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Durkee and Crews medal for TKHS at Portage Invitational

Brett Bremer

Sports Editor

It was warmer than
expected and more humid
than usual in early October,
but Thornapple Kellogg
freshman Ava Crews man-
aged to take another little
slice off of her personal
record time.
Crews was one of two
medalists for the TK varsity
girls’ cross country team
Saturday in the Division 2

race at the annual Portage

Invitational behind Portage

West Middle School.

Crews placed ninth in a

field of over 300 runners,

hitting the finish line in 19

minutes 22.4 seconds.

Senior teammate Jessica

Durkee also scored a medal

with her 49th-place time of

20:34.3.

TK girls’ head coach Sam

Wilkinson was really as

concerned about how things

went at the start of his girls

“Portage is always nutbar

and this year was no excep-

tion,” Wilkinson said. “It

once again featured the first

300 meters of the race

course shaking from the

footfalls of the hundreds of

runners competing not only

for position in the race, but

space on the earth beneath

them. The varsity team’s

objective today was to run a

solid race, experience the

course for regionals, learn

something from it, and to

not fall down in the first

300 meters.

“By and large these goals

were met.”

The top five for the TK

ladies Saturday also includ-

ed sophomore Holly Velting

placing 125th in 22:06.1,

junior Lindsey Velting

197th in 23:22.9 and junior

Lucy VanDemark 210th in

23:40.8.

East Grand Rapids won

the Division 2 girls’ race

with 88 points, ahead of

Petoskey 120, Forest Hills

Eastern 167 and Grand

Rapids Christian 211 in the

top five. TK was 21st over-

all with 583 points.

Crews was one of only

three girls in the top ten to

run a new personal record

under the conditions on the

hilly track in Portage. The

others were Chippewa Hills

senior Sarah Storey who

was fourth in 18:41.0 and

West Michigan Aviation

sophomore Emma DeVries

who was seventh in 19:15.1.

East Grand Rapids soph-

omore Drew Muller was the

individual champ with a

time of 18:21.8. The top six

girls all finished in less than

19 minutes. Muller was a

little over 11 seconds ahead

of the runner-up, Grand

Rapids Christian senior

Madelyn Frens.

Sophomore Lucas Van

Meter led the TK boys’

team in Portage with a

157th-place time of 18:47.2.

Senior Camden Reynolds

also came across the finish

line in less than 19 minutes,

placing 162nd in 18:51.3.

Senior teammate Matthew

Smith was just off that

19-minute mark with a

177th-place time of 19:01.0.

The top five for TK also

included sophomore Kaden

Hamming 236th in 20:05.

and senior Benjamin

Trudell 243rd in 20:14.4.

The boys’ team title went

to Grand Rapids Christian

which finished with 121

points. Chelsea scored 166

points, with St. Clair third

with 256, Fremont 257 and

Petoskey 261.

TK’s boys were 37th

with 968 points in a field of

46 teams.

CLS diver takes title at Ottawa Hills

Brett Bremer

Sports Editor

Caledonia/Lowell/South

Christian sophomore diver

Mayari Coriano-Lahiff

was head and shoulders

above the competition at

the Oct. 2 Ottawa Hills

Invitational.

Coriano-Lahiff won the

diving competition with

343.20 points, besting

Abigail Dumond, a fresh-

man from the Delton

Kellogg/Thornapple

Kellogg/Hastings team by

29 points for the top spot.

Dumond had a strong score

of 314.20 herself.

Senior Maggie Sova had

one of the top finishes at

the meet for the CLS

Vikings, placing third in the

100-yard breaststroke with

a time of 1 minute 16.

seconds.

The top relay finishes for

the CLS girls came in the

200-yard medley relay and

the 200-yard freestyle relay

where Viking teams placed

fifth.

Emmory VanHofwegen,

Sova, Becky Darter and

Isabella Leason placed fifth

in the 200-yard medley

relay with a time of

2:05.28. In the 200-yard

freestyle relay, that same

foursome placed fifth in

1:48.96.

East Kentwood took the

day’s championship with

622 points, beating out

Forest Hills Northern/

Eastern’s 575 points. CLS

was sixth at the nine-team

meet, and a trimmed down

DK/TK/HHS team finished

in that ninth spot.

OK Red Conference foes

like East Kentwood make

things tough on and push

the CLS girls all fall long.

West Ottawa scored a 192-

100 win over the CLS girls

Oct. 7.

The West Ottawa girls

won every event in the

conference dual. One of

the highlights of the eve-

ning came at the end, with

Sova and West Ottawa

freshman Makenzie

Baldwin squaring off in the

100-yard breaststroke.

Baldwin got the better of

Sova this time, touching

the wall in 1:17.15 just

ahead of the CLS senior’s

time of 1:17.90.

