Schedule for Wednesday, September 18th
Men’s soccer
SPSCC vs. Highline – The RAC – 4:00 PM
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Early Listen: Countdown to Kickoff – Week 3
This week on the Countdown to Kickoff on Newsradio 1030 KMAS, 104.1 FM and KMAS.com, John McGlamery and I recap the Shelton/North Mason game last week, preview the game between the Highclimbers and Wilson that we will call at 7:00 PM, talk about the OlySports.com power rankings, run around the 3A Narrows League, make our predictions and talk to North Mason head coach Jeff Bevers and replay a fun interview that we did with Shelton stars Ralph Kinne and David Ajamu.
You can listen live beginning at 6:00 PM on KMAS or you can listen to the show now in an Oly Sports exclusive early listen…
Week 3: My 5 year old daughter’s expert high school football picks
Addie, scouting her picks
Kind of a rough week two for Addie as she went just 5-4 and is now 11-8 for the season. But that doesn’t deter her or her crack scientific system of prognostication. Nope, she just buckles down and, with the help of her little sister, gets right back on the horse. Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!
Here is the entire week two high school football schedule, complete with radio information and Addie’s expert picks…
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Tumwater T-Birds @ Inglemoor Vikings
Pop Keeney Stadium, Bothell – 7:00 PM
Addie’s pick: Vikings
Rory’s pick: T-Birds
“Since the Vikings have swords, I think they will stab the other team.” – Addie
“Because, they are gonna, um, headbut them!” – Rory, 2 1/2
North Thurston Rams @ Foss Falcons
Mount Tahoma Stadium, Tacoma – 7:00 PM
Addie’s pick: Falcons
Rory’s pick: Rams
“When they are running towards the other team, one of them is going to come down and is gonna grab the fur and is just going to pull the Ram straight up and the Ram will go WOOOO.” – Addie
“Because they are going to do that,” windmills her arms. “They’ll buck into ’em” – Rory
Timberline Blazers @ Olympia Bears
Ingersoll Stadium – 7:00 PM – Radio: 1240 AM KGY
Addie’s pick: Blazers
Rory’s pick: Bears
“They are going to cut down the tree right on the Bear’s head.” – Addie
“Because they are going to kill them. The girls are going to whack ’em. With the rocks.” – Rory
River Ridge Hawks @ Ridgefield Spudders
Ridgefield Stadium – 7:00 PM
Addie’s pick: Hawks
“Since last time I said they were going to throw potatoes at them, Now I think the Hawks will, when they are throwing them at them, they will put their beaks out and stab the potatoes and squish them.”
Rainier Mountaineers @ Rochester Warriors
Rochester HS – 7:00 PM
Addie’s pick: Warriors
“They are gonna be on stilts with metal bottoms and they are going to squish the other team.” (???)
Yelm Tornadoes vs. Stadium Tigers
Tornadoes Stadium – 7:00 PM
Addie’s pick: Tornadoes
“Since Tigers are attached to the ground, the Tornadoes are going to come right on the Tiger and spin them up and throw them on the ground when they get to the top.”
Black Hills Wolves vs. Bainbridge Spartans
Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM – Radio: Eli Sports Network
Addie’s pick: Spartans
“The Spartans are going to shoot the Wolves.”
Capital Cougars @ Bothell Cougars
Pop Keeney Stadium, Bothell – Saturday, 7:00 PM
Addie’s pick: “I DO NOT have an answer….Capital”
Rory’s pick: Capital
“Since they are both cougars, one of the Cougars will keep their mouth open wide like in the morning and the other Cougar will run straight into their mouth.” – Addie
“They will whack them, with their tails” – Rory
Tenino Beavers @ Elma Eagles
Davis Field, Elma – 7:00 PM
Addie’s pick: Eagles
Rory’s pick: “Beavers, Beavers whack them with your tail.”
“Since Eagles are carnivores, I think that the Eagles will eat the Beavers.” – Addie
Shelton Highclimbers @ Wilson Rams
Stadium Bowl, Tacoma – 7:00 PM – Radio: 1030 AM KMAS
Addie’s pick: Rams
Rory’s pick: “Beavers, Beavers bucka…..bye…I said bye when I singed the song!”
“They are going to come bucking into the other team, buck buck buck!” – Addie
Thursday scoreboard: Saints get golden goal; Wolves, Bears earn shutouts, T-Birds win in PKs
Men’s soccer
Saint Martin’s 1, University of Mary 0 (2OT) – Box score
CJ Chu scored the golden goal on a penalty kick at the 107:11 mark to give Saint Martin’s the 1-0 win over the University of Mary in the GNAC opener in Bismarck, North Dakota. Saints keeper JJ Olson made 11 saves over 107 minutes in the shutout. The Saints played with ten men for the last eight minutes of the game after Trevor Talen was shown a red card in the first overtime period. Chu was given the penalty kick when Mary’s Adam Potter was given a red card.
