44 Thursday, August 1, 2024 BATTLE CREEK SHOPPER NEWS http://www.thebattlecreekshopper.com
The Northwoods League this season
is made up of 26 teams in four divi-
sions – with the Great Lakes East
Division being made up of the cur-
rent first-place Kalamazoo Growlers
(15-9), second place Traverse City Pit
Spitters (15-10), third place Rockford
Rivets (14-10), fourth place Royal
Oak Leprechans (12-13), fifth place
Kenosha Kingfish (11-13), sixth
place B.C. (8-16) and seventh place
Kokomo Jackrabbits (7-17).
The Battle Jacks’ schedule the restWILL KOWALSKI
Sports Editor/Asst. Editor
The Battle Creek Battle Jacks base-
ball team of the summer collegiate
Northwoods League earned one
victory and suffered three losses in
games between last Thursday (July
25) and last Sunday (July 28) as the
squad gets closer to the conclusion of
its 2024 campaign.
In last week’s games following
a July 22-24 for the Northwoods
League All-Star event:
- On Thursday, July 25, the Battle
Jacks defeated the Kenosha Kingfish
11-6 at Battle Creek’s C.O. Brown
Stadium in Bailey Park – a game that
had an attendance of 2,857. - On Friday, July 26, also at home,
the Battle Jacks lost 5-1 to Kenosha. - On Saturday, July 27, B.C. lost
to the host Traverse City Pit Spitters
14-5. - And then, on Sunday, July 28,
also at Traverse City, the Battle
Jacks lost 6-5.
That 1-3 mark gave the Battle
Jacks an 8-16 record for the league’s
second half, and an overall season
Pennfield High graduate Cody Hultink, who played for Kellogg Community
College this past spring, is shown hitting an RBI single during a Battle Creek
Battle Jacks’ summer collegiate Northwoods League home game win over
Kenosha last Thursday, July 25 at Bailey Park’s C.O. Brown Stadium. (Shopper
News photo by Will Kowalski)Sam Griffith (1) of the Battle Creek Battle Jacks slides head-first safely back
into third base during B.C.’s home Northwoods League triumph over the
Kenosha Kingfish last Thursday. (Shopper News photo by Will Kowalski)Battle Jacks baseball team features local star Hultink
See BATTLE JACKS on 47of the way out:- Monday, July 29: Off.
- Tuesday, July 30: Home vs.
Royal Oak. - Wednesday, July 31: Home vs.
Royal Oak. - Thursday, Aug. 1: At Traverse
City (which has two players from
Kellogg Community College’s team
from this past spring – infielder
Aaron Piasecki and pitcher Jake
Ickes – on its roster), 7:05 p.m. - Friday, Aug. 2: At Traverse City,
7:05 p.m. - Saturday, Aug. 3: At Kalamazoo
Growlers, 6:35 p.m. - Sunday, Aug. 4: At Kalamazoo
Growlers, 1:35 p.m. - Monday, Aug. 5: Home vs.
Rockford, 6:35 p.m. - Tuesday, Aug. 6: Home vs.
Rockford, 6:35 p.m. - Wednesday, Aug. 7: At Kokomo,
7:05 p.m. - Thursday, Aug. 8 At Kokomo,
7:05 p.m. - Friday, Aug. 9: At Traverse City,
6:35 p.m. - Saturday, Aug. 10: At Traverse
City, 6:35 p.m. (end regular season).
For ticket information, visit north-
woodsleague.com.
In last Thursday’s 11-6 home
victory over Kenosha, clean-up
batter Cody Hultink – a Pennfield
High grad who played at Kellogg
mark of 27-33 (B.C. finished in
second place in the Great Lakes
East Division in the first half with a
19-17 record, behind the first-place
Rockford Rivits).