10/10 CCHS Sports Report

Varsity Volleyball
9/29 Thornapple Kellogg 3-2 (scores: 20-25, 20-25, 25-13, 25-18, 15-9)
10/1 Hudsonville Invitational
   Portage Northern 0-1 (lost 2 games)
   Hudsonville 0-1 (10-25, 18-25)
   Northview 0-1 (9-25, 23-25)
   Unity Chr 0-1 (9-25, 19-25)
10-4 Northpointe 3-1 (20-25, 25-23, 25-21, 25-21) 
Season Record 11-13-4
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9th grade Volleyball
10/4 Northpointe 0-1 (14-25, 21-25)
10/6 Unity Christian Quad
   Unity Christian 0-1 (23-25, 15-25)
   West Ottawa 0-1 (18-25, 22-25)
   Catholic Central 0-1 (10-25, 24-26)
Season Record 11-11
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Varsity Soccer
A Scoring Explosion!!

10/6 - The Fremont Packers (4-14-1) drove to Charger Stadium to take on the Chargers on a cool wet night and found themselves on the receiving end of a scoring spree by the Chargers.  The Chargers ended a nearly five game scoreless streak at the 28:06 mark of the first half when Spencer Holstege blasted a strike past the Packer goalie for a 1-nil lead.  The goal was assisted by Logan Holstege.  With the Chargers dominating the offensive end, Covenant found themselves scoring two more goals in the first half.  At the 21:56 mark the Chargers made it 2-nil with Carter Scholten scoring assisted by Jayden Bylsma.  Jayden Bylsma added to his assist total with a well-timed pass to Aiden Cnossen at the 16:34 to make the half-time score 3-0.

Covenant went on to the second half continuing to put heavy pressure on the Fremont defense while the stout Charger defense of Tony Vanoverloop, Nick VanOverloop, Weston Meulenberg, Hayden VanOverloop, Cody Scholten, Ethan Deemter, Derek Gritters, Jonathon Boeve and others including goalie Jaydon Gritters put the clamps on the Packers offense.  The defense was outstanding in limiting the Packer offense to just a couple of shots on goal and forcing numerous turnovers from the Packers to help ignite the Charger offense.

The Charger offense started scoring right away in the second half with a goal by Jonny Kuiper with the assist by Travis Holstege at the 35:17 mark to go up 4-0. Just five minutes later it became 5-0 with Jonny Kuiper scoring again at the 30:06 mark with the assist by Aiden Cnossen.  Six minutes later off a corner kick assist by Aiden VanDyke to Carter Scholten who put it past the Packer goalie to make it 6-0 at 24:07 mark.  The scoring concluded with two goals late in the game with one by Spencer Holstege off a rebound shot by Aiden VanDyke and the finisher by Tony VanOverloop after stealing the ball from a Packer defender at the 3:27 mark to give the Chargers the 8-0 mercy.

The Chargers (Season Record 6-9-1) conclude their regular season Friday night on Senior Night at Charger Stadium versus the Warriors of Western Michigan Christian (7-5-1). 
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Varsity Soccer
Chargers lose a nail-biter!

10/7 - The Warriors of Western Michigan Christian (8-5-1) invaded Charger Stadium and left with a hard fought 2-1 victory over the host Chargers.

The Warriors struck first early in the first half off a Warrior throw-in on a shot that eluded goalie Jaydon Gritters at the 38:26 mark to put WMC up 1-0. The Chargers nearly tied the score at the 10:39 mark on a nice pass from Carter Scholten to Travis Holstege but the WMC goalie made the save to keep the score 1-nil.  Just 3 minutes later at 7:36  Ethan Deemter led Spencer Holstege on a lead pass up the middle that Spencer struck past the WMC goalie to tie the score at 1-1.  The Charger defense remained strong  and the score was 1-1 at the half.

Both defenses hunkered down in the second half and kept the offenses from scoring til the 25:17 mark when WMC struck to go up 2-1.  Despite some opportunities in the second half, Covenant was unable to get the equalizer and fall to WMC 2-1 and end the regular season at 6-10-3.

The seniors that played their final game at Charger Stadium were the following:

Anthony Griess               Tony VanOverloop
Aiden Cnossen        Derek Gritters 
Cody Scholten         Hayden VanOverloop 
Logan Holstege         Travis Holstege 
Jonny Kuiper         Jonathan Boeve 
Westen Meulenberg     Zach VanBaren

These 12 seniors represented Covenant Christian High School well in a Godly manner both on and off the field and will be sorely missed.  It has been a pleasure watching them throughout their time on the soccer team.  We look forward to watching them participating in the 2022 state tournament.

The state tournament begins with district play with the Chargers getting a rematch with the Squires of Calvin Christian, to whom they lost in the opening game of the season by a 1-0 score.  The game is scheduled for Tuesday October 18 AT Calvin Christian with the start time at 4:30 pm.
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JV Soccer                                                                 
10/6 - The Chargers defeated Fremont 4-1. Nathan Kerkstra had two goals.
10/7 -  The ended the season by defeating West Michigan Christian 1-0. Nathan Kerkstra had the only goal. Season record 5-8-4
 

Cross Country

Your CCHS Charger XC teams raced at one of the biggest Cross Country meets in the nation this past Saturday at the Portage Invite. It was a beautiful cool morning and the kids raced extremely well for the 4th straight week. We raced against many of the best teams in the state in Division 3 in the hopes of getting a good idea how we stacked up and we are happy with where we sit at this point in the season. Your Varsity boys finished 4th out of 35 teams with Levi Kamps and Nick Lubbers receiving medals for running in the top 50. The varsity girls finished 10th out of 31 teams and Amber Koole medaled, finishing 8th overall. Both your JV teams finished 3rd overall and a huge group of boys & girls received top 50 medals. It's so cool to have a meet like this where the JV runners have a good opportunity to receive medals and recognition. What a fun Day! We are back at it this week working hard, as we start to face the championship time of year!