The Hastings Banner — Thursday, October 28, 2021 — Page 13Devils continue state title defense besting TK
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
It wasn’t for a lack of effort.
From midfield, Trojan attacker Terrell
Jefferson saw Gull Lake’s Dominic
Roudabush streaking through the center of
Thornapple Kellogg’s defensive third of the
field all alone and took off himself. Jefferson
nearly chased him down before the centering
pass came in from the left and Roudabush
ripped a shot at the Trojan net.
Trojan keeper Daniel Beyer dove to his left
and knocked the shot away, only to see the
ball end up on the foot of another Blue Devil,
Ethan Carr, who fired it into the open net.
The Trojans weren’t trying to preserve a
lead, or even really keep their hopes of win-
ning alive. Carr’s goal was the seventh of the
day for the top ranked, defending state cham-
pions from Gull Lake. The Blue Devils added
one more moments later to finish off an 8-
victory over the 11th-ranked Thornapple
Kellogg varsity boys’ soccer team in the
MHSAA Division 2 District Final at Gull
Lake High School Saturday.
The now 19-1-1 Blue Devils defeated
15-4-2 Holland, the tenth-ranked team in D2,
1-0 in the Division 2 Regional Semifinals
hosted by Otsego Tuesday. Gull Lake will
now face a 17-1-3 St. Joseph team that is
ranked No. 2 in the state in Division 2.
Gull Lake’s only defeat this season came
against St. Joseph. St. Joseph’s only defeat this
season came against Gull Lake. It should be
quite the grudge match with the regional title
on the line back in Otsego tonight (Oct. 28).
TK concludes its season with a record of
16-4-2.
The Blue Devils built a 3-0 lead in the first
half against the TK boys Saturday, and the
goals came fast and furious in the middle of
the second half ending the game with 21 min-
utes and 38 seconds still left on the clock.
The Blue Devils’ all-state duo of senior
forward Tyler Corstange and senior midfield-
er AJ Boucher was outstanding, and had a lot
of assistance. Corstange had four goals and
an assist. Boucher had a goal and assisted on
two of Corstange’s goals.
Roudabush also scored a second half goal,
off an assist from Corstange. Tariku Klipsch
notched an assist on the opening goal of the
game.
Beyer, the Trojans’ senior keeper charged
off his line to thwart a few Blue Devil break-
away chances and knocked more than a cou-
ple balls away from the frame behind him.
He had little chance of saving any of the
eight well-placed shots that did get past him.
A Trojan mistake near the left side line,
lead to Corstange charging into the box for a
one and one shot less than four minutes into
the contest. He buried it inside the right post
on the far side. The second goal lake goal
came in the 18 minute. Boucher raced up the
right side with the ball, cut in a bit and from
a tough angle took the low hard shot or just
inside the left post on the far side in that
direction.
Those two teamed up on their teams third
goal of the first half. A Trojan turnover at
midfield lead to Boucher rolling a ball gently
forward for Corstange. Christine blew
through the Trojan back line, managed to get
around Beyer and tapped the ball into the
open net.
Gull Lake keeper Evan Kaiser rarely had to
handle the ball. Nacho Hervas put a 25-yard
shot at Kaiser in the 23rd minute of play. The
Trojans only other shot of note came fromReece Hoeksma with a minute and a half to
go in the first half. Kaiser did bobble the low
hard shot, but TK didn’t have anyone there to
add any pressure to the situation.
The Trojans scrambled to get a corner kick
off in the final ten seconds of the first half,
but nothing threatening came out of it.
The Blue Devils have yet to allow a goal in
the state tournament with district shutouts of
TK, Hastings and the regional victory over
Holland.Vikes’ undefeated 2021
ends in district semifinal
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Vikings always knew there was a
chance their season could end where it did.
They wouldn’t have ever thought it would
happen just the way it did.
Grand Rapids Catholic Central, the
12th-ranked team in the state in Division 3,
scored a 3-0 win over the No. 15 Lakewood
Vikings in the MHSAA Division 3 District
Semifinals at South Christian High School
Oct. 19 – giving the Vikings their first and
last defeat of the 2021 fall season.
The Cougars took a 1-0 lead on a penalty
kick with seven minutes to play in the first
half, got a second goal in the second half
when Lakewood keeper Ben Scobey
attempted to punch away a centering pass in
the air and had the ball skip off his hands
and into his own net, and then the Cougars
added one late insurance goal.
