The Sun and News, Saturday, May 18, 2024/ Page 9which was previously held
by Matt Williamson who
won the OK Gold
Conference Championship
at Houseman Field in the
spring of 2010 with a time
of 1:57.68.
“Hard work. He is a hard
worker, a very hard work-
er,” TK boys’ co-head
coach Matt Wonders said.
“He’s in the weight room.
He is always leading our
workouts. Those types of
things. He is one of the
hardest workers in class. He
will do what you ask.”
“He asks no questions,”
fellow TK boys’ head coach
Chad Ruger added. “He just
buys in and runs, and lifts
... That’s development. It’s
progressive in nature. It
takes a little time, and he
had to decide to do it. There
were times where we were
like, ‘you can do it.’ We all
believed it. Once he
believed it, you saw today.
You saw he was determined
at the 200 mark to finish
this thing and win it. He
just decided to do it.
Sometimes you just have to
make the decision to do it.”
“He did, it was cool,”
Wonders chimed in.
“It was so much fun,”
Ruger added with a big
smile.
The 4x400-meter relay
win was the last of five
event championships for
the Thornapple Kellogg
girls as they outscored
Ottawa Hills 135-120 at the
top of the standings. Forest
Hills Eastern was third with
106 points ahead of Grand
Rapids Catholic Central 87,
Cedar Springs 66, South
Christian 61, Kenowa Hills
48 and Wayland 38.
Senior Kenady Smith
was the conference high
jump champion for the
Thornapple Kellogg ladies,
clearing the bar at 5 feet 2
inches. Ellie Harmon won
the long jump with a mark
of 16-5.5.
Brooklyn Harmon won the
100-meter hurdles in 15.52,
with Hilton setting her PR inthat race at 16.81 to place
fourth and DeBoer sixth. TK
has relied on its hurdlers to
pile up points all season and
they did it again in the 300-
meter low hurdles. Brooklyn
won that race in 47.94 and
Hilton was second in 48.71.
Nobody beat Brooklyn in
either hurdles race all sea-
son in the OK Gold. Only
once all season has she
been bested in the two
races, by two different hur-
dlers at that April Allegan
Invitational.
Crews ran her fastest
1600-meter race ever to
place third (5:18.33) and had
her best 3200-meter time of
the season top place sixth in
that one. Kietzman, Emma
Dykhouse, Holland, Eva
Corson, TJ Myers, LydiaSlagel, Mollie Moore,
Elizabeth Middleton and
McKeown all also score
points for the TK girls
throughout the course of the
meet.
Dykhouse had a huge all
around day for the TK
ladies. She was the run-
ner-up in the shot put with a
personal record mark of
34-4.25 and was also fourth
in the long jump and eighth
in the 100-meter dash.
The 4x400-meter relay
was a thrilling one for both
TK teams at the end of the
evening. The senior four-
some of Jaxan Sias, Kyle
VanHaitsma, VanMeter and
Ethan Bonnema ran to a
season-best time of 3:27.34,
earning the runner-up
points just 29 hundredths ofa second behind the win-
ning Catholic Central guys.
The TK boys also had the
team of Sias, Brandon
Velting, Bonnema and Drake
Snyder second in the
4x200-meter relay 1:33.40.
Sias added a runner-up time
of 52.48 in the 400-meter
dash.
Draaisma, a junior, ran to
his fastest 1600-meter time
yet, 4:29.95, to place sec-
ond in that race behind
Forest Hills Eastern star
Henry Dixon.
Luke Archer, Juan Aguiar,
Diego Rodas, Grant
Middleton, Kaden Hamming
and Lucas McNabnay also
scored points for the TK
boys at the meet.
“There were PRs almost
everywhere,” Wonders said.“It was as fantastic night.”
Archer had one clearing
10-6 for the first time to
place eighth in the pole
vault. Velting, a freshman,
and the senior VanHaitsma
both improved their PR
while scoring in the 300-
meter intermediate hurdles.
Velting was fifth in the race
in 42.96 and VanHaitsma
seventh in 44.16.
The TK boys were sixth,
just three points back of
fifth-place Kenowa Hills.
Forest Hills Eastern’s boys
outscored runner-up GRCC
144.5-107 at the top of the
standings. Cedar Springs
was third with 101 points
ahead of Wayland 100.5,
Kenowa Hills 72, TK 69,
Ottawa Hills 52 and South
Christian 16.GOLD, continued from previous page
THORNAPPLE TOWNSHIP
BOARD
200 E. MAIN ST. MIDDLEVILLE,
MI 49333
SYNOPSIS OF MEETING MIN-
UTES
Monday, May 13, 2024
Meeting called to order at 7:00 p.m.
with seven members present.
Items approved:- Printed Agenda approved as
printed. - Consent Agenda approved as
amended with the following correc-
tions to the 4-8-24 Meeting Minutes:
first, update the numbering of the
outline beginning with “Committee
Reports” and second, change “TIFF”
to “TIF.” - Approved motion to adopt the
enclosed rate increases for cemetery
fees. - Approved motion to accept the
attached bid for painting the Thornap-
ple Township Hall. - Approved motion to adopt Res-
olution 10-2024, “Fire and Emergency
Services Millage Proposal.” - Approved motion to adopt the
enclosed, “Cost Recovery Fee Sched-
ule.” - Approved motion to purchase
two thermal imaging cameras, two
4-gas monitors and two gas sniffers for
a cost NTE the grant funds of $30,000. - Approved motion to hire three
paid-on-call firefighters. - Approved motion to purchase
21 - 800 MHz pagers for a cost NTE
$13,000.00. - Approved motion to enter the
MABAS agreement. - Approved motion to hire four
part-time EMT’s and one part-time
paramedic.
Meeting adjourned at 8:12 p.m.
Prepared by Deputy Clerk Amy
Brown. Approved by Township Super-
visor, Eric Schaefer.
Copies of the meeting minutes are
available upon request from the Town-
ship Clerk or by visiting our website
at https://thornapple-twp.org/meet-
ing-minutes/ Office hours are 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
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Thornapple Kellogg sophomore Luke Archer is all
smiles after clearing the bat at 10 feet 6 inches in the
pole vault, setting a new personal record, Friday, May
10, at the OK Gold Conference Championship at
Houseman Field in Grand Rapids. (Photo by Brett
Bremer)Thornapple Kellogg junior Ava Crews rounds a turn in the 1600-meter run
Friday, May 10, at the OK Gold Conference Championship at Houseman Field in
Grand Rapids. (Photo by Brett Bremer)Thornapple Kellogg junior Emma Dykhouse takes
off at the start of the 100-meter dash Friday, May 10,
during the OK Gold Conference Championship at
Houseman Field in Grand Rapids. Dykhouse scored
for the TK ladies in the 100-meter dash, the 4x100-me-
ter relay, the long jump and the shot put on the day.
(Photo by Brett Bremer)