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The Hastings Banner — Thursday, April 22, 2021 — Page 15

DK has a mostly new

group of girls on new turf

Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The first game is in the books and Delton
Kellogg head coach Alan Mabie is still look-
ing forward to having his entire varsity roster
together for the first time at some point this
season.
Senior defenders Caitlin O’Meara and
Evelyn Zettelmeier are the top returning ball-
players back for the Delton Kellogg team as it
gets restarted for the first time since the spring
of 2019.
Coach Mabie expects his defensive line to
be pretty solid this season, adding sophomore
Chloe Tarkkanen to the group that also
includes O’Meara and Zettelmeier. The
Panthers will need to be strong in front of
their net as goalkeeper Taylor Carter adjusts
to varsity soccer. She is a junior who hasn’t
played organized soccer since middle school.
The Panthers are also looking for good
things from a couple youngsters on the attack.
Sophomore Carly Ritchie and freshman Avery

Barker will fill spots up top or in the midfield this season. Coach Mabie likes his players’ good, positive attitudes, he just wishes he had a few more players. “With only 13 players, we do not have any depth so to be successful we will need to stay healthy and be well conditioned,” Mabie said. “We have a lot of first time players so it will take some time to develop their skills.” The Hackett Catholic Central girls scored a 4-0 win over the Panthers in Delton Monday. The ballgame was the first for the Delton Kellogg girls on the new artificial turf on the field at the high school in Delton. DK was slated to go on the road to face Watervliet last night (April 21) and will be back in action Monday at home against Schoolcraft. DK goes to Coloma next Wednesday (April 28). Kalamazoo Christian is once again expect- ed to be the class of the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The Comets were 2-2 heading

into their Wednesday (April 21) ballgame against the Hackett girls.

DK/Martin looking for talent

in sizable group of golfers

Brett Bremer Sports Editor It is a nearly new roster for the Delton Kellogg/Martin varsity boys’ golf team as it heads into the 2021 season. The lone guy with some varsity experience is junior Javier Guevera who fired rounds as a freshman for the senior heavy team that qual- ified for the Division 3 Lower Peninsula State Finals in 2019. Junior Tommy Mason is the only other guy who spent any time in the DK/Martin program, participating on the JV team as a freshman along with Guevera. “I’m anxious to see how these two have improved,” DK/Martin head coach Jim Hogoboom said. Hogoboom took over the program before that 2019 season. He was looking forward to seeing what everyone looked like in the preseason. He has a big group to pick five or six scorers from. There were 25 student-athletes trying out for the team when it met for the first time March 29. “Given the lack of experience our goals are a bit different than two years ago when I took over with a veteran team,” Hogoboom said. “We’re just looking to introduce the game to as many kids as possible and try to fill a line- up to go along with Javier who I suspect will be our number one player. Karter Ribble from Martin has some golf experience and we are hoping those two along with Tommy Mason can help us be competitive.” He is hoping he can find enough golfers from among the rest of the group for the Panthers to finish in the middle of the Southwestern Athletic Conference Valley Division. The DK/Martin coach expects the SAC Valley to be stacked at the top as usual with an outstanding Hackett Catholic Prep team leading the way and strong teams from Kalamazoo Christian and Schoolcraft not far behind the Fighting Irish. Coach Hogboom has some help developing the youngsters this spring. “Wes had a 40 year career at Gull Lake View and is a certified PGA teaching profes- sional and the girls’ golf coach at Plainwell,” Hogoboom said. “My other assistant is Lucas Trierweiler, our high school principal. He is a better than scratch golfer who has played in US Open Qualifiers and is full of knowledge for our kids.”

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The Delton Kellogg varsity boys’ golf team opened its season by hosting its annual DK Invitational at Mullenhurst Golf Course Thursday, and finally got to honor long-time golf coach Kent Enyart (center) with a varsity letter. Enyart led the program for 28 years. Enyart is shown with current DK varsity boys’ golf coach Jim Hogoboom (left) and Wes Wandell who presented Enyart with the plaque as Panther athletic director Mike Mohn was unable to attend the event, which had originally been planned for the 2019 event which was rained out.

DK will see where talented

freshmen from 2019 stand

Brett Bremer Sports Editor The Delton Kellogg varsity girls’ track and field team has a few talented student-athletes back from the team that placed third at the Southwestern Athletic Conference Valley Division Championship at the end of the last track and field season in 2019. That group includes junior sprinter/hurdler Emily Dake and Rebecca VanDyke, junior distance runner Halena Phillips and junior thrower Glori Stanton. Dake was tenth in the 100-meter dash and VanDyke tenth in the 200-meter dash at the SAC Valley Championship as freshmen, and Dake had a fifth-place finish in the 300-meter low hurdles. Phillips had a pair of top perfor- mances for the Panthers at the end of her freshman season in the SAC Valley, placing fourth in the 1600-meter run and eighth in the 800. Stanton had her best throws in both the shot put and the discus at the SAC Valley Championship at the end of her freshman season, getting a top ten finish in the shot put. DK head coach Katie Ingle is also looking

for good things from junior sprinter Hope Vanderwall and sophomore Joelle White who could compete in sprints or distance events as well as the jumps. Coach Ingle said she has a great group of girls who are positive and motivated. It is a group with many new runners who are willing to try anything to help the team. The SAC Valley Division won’t have a championship meet this spring. The division championship will be decided entirely by the regular season duals. The Panthers are slated to start those this afternoon playing host to Hackett Catholic Prep for their first meet of the season. Parchment, Schoolcraft and Kalamazoo Christian look to be the toughest teams in the conference according to coach Ingle. DK had its first two meets of the season, races with Schoolcraft, Parchment and Galesburg-Augusta postponed. The Panthers will make up the meet at Schoolcraft Monday and face Galesburg-Augusta next Wednesday (April 28) in Delton. The Panthers will also be at the Allegan Invitational this Friday (April 23).

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