The Sun and News, Saturday, June 4, 2022/ Page 9TK’s number one just shy of
trio headed to D2 golf finals
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Thornapple Kellogg junior
Austin Pitsch was just three
strokes behind the three indi-
vidual state qualifiers at the
MHSAA Division 2 Regional
Tournament at Lake Doster
Golf Course in Plainwell
Wednesday, June 1.
Pitsch scored an 84 to lead
the Thornapple Kellogg varsity
boys’ golf team. The top three
teams and top three individuals
not on those teams at regionals
around the state this week earn
spots in the June 10-11 State
Finals. The MHSAA Lower
Peninsula Division 2 Finals
will be hosted by The Meadows
on the campus of Grand Valley
State University.
Grand Rapids Christian won
the regional title at Lake Doster
with a score of 313. Unity
Christian was second with a
320 and Hamilton third at 335.
The three individual state qual-
ifiers from the regional are
Zeeland West senior Austin
Bomers, Holland Christian
senior Isaiah Geerlings and
Zeeland East junior Jack
Anderson who each shot an 81.
The Thornapple Kellogg
boys were 12th as a team and
Hastings finished in 18th place.
Pitsch’s 84 put him in 84th
place individually.
Behind Pitsch for TK,
Connor Newland scored a 90,
Christian DeBruin a 92 and
Trevor Hummer a 96.
Grand Rapids Christian had its
top four guys all finish under 80.
Sophomore Dylan Clark scored a
77, freshman John Cassiday a 78,
junior Alex VandenBerge a 79
and sophomore Maxwell
O’Grady a 79. The Eagles’ fifth
scorer, sophomore Adam
Workman, fired an 83.
The top players from
Hamilton and Unity Christian
both scored a 76 – the Crusaders’
Colin Nieuwenhuis and the
Hawkeyes’ Eli Timmerman.
Behind the top three teams,
Lowell shot a 342, Holland
Christian 346, Allendale 350,
East Grand Rapids 352, South
Christian 357, Zeeland West
357, Plainwell 358, Wayland
361, Thornapple Kellogg 362,
Otsego 365, Zeeland East 367,
Allegan 369, Holland 389,
Ionia 395 and Hastings 407.10197 Garbow Rd.,
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OPTOMETRISTHamilton takes two from TK ladies before districts
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
Hamilton swept a double-
header with the visiting
Thornapple Kellogg varsity
softball team to close the reg-
ular season Tuesday.
The Hawkeyes took game
one 4-1 and then scored a 17-
win in game two.
In that opener, TK scored
its lone run in the top of the
seventh inning. KyleeHoebeke led off with a walk,
took second on a passed ball,
went to third on a fielder’s
choice off the bat of teammate
Peyton Stahl and scored on a
Hawkeye error.
Her single was one of two
hits for TK. The other was a
single by Eliana O’Riley.
Hoebeke took the loss in the
circle. She went six innings
allowing one earned run. She
struck out seven and gave up sixhits while not walking a batter.
Hamilton pitcher Madie
Jamrog struck out 11 Trojans
while allowing one run on the
two hits. She walked one.
Jamrog struck out seven
more in the three-inning game
two. She walked one and
allowed three hits.
Of the 13 runs against TK
started Stahl, only one was
earned as her team made nine
errors.Hoebeke was 2-for-2 at the
plate and drove in both TK
runs with a triple in the top of
the third inning. Sophie
Haveman also singled for TK.
The TK ladies are at Hopkins
today, June 4, to take on take on
Wayland in the MHSAA
Division 2 District Semifinals.
Hastings and Hopkins meet in
the district tournament’s other
semifinal match-up. The district
final is planned for 2 p.m.Sixth place finish for TK ladies at MITCA
Brett Bremer
Sports Editor
The Trojans ran hard in the
meet where every competitor
counts on the scoreboard.
The Thornapple Kellogg
varsity girls’ track and field
team placed sixth at the
MITCA Division 2 Team State
Finals hosted by Fowlerville
Friday, May 27.
Senior Trysta Hilton, set to
run in the MHSAA Lower
Peninsula Division 2 State
Finals at Forest Hills Eastern
High School this Saturday,
took the championship in the
300-meter low hurdles in
Fowlerville with a time of
47.87. Her freshman teammate
Brooklyn Harmon was second
in a personal record time of
48.03. Harmon didn’t have
Hilton in her sights though,
because she went into the meet
seeded ninth and ran to her
second-place time out of the
next to last heat of the race –
setting a TK freshman record
in the process.
Harmon had already set a
personal record in the long
jump flying 15 feet 9.25 inches
to score in that event.
“[Harmon] started the sea-
son running a 53.27 [seconds in
the 300 hurdles] and has con-
sistently been shaving off time
each meet,” TK girls’ coach
Maggie Wilkinson said.
“Brooklyn is so energetic and
full of positive energy and
excitement for the sport. It is
contagious. I’m so happy for
her.”
