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September Events at Willard Library

For more information on all programs and events, visit willardlibrary.org.

Genealogy Meet Up:

Cemetery Walk at

Memorial Park Cemetery

Saturday, Sept. 14, 9 a.m.

Memorial Park Cemetery,

2435 W. Territorial Rd

Trivia Night

Tuesday, Sept. 17, 6 p.m.

Downtown Lower Level

Family Financial Fun Night

Featuring Goodwill

Financial Opportunity Center

Wednesday, Sept. 18, 6 p.m.

Downtown Lower Level

Brick Masters

Monday, Sept. 23, 6 p.m.

Downtown Lower Level

Register at tinyurl.com/WillardEvents

Get to Know Your Library -

Transformers Style

Monday, Sept. 9, 6 p.m.

Downtown Children’s Room

Simply Stories

Saturday, Sept. 7, 11 a.m.

Downtown Children’s Room

Armchair Detectives:

True Crime Club

Wednesday, Sept. 11, 6 p.m.

Downtown Lower Level

willardlibrary.org • 269-968-8166

September Events at Willard Library

For more information on all programs and events, visit willardlibrary.org.

Genealogy Meet Up:

Cemetery Walk at

Memorial Park Cemetery

Saturday, Sept. 14, 9 a.m.

Memorial Park Cemetery,

2435 W. Territorial Rd

Trivia Night

Tuesday, Sept. 17, 6 p.m.

Downtown Lower Level

Family Financial Fun Night

Featuring Goodwill

Financial Opportunity Center

Wednesday, Sept. 18, 6 p.m.

Downtown Lower Level

Brick Masters

Monday, Sept. 23, 6 p.m.

Downtown Lower Level

Register at tinyurl.com/WillardEvents

Get to Know Your Library -

Transformers Style

Monday, Sept. 9, 6 p.m.

Downtown Children’s Room

Simply Stories

Saturday, Sept. 7, 11 a.m.

Downtown Children’s Room

Armchair Detectives:

True Crime Club

Wednesday, Sept. 11, 6 p.m.

Downtown Lower Level

BRETT BREMER

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Only an Otsego team with nearly

everyone back from a squad that

was tenth at the MHSAA Lower

Peninsula Division 2 Cross Country

Finals in 2023 was better than the

Battle Creek Lakeview varsity

boys Wednesday at the Southwest

Michigan Rustbuster XC Invitational.

Otsego dominated the day with the

Bulldog boys winning with 48 points

and the Bulldog girls taking their

competition with a score of just 23

points.

The Lakeview boys beat out Three

Rivers and Plainwell for the runner-

up spot. The Spartans finished with

88 points in the competition with

13 full teams. Three Rivers had 89

points and Plainwell 90.

Lakeview senior Jonah Bills led his

team with a season-best time of 17

minutes 18.72 seconds that put him in

seventh place individually.

All seven of the Spartan scorers

were among the top 30 finishers in

the race. Freshman Karson Lewis

was the team’s number two with his

best time yet. He hit the finish line

12th in 17:29.02. The Lakeview boys

also had senior Alex Rogers 20th in

17:57.23, freshman Eli Demlow 25th

in 18:13.75 and junior Bray Mentzer

27th in 18:24.52 among its top five.

Sophomore Carter Hughes was 18th

and freshman Jackson Duval 29th.

Three Rivers senior Sullivan

Zietlow won the boys’ race in

16:07.35 and was well ahead of

Mattawan junior Owen Fisher who

was the runner-up in 16:51.51.

Hopkins’ junior Jack Estelle and

Plainwell junior Donovan Ryan also

both broke that 17-minute mark on

the day.

Plainwell beat out Gobles on a tie-

breaker to finish second in the girls’

contest. Those two teams both tal-

lied 104 points to finish well behind

the champs from Otsego. Lakeview

wasn’t far off their pace with 112

points in fourth place in the field of

14 full girls’ teams.

Spartans near the top at RustBuster race

Junior Lilamae Frank led the

Lakeview ladies with a 12th-place

time of 21:40.17. Senior Evelyn

Calow was right behind in 14th

with a time of 21:56.28. Sophomore

Amelia Kraemer placed 27th overall

in 23:13.00.

A trio of new varsity Spartans

were just behind Kraemer. Junior

Georgia Micklewright came in 28th

in 23:14.39, sophomore Olivia King

was 31st in 23:26.86 and freshman

Ayla Frantz placed 38th in 23:59.15.

Another freshman, Olivia Sowton,

rounded out the seven scorers for the

Bulldogs finishing in 42nd.

Otsego had six of the top ten rac-

ers in the girls’ contest led by junior

Emma Hoffman who hit the finish

line in 17:53.36. Gobles sophomore

Libby Smith was the runner-up after

a while in 19:19.79 and Fennville

sophomore Isabelle Sliter came in

third in 19:51.19 with four Bulldogs

behind her one after another after the

20-minute mark.

Paw Paw was fifth in the girls’ race

with 167 points ahead of Mattawan

169, Three Rivers 169, Hopkins 206,

Fennville 214 and Vicksburg 238 in

the top ten.

The top ten in the boys’ team

standings also included Mattawan

fifth with 117 points, Vicksburg

174, Paw Paw 209, Parchment 214,

Constantine 251 and Hopkins 261.

BRETT BREMER

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The Lakewood varsity football

team is unbeaten under new head

coach Tim Swore. The Vikings

opened the 2024 varsity football sea-

son with a 27-6 victory at Pennfield

Thursday night, Aug. 29, in its new

coach’s first ballgame.

James Crum Jr. led Lakewood’s

attack with 100 yards rushing and a

touchdown. Freshman quarterback

Max Thrun threw two touchdown

passes, one each to Seth Willette

and Christian Harton, and Ethan

Goodemoot rushed for another score

for the Vikings.

Willette had a team-high five

tackles for the Viking defense, and

a couple of lost fumbles hurt the

Pennfield team’s chances of putting

more points on the scoreboard

Isaiah Eakins-Gray scored the lone

Pennfield touchdown in the opening

quarter, a score set-up by a long kick

return following the Vikings’ final

touchdown.

Lakewood scored once in each

quarter. Goodemoot finished off a

first-quarter drive with a one-yard

Pennfield shut out in

final quarters against

Lakewood

TD run, and Lakewood led 7-6 after

one quarter.

A 23-yard TD pass from Thrun

to Christian Harton upped the

Lakewood lead to 14-6 at the half.

Crumm scored on a three-yard run

in the third quarter. The dagger in

the end was a 63-yard scoring strike

down the middle from Thrun to

Willette in the fourth.

The Panthers go on the road Friday,

Sept. 6, to take on Kelloggsville

and then are home for back-to-back

ballgames including the Interstate-8

Athletic Conference opener against

Harper Creek Sept. 20.

Those Harper Creek Beavers

opened their season with a 44-0 wal-

loping of Lakeview Thursday eve-

ning jumping out to a 24-0 lead in

the first quarter.