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Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Ava Crews didn’t just finish ahead of
13 other runners in the Division 2 varsity
girls’ race at Saturday’s Otsego Bulldog
Invitational.
The Trojan freshman jumped two more
names in the TK record book.
Crews finished tenth Saturday in 19
minutes 23.3 seconds, setting a new per-
sonal record which makes her the third
fastest freshman in the history of the
Thornapple Kellogg girls’ program
behind former state medalists Allyson
Winchester and Rebecca Winchester.
Ally’s freshman record of 18:22.7, set in
200, is still the gold standard for TK
freshmen girls.
“She continues to look strong and
she’s yet to reach her ceiling,” TK head
coach Sam Wilkinson said after Crews’
performance Saturday.
She was the lone TK girl to set a new
personal record in Otsego, but the Trojan
team ran well overall. Senior Jessica
Durkee placed 27th in 20:19.5.
TK sophomore Holly Velting finished
in less than 22 minutes for the third
straight race, placing 71st in 21:43.9 and
her junior sister Lindsey Velting was
under 23 minutes for the third straight
race placing 88th in 22:27.1.
TK’s number five was freshman Lydia
Schilthroat who placed 100th in 22:46.9.
Junior Lucy VanDemark continued to
work her way back to form with a 106th
place time of 23:00.1 for the TK ladies
and junior Emelia MacDonald continued
fought off the pain of a freshly twisted
ankle mid-race to place 124th in 23:51.8.
The TK girls were tenth in a field of 21
full Division 2 girls’ teams. The top ten
included East Grand Rapids 45, Forest
Hills Eastern 99, Otsego 100, GrandRapids Christian 107, Spring Lake 173,
Zeeland East 193, Sparta 210, Plainwell
229, South Christian 251 and Thornapple
Kellogg 289.
East Grand Rapids sophomore Drew
Muller won the race in 18:23.6 and
Grand Rapids Christian sophomore
Natalie VanOtteren was the runner-up in
18:24.9.
East Grand Rapids had three girls in
the top six with junior Camryn Bodine
third and senior Ainsley Workman sixth.
The TK boys were 23rd in a field of 25
full boys’ teams in Division 2 Saturday.
Sophomore Lucas Van Meter paced
the TK boys with an 86th-place time of
18:13.2. The senior trio of Camden
Reynolds, Matthew Smith and Benjamin
Trudell was next for the Trojans.
Reynolds was 109th in 18:28.8, Smith
110 th in 18:39.0 and Trudell 144th in
19:56.3.Otsego won the boys’ Division 2 title
with 68 points, ahead of Grand Rapids
Christian 116, Adrian 131, East Grand
Rapids 176, Harper Creek 208, Spring
Lake 257, Dearborn Divine Child 272,
Sparta 279, Holland Christian 296 and
Three Rivers 303 in the top ten.
Spring Lake senior Ian Hill won the boys’
race in 15:25.6. Dearborn Divine Child
junior Michael Hegarty was the runner-up in
15:34.2. Otsego senior Nick Cockerel led
his team to the victory with a third-place
time of 15:40.9. Each of the top five runners
set a new personal record Saturday.
Parchment senior Garrett Winter was
fourth in 15:51.1 and Zeeland East senior
Caden Meyer placed fifth in 15:52.0.
Rounding out the top seven for the TK
boys, sophomore KadenHamming was
145 th in 19:59.3, junior Aidan Buist
155 th in 20:19.6 and senior Michael
Blair 167th in 22:09.4.Lions make it five of six with
pair of victories in Nashville
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Maple Valley varsity boys’ soccer
team has won five of its last six ball-
games.
The Lions got their first Greater
Lansing Activities Conference victory of
the season Wednesday (Sept. 29) over
visiting Leslie, 4-0, improving to 1-
during the conference season so far.
It is still up in the air whether the Lions
will be playing in the GLAC Championship
Tournament at Lakewood Saturday or be
one of the four teams battling it out for
fifth place.
“It has definitely made it a little more
enjoyable,” Lion head coach Andy Roush
said of the recent string of victories.
“Things are starting to come together a
little bit, which is good. We’re starting to
do some of the little things that make a
difference.”
