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Delton Kellogg was scheduled to take on
Watervliet in the Division 3 Regional
Semifinals at Holland Christian High School
Wednesday evening (Oct. 27). Grand Rapids
Christian and Holland Christian were set to
meet in the other regional semifinal hosted
by the Maroons Wednesday. The regional
final is planned for Saturday at noon back at
Holland Christian Stadium. Holland

Christian entered the state postseason ranked
No. 1 in the state in Division 3 and South
Christian No. 3.
DK’s regional semifinal opponent
Watervliet scored a 6-2 win over the Delton
Kellogg boys in Watervliet Sept. 1, but coach
Mabie said he was expecting his boys to go
into the regional tournament with a lot of
confidence.

“It was a tight game back and forth,” Mabie
said of the district final. “The first half ended
0-0. We controlled more of the half than they
did, but we just couldn’t break through. The
last defender and their keeper were pretty
good. We controlled the game and it was down
on their end most of the time.”
Warner dribbled through a number of
Watervliet defenders to get the shot off that
finally found the net in the second half.
Mabie said his team had talked about mak-
ing a few small adjustments in the second
half, one of them being working the ball from
the outside in a bit better in the offensive end.
The play, and the eyes of the defense, had
been concentrated around Marshall, James
Blackburn and Hector Jimenez in the middle
of the DK attack.
The ball moved inside, out and then back
in during the lead up into Marshall’s charge
in to score.
“We had a few other [scoring chances],”
Mabie said, “a couple came from across the
side and we got a foot on it, but their keeper
was right there. A couple other corners he
was able to knock away. After that [goal] it
seemed like they must have gotten a little
more urgent with that. After we scored, we
spent a lot more time down in our end.
[Watervliet] had some corner kicks and long
throws. Between our defenders and our keep-
er they didn’t have any real, real solid shots
on goal though.”
Keeper Marcus Momenee and the DK
defense shut out all three of their district foes


  • Comstock, Parchment and Watervliet.
    Momenee made nine saves in the district
    final.
    Momenee made a couple tough saves, but
    also got a lot of help.
    “Giovanni Stea and Martin Wachowski,
    they really stepped up,” Mabie said. “We
    were missing Caden Ferris, who normally
    plays a defensive mid for us. I moved Mel
    Baixis back there and he controlled the mid-
    dle above the defenders. He is usually at an
    outside midfielder position with more of an
    attacking role. He said he has never played
    organized soccer before. He is fast and knows
    what to do with the ball. He knows what to do
    in that middle there. He is an asset there.”
    Baixis is a foreign exchange student from
    Martin High School who plays on the Co-op
    team with the Panthers.
    Mabie was unsure that the program has
    ever played in a district final before. He has
    guided the Panthers for the past 12 years and
    he has not been a part of one. He just knew
    that the program had never won a title before,
    because of the empty spot on the banner in
    the gymnasium and the lack of soccer tro-
    phies in the trophy cases.
    Those spots won’t be empty any more.


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Vikings win 20th


consecutive league


volleyball championship


Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Vikings took care of their final big
responsibility of the regular season Saturday.
The Lakewood varsity volleyball team,
ranked third in the state in Division 2, will
take on either Hastings or Central Montcalm
in the Division 2 District Semifinals at
Hastings High School Wednesday, Nov. 3.
Lakewood had finished as the state runner-up
in Division 2 each of the past two seasons.
Lakewood has captured a conference
championship in each of the past 20 seasons.
The string hit 20 Saturday as the Vikings
defeated Olivet and then Lansing Christian at
the Greater Lansing Activities Conference
Tournament at Lakewood High School.
The Vikings have still never dropped a
match in the GLAC.
Lakewood bested the Eagles 25-4, 25-
in their semifinal match and then knocked
off the Pilgrims 25-11, 25-13 in the champi-
onship. The Pilgrims are ranked fourth in

the state in Division 4.
It is the 32nd conference title in the history
of Lakewood volleyball.
Maradith O’Gorman, the Vikings’ senior
all-state hitter, helped keep the tradition alive
by leading the team in kills with 24, digs with
19 and blocks with two on the day.
Junior all-state setter/hitter Skylar Bump
had a team-high 24 assists to go with seven
aces, six digs and six kills.
Tori Wickerink chipped in six kills, Zayda
Kruger four and Liv Woodman four for the
Vikings. Freshman setter Abby Pickard had
21 assists as well as eight digs. All-state
sophomore libero Carley Piercefield had 18
digs and seven aces.
Alli Pickard and Paige Wolverton contrib-
uted two aces each for the Vikings, and Alli
also had 12 digs for the day.
Lakewood will look to prime itself for the
postseason playing in a quad at Caledonia
High School tonight (Oct. 28) and another at
Chelsea Saturday.

The Lakewood varsity volleyball team celebrates its 20th consecutive conference championship after finishing off an undefeated
Greater Lansing Activities Conference season by winning the conference tournament Saturday at Lakewood High School. Team
members are (front from left) Paige Wolverton, Alli Pickard, Carley Piercefield, Bailey Fifelski, Kenzie Wells, (back) head coach
Cameron Rowland, Tori Wickerink, Zayda Kruger, Abby Pickard, Ellie Possehn, Maradith O'Gorman, Alivia Everitt, Skylar Bump
and Liv Woodman.


Delton Kellogg's varsity boys' soccer team chomps on its district medals and celebrates with the district championship trophy
following a 1-0 victory over Hillsdale in the Division 3 District Final at DKHS Saturday. (Photo by Perry Hardin)

Delton Kellogg's John Sinclair goes up to head the ball during his team's victo-
ry over Hillsdale in the Division 3 District Final at DKHS Saturday. (Photo by Perry
Hardin)

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