Women’s soccer
Central Washington 2, Saint Martin’s 0 – Box score
College volleyball
Northwest Nazarene 3, Saint Martin’s 1 (25-20, 25-12, 18-25, 25-21) – Box score
Girls soccer
Black Hills 9, Capital 0
Olympia 5, Central Kitsap 0
Tumwater 0, Aberdeen 0 – Tumwater wins PKs 4-3
WF West 3, River Ridge 3 – WF West wins PKs 4-3
Timberline @ North Thurston – No report
Goals (reported): Whitney Lowe (BHS).......4 Maia Halvorson (OHS).....2 Arin Seidlitz (BHS)......1 Alli Thompson (BHS)......1 Joslin Lindsay (BHS).....1 Jessica Rodgers (BHS)....1 Brooklyn Hooper (OHS)....1 Jenna Killman (OHS)......1 Addy Glock (OHS).........1
High school volleyball
Capital 3, Black Hills 1 (18-25, 25-20, 25-21, 25-13)
North Thurston 3, Wilson 0 (33-31 25-21 26-24)
Timberline 3, Lincoln 0 (25-8, 25-12, 25-10)
Northwest Christian 3, North Beach (25-11 25-12 25-16)
Tumwater 3, Olympia 0 (25-11 25-12 25-16)
WF West 3, River Ridge 0 (25-20, 25-15, 25-11)
Today (9/19): Saints volleyball opens GNAC play
College volleyball
Saint Martin’s vs. Northwest Nazarene – Marcus Pavilion – 7:00 PM (Watch)
High school volleyball
Capital @ Black Hills – Black Hills HS – 7:00 PM
Tumwater vs. Aberdeen – Tumwater HS – 7:00 PM
Timberline vs. Lincoln – Timberline HS – 7:00 PM
River Ridge vs. WF West – River Ridge HS – 7:00 PM
Girls soccer
Timberline @ North Thurston – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Capital @ Black Hills – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM (Listen)
Olympia vs. Central Kitsap – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:15 PM
Wednesday scoreboard: Bears, Cougars post victories
Men’s soccer
Highline 3, SPSCC 0
High school volleyball
Olympia 3, Stadium 0 (25-5, 25-8, 25-6)
Girls soccer
Capital 2, Lakes 1
Tuesday scoreboard: Geoducks soccer, Saints volleyball knock off Warner Pacific
Evergreen’s Willie Spurr earlier this season
Men’s soccer
Evergreen 1, Warner Pacific 0 (2OT) – Recap
Willie Spurr scored what proved to be the game winning goal in the 109th minute to give Evergreen a 1-0, two overtime win over Warner Pacific in their Cascade Conference opener at Evergreen Pitch. The goal was Spurr’s second goal of the season and Jack Fortune got the assist. The Geoducks outshot the Knights 23-13. Collin Harlow made five saves in the shutout.
In other CCC news, nationally ranked Concordia, who was picked to finish first in the conference just ahead of the Geoducks, lost 3-2 to Northwest University today. Evergreen is 1-0 in the CCC while Concordia falls a game behind at 0-1.
College volleyball
Saint Martin’s 3, Warner Pacific 1 (21-25, 25-22, 25-12, 25-21) – Recap
Kyra Davidson, Kristyn Ross and Carrie Starbuck each had double digit kills in Saint Martin’s four set win over Warner Pacific in Portland. Cymbree Decosta and Candice Pedroza racked up 21 and 20 assists respectively and Jessica Riddle added 25 digs to lead the Saints to their second win of the season.
Saint Martin’s opens up GNAC play in their home opener on Thursday night against Northwest Nazarene.
High school volleyball
Timberline 3, Capital 2 (25-22, 18-25, 22-25, 25-23, 15-8)
North Thurston 3, Foss 0 (25-7, 25-11, 25-6)
River Ridge 3, Aberdeen 1
Black Hills 3, Centralia 1
Tumwater 3, WF West 1
Girls soccer
Black Hills 6, Centralia 0
Tumwater 2, WF West 1
Timberline 1, Yelm 1
Aberdeen 3, River Ridge 1
How not to tweet
What you see above is the Twitter timeline of an 18 year old local athlete that is off to play community college sports this season. This is just a sampling of how his Saturday night went.