It took Hilton some effort to
be ready to go for those 300
hurdles. She fell on the first
hurdles in the day’s 100-meter
hurdle race. The Trojans sub-
stituted another runner into the
4x100-meter relay team, but
she was recovered enough to
compete in the 300s with “grit
and determination” according
to her coach.
“She is a competitor and a
beast out there,” Wilkinson
said of Hilton. “Trysta accept-
ed the challenge set before her
and persevered. I couldn’t be
more proud.”
Each team is allowed to
enter three individuals into
each event as well as one team
in each relay races and each
finishers scores for their team
at the MITCA Finals.
Zeeland East took the girls’
championship with 1369points, ahead of Dearborn
Divine Child 1276.5, Freeland
1223.5, Gladwin 1039.5,
Monroe Jefferson 1020,
Thornapple Kellogg 978,
Allendale 969, Vicksburg 937,
Linden 910.5 and Chelsea 898
in the top ten. Olivet was 11th
with 895 points ahead of Parma
Western 884.5, North Branch
848 and Shepherd 802.5.
Sophomore Joselyn DeBoer
was the third TK girl to score in
the 300 hurdles with a
24th-place time of 54.40, but
she was the first in the 100-
meter hurdles with a personal
record time of 18.28. Harmon
placed 15th in that race in
18.43.
Trojan distance runners Ava
Crews and Jessica Durkee ran
as far as they could Friday tak-
ing part in the 800-meter run,
the 1600-meter run, the 3200-
meter run and the 4x800-meter
relay. Both girls concluded
their day with their fastest
3200-meter runs of the season
so far. Crews, a freshman who
won a regional championship
to qualify for the MHSAA
Finals in the 3200, was seventh
in that race in Fowlerville with
a time of 12 minutes 11.seconds. Durkee, a senior,
capped her running career at
TK by placing 12th in 12:32.00.
Another TK senior, Anna
Benedict, did the same running
a personal record tie of 15:04.
to place 34th in the 3200-meter
run. In her three-season, pan-
demic interrupted, varsity track
and field career it was
Benedict’s first time competing
in the race.
Benedict and Hilton were
two of 13 seniors on the TK
girls’ roster this spring.
Benedict as also 40th in the
100-meter dash and joined by
juniors Emmerson DeVries,
Lindsey Velting and senior
Ainsley Oliver in a tenth-place
finish in the 4x100-meter relay.
TK was top ten in all four
relays. The 4x200-meter relay
team of sophomores Eva
Corson, DeBoer, Kenady
Smith and the freshman
Harmon was ninth in 1:53.56.
The 4x400-meter relay team of
Oliver, Velting, Smith and
Corson placed ninth in 4:31.58.
Durkee and Crews teamed
with freshmen Emma
Dykhouse and Lydia
Schilthroat to place ninth in the
4x800-meter relay with a timeof 11:01.85.
In the 800-meter run TK had
Durkee 11th in 2:35.06, Crews
16th in 2:40.01 and Schilthroat
33rd in a personal record time
of 2:54.92.
Crews led the way in the
1600-meter run with a
12th-place time of 5:42.83.
Durkee was 13th in 5:44.87.
Other highlights of the day
for the TK girls included soph-
omore pole vaulter TJ Myers
improving her PR to 8-3 to
place fourth and three girls fin-
ishing in the top 12 in the high
jump. Smith led the TK ladies
with a fourth-place jump of
5-0. Hilton was ninth at 4-
and Oliver 12th at 4-6. Olivet
also set her PR in the 200-
meter dash at 27.91 to place
17th in that race.
Junior Alana Compton was
eighth in the discus with a mark
of 99-6 and 16th in the shot put
with a mark of 29-11.25 to lead
TK in the throws. Senior
Cassidy Dole and junior
Preslee Hall both also scored in
the throws for the TK ladies.
DeVries scored for TK in
the pole vault and Benedict and
Corson scored in the long
jump.Dykhouse scored in both the
200 and the 400 for TK on the
track. Corson added points in
the 400 and Velting in the 200.
Velting and DeVries scored in
the 100 along with Benedict.
Zeeland East sophomore
Allison Kuzma was the only
girl to take two individual wins
on the track. She won the 3200-
meter run in 11:28.09 and the
1600-meter run in 5:15.27.
Zeeland East also had Allie
DeLost win the 100-meter dash
in 12.61. Teammate Paige
Westra won the shot put with a
mark of 38-2.5 inches.
Frankenmuth won the boys’
championship with a score of
1222.5. Whitehall was second
with 1142 points ahead of
Harper Creek 1044, Zeeland
East 1028, Allendale 795.5,
Hamilton 769.5, Berrien
Springs 762, Wayland 752,
Sparta 739, Freeland 714.5,
Monroe Jefferson 679.5 and
Ionia 592.5.
The only guy to win two
individual events was Monroe
Jefferson senior Alex
Mansfield who took the shot
put with a mark of 58-6 and the
discus at 175-6 which is a new
PR for him in that event.