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Spring Arbor Track & Field sees strong performances at SHU Don Kleinow Invitational

ADRIAN, Mich. – The Spring Arbor University men’s and women’s track and field teams competed at the Don Kleinow Invitational Saturday at Siena Heights University.   The women’s team saw its second athlete book a trip to the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships as freshman Katrina Tovar hit the NAIA B standard in the pole vault. Tovar cleared a height of 11’ 5.75” (3.50m) to earn ninth place in the event. Sophomore Bethany Kuenzer, who has also qualified for the championship meet in the event, earned fifth place with a mark of 11’ 9.75” (3.60m), which matched her career-best.   Tovar also had a standout performance in the long jump as she claimed fifth place. She jumped 17’ 7” (5.36m), a distance that was just three inches shy of the program record.   Junior Grace Sallee posted a new school record in the hammer throw. Her toss of 124’ 7” (37.98m) smashed her previous PR and bested the program’s all-time mark by almost four feet.   Freshman Ryann Laier recorded the fifth-best mark in program history in the discus with a throw of 122’ 6” (37.34m) to earn ninth place out of 36 competitors in the event.  …

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Column: Enjoy the streak

Hockey fans need to embrace Red Wings streak of 25-consecutive playoff appearances   By Mike Moore Staff Writer   It begins tonight, a tradition bordering on ridiculous, yet one any hockey fan needs to embrace.   For the 25th consecutive season, the Detroit Red Wings are a part of the NHL’s postseason tournament.   Try and put that into context, or find a similarly staggering streak of consistency.   Good luck.   Some will say the Red Wings backed in this year, playing slightly less worse than the Boston Bruins in the season’s final week, but to that I ask, so what?   If the NHL has proven anything since the most-recent lockout, it’s that any team that makes the Stanley Cup playoffs has a shot at ending up on top.   Sure, that’s a long shot for this group of Winged Wheelers, who spent the better part of the season searching for a consistency that never truly arrived.   The team’s leading goal scorer is a 19-year-old, and some of the key pieces still remaining to the last championship in 2008 are approaching the end of their careers.   According to just about every national expert, the Wings begin…

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Reed’s grand slam powers Spring Arbor Baseball to split at IWU

MARION, Ind. – Junior Tyler Reed blasted a first inning grand slam and the Spring Arbor University baseball team cruised to an 11-1 victory in the opening game of a doubleheader against Indiana Wesleyan University on Tuesday. However, the Wildcats took the second game 8-3 to avoid the sweep.   The first two batters of the game reached base on Indiana Wesleyan (27-12, 10-4 CL) errors, and three batters later, Reed made it hurt crushing the first offering he saw over the left field fence to stake Spring Arbor to a 4-0 lead.   That was how the score stayed until the bottom of the fourth when IWU’s Caleb Eder led off the frame with a solo home run, but the Cougars responded immediately with five runs in the fifth to put the game out of reach. With the bases loaded and only one out, Reed singled to left to drive in Chris Triplett and Conner Lengerich. Nate Sitkiewicz and Jack Driscoll would also record RBI hits in the inning.   Reed finished the game going 2-for-3 with six RBI and three runs scored. Sitkiewicz also picked up two hits, including a triple, while driving in three. Lengerich crossed the…

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Cascades Golf Course Spring Thaw

Cascades to host 27th annual Spring Thaw Tournament

SATURDAY, APRIL 30 & SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2016   Entry Fee:       $55.00 – Additional $10 per day for Cart Rental $40.00 for students with high school eligibility remaining   Format:           36 hole stroke play Field will be flighted into 3-4 flights based on 1st round scores White tees Saturday. Blue tees on Sunday for Championship Flight only   Tee Times:      8:15 – 10:00 a.m. & 12:45 – 2:15 p.m (Depending on # of players).  #1 and #10 Tees will be used. Tee times will be available on-line @ www.cascadesgolfcourse.com and on Facebook on Thursday, April 28th at 6:00 pm.   Registration Deadline:                      Tuesday, April 26, 2016 *No Exceptions* NO REFUNDS AFTER ENTRY DEADLINE MUST MAKE PAYMENT WITH ENTRY   *NOTE: This event is open to amateurs only.  The field is limited to 144 players.   For additional information, please contact Phil Fischmeister @ (517) 768-2916        

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Spring Arbor’s Kenan Swihart named CL Field Athlete of the Week

SPRING ARBOR, Mich. – Sophomore Kenan Swihart (Rockford, MI / Rockford HS) was named the Crossroads League Men’s Field Athlete of the Week after earning third place in the decathlon at the Indiana State University Gibson Invitational last week.   Swihart recorded 5220 points – the fourth-most points ever by a Cougar – to hit the qualifying mark for the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships. The Rockford, Michigan native earned first place in the javelin with a throw of 140’ 5” while also earning second place in the 1500 meter run (5:00.56), 110 meter hurdles (16.63) and the discus throw (96’ 11”) – posting career-best marks in all three events.   The NAIA selects the top 16 point leaders in the decathlon to compete in the national meet, which is scheduled for May 26-28 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Swihart currently ranks 10th nationally in the event.   Spring Arbor will return to action at the Don Kleinow Invitational, hosted by Siena Heights University, on Saturday, April 16.  

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Boys Basketball: JTV Sports Coach of the Year

With revamped roster, Mortimer took Hanover-Horton to quarterfinals again   By Mike Moore Staff Writer   Horton – From one year to the next, names and faces change, but the results have remained stubbornly the same.   And that’s a good thing.   Over the past 15 years, the Hanover-Horton boys basketball program has been to the regional round 15 times.   Somewhere in that equation there has to be a constant, something that continues to push and propel.   Well, not some thing, but some one.   Chad Mortimer did it again with the Comets, taking a revamped roster through the districts, regionals and one win shy of the Breslin Center.   And the final award for Mortimer is earning the 2015-16 JTV Sports Basketball Coach of the Year.   “This was a group I was very proud of,” Mortimer said of his team. “We pushed them hard and they responded.”   After reaching the state semifinals last winter, Mortimer began the 2015-16 with only one returning veteran in Preston Laketa.   A team that went 26-2 in 2014-15 began this past season with a loss in just the second game.   “To start the season, we didn’t have…

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