Trojan soccer team continues its winning ways

The state-ranked Trenton girls soccer team opened the year with a 2-1 victory over visiting Riverview on April 3 and has built a 3-1-1 record in the time since that win.

The Trojans lone loss was a 2-1 decision to Stevensville Lakeshore in the finals of the Marshall Sportsfest Tournament. The tie came in a 0-0 game with stateranked Cranbrook.

Trenton has defeated Riverview, Lincoln Park 8-0 and DeWitt 2-1.

Against Cranbrook, Trenton keeper Leila Gorno stopped all five shots she faced to keep the Cranes off the scoreboard. Trentron had eight shots on the Cranbrook goal and the Cranes netminder stopped them all.

Gorno stopped the only two shots she faced in the season- opening win over Riverview and Claire Gonyea scored both her team’s goals, both in the first half. In the loss to Lakeshore, Trenton carried the play in the first half, but could not score. It was 0-0 at intermission. In the second half, Gonyea scored on a pretty feed from Ava Carson, but that was it for the Trojans. Lakeshore tied the game minutes later and then scored with about 12 minutes to play to seal the win.

In the rout of Lincoln Park, it was a scoring fest for the Trojans, led by Kate Haveman, who scored four times. Gonyea, Kira Johnson, Alyssa Berger and Anais Garcia had the other goals for the winners. Gorno stopped everything Lincoln Park sent her way and earned another shutout.

Trenton swimmers were Downriver’s best in 2022-23

It was a great season for the Trenton boys swimming team, which won all of its Downriver League dual meets, won the Downriver Classic meet and then topped it all by winning the Downriver League Meet and with it the outright league championship.

Trenton won the league meet with 816 points, easily outdistancing Woodhaven (594) and Wyandotte (514), who were second and third, respectively.

The Trojans had three individual league championship swims.

Freshman Zach Schoen was a twotime league-meet winner. The ninthgrader won the 200 free in 1:51.54 and the 500 free in 5:01.19.

Trenton’s other league champion was Enrique Alcantar, who won the 100 butterfly in 54.47.

It was a big meet for Alcantar as in addition to his win in the fly, he was second in the 200 IM in 2:03.42, second in the 400 free relay (3:28.32) with Schoen, Ethan Dorey and Sean Laney and third in the 200 free relay (1:35.90) with Austin Kettler, Mitchell Caldwell and Drew Martin.

Trenton grabbed second and third in the 200 free as Ryan Bradburn (5:18.12) and Carl Pate (5:23.34) followed Schoen home.

A 2-3 finish in the breaststroke came courtesy of Kaeleb Cunnien (1:04.45) and Aaron Glass (1:08.35).

In diving, Trenton’s Will Taylor (313.70) finished in third place. Placing third in the 200 medley relay was the group of Dorey, Laney, Martin and Cunnien (1:46.81).

The Trojans also won the

Downriver Classic in thrilling fashion.

Woodhaven won the 400 free relay, but second-place Trenton out touched third-place Riverview in the 400 free relay and that win allowed the Trojans to edge the Pirates for the meet championship. Trenton’s time was 3:29.64 and Riverview’s was 3:29.66.

Trenton won the meet with 260 points

Laney, Schoen and Brandon Watkins. Divers Taylor and Jacob Smith also competed at the finals.

Trenton was coached this season by first-year head coach Megan Dossey. Dossey, who was a high level swimmer at Trenton in the early 2000s and swam for four years at Olivet College, had been a Trenton training on their own before the season, so they came in in great shape. They had team- and culture-building things every weekend.” and Riverview was second with 254.

Of the 10 swimmers that went to the state finals, five – Schoen, Cunnien, Laney, Watkins and Kettler will return next season. Laney is just finishing his sophomore year and Schoen and Watkins are freshmen.

Six Trenton swimmers made the all league team. They are Schoen, Alcantara, Laney, Dorey, Kettler and Ryan Bradburn.

Three swimmers – Pate, Alcantar and Helal Humeidan are among the top 10 in Trenton’s 2023 graduating class. Pate is the valedictorian.

The win was redemption for the Trojans, who had lost by a mere nine points in an early season dual meet against Riverview.

At the end of the season, Trenton sent 10 swimmers to the MHSAA Division 3 state swim finals. The state-meet qualifiers were Alcantar, Dorey, Martin, Cunnien, Kettler, assistant the past three seasons before ascending to the head job, said her seniors were the key to a successful season.

“You need everyone to swim well to win a meet,” she said. “But our seniors really led. They set a standard for what they wanted this team to be.

