Page 14 — Thursday, February 24, 2022 — The Hastings Banner
Delton Kellogg boys snap
skid with win over Rams
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Leads were hard to hold in
the second half Friday night and
that turned out okay for the Pan-
thers.
Delton Kellogg’s varsity
boys’ basketball team held visit-
ing Galesburg-Augusta score-
less over the final 2:54 of their
Southwestern Athletic Confer-
ence Valley Division ballgame
Feb. 18 and pulled out a 45-
win.
G-A took a 41-38 lead with
just under three minutes to play,
after Delton Kellogg had led by
seven points late in the third
quarter, and the Rams still held
a 41-29 advantage with 67 sec-
onds to play when Panther guard
Alden Whitmore buried a
three-pointer to put his team in
front.
The Panthers made a few free
throws down the stretch and got
some good work on the boards
by center Alex Whitmore to seal
the win. Alex had a team-high
14 points on the night and Alden
finished with ten. DK also got
nine points from Austin Hill.
“I can’t say enough about
senior Austin Hill,” DK head
coach Jim Hogoboom said. “Heis a young man that doesn’t
always play a lot. Tonight he
had eight points int eh first half,
all in the secnod quarter, includ-
ing two threes. He had some
huge defensive pressure and
came up with the steal late in
the game and made a free throw
to put us up four. It is no teasy
to o, to keep that positive atti-
tude when you’re not playing a
bunch. Dso happy for him. He
was the absolute key to our
victory.
“I am proud of my guys who
continue to work hard in prac-
tice in spite of the lengthy los-
ing sreak. We’re hoping to fin-
ish out the season strong.”
DK had dropped its six previ-
ous ballgames. The win moves
Delton Kellogg to 5-13 overall
this season and 2-10 in the SAC
Valley. Galesburg-Augusta is
now 7-10 overall and 2-9 in the
conference.
Jalen Dolph led the Rams
with 11 points in the loss.
Hogoboom said there was lit-
tle offensive flow for either
team all evening.
Delton Kellogg goes to Sau-
gatuck Friday night and then
will close the season March 1 at
home against Maple Valley.Saxons better in second go-round
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Gaining a bit of varsity experience has
helped Hastings out quite a bit on the score-
board this winter, even if it isn’t translating
into a bunch of wins yet.
Following a Feb. 11 win at Jackson Lumen
Christi, the Saxons’ first Interstate-8 Athletic
Conference victory of the season, the Hast-
ings varsity boys’ basketball team has
dropped consecutive conference contests
with Harper Creek, Parma Western and Jack-
son Northwest. Harper Creek stretched its
lead a bit late to score a 12-point win over the
Saxons Feb. 15, Parma Western took a 54-
win over the Hastings boys last Friday (Feb.
18) and Jackson Northwest bested the Saxons
63-56 Tuesday night at Hastings High School.
Harper Creek and Northwest beat the Hast-
ings boys by more than 40 points in their first
match-ups this season.
“We had some kids in the Lumen Christi
game screaming at other players and demand-
ing of them, ‘this is what we do,” Hastings
head coach Rich Long said after his team’s
home loss to Parma Western Friday. “They’re
friends. They’re a good group of kids. So, it
went well. It was received. We all know about
peer pressure. If it is from kids it goes better.
If the coach is yelling, it is just the coachyelling. A lot of things are improving for us.
We are still young and we still have to work
hard at getting wins, but it is more fun that
getting beat by 40.”
The Saxons and Parma Western Panthers
had a competitive ballgame for the second
time this season Friday. Hastings led 30-28 at
the half after holding a lead of as many as
eight points. Western went on a 13-3 run at
the start of the fourth quarter which proved to
be the difference in the end.
“They upped the pressure,” coach Long
said. “They made adjustments at the half on
their trap. In the first half, our five, Hayden
[Long], was distributing the ball. I think he
had assists on our first ten buckets it seemed
like. At the half they said, no more middle.
Don’t let him throw the ball to the middle.
They were making him catch it much higher,
instead of at the free throw line.”
Both teams struggled to score in the third
quarter, with Parma Western outscoring the
Saxons 8-6 to go into the fourth quarter tied
26-26. A Saxon turnover in the opening sec-
onds of the fourth led to a bucket by the Pan-
thers’ Cooper Johnston, which started the
Panthers on their run. The surge was helped by
a few missed threes by the Saxons – one that
went in and out by Braden Vertalka and one
that went in by Myles Padilla but was wiped
away by a traveling call as he spotted up.
Padilla, a junior guard, had a pretty solid
night offensively, leading the Saxons with 18
points. He had 13 in the first half, and coach
Long said he likes how Padilla is becoming
stronger and more decisive with the basket-
ball around the basket.
Hastings also got ten points from junior
forward Layton Eastman and nine from soph-
omore point guard Owen Carroll who coach
Long has seen tremendous growth from this
season calling him one of the most intelligent
players he has ever coached.
Johnston led the Panthers with 20 points
and teammate Cole Wilcox added 11 and
Owen Fremeau nine.
“It is a little more fun to come to practice
[when games are competitive],” coach Long
said Friday. “Kids were seeing the improve-ment and seeing things getting done. Tonight,
we had a couple steals where our defense
worked, where we fired to a guy driving and
they tried to pass it across and we got those
steals. All of a sudden they start seeing prac-
tice equating to game speed. We’re playing at
game speed. Our youth is growing and matur-
ing and I think that is where we are starting to
look better.”In the loss to visiting Northwest Tues-
day, Hastings getting 12 points from senior
guard Joey McLean and ten each from
Hayden Long and Padilla.
Hastings is now 2-16 overall this sea-
son. The Saxons close the regular season
with ballgames at Pennfield Friday (Feb.
25) and at home against Wellspring Prep
March 3.Delton Kellogg guard Panther Alden Whitmore (23) pene-
trates past Galesburg-Augusta's Bo Brady (24) in the second
half of Friday’s contest at Delton Kellogg High School. (Photo
by Perry Hardin)Hastings junior guard Myles Padilla flips a shot up over Parma Western's Caden
Oliver during the first half of their Interstate-8 Athletic Conference match-up at
Hastings High School Friday. (Photo by Brett Bremer)The Saxons' Braden Vertalka works to keep Cole Wilcox near mid-court during the
Panthers' Interstate-8 Athletic Conference win at Hastings High School Friday night.
(Photo by Brett Bremer)
Delton Kellogg's Jason Lundquist (32)
shoots a free throw late in the game
against Galesburg-Augusta Friday.
(Photo by Perry Hardin)176008Hope Township
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County of Barry, Michigan
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proposed budget for the Authority’s 2022 - 2023 fiscal year on March 15,
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