The Olympian has an interesting profile on the Olympia girls basketball team, a surprise entry into the state tournament at 10-14. It pays to get hot at the end of the season. The Bears were rewarded with a trip to Spokane to face Gonzaga Prep and John Stockton’s daughter in the regionals.
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Saint Martin’s to add Hall of Fame members on Saturday
22 FebSix Saint Martin’s alumni will be inducted into the Saints athletic Hall of Fame and Hall of Honor at halftime of the Saint Martin’s and Northwest Nazarene men’s basketball game on Saturday night. Meg Wochnick has the full set of bios and details on her South Sound Sports Blog on The Olympian, but here is a quick list of those that will be honored….
Hall of Fame:
Arvie Johnson Jr. ’73 – Basketball
Nate Carlson ’04 – Track
Martina Kartikova Herington ’05, MBA ’07 – Basketball
Shane Prante ’06 – Golf
Hall of Honor:
Leo Zaddack ’69 – Men’s and women’s assistant basketball coach
Jack Sareault HS ’53, ’57 – Athlete, coach, SID, reporter
Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 PM with a pre-game reception for the honorees at 5:30 in the Worthington Center.
Yet another double-double for Poole
12 FebFormer Saint Martin’s Saint Blake Poole keeps on rolling in Germany. Poole had 15 points and 12 rebounds for BG Dorsten in their 86-65 win over Alba Berlin on Saturday. It was his 18th double-double of the season and he has led Dorsten in rebounding in every one of their 21 games this season. Here’s more on Poole’s performance from the Dorsten website, as translated by Bing…
“Now, had the nose but Blake Poole fully and took the booklet in hand. So far still not quite as much succeeded him, but now he used his stature to just highlight the conditions. He brought many rebounds and contributed even one or other points of the 45: 36-break guide at.”
Got it? He took the booklet in hand, of course.
But seriously, the win clinched a spot in the playoffs for Poole and BG Dorsten. Congrats!
Quick Links
9 FebA couple quick links to articles over at ThurstonTalk.com including an extremely detailed account of a bowling tournament by Gail Wood…
Julie Hansen- An Ace On The Tennis Courts And In The Classroom At Black Hills High School
LeHew Beats Parkhurst Twice In Finals To Win Olympia Match Game tournament
Saints Pendleton profiled in The Olympian
8 FebNever got a chance to post this on Tuesday, but The Olympian’s Meg Wochnick had a very nice profile of Saint Martin’s 24 year-0ld senior Brok Pendleton that detailed his “long road to Lacey”. Pendleton went from Auburn High School to Brigham Young to Green River Community College to a mission in France back to Green River and finally to Saint Martin’s where he is is averaging 14.4 points and 7.4 rebounds per game for the Saints and has posted 24 and 26 points over hist last two games. For more, read the whole article in The Olympian…
Poole scores another double-double in Germany
5 Feb
Photo credit: Pieper (link)
Saint Martin’s alum Blake Poole had 14 points and 14 rebounds for BG Dorsten on Saturday in their 94-90 loss to Rheinland Versicherungen Hertener Löwen. Poole is averaging over 15 points and 13 rebounds for Dorsten of the Pro-B basketball league, the third tier of professional basketball in Germany. It was his 17th double-double in 20 games this season, which should come as no surprise if you ever watched him play for the Saints.
SMU softball season preview
1 Feb
Believe it or not, it is almost baseball and softball season.
Saint Martin’s opens their season on Saturday with a home game against the University of British Columbia at 1:00 PM before heading to California for a couple games. The Saints went 9-30 last season but expect to be better this season. They return two all-conference players in 1B Joselyn Eugenio and 2B Lacey McGladrey – the conference freshman of the year last season – and will rely on four newcomers for their pitching with Sam Munger, a freshman from Everett, filling the #1 role.
SMUSaints.com has the full preview.
Missed on Monday: SPSCC splits
1 FebI missed the SPSCC/Grays Harbor men’s and women’s games played on Monday night at SPSCC, my apologies.
The Choker women dropped the Clippers 65-63 to notch their first conference win of the season while the Clipper men worked over Grays Harbor 93-63. The Daily World has recaps for both games (women and men).
Sprinker Ice Rink Reopens
29 Jan
Photo credit: Peter Haley, The News Tribune
The Sprinker Ice Rink in Spanaway reopened today after an eight month, $6 million renovation. The News Tribune has the full story. I post this here at OlySports.com because Sprinker is the closest sheet of ice to Olympia and gets a lot of action from Olympia area residents.
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for Olympia to have an ice rink. I don’t expect anybody to open one anytime soon, I don’t see enough demand to make it worth the price for a private enterprise. But if it were part of a larger development, perhaps. Olympia could really use a convention center, combine that with a hockey arena – Olympia would be a perfect fit for the junior North American Hockey League – and there you go. It’s probably a pipe dream in this economy, but what the heck, it’s always good to dream.