“They did the work you need to do every day. They started dry land

The full 2022-23 Trenton swimming team is: Enrique Alcantar, Anthony Anderson, Owen Bainbridge, Jonah Beaudrie, Kyle Begeman, David Bencher, Ryan Bradburn, Ethan Buhl, Mitchell Caldwell, Seth Chadwell, Kaeleb Cunnien, Ethan Dorey, Ethan Drake, Caden Emmons, Tyler Franzel, Daniel Gerometta, Aaron Glass, Brendyn Green, Sigmund Hevron, Kornsoraya Hronnuy, Helal Humeiden, Sayef Humeiden, Grant Jiminez, Hunter Julian, Austin Kettler, Jacob Koralewski, Sean Laney, Nick Lear, Jared Lipa, Drew Martin, James Metric, Matthew Metric, Miles Mullins, Lelan Napier, Carl Pate, Ethan Popp, Zach Schoen, Bryan Simon, Colin Smith, Jacob Smith, Nick Srabian, Adriano Stringa, Nick Szalay, Doug Tank, Will Taylor, Josh Tittle, Hojiakbar Turdiyev, Brandon Watkins, Anthony Weirling and Jack Wilds.

Outdoor Wilderness Living Workshops help teach kids outdoors skills and much more

Today, the teachings of primitive skills needed for living outdoors are a difficult education to find for our children and young teenagers.

These courses will show your children the foundations and building blocks of these forgotten skills of our past. Operators of OWL feel a responsibility to guide their youth to learn and master these skills from ancestral elders and their wisdom.

The prime focus will be based around these four necessities for living outdoors: Fire, Shelter, Water and Food. Gaining knowledge from all they encompass.

They learn to understand them and respect them in the ancient traditional ways of living in balance with the Earth.

The goal for this class is providing the tools, skills and formulas to the children today, so they will find the safeties and the enjoyments one can find in Nature. To bring them back to the protection and adventure that can be found within every day and night. To help them find true purpose within themselves and their families. Nature is there every day with her discipline and honor. It’s only waiting to be embraced and enjoyed. The Guidance is through Outdoor Wilderness Living with Mother Earth.

“The most exciting thing for me are days when I get up, see the sun rise and I am able to slow down, breathe deeply and center myself,” said one of the workshop leaders. “Then, later, when I may be stressed, I take time to think back to that morning and recapture the feeling. These are the types of skills we also want to pass on to our students.”

The things taught at OWL are based on the teachings of Tom Brown Jr., one of America’s most acclaimed outdoorsmen. Brown founded the Tracker School back in 1978, a program based on the teachings of Stalking Wolf, the Apache elder from whom Tom learned his skills when he was just seven years old.

After learning from Stalking Wolf, Brown spent the next 10 years wandering the wilderness throughout the

America’s with no manufactured tools – in most cases not even a knife – perfecting these Grandfather’s skills and teachings.

Here are the practical matters that OWL will cover:

Fire

They will show two ways to make fire. The traditional bow drill and hand drill. Specifics for this subject will focus on types of woods, wet wood vs. dry wood, cautions and precautions for the respect for fire. What woods and plants not to burn.

What ancient grass burns were used for rejuvenating soils with nutrients? How and where to build a proper fire structure to prevent destruction, root fires and forest fires. The properties of ash and the benefits and dangers in relation to dry ash vs. wet ash from a fire.

How and why to build five different fire structures based on the conditions of wet, dry , humid, dark, hot, light, snow and cold environments.

Water

Finding water. Purifying water. Finding springs. Natural catches, dew collection, solar still, body ratio to water and the relation to the planet and the freshwater locations vs. salt water.

Shelter

Clothing, debris hut, high speed movement, camouflage, air pockets, lattice pockets, snow huts, pits, and materials needed for the weather conditions in comfort in the woods.

Food

Fox walk, stalk walk, tracking, identifying trails, runs, secondary runs and escape routes of animals and their tracks.

How to make primitive traps, hunting tools and cordage. Cooking in nature, edible plants, poisonous plants, fungi’s identification and guidance. Approaching, honoring, sitting and respecting where and how to obtain food and plants.

One OWL leader explained, “With the Four basic rules of Fire, Water, Shelter and Food we will also introduce the ‘Temples of Nature’ within us and how it relates to nature outside of us. This will allow us to help the youth and their body’s understand the calm, ebb and flow movements nature shows us.”

They continued, “We just need to slow their internal clock down to see it. So they can find their personal involvement they are a part of. To show them how important their participation is needed from nature and how nature is waiting for them to understand their true role as nature’s caregivers to our planet.”

The workshops are being run in conjunction with St. James Episocopal Church, but times and exact locations have not been determined. The cost will be between $20 and $40 per class.

If you are interested, call 734-790-4942 and leave a message. Information will be mailed to you.