The Hastings Banner — Thursday, October 7, 2021 — Page 15Pair of Vikings at their fastest so
far this season during P-W Invite
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Sophomore Claire Fortier and junior Emma
Lancaster ran their fastest times of the season
Wednesday (Sept. 29) as the Lakewood varsi-
ty girls’ cross country team competed in the
Pewamo-Westphalia Invitational.
Fortier flew around the course at
Huckleberry Creek Golf Course in 24 min-
utes 14.3 seconds, earning her 43rd-place at
the meet. Lancaster was 45th in 24:23.3.
The host Pirates won the girls’ champion-
ship at the meet, which included 11 full teams
and a few additional runners as well. The
Pirates closed the day with 38 points. Haslett
was second with 72, ahead of Fowler 104,
Laingsburg 124, Lansing Christian 133,
Portland St. Patrick 167, Charlotte 171,
Pinconning 196, Lakewood 201, Portland
242 and Potterville 255.
Pewamo-Westphalia freshman Whitner
Werner raced around her home course in
19:37.4 to win the girls’ individual title. Haslett
junior Lauren Hunter was second in 19:58.7.
Lakewood was led by a 28th-place time of
23:06.7 from junior Reagan Lab. Viking
junior Sadie Brearley was 32nd in 23:18.2.
The Vikings’ number five was junior Gabby
Rosenburger who was 68th in 26:48.1.
Lakewood had two guys competing. SeniorLogan Kenyon placed 61st in 22:29.5 and
sophomore Ethan Cappon was 78th in 25:09.
in their race.
Pewamo-Westphalia won the boys’ race as
well, with 48 points. Dansville was second with
81, ahead of Bath 114, Charlotte 118, Potterville
129, Haslett 137, Fowler 145, Laingsburg 169,
Lansing Christian 205 and Portland 252.
Pewamo-Westphalia sophomore Collin
Farmer was the boys’ champion in 16:29.
and Charlotte junior Koda Brandt placed sec-
ond in 16:41.0. There were three guys who
finished in less than 17 minutes, with Haslett
senior Graham Foster placing third in 16:57.- setting a new personal record.
Vikings stretch ace record to 39 on senior night
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Lions would have had to bring in some
outside assistance, something the program has
done from time to time in the past, to prep for
the Vikings attack from behind the service line
Tuesday night.
The Lakewood varsity volleyball team set a
new program record for aces with 39 in a three-
set Greater Lansing Activities Conference vic-
tory over the visiting Maple Valley girls. It is
the second season in a row the Vikings have set
a new ace record. It was a big less climactic in
2021 than in 2020 when the school record 26th
ace came on match point in a win over Leslie.
Lakewood head coach Cameron Rowland
knew he had some talented servers coming into
the season, and the Vikings continue to hone
their skills from the back line.
“We do a drill that the girls hate called noo-
dle serving. It is boring and it is repetitious, but
it has really helped us to improve the things we
need to serve successfully, and we play a game
called around the world where we have ten
minutes and four different stations and they go
serve at what station they want trying to hit
specific targets,” Rowland said. “The more
free ball opportunities we get against good
teams the better off we’re going to be.”
It was senior night at Lakewood High
School Tuesday, and the Vikings honored
seniors Kenzie Wells, Zayda Kruger, Tori
Wickerink and Maradith O’Gorman and their
families prior to the match. O’Gorman, who
has her sights set on joining her big sister
Aubrey on the Michigan State university wom-
en’s team next season, smashed 15 of the
Vikings’ 39 aces on the night.
Lakewood also got six aces from Skylar
Bump, five from Wells, four from Alli Pickard,
two each for Bailey Fifelski, Alivia Everitt and
Liv Woodman and one each from Carley
Piercefield, Kruger and Paige Wolverton.
Kruger fired her ace on the very first Viking
serve of the evening, and the Vikings had a
new school record before the second set was
even through.
The Lions did what they could to get the
ball up.
“Sometimes in practice, you can only prac-
tice what your team can serve,” Maple Valley
head coach Josey Terpening said. “A lot of myteam serves just deep, nothing fancy. That
works against other teams a lot of the time. For
[Lakewood], each girl is unique and can serve
a float ball and then a top spin. It is just some-
thing different. Some of them were jump serv-
ing and some of them were not. Each individ-
ual girl is unique in that way and that is awe-
some for them.”
An ace by the Vikings’ sophomore libero
Piercefield closed out the opening set with the
Vikings ahead 25-8. Piercefield passed her
libero duties to teammate Alli Pickard for the
next two sets, which the Vikings won by the
scores of 25-8, 25-6.
Lakewood has been changing things up
when it can in recent weeks. The Vikings have
played just three conference matches since a
Sept. 18 trip to the Cadillac Invitational. They
will host their own Lakewood Invitational this
Saturday (Oct. 9).
“It has been good in a sense that we have
been able to work on some stuff in practice
without having to worry about big matches
on weekends, especially because the begin-
ning of our schedule was brutal,” Rowland
said. “Being able to work on stuff and really
get better at the things we need to get better
at when we play good teams has been nice.