CLS held its senior night

at the pool in Jenison Oct.

14, and the girls will be a

part of another Ottawa Hills

Invitational today (Oct. 16).

CLS concludes the OK Red

Conference duals at

Rockford this Thursday,

Oct. 21.

on the ball to thwart the

high-arching pass with 48

seconds to go.

“I thought our kids

played with great effort on

both sides of the ball,”

coach Pennington said.

“Yeah, we did have the lead

and even on that last drive

yeah, we had guys open.

Mason couldn’t really set

his feet on that last pass, we

had a guy running wide

open. We had Brock and it

was right there, just gotta

make a play.

“It is disappointing

because your kids prepare so

hard, and they’re right there

and you don’t make it hap-

pen. Hats off to them. They

made a couple more plays

than we did.”

“Our kids played with

great effort, great spirit,

they’ve got great fight.”

Ahrens gave the Rams

the early edge in the ball-

game, finishing a drive that

lasted 6 minutes and 11 sec-

onds and covered 80 yards

with an 8-yard TD run

around the right side.

Rockford tacked on a

32-yard field goal by

Jackson Burkholder with

5:30 to play in the second

quarter to lead 10-0.

McKenzie was 10-of-

passing in the ballgame for

116 yards. He rushed 13

times for 80 yards, and had a

big run to set up the Scots’

first touchdown. Townsend

finished with 13 rushes for

42 yards. Reed had a team-

high three receptions for 36

yards.

McKenzie spread the ball

around. Townsend had two

catches for 32 yards. Nick

Fox had two catches for 31

yards. Evan Graham had two

catches as well, for 14 yards.

“We have to do better

offensively in a game like

that,” coach Pennington

said. “We struggled getting

drives going. We didn’t con-

vert third downs. There were

a few third downs where we

needed to complete a pass

and didn’t do it. We were

just out of our rhythm a little

bit on offense all night, and

I was disappointed with

that.”

Defensively, Luke

Mandsager had a team-high

nine tackles for the Scots.

Theren Saunders added 7.

tackles and Ben Norris six.

Ahren was 11-of-21 pass-

ing for the Rams, for 97

yards. He rushed 24 times

for 100 yards. VandenHout

was the Rams’ number two

rushers with three carries

for 38 yards and added

seven receptions for 61

yards.

“We just spent a week

getting our kids fired up,

because we thought we had

a great shot over here to win

against Rockford and put

ourselves in position to win

the league,” coach

Pennington said.

“Ultimately, we didn’t get it

done so it is disappointing,

but you have to remember

too we get in the playoffs

we’re playing in Division 2,

and we just took the number

one team in Division 1 to

the last play of the game. We

have a lot to hang our hat on

still this year and the

Fighting Scots aren’t going

away. We’re going to con-

tinue to show up and play

and get better.

Caledonia was scheduled

to host Jenison last night,

Oct. 15, and will close the

regular season Oct. 29

against Hudsonville.

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CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CALEDONIA

KENT COUNTY, MICHIGAN

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission of the

Charter Township of Caledonia will hold a public hearing on November 1, 2021, at 7:

p.m., at the Caledonia Township Hall, 8196 Broadmoor SE, Caledonia, MI 49316. The

public hearing is to receive comments regarding the application of Caledonia Public

Schools for a special land use for a publicly owned athletic complex in the R2 district,

parcel number 41-23-30-400-019, at 9757 Kraft.

Description of Rezone Parcel:

412330400019 PART OF SE 1/4 COM 1162.27 FT N 0D 02M 03S W ALONG E SEC LINE

FROM SE COR OF SEC TH N 89D 43M 33S W 1312.01 FT TO E LINE OF W 1/2 SE 1/

TH N 0D 11M 11S E ALONG SD E LINE 799.99 FT TO N LINE OF S 1/2 NE 1/4 SE 1/

TH S 89D 43M 33S E ALONG SD N LINE 1308.93 FT TO E SEC LINE TH S 0D 02M 03S

E ALONG E SEC LINE 800.0 FT TO BEG * SEC 30 T5N R10W 24.07 A. SPLIT/

COMBINED ON 08/06/2021 FROM 41-23-30-400-015;

All interested persons may attend the public hearing and comment on the proposed

rezoning. Written comments concerning the request may be submitted to the Township

office, at the above-stated address, up to the time of the public hearing.

Dated: October 11, 2021

PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE

CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CALEDONIA

169801

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Planning Commission meeting

scheduled for Tuesday, November 2,

2021 at 7:00 pm has been rescheduled

for Thursday, November 4, 2021 at

6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of

the Village Hall at 100 E. Main Street.

All interested persons are welcome to

attend this open meeting.

Posted: October 14, 2021

Glorimar Ayala

Village Clerk

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