The Hastings Banner — Thursday, May 19, 2022 — Page 11HHS girls bested in I-
sets by Northwest and
Western
The Hastings varsity softball team
was swept in a pair of tough Inter-
state-8 Athletic Conference double-
headers in the past week.
Jackson Northwest took 15-0 and
16-0 wins over the Saxons last week
Wednesday, May 11, in Jackson.
Parma Western took 15-0 and 14-
wins over the Saxons at Western
High School Tuesday.
The Saxons scored their one run in
the top of the fifth inning Tuesday
night on an RBI single from Isabelle
Storm that brought Jayden Jerzyk
home from third with two out. Jerzyk
singled into left field with one out in
the inning, and stole second and
third.
A single by Carly Frazier was the
only other Saxon hit in the ballgame.
In the opener against Western, the
Saxons were no-hit in the three-in-
ning contest.
Hastings returns to action this
afternoon with two against Coldwa-
ter. The Saxons host Lakewood for a
non-conference doubleheader Mon-
day and then will host Marshall for
two ballgames to close out the regu-
lar season Tuesday, May 24.Mounties and Panthers
tough on HHS varsity
baseball team
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Hastings varsity baseball
team will look to bounce back
against Coldwater this afternoon
in an Interstate-8 Athletic Confer-
ence doubleheader after being
swept in conference twin bills by
Parma Western and Jackson
Northwest.
The Western Panthers took 15-
and 8-2 wins over the Saxons Tues-
day at Western High School.
Western took a 9-0 lead through
two innings and then held on in a
wild one that included 28 total hits
and 11 errors.
Lars Sorensen and Harrison
Smalley were both 3-for-4 at the
plate for the Saxons. Smalley had
five RBI and Sorensen scored three
runs and drove in one. Mason Den-
ton and T Morris had two hits each
for the Saxons.
Only seven of the 15 runs against
Saxon pitchers were earned.
Western took the early lead again
in game two. The Panthers led 8-
before the Saxons tacked on runs in
the fifth and sixth.
Matt Thompson had two of the
five Saxon hits, both singles.
Smalley was 2-for-2 with a single
and a triple. Hastings also got a
single from Sorensen. Thompson
and Smalley both had a RBI.
The Saxons fell in two at Jack-
son Northwest last Wednesday,
May 11, 15-0 and 10-0.
The Saxons were held to one hit
in the 15-0 loss in the opener, a
single by Aiden Benson. They
managed five in the game two
defeat including a pair of singles
by Denton. Thompson, Carter Reil
and Lanny Steward had the other
three hits in game two for the Sax-
ons.
The Saxons are scheduled to
face Pennfield at Delton Kellogg
High School Saturday morning and
then host doubleheaders with Lake-
wood and then Marshall Monday
and Tuesday.Falcons end DK
boys’ perfect run in
SAC Valley contests
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Delton Kellogg varsity
boys’ track and field team got the
first blemish on its Southwestern
Athletic Conference Valley Divi-
sion record Wednesday as it was
bested 77-60 by Constantine in the
final SAC Valley dual of the sea-
son.
Junior sprinter Dean Topolski
powered the Falcons to the win by
taking the 100-meter dash in 11.
seconds, the 200-meter dash in
23.25 seconds and the 400-meter
dash in 52.47. That win in the 400
led a sweep of the top three scor-
ing places for the Constantine
boys in that race.
Delton Kellogg was on Topols-
ki’s heels in the 100 and 200,
forcing him to new personal
records to get the wins. DK junior
Philip Halcomb was second in
both those races with personal
record times of his own. He fin-
ished the 100 in 11.68 and the 200
in 23.25.
Junior Ethan Glick took the two
distance races for the Falcons. He
won the 1600 in 4 minutes 58.
seconds and the 3200 in 11:03.81.
Torren Mapes and Corey Moore
were strong on the track for DK.
Mapes wont he 110-meter high
hurdles in a personal record time
of 16.73 with Moore lowering his
PR to 17.71 in a runner-up finish
in that race. Mapes took the 300
-meter intermediate hurdles in
45.53 with Moore second in 46.75.
Moore was also a part of the
Panthers’ two relay wins. The two
teams each won two relays.
Moore, Peyton Pummel, Wyatt
Finney and Halcomb took the
4x100-meter relay in 46.30 and
the team of Moore, Giovanni Stea,
Cameron Spaulding and Halcomb
won the 4x200-meter relay in
2:03.59.
Delton Kellogg’s top perfor-
mance came in the shot put where
senior Alex Whitmore won with a
personal record mark of 45 feet 10
inches. Junior teammate Jason
Lundquist improved his PR to39-5 to place second and senior
teammate Caden Ferris was third
at 38-10.
Ferris improved his PR in the
discus to 140-5 to win that event.
The Constantine boys swept the
three scoring sports in the high
jump and pole vault and placed
second and third in the long jump
behind the DK freshman Finney
who won with a leap of 19-11.
