Belding’s competitive cheer squad finished in a tie for fourth in the final OK Blue Conference standings following Wednesday’s meet at Comstock Park.
Comstock Park won the meet and has won eight straight OK Blue titles. Comstock Park was first, Sparta second, Wyoming third, Belding and Coopersville fourth and Allendale sixth in the final standings.
Zach King of Chippewa Hills hit the 150-win mark on Wednesday in the Division 3 team districts. He won two matches over Big Rapids and Reed City. His first win put him at 150. A senior, he only has five career losses.
“It just means I want to keep getting more,” Kng said. “It’s not the end.”
The dual season for the Big Rapids wrestling team ended with a 61-14 loss on Wednesday to Chippewa Hills in the Division III finals.
Big Rapids netted wins from Nick Worden at 125 on decision, Alim Muhammad at 140 on technical fall and Desaun Griffin at 160 on pin.
Big Rapids ended its dual season with 11 wins.
“That’s quite an accomplishment for basically half a team,” Big Rapids coach Dan Sleeper said. “For this young of a team, to get 11 wins…we usually voided four to five weight classes. We were very happy the way the kids performed. We have improved. We still have lots of things to improve on. The young guys are already looking forward to next season.”
Chippewa Hills defeated Big Rapids 61-14 in a Division 3 semifinal match on Wednesday.
Winner for Chippewa Hills were Richie Ostrander at 103, Kaden Ells at 112, Zach King at 119, Austin Spedowski at 130, Mason Dey at 152 and Seth Mitchell at 171.
Forfeit winners Brendan Barry at 215 and Aaron Boyd at heavyweight, Todd at 135, Kevin Briscoe at 145 and Jon Spedowski at 189.
Chippewa Hills has now won 10 straight Division 3 team district titles.
The Warriors defeated host Reed City in the finals 44-21.
The finals began with Chip Hills’ Aaron Boyd (285) pinning Gerald Beemer in 4:48, and teammate Keaton Zuern at 103 pinning Shenouda Angious in 1:03. Richie Ostrander at 112 won by void for Chip Hills. Mike Felix pinned Abe Angoius in 1:47 at 119 and Zach King defeated Matt McGahey 9-4 at 125 for the 27-0 Warrior advantage. Slade Todd had a 7-4 decision over Drake Walker. Eric Russell won at 171 on injury default over Reed City’s Dylan Chrispell. It was overtime at 189 with Brendan Barry getting a takedown and 6-4 win over Andre Burks for a 44-15 lead.
Montabella’s wrestling team defeated Fulton 61-18 and Dansville 55-20 in two CMAC makeup duals on Monday. Going 2-0 for Montabella were Dustin Scott at 125, Dalton Kuklewski at 130, Tristan Viglianco at 135, Nate Miller at 140, Mike Hyde at 145, Zack Taubitz at 152, Joey Durham at 160, Jonny Durham at 171 and Dan Davidson at 285. Montabella is 17-6.
Belding was led by McKenzie Breimayer in a 52-48 win over Coopersville on Monday. Belding is 9-3 overall and 4-2 in the O-K Blue. Peyton Mount added nine points for Belding while Monica Baylis had eight points and Greta Wilker had seven points and eight rebounds.
Leah Somerfield reached the 1,000-point mark of her career for Greenville on Monday in the Yellow Jackets 49-40 victory over Lowell. Somerfield scored 27 points in the contest to lead Greenville. Nikota Howe netted 11 points and had five rebounds. TheYellow Jackets are 10-2.
Montabella’s boys basketball team lost 54-43 to Clare on Monday night in boys basketball action Chase Murray led Montabella with 15 points, followed by Cayden Nisonger with 11 and Brady Burggren with 10 points. Montabella’s record fell to 3-8.
Belding’s boys basketball team fell to 3-9 overall and 1-5 in the O-K Blue with a 54-52 loss to Coopersville Garrett Strotheide had 25 points for Belding while Kole Hart put in 13 points. Strotheide hit seven 3-pointers for the Redskins.
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