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information.Panthers prep for regional race at K-Christian Invite
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Delton Kellogg varsity boys’ and girls’
cross country teams both placed eighth Saturday
at the Kalamazoo Christian Invitational.
A pair of DK’s top seven guys scored new
personal record times at the run. Sophomore
Parker Bagley placed 85th overall in 20 min-
utes 33.65 seconds and senior teammate
Mitchell Buckner who was 98th in 21:09.76.
Those two finished fifth and seventh respec-
tively among the pack of Panthers in the race
with 13 full scoring teams.
The Delton Kellogg runners will be in
Allendale Friday morning for their Division 3
Regional Meet and then head to Maple Valley
Monday for the Barry County Invitational.
Sparta took the boys’ championship on the
day with 37 points, ahead of Covenant
Christian 63, Kalamazoo Christian 90, South
Christian 95 and Kalamazoo Homeschool
Sports 126 in the top five. The DK boys were
eighth with 229 points, just behind their SAC
rivals from Constantine.Sparta senior Jackson Jones was the indi-
vidual champion in the boys’ race with a time
of 16:18.06. South Christian junior Caleb
Boes ran a new personal record time of
16:39.99 to place second and Sparta sopho-
more Gregory Janesak was third with a PR of
16:48.69.
Sparta had four guys among the first eight
finishers, and the Spartans were at their best.
Noah Momber, a junior, set a personal record
with his time of 17:27.76 that had him in
eighth. Junior teammate Jax Wilson was fifth
in 17:15.25.
Sparta also had guys place 20th, 21st, 22nd
and 23rd, with seniors Lance Riddle and
Ethan Meyers setting personal records among
that group.
DK’s leader was freshman Ethan Rimmer,
who placed 32nd in 18:40.59. Junior Micah
Martin was 45th for DK in 19:08.72, junior
Isaac Shepard 59th in 19:33.71 and sopho-
more Austin Bagley 77th in 20:10.86.
Also in the top seven for DK was senior
Austin Blocker with a 95th-place time of21:02.00.
Senior Aubrey Aukerman led the DK girls
with a 23rd-place time of 21:40.13. Senior
Halena Phillips was 44th in 22:27.23. DK had
three freshmen in its top seven. Lillie Steele
placed 59th in 23:21.18, Johannah Houtkooper
60 th in 23:23.55 and Jillian Leclercq 114th in
26:49.04.
The rest of the DK scoring group included
senior Melanie Monroe 70th in 23:50.64 and
senior Hope Vanderwall 97th in 25:49.60.
Covenant Christian won the girls’ meet
with 47 points, with girls placing first and
second individually. Senior Meghan Beute
won the girls’ race in 18:48.61 and her soph-
omore teammate Amber Koole placed second
in 19:55.29, setting a new personal record
with her time.
South Christian was the runner-up with 65
points, ahead of Sparta 72, Kalamazoo
Christian 101 and Bridgman 103 in the top
five. The DK girls were eighth with 189
points, just behind their SAC foes from
Schoolcraft.Lion sophomore looking for
return trip to Finals at MIS
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
When Maple Valley’s Lilly Faurot quali-
fied for the regional round of the Division 4
MHSAA postseason as a freshman last fall
something changed.
She went from a basketball player using a
spot on the varsity girls’ cross country team
to get in better shape for the winter hoops
season to a girl looking forward to chasing a
spot in the Division 4 Lower Peninsula Cross
Country Finals at Michigan International
Speedway in Brooklyn.
She chased down that goal and chased
down another one Tuesday at Turkeyville,
earning first team all-conference honors in
the Greater Lansing Activities Conference for
the first time. Faurot placed sixth at the
GLAC Championship race in 21 minutes
30.4 seconds, finishing 14 spots higher than
she did at the conference championship as a
freshman.
“Coming into the meet ranked eighth, she
finished sixth so I was very happy with the
outcome,” Maple Valley head coach Tiffany
Blakely said. “She also beat her last year’s
time on the course by a minute and ran her
fastest time this season by nearly 30 seconds.”
Faurot said she felt great the first mile, and
but once she hit a mile and a quarter she start-
ed feeling the pains of distance running. She
was appreciative of the cold weather finally
arriving.
“You can’t feel anything when it’s cold,”
Faurot said.“For the season as a whole, I am doing
better than last year, so I am happy about
that.” Faurot said. “My goal this year, my
overall goal, is to go to states because I
made it last year, but this is a tougher region
that we’re in now so I have to run even
faster. Right now, it is iffy. It is not looking
great, but it is not looking bad. It just really
depends on how everyone runs on Saturday
and what I am feeling.”
The Lions will run in the MHSAA
Division 3 Regional hosted by Allendale
Saturday morning, the girls at 10 a.m. and
the boys at 11 a.m.
The Stockbridge girls clinched the GLAC
Championship Tuesday with a 42-45 win
over Leslie at the top of the standings.
Lakewood was third with 87 points, ahead
of Lansing Christian 102, Olivet 107 and
Perry 114.
Lakewood juniors Reagan Lab and
Sadie Brearley both earned honorable
mention all-conference. Lab was 11th in a
personal record time of 21:58.38. Brearley
placed 12th in a personal record time of
22:16.84.
Stockbridge senior Rylee Tolson led her
team to the title with an individual champion-
ship. She hit the finish line in 18:36.62. Her
senior teammate Brooklyn Rochow was third
in 20:00.62.
Leslie was led by a pair of freshman. Erin
Lubahn was second in 19:49.75 and Jaidyn
Smith fourth in 20:08.84.
