Page 12/The Sun and News, Saturday, June 12, 2021Hilton medals in hurdles at D2 Finals
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Trysta Hilton didn’t have
the fastest girls in the state to
chase, but she had a state
medal to chase and she
caught it.
Hilton, a Thornapple
Kellogg junior, set a new
personal record in the 300-
mere low hurdles with her
time of 47.82 seconds at the
Division 2 Lower Peninsula
Track and Field Finals
Saturday in Zeeland. She
was in the second of three
heats in the event, with the
third heat filled with the fast-
est seeded girls in the race.
Hilton was second in her
heat, behind only South
Christian freshman Mallory
Huttenga, and then watched
as only three of the eight
girls in the final heat were
able to beat their times.
Huttenga placed fourth and
Hilton fifth.
Allegan senior Hannah
Antkoviak won the race in
44.69 seconds, having
already won the state cham-
pionship in the 100-meter
hurdles earlier in the day
with a time of 14.94.
“She has been improving
all year,” TK girls’ coach
Maggie Wilkinson said of
Hilton. “Her practice work-
outs were right on target
coming into this state meet.
She is an amazing athlete.”
Hilton was one of a hand-
ful of Thornapple Kellogg
student-athletes competing
in Zeeland Saturday.
TK senior Paige Zellmer
got over the bar at 9 feet 3
inches in the girls’ pole vault,
but got stuck at 9-9. The final
medalists in the girls’ event
cleared 9-9.
Also in the field, TK had
sophomore Alana Compton
competing in the girls’ dis-cus. Her best throw Saturday
was 99-10.
Senior Wyatt Helzer, from
the TK boys’ team, ran in the
200-meter dash while also
joining teammates Jaxon
Sias, Cameron Gavette and
Austin Van Elst in a tenth-
place 4x200-meter relay per-formance. Helzer was 18th
in the 200 with a time of
23.78. The Trojan relay team
finished its race in 1 minute
33.25 seconds, about seven
tenths of a second behind the
last of the eight state medal-
ist relay teams in the race.
Petoskey took the Division
2 girls’ team state champion-
ship Saturday with 48 points,
ahead of Parma Western 29,
Bridgeport 26, Frankenmuth
25, Belding 24.5, Allegan 23,
Freeland 23, Bloomfield
Hills Cranbrook 22,
Dearborn Divine Child 22
and Grand Rapids Christian
22 in the top ten.
Petoskey was led to the
title by senior distance run-
ner Emma Squires who won
the 1600-meter run in
4:55.05, the 800-meter run in
2:14.00 and placed second in
the 3200-meter run with a
time of 11:03.80. Grand
Rapids Christian junior
Madelyn Frens won the 3200
in 11:01.53 after finishing
second to Squires in the
1600.
Squires also teamed with
juniors Noel Vanderwall and
Caroline Farley, and fellow
senior Sarah Liederbach, to
win the 4x800-meter relay in
9:27.33.
Bridgeport junior Chaniya
Madison won the 100-meter
dash in 12.36 seconds and
the 200 in 25.96.
Belding freshman Brook
Simpson set a new Michigan
High School Athletic
Association Division 2
Finals record in winning the
high jump at 5-10.
The boys’ team champion-
ship went to the Frankenmuth
team that finished with 45.
points, ahead of Flint Powers
Catholic 42, Fruitport 40,
Allendale 28, Fremont 26,
Mason 25, Edwardsburg 23,
Monroe Jefferson 23,
Chelsea 22 and HollandChristian 21 in the top ten.
Frankenmuth was pow-
ered by its relay teams. Ian
Stephens, Sam Barger,
Andrew Braman and Daniel
Barger won the 4x100-meter
relay in 43.28 seconds and
placed second to Fruitport in
the 4x200-meter relay. The
Frankenmuth team of
Stephens, Seth Malmo, Sam
Barger and Ryan Brenner
was the runner-up to Yale in
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& Dee Hudson.Thornapple Kellogg senior Paige Zellmer can’t quite get over the bar at 9 feet 9
inches on an attempt at the pole vault pit during the Division 2 Lower Peninsula Track
and Field Finals Saturday in Zeeland. (Photo by Brett Bremer)Thornapple Kellogg senior Wyatt Helzer closes in on
the finish line at the end of his preliminary heat of the
200-meter dash at the Division 2 Lower Peninsula Track
and Field Finals Saturday in Zeeland. (Photo by Brett
Bremer)Thornapple Kellogg sophomore Alana Compton
collects her discs as she warms up for the competition at
the Division 2 Lower Peninsula Track and Field Finals in
Zeeland Saturday. (Photo by Brett Bremer)Two local
residents
honored
at Ripon
Ripon College in Ripon,
Wis., has announced its dean’s
list for the spring 2021 semes-
ter, recognizing full-time stu-
dents who earned a 3.40 or
higher grade point average.
Among the honorees are:
Allyssa Longstreet of
Shelbyville and Haley Rewa
of Wayland.