54 Thursday, August 8, 2024 BATTLE CREEK SHOPPER NEWS http://www.thebattlecreekshopper.com
THE ORIGINAL DAVE BOWERS
WILDLIFE CONTROL
The time for BAT remediation is fast approaching! August begins the time
when the babies are leaving their roost (aka your home or business). We
can then safely do an inspection and take steps to eliminate the problem,
PLUS take steps to further prevent any more bats from entering the area.
Dave has been successfully helping people with their bat “invasions” for
over 30 years and is anxious to help you. He is knowledgeable, honest, &
fair and will keep in communication throughout this process!Love Where You Work
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today!The annual Harper Creek Optimist
Club Open Tennis Classic was held
at the Harper Creek High School
Tennis Complex last Friday through
Sunday, Aug. 2-4, although due to
inclement weather the initial Friday
night session was held at Minges
Creek Athletic Club.
Although rather warm, the remain-
ing weather was perfect for outside
tennis, according to Dr. Craig Miller,
again the tournament director and the
author of this article’s information.
There were enough entries for three
tournaments, Miller said: Men’s
Doubles, Women’s Doubles and
Mixed Doubles. Not enough youth
signed-up to have a youth singles
division, although one youth team
signed on for Men’s Doubles.
The Harper Creek Optimist Club
Open Tennis Classic is now the only
open tennis tournament in the Battle
Creek area, with an origin from
1992, Miller said.
Men’s Doubles bragging rights for
the third year in a row again belongs
Champs crowned at Harper Creek Optimist tennis tourney
Vivian Burns, right, who graduated this year from Pennfield High and who is
headed to Ferris State University this fall to play tennis and attend college in
Big Rapids, gets ready to hit a return shot in front of Mixed Doubles playing
partner Daniel Hillman during last weekend’s annual Harper Creek Optimist
Club Open Tennis Classic. The pair lost a close second-round match to the
team of Austin Wardell-Isabel Snyder. (Shopper News photo by Will Kowalski)to the team of Kevin Noble and Matt
Linsley. They had a rather easy route
to the finals and defeated Tom Clark
and Mark Schultz for the champion-
ship by a score of 6-1, 6-1.
Noble played four years varsity
tennis at Lakeview High School,
graduating in 2011, and Linsley did
likewise at Pennfield High School,
graduating the same year.
First-round losers went into a
consolation tournament, which was
won by the team of Jon Schimpf and
Mark Schultz, who defeated Juan
Luna and Charles Bard 6-3, 6-2 in
the finals.
The closest match of the tourna-
ment was John Belanger and Cody
Hoehne, who later lost to Noble and
Linsley – as Belanger and Hoehne
defeated Schimpf and Schultz in the
first round 6-7 (5), 6-2, (4).
The Women’s Doubles division
involved a three-team round robin
and was won by a Kalamazoo team
consisting of Tina Wisser and LauraSee CHAMPS on 55