Maple Valley freshman Brianna Gurdplaced 41st in the race with a time of 32:48.59,
a new PR for her.
Lakewood’s top four girls all set PR’s
including sophomore Claire Fortier who was
20th in 23:06.06 and junior Emma Lancaster
who was 22nd in 23:30.03. Lakewood’s num-
ber five was junior Gabby Rosenburger who
placed 31st in 25:28.84.
All the Lakewood boys ran their best
times of the season too. Freshman Troy
Acker set his PR at 19:47.09 while placing
21 st. Senior Colin Heyl set a PR with a
31st-place time of 21:24.72. Sophomore
Ethan Cappon bumped his PR down to
23:00.47 in a 37th-place finish.
Lakewood also had senior Clayton
Dumond 30th in 21:21.03, junior Ryan Alford
15 th in 18:49.69 and sophomore Emil Myers
41 st in 24:32.34. Alford missed all-confer-
ence honorable mention by one spot.
Maple Valley had junior Adam Blakely set
a new PR with his 39th-place time of 23:13.
and sophomore Brody Trowbridge finish
50 th in 35:47.41.
Lakewood will head to DeWitt Friday for
its MHSAA Division 2 Regional race.
Stockbridge won the boys’ championship
Tuesday with 34 points, ahead of Olivet 40,
Leslie 55, Lakewood 115 and Lansing
Christian 128.
Olivet sophomore Lucas Hopkins was the
individual champ with a time of 16:35.06.
Stockbridge runners Dalton Satkowiak,
Micah Bolton and Colin Cook placed second,
third and fourth to lead their team to victory.HHS piles up record times
at Interstate-8 Championship
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
For the second fall in a row Hastings soph-
omore Riley Shults has run his fastest race of
the season at the Interstate-8 Athletic
Conference Championship.
He was nearly a minute faster as a sopho-
more than he was as a freshman, setting a
new personal record time of 16 minutes 46.
seconds to place ninth Saturday on the course
at Turkeyville and earn honorable mention
all-conference.
The Hastings boys were fourth as a team
Saturday and finish fourth in the final overall
conference standings. The Hastings varsity
girls’ cross country team placed sixth
Saturday and finish in seventh place in the
final conference standings.
The Harper Creek boys, ranked second in
the state in Division 2, took the boys’ cham-
pionship with 41 points. Coldwater was sec-
ond with 74 points, ahead of Marshall 77,
Hastings 101, Parma Western 111, Jackson
Lumen Christi 115, Jackson Northwest 216
and Pennfield 220.
Harper Creek senior Owen Gilbert was the
individual champion in 15:41.0. He set a new
personal record, as did each of the top seven
runners in the boys’ race. Parma Western
senior Jacob Singleton was the runner-up in
16:11.4.
Harper Creek had three guys finish
among the top eight, and five others among
the top 17.
All nine Saxon guys who ran Saturday set
a new personal record, the scoring top seven
of Shults, Brandon Simmons, Reuben Solmes,
Jonah Teed, Micah Johnson, Cole Greenfield,
Alexander Steward as well as sophomores
Kenneth Vastine and John Chmura at the
back of the pack.
The Saxons had a couple solid bunches
running together.
Simmons, a freshman, was 18th overall in
17:47.6. The sophomore Solmes placed 19th
in 17:53.7, and his classmate Teed was 20th
in 17:56.2.
Saxon freshman Micah Johnson placed
45th in 19:13.4 and sophomore teammate
Cole Greenfield was 47th in 19:21.4.
All the Saxon ladies ran their fastest race
of the season, and sophomore Lily Comensoli
and freshman Anika Bourassa set new per-
sonal records.
Senior Allison Teed led the Hastings girls
with a 16th-place time of 21:21.3 and senior
Carissa Strouse was 22nd in 21:59.3.
Comensoli came in 33rd in 22:38.7. Saxon
senior Hannah Crozier placed 56th in 24:44.5.
Bourassa placed 90th in 39:21.1.
Jackson Lumen Christi had four of the first
six girls across the finish line and won
Saturday’s meet with 32 points. Marshall was
a close second with 40 points, ahead of
Parma Western 79, Harper Creek 113,
Coldwater 136, Hastings 163, Northwest 171
and Pennfield 219.
Lumen Christi sophomore Madison
Osterberg was the day’s champion with a newpersonal record time of 18:07.5. Her senior
teammate Faith Smith ran her fastest race of the
season to place second in 18:20.3. Lumen
Christi also had Layla Lopez fifth and Gabrielle
Osterberg sixth, both setting personal records.
Parma Western senior Alyna Lewis placed
third in a personal record time 18:47.55 and
Marshall was led by a personal record run of
19:00.1 by sophomore Camille DeCola which
put her in fourth place. Marshall also had
girls place seventh, eighth, tenth and 11th in
the chase with the Titans.
Hastings heads to Portage West Middle
School for its MHSAA Division 2 Regional
race Saturday.Hastings' Hannah Crozier makes her way around the course at Turkeyville Saturday
during the Interstate-8 Athletic Conference Championship race. (Photo by Bob Gaskill)The Saxons' Jonah Teed and Reuben Solmes are among the pack racing in the
Interstate-8 Athletic Conference Championship at Turkeyville Saturday. (Photo by Bob
Gaskill)Maple Valley sophomore Lilly Faurot
makes her way along the second mile of
the course at Turkeyville during the GLAC
Championship Tuesday afternoon.
(Photo by Brett Bremer)Turkeys scatter from the path of
Lakewood's Ryan Alford as he makes his
way around the course at Turkeyville
Tuesday during the GLAC Championship.
(Photo by Brett Bremer)