Daniel Gonzalez scored the opening
goal for the Lions in the win over Leslie,
with an assist coming from teammate
Mateo Fernandez. Caden Faurot put their
team up 2-0 with an assist from Duncan
Seume.
Gonzalez and Fernandez each found
the back of the net again in the second
half, with assist coming from teammates
Owen Bailey and Matthew Slaght. Roush
likes the improved efficiency he is seeing
from his team in the offensive end, creat-ing more scoring chances in the attacking
third of the field and earning corners
when shots aren’t hitting their mark.
“It is always nice to win, but it is nice
to play good and play complete games
while you’re winning,” Roush said.
Bailey spent the ball game in goal with
junior teammate Landen Garlinger taking
a break.
Bailey was in goal for the shut out win
over the Blackhawks, filling in for Landen
Garlinger. Bailey made seven saves, but
he was never challenged too terribly.
Moving the talented field player Bailey
to the back had a number of guys shuf-
fling around. Fernandez moved to an
attacking position up top and Faurot and
Seume had to do more work in the middle.
“We got a lot of support from the
bench,” Faurot said. “The guys came in
and gave us real good minutes. We had the
ability to swap six guys at a time and not
really lose a beat, so that was nice. It was
something we have been kind of working
up to all year, that when somebody comes
in off the bench everybody knows their
role and plus/minus doesn’t really change.”
The Lions also scored a 4-2 win over vis-
iting Calhoun Christian Monday (Sept. 27).
Maple Valley had a Monday GLAC
ballgame at Stockbridge this week can-
celled and were set to close the confer-
ence regular season at home against Perry
yesterday (Oct. 1).TK preps for tourney with
win over the Red Arrows
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Trojans have a revenge tour planned
for the coming days as they take part in the
OK Gold Conference Tournament.
The Thornapple Kellogg varsity boys’
soccer team was home for its first confer-
ence tournament contest Tuesday, scoring a
4-1 win over visiting Kenowa Hills. TK will
now play in the conference tournament
semifinals this evening in Middleville, and
the conference tournament final is slated for
Saturday.
TK was 5-2 in the OK Gold Conference
this fall during the conference regular season,
falling only to South Christian and Forest
Hills Eastern. The South Christian Sailors put
together a 5-0-2 conference record while the
FHE Hawks compiled a 4-0-2 mark.
The Trojans have won seven in a row since
a 4-2 loss to FHE on the turf in Middleville
Sept. 7.
David Wood, the TK head coach, said his
boys are looking for “redemption for the per-
formances where we didn’t play well, for
ourselves really. We want to be able to put
some things right that didn’t work well
during the opening part of the season. It is
three games we can try and put things right
for us. We want the opportunity to play again
against some of the best teams in the confer-
ence to help us prepare for districts really.”
The losses to FHE and South Christian
were the only two losses to the Trojans so far
this season. TK is 13-2-2 on the year after a
6-2 non-conference win over visiting Lowell
during Senior Night at Bob White Stadium in
Middleville Thursday.
“They’re finally getting the understanding
of the system we’re trying to play, their indi-
vidual roles, they’re really starting to get to
grips with exactly how I want them to be
organized offensively and defensively, so
we’re in good shape to defend when we have
the ball and when we’re attacking making
sure that we’re all in the right spots at the
right time so their teammates know exactly
where they’re going to be at any certain
time.”
That isn’t always easy with guys like
senior Nacho Hervas on the field, but the
Trojans are certainly happy to be ready for his
wizardry with the ball when they can. Hervas
and Cody Mascorro performed a nifty little
give-and-go above the top of the 18, with
Mascorro getting the ball to Hervas and then
making a run towards the net. Hervas tapped
a ball behind his back right back to Mascorro’s
feet with about seven minutes to play
Thursday. Mascorro rolled a hard shot
through the Red Arrow keeper for their
team’s final goal.The Trojans were in the right spot and
making good runs often Thursday. Hervas
scored his team’s first goal ten minutes into
the contest, tapping a shot by the Red Arrow
keeper after Jackson Curtis rolled a through
ball perfectly ahead for him. TK had been on
the attack for most of the first ten minutes of
the ballgame.
