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Saxons teams close out conference duals at 5-
Valerie Slaughter
Contributing Writer
The Hastings varsity girls’ and
boys’ track and field teams both fell to
Harper Creek, but picked up wins over
Marshall to finish their regular Inter-
state-8 Athletic Conference seasons at
5-2 overall in double duals at Harper
Creek Monday.
The Saxon boys’ team won 100–
over Marshall and lost 109–53 to
Harper Creek. Hastings’ girls defeated
Marshall 78-65 and fell to Harper
Creek 86-77.
Hastings head coach, Brian Teed
noted that Harper Creek is “undefeat-
ed in the conference and very senior
heavy with 20 seniors on their team.
Their middle distance guys were too
much for us to handle. Coming into
the meet, Marshall was going to beat
us on paper, but our team stepped up
on the road and picked up the win. Our
throwers and hurdlers came through
big. We went 42-2 in those four events.
We swept the throws and took 1, 2,
and 3 in the two hurdle events.”
Saxon’s placing first in two events
for the night were: Reuben Solmes
with a PR in the 100-meter of 11.
seconds and a PR in the 200-meter of
24.20; Layton Eastman with a PR in
the 110-meter high hurdles (16.20)
and the 300-meter intermediate hur-
dles (42.61), Daniel Weatherly in shot
put (47 feet 8.50 inches) and discuss
(117-06), and Robby Slaughter in
pole vault with a PR of 13-2 and long
jump (19-05.50). Dillon Neal finished
first for the Saxons in the 400-meter
(56.65).
The Saxon 4x200-meter relay team
of Slaughter, Solmes, Aiden SaintAm-
our and Eastman finished in first placeagainst Marshall, as well as the Saxon
4x100-meter relay team of Slaughter,
SaintAmour, Zane Warner and Solmes.
Hastings also had Caleb Waller fin-
ish in second place in the long jump
with a PR of 19-03.75. Tanner Rairigh
finished in second place in discus with
a throw of 106-08, and Lanny Teunes-
sen threw a PR of 94-03 for third
place, while Isaac Friddle finished the
thrower sweep against Marshall with a
throw of 91-06 for fourth place. In the
shot put sweep against Marshall,
Adam Jacob took second with a throw
of 39-06, Friddle threw a PR of 39-
for third place and Teunessen threw
34-06 for fourth place.
Finishing in the top three in hurdles
against Marshall, Waller finished sec-
ond in the 110-meter hurdles with a
PR of 17.29, and the 300-meter hur-
dles with a PR of 43.54. Nate
Kohmescher took third in both the
110-meter hurdles (17.31) and the
300-meter hurdles (45.05).
The Saxon girls also had an upset
over Marshall for the night, Coach
Teed noted that the “Field events were
again the story for the girls as they
only had a 1 point lead in the 12 run-
ning events, but they went 31-17 in
the five field events. Field events are
sneaky. If you don’t play close atten-
tion to them, they can quietly get
away from you and turn a meet, and
that’s what the girls did tonight by
winning all five.”
Placing first for the Saxon girls in
two events were: Addey Nickels with
a PR of 13.49 in the 100-meter and in
the 200-meter (28.10), Carissa Strou-
se in the 1600-meter (6:32.26) and the
3200-meter (13:34.19), Allison Teed
in the 110-meter hurdles (16.45) andthe pole vault (9-06), and Maddie
Miller in shot-put (30-00) and discus
(83-07).
Madison Nino took first in the long
jump (16-02) and Myah Vincent took
first in the high jump (4-08). The girl’s
4x100-meter relay team of Nino, Isa-
belle Roosien, Teed and Nickels fin-
ished first, as did the 4x200-meter
relay team of Nino, Nickels, Roosien
and Teed.
Nino came in a hundredth of a sec-
ond behind Nickels to finish second in
the 100-meter dash, and Vincent ran a
PR of 28.72 in the 200-meter for sec-
ond place against Marshall. In thethrows, Grace Madden finished with a
second place against Harper Creek
with throws of 29-03 in shot-put and a
throw of 76-02 in the discus.
