Best in Your Area: Battle Creek

In the current cross country climate, Battle Creek is often forgotten. Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and teams along the Lake Michigan shore have produced in recent years. Other than Maggie Farrell and Ava Strenge, not so much Battle Creek. Harper Creek’s boys will go a way in changing that this year and Lakeview’s boys will be close behind. We should not forget that St. Philip has always been a force in Division 4.

Here are the teams I have from the Battle Creek area:

Athens
Battle Creek Central
Battle Creek Harper Creek
Battle Creek Lakeview
Battle Creek Pennfield
Bellevue
Climax-Scotts
Delton-Kellogg
Galesburg-Augusta
Hastings
Homer
Marshall
Olivet
St. Philip Catholic Central
Tekonsha
Union City

Top Boys Teams

Rank	Team
1	Battle Creek Harper Creek
2	Battle Creek Lakeview
3	Homer
4	Olivet
5	Hastings

Top 25 Boys

Rank	Grade	Name	Team
1	11	Josh Maurer	Battle Creek Harper Creek
2	12	Alec Shaw	Homer
3	11	Parker LaGro	Battle Creek Lakeview
4	11	Brayden Shifflett	Battle Creek Harper Creek
5	11	Owen Gilbert	Battle Creek Harper Creek
6	12	Adam Foreman	Marshall
7	12	Noah Griffith	Olivet
8	11	Kevin Grady	Battle Creek Lakeview
9	12	Micah Ordway	Delton-Kellogg
10	10	Caleb Bost	Battle Creek Lakeview
11	9	Aiden Moore	Battle Creek Lakeview
12	11	Blake Bess	Battle Creek Harper Creek
13	11	Dakota Foster	Battle Creek Harper Creek
14	11	Marco Barron	Tekonsha
15	10	Austin Lee	Battle Creek Lakeview
16	11	Caden Seeberger	Battle Creek Harper Creek
17	12	Josh Barrington	Homer
18	11	Amon Smith III	Delton-Kellogg
19	12	Matt Schneider	Homer
20	11	Devon Njonjo	Battle Creek Lakeview
21	11	Stephen Smith	Tekonsha
22	12	Riley Clem	Battle Creek Pennfield
23	9	Luke Sprague	St Philip Catholic Central
24	9	Caleb LaBoe	Hastings
25	11	Aiden Burns	Battle Creek Pennfield

Top Girls Teams

Rank	Team
1	Battle Creek Lakeview
2	Marshall
3	Battle Creek Harper Creek
4	St Philip Catholic Central
5	Olivet

Top 25 Girls

Rank	Grade	Name	Team
1	11	Carissa Strouse	Hastings
2	12	Aubree Sedore	Galesburg-Augusta
3	12	Maliyah Alexander-Gore	Marshall
4	9	Olivea Gessner	Olivet
5	10	Madison Berning	Battle Creek Harper Creek
6	10	Paige Ratliff	Battle Creek Lakeview
7	11	Laraya Warnsley	Marshall
8	12	Sarah Berning	Battle Creek Harper Creek
9	12	Grace McGlynn	Battle Creek Lakeview
10	12	Danae Feldpausch	Olivet
11	10	Hailey Abbott	Galesburg-Augusta
12	11	Giada Pontoni	St Philip Catholic Central
13	12	Abbey Peters	Olivet
14	12	Jena Adams	Battle Creek Harper Creek
15	11	Sophie Latimer	St Philip Catholic Central
16	11	Ari Pontoni	St Philip Catholic Central
17	12	Perla Reyes	Battle Creek Lakeview
18	12	Fatima Cruz	Battle Creek Lakeview
19	10	Megan Sterly	Homer
20	11	Halena Phillips	Delton-Kellogg
21	9	Jaydan Courtright	Battle Creek Harper Creek
22	12	Abbie Schoepke	Marshall
23	12	Anna Zacharski	Marshall
24	11	Allison Teed	Hastings
25	10	Madison Nino	Hastings