Terrell Jefferson ran onto a long ball
between two Lowell defenders and banged a
shot into the net in the 26th minute of play
and then in the 28th minute Grant Woods
found himself unmarked in the scrum of a
corner kick to put a point-blank shot by the
Lowell goalie.
TK moved its lead to 4-0 85 seconds into
the second half with senior Alexander
Harrington, who won a tryout with a couple
of his teammates to a earn a spot as the TK
varsity football team’s kicker recently, firing
a corner kick from left to right that the Lowell
keeper had to make a diving grab on. In the
process of the keeper securing the ball it man-
aged to find its way across the goal line.
The scoreboard read 5-0 after Woods fin-
ished off a second corner kick, with one from
teammate Reece Hoeksma.
Lowell added two goals in the middle of
the second half. Bryce Thompson headed in a
centering pass from teammate Nathan Ryan
and Ryan scored once himself.Irish even DK record with slim SAC victory
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The number two team in the
Southwestern Athletic Conference
varsity boys’ soccer standings took
a 3-1 win over visiting Delton
Kellogg Monday evening in
Kalamazoo.
Hackett Catholic Prep improvedto 7-1 in the conference, a game
back of 8-0 Watervliet which
bested the Irish 2-1 last
Wednesday.
Delton Kellogg moved to 4-3-
in conference play and 6-6-
overall with the loss.
Marshall Warner scored the lone
goal for Delton Kellogg in the lossto the Irish, off an assist from
Hector Jimenez. Marcs Momenee
made 16 saves in goal for Delton
Kellogg.
While the Irish and Watervliet
Panthers were squaring off with the
conference lead on the line last
Wednesday, the Delton Kellogg
Panthers were scoring an 8-0 win at
Constantine in SAC action.
Jimenez scored four goals in
the win over the Falcons. Warner
had two goals and an assist. John
Sinclair and Momenee had one
goal each. James Blackburn
dished out four assists. Mel Baixas
added an assist for DK as well.
Momenee and Caden Ferris
shared the shutout in goal for DK,
with Ferris making four saves.
In between those two SAC ball-
games, the DK team scored a 4-
win over the Kalamazoo
Homeschool Sports team Thursday
in Delton.
Warner snapped a 3-3 tie with a
goal two with two minutes left on
the second half clock, getting an
assist from Martin Wachowski.
James Blackburn scored two
goals for DK, with Jimenez and
Warner providing assists. Jimenez
scored once thanks to an assist
from Giovanni Stea.
Momenee made 11 goals to
help his team secure the win.DK girls in top four at
second SAC jamboree
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Panthers were a tie-breaker away
from third at the second Southwestern
Athletic Conference jamboree of the season
last Wednesday at the race hosted by
Galesburg-Augusta.
Second place was in sight.
Kalamazoo Christian once again domi-
nated a SAC varsity girls’ cross country
jamboree, finishing with 45 points.
Saugatuck was second with 101 points,
ahead of Lawton 117, Delton Kellogg 117,
Schoolcraft 120, Fennville 131, Coloma
150, Martin 200, Parchment 201, Watervliet
260, Galesburg-Augusta 286 and
Constantine 293.
Delton Kellogg senior Aubrey Aukerman
moved up eight spots from the first jambo-
ree of the season earning her best varsity
cross country finish ever. She placed fifth
Wednesday with a time of 23 minutes 12.
seconds.
Lawton sophomore Kendra Koster won
the race in 21:17.91 and Coloma senior Ava
Genovese was the runner-up in 21:40.55.
A pair of juniors were just ahead of
Aukerman. Kalamazoo Christian’s Aubrey
Herder was third win 22:32.62 and
Schoolcraft’s Caley Kerwin fourth in
22:40.19.
Kalamazoo Christian had for other girls
finish in the top 16 overall.
Delton Kellogg senior Halena Phillips
trailed that front Comet pack by just a bit,
placing 18th in 24:27.41.
DK junior Joelle White and freshman
Johannah Houtkooper were separated by
just a few seconds in the end. White placed
27 th in 25:47.71 and Houtkooper 28th in
25:50.33.