The Saxons head into tournament
competition, as they travel to Mason
on Friday to compete in the Division 2
Michigan High School Athletic Asso-
ciation Regional tournament. The top
two athletes in each event, or those
scoring a qualifying mark will qualify
for the Division 2 MHSAA Lower
Peninsula Track and Field that will be
held June 4. The Saxons will compete
in the Interstate-8 Conference Finals at
Parma Western Tuesday, May 24.DK baseball has pair of good
battles with Schoolcraft
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Hackett Catholic Prep and Schoolcraft
knocked off the Delton Kellogg varsity base-
ball team in Southwestern Athletic Confer-
ence Valley Division action last week.
The Irish from Hackett took a 15-1 win
over the Panthers Thursday in Delton.
The Panthers got their lone run in the bot-
tom of the fifth inning when Luke Watson
worked a lead-off walk. He went to second on
a ground ball by Cole Lane and eventually
scored on an Irish error.
Lane was 1-for-2 with a double in the ball-
game. That was one of three DK hits against
Irish pitchers Brooks Basler and Chris Bull-
ard. Basler started and got the win, shutting
out DK for four innings. He struck out three,
walked one and gave up one hit.
Singles by Mason Nabozny and Seth LeB-
eck were the other two DK hits. Nabozny
started on the mound and took the loss.
Schoolcraft edged the DK boys 8-2 and 6-
in the two games of a doubleheader in Delton
Wednesday.DK got its two runs early in the opener,
tying the game at 2-2 with a pair of runs in the
bottom of the first. The Eagles kept scoring
through adding two in the second and three in
the third on their way to the win.
The Panthers six hits were all singles in the
loss. Wyatt Colwell was 2-for-3 with an RBI
for DK and Adrian Deboer was 2-for-4. Seth
Lebeck and Tristin Boze were the two other
DK guys with hits.
Boze started on the mound and took the
loss, going four innings. Colwell threw three
innings of relief in which he allowed one
unearned run on three hits while walking
four. Only three of the seven runs against
Boze were earned. Boze struck out four,
walked three and allowed four hits.
Beau Onken led the Schoolcraft attack
going 2-for-4 with a double, a RBI and a run
scored. Tyler DeGroote tripled and drove in
three runs.
Schoolcraft snapped a 4-4 tie with a run in
the bottom of the third inning and then added
a run in the fourth for a 6-4 five-inning win
in game two.DK scored a run in the top of the first
inning only to the have the Eagles respond
with two runs in the bottom half of the inning.
The Eagles then added two runs in the bottom
of the second to go up 4-1. DK answered with
three runs in the top of the third to even
things momentarily.
A three-run double by Lebeck in the top of
the third was the big blast for DK.
That double was one of four DK hits. Leb-
eck was 2-for-3. Deboer and Boze had DK’s
other two hits.
The Eagles had just five hits of Deboer
who went the distance on the mound for DK.
He struck out three and walked three. One of
the six runs against him was unearned.
The Panthers were bested 10-0 at Lakewood
High School Saturday morning with a single by
Deboer DK’s lone hit off of Lakewood pitcher
Blake Price who struck out ten and walked four
over his five innings on the mound.180784City of Hastings
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City ClerkThe Saxons' (from left) Layton Eastman, Nate Kohmescher and Caleb Waller get up to speed in the 110-
meter high hurdles during their double dual with Harper Creek and Marshall in Battle Creek Monday. (Photo
by Valerie Slaughter)The Saxons' Addey Nickels and Madison Nino hit the finish line together at the end of the 100-meter dash
during their Interstate-8 Athletic Conference double dual with Marshall and Harper Creek hosted by the
Beavers in Battle Creek Monday. (Photo by Valerie Slaughter)
The Saxons' Myah Vincent works to get over the bar at 4 feet 8 inches,
a height which earned her first place in the I-8 competition at Harper
Creek Monday. (Photo by Valerie Slaughter)The Saxons' Robby Slaughter flies to victory in the long jump
during his team's I-8 competition hosted by Harper Creek Monday.
(Photo by Valerie Slaughter)
Wyatt Colwell pitches for the Delton
Kellogg varsity baseball team during
game one of its Southwestern Athletic
Conference doubleheader against visit-
ing Schoolcraft Wednesday, May 11.
(Photo by Brett Bremer)Delton Kellogg first baseman Cole Lane slaps a tag on Schoolcraft's Beau Onken
during a pick-off attempt at first during game two of their SAC Valley Division double-
header in Delton May 11. (Photo by Brett Bremer)