Schedule for Thursday, July 18th

Baseball

Hawks Prairie Cardinals vs. Lacey Saints – The RAC – 5:00 PM
Thurston County Senators vs. Seattle Studs – Saint Martin’s – 6:00 PM
Tumwater Brewers vs. West Olympia Linx – The RAC – 7:30 PM

Thursday news and notes (updated throughout the day)

The South All-Stars pitched a one hitter against the North All-Stars last night in the Southern League All-Star game played in Jacksonville, Florida. A crowd of over 9,500 saw Olympia’s Adam Conley pitch a 1-2-3 inning in the fourth for the South. Two of the three batters the Miami Marlins farmhand faced played in the 2013 Futures Game on Sunday in New York. Conley got Arismendy Alcantara to ground out and struck out Joc Pederson to end the inning. – Link

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16 year assistant Steve Roth has been hired as the head baseball coach at Olympia, reports The Olympian. Roth takes over for interim coach Greg Creighton who managed the team this past season when head coach Todd McDougall was diagnosed with a brain tumor. – Link

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Black Hills grad Cody Peterson will captain the Navy football team this season and NavySports.com has a profile of the Midshipman senior. – Link

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Saint Martin’s released the 2013 schedule for the volleyball team today. Unfortunately, the Kara Peterson led Saints play just eight of their 30 games at Marcus Pavilion this season. They will play a home series October 31st and November 2nd against the Alaska schools at a yet to be determined site and a home game at Black Hills High School against Montana State-Billings when the WIAA state volleyball tournament is at the Pavilion on November 16th. – Link