DK’s number five was freshman Lillie
Steele who was 45th in 27:30.35.
The Delton Kellogg varsity boys’ team
was led to a seventh-place finish by the trio
of Micah Martin, Ethan Rimmer and Isaac
Shepard. Martin, a junior placed 23rd in
20:41.86. The freshman Rimmer was 25th
in 20:49.36. Shepard, a junior, was 27th in
21:08.89.
Coloma won the boys’ race by three
points over the Kalamazoo Christian which
took the first SAC jamboree of the season.
The Coloma Comets finished with 66 points.
The Christian Comets were second with 69
points.
Saugatuck placed third with 72 points,
ahead of Gobles 113, Constantine 124,
Parchment 136, Delton Kellogg 145,Fennville 193, Schoolcraft 255 and Hackett
Catholic Prep 266.
Parchment brothers Garrett Winter and
William Winter placed first and second in
the boys’ race. Garrett won it in 17:57.
and William was second in 17:59.21.
Kalamazoo Christian senior Isaac Bos
was third in 18:29.27. Gobles senior Niles
Devers placed fourth in 18:36.92 and
Saugatuck senior Adam Martinson was fifth
in 18:48.37.
DK also had junior Brett Harsevoort 43rd
in 22:17.14 and senior Eli Austin 50th in
22:32.88.
The Delton Kellogg teams were back in
action Saturday running in the Division 3
competition at the Otsego Bulldog
Invitational where a number of Panthers
turned in their best times ever.
Shepard led the DK boys with a 15th-place
time of 19:19.9 to set a new personal record.
Austin set a new PR with his 24th-place
time of 20:25.2. DK’s boys’ team also had
Rimmer 21st in 20:08.8, senior Austin
Blocker 21:00.9 and Harsevoort 32nd in
21:31.1.
The DK boys’ and girls’ teams both
placed fifth on the day.
Bronson won the boys’ race with 43
points, ahead of Kalamazoo Homeschool
45, Bloomingdale 73, Quincy 90 and Delton
Kellogg 111.
Bloomingdale sophomore Jaden Barnes
ran his fastest race ever to win in 16:25.
and Quincy junior Rhett Reif was the run-
ner-up with a personal record time of
16:38.8.
Senior Ashton Wells led Bronson to the
win with a third-place time of 17:37.3.
Fennville took the girls’ championship
with 59 points, ahead of Kalamazoo
Homeschool 60, Lawton 67, Quincy 82,
Delton Kellogg 103 and Bloomingdale 114.
Aukerman ran her fastest race of the fall
to place fourth overall in the front of the DK
team. She hit the finish line in 21:13.9.
Freshman Kylie Main and junior Lilyanna
Sinclair also set new personal records
among DK’s top five finishers Saturday.
Main was 28th in 24:50.2 and Sinclair was
34 th in 25:47.5. White was the second fin-
isher for DK with an 18th-place time of
24:02.0. Senior Melanie Monroe was 29th
in 24:50.3.
Koster, the Lawton sophomore who also
won last week’s SAC jamboree, was the
champion at Otsego with a time of 20:23.8.
Comstock junior Lydia Kruis was the run-
ner-up in 20:40.0.Thornapple Kellogg junior Terrell Jefferson rips a shot at the
Lowell net as Red Arrow defender Jackson Schaedig tries to
get over to stop him during the first half of the Trojans' 6-
non-conference win in Middleville Thursday. (Photo by Brett
Bremer)Thornapple Kellogg sophomore Reece Hoeksma fights his
way past Lowell’s Noah VanLaan as the Trojans go on the
attack during their 6-2 win over the visiting Red Arrows inside
Bob White Stadium in Middleville Thursday. (Photo by Brett
Bremer)
Delton Kellogg's Hector Jimenez drives through the midfield
with the ball during his team's contest with the visiting
Kalamazoo Homeschool team Thursday in Delton. (Photo by
Perry Hardin)Delton Kellogg’s Myles
Hatton looks to shoot the ball
forward as a Kalamazoo
Homeschool defender closes
in during their non-conference
match at Delton Kellogg High
School Thursday. (Photo by
Perry Hardin)