Caledonia High School Athletics

The Caledonia Fighting Scots traveled to Riverside Park to take on the rest of the OK Green conference for the Conference Championship. The team brought a great effort to the competition. They ran to a 2nd-place finish with 37 points to Jenison's 21. With this, the Scots secured 2nd overall in the conference this year. The first 4 runners on the team earned All Conference honors. The team was led by the overall winner Sean Thompson in 15:37.8, Bennett Snapper 6th (16:00.4), Cole McKenna 8th (16:13.1), and Bentley Nichols in 10th (16:28.8). Liam Dykhouse came up huge as the final point scorer in 12th (16:29.8) to earn All Conference Honorable Mention. The top 7 were rounded out by Jake Potgeter in 22nd (17:18) and Grant Feldpausch in 23th (17:23). It was a fun night filled with great performances! Full Results: https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/275938/results/1099824 The Caledonia ladies cross country team had an outstanding evening Tuesday at the OK Green Conference Championships. The ladies placed 2nd as a team in the meet and in the final league standings behind Jenison by a score of 29-35 as they kept it close with the defending league champions. The Fighting Scots did land the most runners on the All-Conference team (top 11) with 5 girls earning the honors: Akaela Daman, 4th; Kendall Van Ryn, 5th; Anna VanderWal, 6th; Charlie Bont, 9th; and Tiona Sakala, 11th. This was the most all-conference cross country runners Caledonia has had since 1996 (when the state champion team had 7 runners earn all-conference honors that season). Complete results can be found here: https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/275938/results/1099826 The Scots next have the Regional Championships at Portage on Friday.