Lakewood was playing without its lead-
ing scorer, Coby Carter, who was injured in
the team’s district opening win over
Wellspring Prep, and played much of the
second half of the ballgame without its
defensive leader Connor Feighan who was
given what coach James LeVeque and oth-
ers thought was a surprise red card for a
slide tackle at the corner of his box about
ten minutes into the second half.
It was still a 1-0 ballgame when the
Vikings had to start trying to come back
while playing 10-v-11.
“It is hard, because this game even though
I can sit here and feel like they were the
better team, it also felt like it was taken
away from us. There is a little sticker
shock,” LeVeque said.
“The first loss of the season comes in the
last game of the year. I guess that does feel
a little bit different because it is our first
taste of losing. We were 17-0-1 and we
played some decent teams, not a lot of great
teams. Catholic Central is obviously the
number ten team in the state. We stood toe-
to-toe with them the whole game. I would
say that in my eyes, that would kind of push
us up in the rankings a little bit.”
The Cougars had just two shots on goal
in the first half. The Viking head coach
didn’t feel Feighan’s red card was deserved,
and said the Catholic Central head coach
agreed with him after the game, and also
was unhappy with the decision to award a
PK to the Cougars early on. LeVeque said
he thought his defender cleanly cleared the
ball away from the top corner of the Viking
box before the Catholic Central attacker
was tripped up on the play.
“Our defense played lights out. Our mid-
fielders played good defense,” LeVeque
said.
“It was or best defensive effort of the
year,” he added.
He said his fullbacks Tyson Raffler and
Landon Makley and Feighan were all over
the place playing the ball in their end.
“Landon was winning balls in the air,”
LeVeque said. “We competed for headers
today, probably better than we have all year.
We really attacked the ball and challenged
all the time. We played with a lot of energy
and we played very disciplined.”
Offensively, the Vikings created the first
great scoring chance of the game on a
through ball in the opening minutes.
Midway through the first half, the Vikings’
Alex Russell ran onto a pass, went around
the Cougar keeper with a touch and then hit
a slow roller toward the open net.
“The goalie was beat on the ground, the
whole team was celebrating,” LeVeque
said.“One of their defenders came out of
nowhere to clear it as it was hitting their
goal-line,” he added.
The rest of the ballgame the Vikings
managed a couple corner kicks, free kicks,
and throw-ins, but not much heavy, heavy
pressure according to LeVeque. The game
was played mostly in the midfield. The
Viking coach was also really happy with the
defensive efforts of midfielders Jacob
Merryfield, Brody Jackson, Zac Gibson and
Drew Marquoit.
Lakewood had to work to get into the
district semifinal, scoring a 3-2 overtime
win over Wellspring Prep at Lakewood
High school Oct. 14.
Garrett Feighan scored the game-winner
in the second ten minutes of the overtime
session, and the the Vikings held on the rest
of the way. Lakewood turned up the offen-
sive pressure in the overtime, moving from
two attackers to three up top.
In regulation, three penalty kicks were
awarded and the first goal of the game was
an own goal by the Vikings that put
Wellspring Prep up 1-0.
Carter evened the score with a penalty
kick goal, Wellspring Prep went back in
front 2-1 with a PK goal, and then Connor
Feighan converted a PK to tie the score
once again.
The Vikings end the season as the Greater
Lansing Activities Conference Champions
having compiled a 17-1-1 record overall.
District host South Christian, the fifth
ranked team in the state in Division 3, kept
its undefeated season going with a 2-1 win
over Catholic Central in the district final
back at South Christian High School Oct.
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Thornapple Kellogg's Nacho Hervas (17) chases Gull Lake's
AJ Boucher through the midfield during the first half of their
Division 2 District Final at Gull Lake High School Saturday.
(Photo by Brett Bremer)Gull Lake's DeWitt Renwick slides in to try and get the ball off the feet of
Thornapple Kellogg's Jackson Curtis during their Division 2 District Final in
Richland Saturday morning. (Photo by Brett Bremer)
Gull Lake senior forward Tyler Corstange flicks a deep throw in back across the
goalmouth as he is defended by Thornapple Kellogg's Mitchell Corner and TK goal-
keeper Daniel Beyer defends his net during the first half of their D2 District Final in
Richland Saturday morning. (Photo by Brett Bremer)Gull Lake's Tariku Klipsch goes over
Thornapple Kellogg's Gabriel Lajoye to
try and get to a ball in the midfield during
the district final in Richland Saturday.
(Photo by Brett Bremer)