Bodies aren’t beat up so we can really prac-
tice hard.”
Wells enjoyed her senior night, being able
to mess around with her teammates on the
court and run some different things. There
were the libero changes for the Vikings.
O’Gorman got put in the line-up as a setter for
the first time since her freshman season
according to Rowland. Wolverton took turns
setting with regular setters Abby Pickard and
Skylar Bump getting a bit of a reprieve. TheVikings got to giggle at a wipe-out by Bump
and O’Gorman enjoyed answering some rid-
dles from the bench as she awaited a new set
starting at the net.
Wells spent more time in the back row than
usual and tied Kruger for the team lead in digs
with six each. Bump and O’Gorman had three
digs each and Alli Pickard chipped in two digs.
“Our volleyball skills all the way around
are really good. Being able to do all sorts of
different stuff has been fun to watch. It helps
us in a sense too, everyone is able to just go
play volleyball, which is by far our best skill:
they know the game really well,” Rowland
said. “They are able to outlast some teams that
maybe we shouldn’t beat because of the
offensive firepower they have and we are able
to wear them down by continuing to be cre-
ative in how to score points no matter who is
out there.”
Wolverton led the Vikings with six assists.
Abby and Bump had five each. Maradith put
up three. Kruger had a team-high eight kills,
with Wells adding five and Woodman three.
Bump, Elle Possehn and O’Gorman had twokills each for the Vikings, and Wickerink,
Fifelski, Wolverton and Abby Pickard had one
kill each.
As has been true throughout the season,
Terpening was pleased with her girls’ atti-
tudes.
“A lot of time time you can see when you
go up against a good team you’re defeated
before you even walk in the gym. That was
not them at all. They were like, we can do our
best and that is all that we can do,” Terpening
said of her girls. “We talk a lot about what we
can control and they controlled exactly that
their energy, their attitudes and moving their
feet when they could. So, I am really proud of
them for that.”
The Lions weren’t just outgunned by the
Vikings, who are ranked fourth in the state in
Division 2, from the service line. Lion libero
Madison Koons and
The Lions head to the Webberville Invite
this Saturday and then will be back at it in the
GLAC Oct. 12 at Stockbridge. Lakewood,
which is now 5-0 in the conference, will play
its final GLAC dual at Leslie Oct. 12.Lakewood boys celebrate
senior night with eight goals
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Lakewood varsity boys’ soc-
cer team kept its Greater Lansing
Activities Conference record perfect
at 6-0 with a senior night win over
visiting Perry Wednesday.
Lakewood had three of its six
seniors score at least one goal in an
8-1 win over the Ramblers.
Tyson Raffler had a goal and two
assists, Jacob Merryfield had a goal,
Brody Jackson had two assists, Gavin
George had an assist and Connor
Feighan had a goal to round out the
senior scoring. Lakewood head
coach James LeVeque said the team
worked on being patient with the ball
and working it through the midfield
throughout the contest, and in the
end worked to try and get each senior
a goal. They all had their chances.
Senior Zac Gibson, who scored
the lone goal in a 1-0 win over
Delton Kellogg Monday, had one
good chance fly just wide of the goal.
Jackson had a point blank shot fly
over the net. George had a shot clang
off the crossbar.
Lakewood led the ballgame 7-1 at
the half.
“We spent a couple practices
focusing on prepossessing the ball inthe midfield so we came out of the
gates doing that. We tried playing a
little bit of keep away early, just to
work on possession. We knew that
we should be able to overpower
them,” LeVeque said.
Jackson assisted on Gibson’s goal
early in Monday’s non-conference
match with visiting Delton Kellogg.
Lakewood outshot the Panthers 17-
in the ballgame.
“They did have one good chance,
but the guy hit it up and over and
wide,” LeVeque said. “We had a ton
of chances, we just couldn’t put it in
the net.”
“We were trying to play too fast,
and that was part of the problem.”
Lakewood is now 13-0-1 overall
this season. The Vikings scored a
3-0 non-conference win over visit-
ing Hastings Saturday. They were
set to close the GLAC regular sea-
son against Leslie yesterday (Oct.
6) and will be on their home turf
Saturday when they play host to the
GLAC Championship Tournament.
Lakewood will play the first semifi-
nal match of the day at 9:45 a.m.
That game will be followed by
semifinal number two, the consola-
tion match and then the tournament
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Lakewood senior Maradith O'Gorman gets a hug from teammate Ellie Possehn as
she is presented with gifts during the Vikings' senior night ceremony Tuesday at
Lakewood High School. (Photo by Brett Bremer)Lakewood sophomore middle Alivia Everitt (15) gets to a ball above the net ahead
of Maple Valley setter Emma Pierce during their GLAC match at Lakewood High
School Tuesday. (Photo by Brett Bremer)Maple Valley libero Madison Koons passes the ball from the back of the court during
her team’s GLAC match at Lakewood High School Tuesday. (Photo by Brett Bremer)