
PR to win one of the Scots
two conference champion-
ships on the day. He was 9
feet 10 inches further than
his closest competitor in the
discus, Jenison senior Tyler
Lopez. Lopez put out a throw
of 143-2 to earn the run-
ner-up points for his
Wildcats.
The Caledonia varsity
boys’ track and field team
also got a conference cham-
pionship from senior Owen
Hager who won the 110-
meter high hurdles in 14.
seconds. He was two hun-
dredths of a second ahead of
Rockford senior George
Brown in the race. The three
guys behind Brown all ran
their PR and were within half
a second of Hager too.
Hager and Fedewa were
both state qualifiers for the
Caledonia team as juniors
last spring, and were eyeing
qualifying for the state finals
again then the Caledonia
varsity teams went to
Portage yesterday, May 17,
for their MHSAA Lower
Peninsula Division 1
Regional Meet.
Caledonia varsity boys’
track and field coach Ben
Thompson said overall his
guys performed so well that
they moved up from an
expected fifth place finish
into fourth at the conference
meet.
Fedewa also added a run-
ner-up performance in the
shot put. He and Hager both
earned all-conference hon-
ors. Fedewa had a mark of
48-6.5 in the shot put, 13
inches behind East
Kentwood junior Matthias
Granderson who won with a
PR of 49-7.5.
The throws were good
events for the Caledonia
boys. Sophomore Liam
Moore added a personal
record mark of 45-10 to
place fourth in that shot putcompetition. Moore was
fourth in the discus too at
142-1 and senior teammate
William Knipping was sixth
in the discus with a personal
record throw of 133-6.
Another Caledonia state
qualifier from a year ago,
senior Jordan Gutierrez, flew
to a mark of 21-11.5 in the
long jump which put him in
third in that event. It was his
best jump of the season so
far.
The last relay was the best
one for the Caledonia boys.
The team of senior Lual
Abiel, junior Joshua Maier,
senior Ayden Duffin and
freshman Aaron Collins was
second in the 4x400-meter
relay with a time of 3:30.
behind the Rockford team in
that race.
The win by seniors Ben
Cummings, Kaizer Westgate,
Carter Bissell and junior
David Stout in that final race
capped off the Rams’ team
championship on the day.
Rockford won the boys’ meet
with 130.5 points ahead of
Grand Haven 113, West
Ottawa 105.5, Caledonia
93.5, East Kentwood 91,
Jenison 81.5, Grandville 27
and Hudsonville 21.
East Kentwood won the
girls’ meet with 192 points
ahead of Rockford 153, West
Ottawa 105, Grand Haven
101, Jenison 41, Hudsonville
36, Caledonia 19 and
Grandville 14.
Senior Brooke Heyboer
had the top finish for the
Caledonia girls. She was
fourth in the 100-meter
dash with a time of 13.13.
The other top eight finish
in an individual race on the
track for the Caledonia
girls came from freshman
Olivia Hawkins who placed
sixth in the 300-meter low
hurdles with a time of
49.10.
The big day in the field for
the Caledonia boys also
included a fifth-place high
jump finish from junior
Andrew Tava who cleared
the bar at 5-9.
Hager was one of two
Scots in the boys’ 110-meter
high hurdle final. Senior
Carter Tufts recorded his PR
in that race placing fifth in
15.30.Caledonia senior Levi
Moss set his PR at 10:09.
in the 3200-meter run to
place eighth in that race
while chasing junior team-
mate Kort Thompson who
was seventh in 10:02.35.
Those CHS 4x400 guys
were good in the open 400
too. Collins set his PR in the
race at 50.77 to place seventh
and Abiel placed sixth in
52.45.
The CHS boys’ team also
had senior Ayden Duffin
sixth in the 800-meter run
with a time of 2:02.30.
West Ottawa had a huge
day in the boys’ sprints.
Teammates Desmond Chapa,
Ruben Esparza and Andrew
Spilotro went 1-2-3 in both
the 100-meter dash and the
200-meter dash. Rockford
managed to outrun those
West Ottawa sprinters in the
4x100-meter relay and the
4x200-meter relay though.
East Kentwood had four
girls in both the 100-meter
dash and 200-meter dash
finals in their competition.
They foursome in the 200
took the top four places isn
the race. Freshman Logan
Richardson was well in front
in both races. She finished
the 200 in 25.49 and the 100
in 12.39. She was more than
half a second ahead of
Rockford freshman Macy
Vandenhout who was the
runner-up in the 100 with a
time of 12.98. Richardson’s
sophomore teammate
Arianna Carter was the run-
ner-up in the 200 in 27.02.
East Kentwood sopho-
more Alana Bracey swept the
hurdles. She won the 100-
meter hurdles in 15.52 and
the 300-meter low hurdles in
46.36.
Falcon senior Kayla Harris
swept the throws. She won
the discus at 138-3 and the
shot put at 41-8.75.
West Ottawa junior Helen
Sachs was a two-time winner
in the distance races on the
girls’ side. She won the
3200-meter run in 10:40.
and the 1600-meter run in
5:03.30. She was also a part
of the Panthers’ winning
4x800-meter relay team.
East Kentwood girls won
the 4x100-meter and
4x200-meter relays.TK girls see undefeated Gold
run end in conference tourney
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
It wasn’t the tournament
run the Trojans were shooting
for.
The Thornapple Kellogg
varsity girls’ soccer team fin-
ished fourth in the 2024 OK
Gold Conference Tournament.
After an opening round victo-
ry, the top-seeded Trojans
were bested 6-5 in a shootout
in the conference semifinals
in Middleville Monday and
then fell 2-1 to Forest Hills
Eastern in their consolation
game in Middleville
Wednesday evening.
The second-seeded South
Christian girls clinched the
conference title with a run to
the tournament championship
this week. The Sailors out-
scored the Cedar Springs girls
3-0 in the tournament cham-
pionship game Wednesday at
South Christian High School.
The TK girls were unde-
feated this spring in the OK
Gold heading into Monday’s
tournament semifinal with the
Red Hawks, with the only
blemish on their conference
record at 1-1 draw with the
Sailors.
TK senior Holly Velting
put a rebound high into the
net to get the Trojans within
2-1 late in their match
Wednesday with Forest Hills
Eastern.
Tealy Cross sent a corner
kick into a crowd in front of
the goal and sophomore Paige
Abshagen drilled a header
down towards the goal linewhich was saved by a Forest
Hills Eastern defender.
Velting pounced on the
rebound to drill it by that
defender and the leaping FHE
keeper with just over four
minutes to play.
The Trojans end the regular
season with a 9-2-1 record
overall. They will face Otsego
in the opening round of their
MHSAA Division 2 District
Tournament Monday at 6
p.m. in Middleville. Hastings
and Harper Creek meet in the
other opening round match on
their half of the bracket. The
winners of those two games
will meet in the district semi-
finals May 28 in Wayland.
Otsego was 14-4 heading into
its regular season finale – rid-
ing a seven-game win streak.Thornapple Kellogg defender Emma Geukes looks to be at Forest Hills Eastern
attacker to the ball during the second half of their OK Gold Conference Tournament
match inside Bob White Stadium in Middleville Wednesday. (Photo by Brett Bremer)