The DK girls finished in a 67-
tie with the Falcons.
Joelle White wont he 400-meter
dash for the DK girls in a personal
record time of 1:14.67 with team-
mate Carley Webb setting her PR
with a second-place time of
1:16.16.
Senior Halena Phillips won the
1600 for DK in 6:29.16 and the
3200 in 15:34.43.
DK sophomore Breanna Chan-
dler and Constantine freshman
Abigail Flores had good battles in
the hurdles. Flores won the 100-
meter hurdles in 18.82 with Chan-
dler lowering her PR to 19.48 to
place second. Chandler won the
300-meter low hurdles in 52.
with Flores second in 53.24.
Both teams won two relays. DK
took the 4x200-meter relay with
the team of Maddy Waller, Rebec-
ca VanDyke, Hope Vanderwall
and Carley Webb finishing in
2:26.09. The DK 4x400-meter
relay team of Chandler, Josie Wil-
liams, White and Phillips secured
the tie with a winning time of
4:52.69 in their race.
The field events were the oppo-
site of the boys’, with the Con-
stantine girls tops in the throws
and the DK girls best in the jumps.
Falcon junior Caterina Thelen
won the shot put and discus. DK
had Waller set her PR at 4-6 to win
the high jump, White put up a sea-
son best height of 7-0 to win the
pole vault, and Williams win the
long jump at 13-3.5.
DK will be at its MHSAA Divi-
sion 3 Regional hosted by Mon-
tague Saturday and then will go to
Constantine Tuesday for the SAC
Championship.DKHS girls win big twice for
title at Lakewood Invitational
A pair of double digit victories earned the
Delton Kellogg the championship Saturday at the
Lakewood Invitational.
The Delton Kellogg varsity girls’ softball team
opened its day with a 13-0 win over the host
Vikings and then knocked off Central Montcalm
16-6 to close the day.
DK pitchers Mya Brickley and Kayleigh Buf-
fum teamed up to shut out the Vikings in the open-
er. Brickley went the first four innings not allow-
ing a hit. She struck out three and walked two.
Buffum allowed the only Lakewood hit in her one
inning of relief.
Aubrey Aukerman powered the Panther offense
going 3-for-4 with a double. She scored two runs
and batted in two. Allison Brandli and Brickley
had two singles each. Brandli had two RBI. Brick-
ley also walked once and scored three runs.
In the lead-off spot, DK’s Abby Fichtner was
1-for-2 with an RBI and three runs scored.
That one Lakewood hit was a single off the bat
of Brooklyn Hoppes.
Fichtner was 3-for-4 in game two with a single,a double and a triple. She scored three runs and
batted in two while walking once as well. Brandli
had four hits including a double. She had one RBI
and scored three times. Aukerman, Brickley, Jor-
dan Lyons, Paige Thomas and Allie Trantham had
two hits each for DK in the win.
Central Montcalm led the ballgame 5-0 after two
innings. DK struck for four runs in the bottom of
the third inning and then took control with eight
runs in the bottom of the fifth that put the Panthers
ahead 12-6 at the time. They added four runs in the
bottom of the sixth to walkoff with the ten-run win.
DK followed up those two wins by splitting a
doubleheader at South Christian High School
Monday, falling 9-8 to the Sailors in game one and
then scoring a 10-3 victory in the non-conference
twin bill.
South Christian evened game one at 8-8 with
four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning and then
walked off with the win in the seventh.
DK had six hits in the game one defeat. Lyons
doubled twice, drove in a run and scored a run.
She walked once in the game too. Aukerman andBrickley both doubled once in two at bats and had
one RBI and one run scored each. The South
Christian pitchers stayed away from them walking
them both twice. Paige Thomas walked twice and
scored two runs too.
Delton had 12 hits in scoring its ten runs to win
game two. Thomas had another big game going
3-for-4 with a single, a double, a triple, a RBI and
a run scored. Aukerman and Lyons were both
2-for-4. Kasey Kapteyn was 2-for-3 with a run and
a RBI. Lyons, Brickley and Fichtner scored two
run each. Brickley drove in three and Brandli had
two RBI.
Thomas pitched the first five innings. She
allowed three runs, one earned, on three hits and
four walks while striking out two. Buffum threw
two scoreless, hitless innings of relief.
The Delton Kellogg girls were swept in their
two game Southwestern Athletic Conference Val-
ley Division doubleheader with visiting School-
craft last Wednesday, May 11, in Delton. The
Eagles improved to 8-0 in conference play with
the two wins.Delton Kellogg second baseman Jordan Lyons secures a ground ball
for an out during game two of her team's SAC Valley doubleheader
against visiting Schoolcraft May 11 in Delton. (Photo by Brett Bremer)Delton Kellogg's Abby Fichtner gets a jump off first base after sin-
gle during game two of her team's SAC Valley doubleheader against
visiting Schoolcraft May 11. (Photo by Brett Bremer)