I follow a lot of young athletes on Twitter, a couple of high school students and quite a few college students, and though most of them are actually pretty savvy when it comes to social media, sometimes I find some pretty stupid things.
This was probably the dumbest set of tweets I’ve ever seen from an athlete that I follow and it is a good opportunity to remind people that nothing you do online is private. He has his account set to protected but I followed him when I heard he was going to play sports in college before he protected his account. Even if you protect your account, anybody that followed you before you set it to protected can still see all your tweets. So I can see all of his drunk tweets, all of his tweets about smoking weed and all of his tweets about his coach. You know, the stuff he probably doesn’t want me, his parents, his coach or his future coaches/employers to see.
So please, tweet smart. Have fun, but take it easy.
Today (9/17): Tuesday scoreboard; Geoducks kick off CCC season; League
Tuesday scoreboard
High school volleyball
Olympia 3, Gig Harbor 1 (23-25, 25-17, 25-20, 25-19)
Schedule for Tuesday, September 17
Men’s soccer
Evergreen vs. Warner Pacific – Evergreen Pitch – 5:00 PM
Evergreen kicks off the Cascade Conference season by hosting Warner Pacific at 5:00 PM. The Geoducks went 2-1-1 in non-conference games while the Knights went 1-1. Evergreen and Warner Pacific were picked to finish second and fourth in the CCC this season respectively.
High school volleyball
Northwest Christian vs. South Bend – Northwest Christian HS – 5:45 PM
Capital @ Timberline – Timberline HS – 7:00 PM
North Thurston vs. Foss – North Thurston HS – 7:00 PM
Black Hills vs. Centralia – Black Hills HS – 7:00 PM
Girls soccer
River Ridge vs. Aberdeen – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Tumwater vs. WF West – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
High school football power rankings: Tumwater #1 no doubt
Whoop Timberline, stay at #1
What should have been the game of the week turned out to be a laugher as Tumwater dropped a 44 point shutout on Timberline. Here’s some breaking news: Tumwater is pretty good.
It was a pretty rough week for area teams overall as just four teams took home wins – Tumwater, North Thurston, Olympia and River Ridge. Just two teams have a perfect record, six teams sit at 1-1 and four teams have not been able to break through yet.
Your unscientific power rankings for week three are here. Poor Shelton.
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1. Tumwater T-Birds (2-0)
Last week: #1 (No change)
Previous game: Tumwater 44, Timberline 0
Next game: @ Inglemoor (0-2) – Pop Keeney Stadium, Bothell – Friday, 7:00 PM
Notes: What needs to be said? The T-Birds absolutely demolished a really good Timberline team. #1 no doubt.
2. North Thurston Rams (2-0)
Last week: #2 (+1)
Previous game: North Thurston 38, Black Hills 16
Next game: @ Foss (2-0) – Mount Tahoma Stadium, Tacoma – Friday, 7:00 PM
Notes: North Thurston took a 35-0 lead before the Wolves finally got on the board in the third quarter. Josh Ramirez scored three times, two rushing and one on a pass from Ryan Mets, while Josh Mosquera and Hayden Maliska each rushed for a touchdown. They should stay at #2 against Foss this week but face a tough Lincoln team in week four.
3. Timberline Blazers (1-1)
Last week: #2 (-1)
Previous game: Tumwater 44, Timberline 0
Next game: @ Olympia (1-1) – Ingersoll stadium – Friday, 7:00 PM
Notes: I’d drop the Blazers further, but now I don’t think there is any shame in losing to Tumwater by 44 points. They will have the opportunity to show that the Tumwater game was a fluke right away when they take on Olympia at Ingersoll Stadium.
4. Olympia Bears (1-1)
Last week: #4 (No change)
Previous game: Olympia 20, Capital 6
Next game: vs. Timberline (1-1) – Ingersoll Stadium – Friday, 7:30 PM
Notes: Their close loss to Lake Oswego might not be as impressive as first thought with the Lakers falling to Central Catholic 35-14 on Friday. They got the win over a struggling Capital in the Spaghetti Bowl and will have the chance to show they are for real when they host Timberline.
5. River Ridge Hawks (1-1)
Last week: #11 (+6)
Previous game: River Ridge 43, Sequim 6
Next game: @ Ridgefield (0-2) – Ridgefield HS – Friday, 7:00 PM
Notes: One of only four local teams to earn a win this week, the Hawks jumped up in the power rankings on that fact alone. They will likely knock off a 2A Ridgefield team that has scored just eight points against a pair of 1A schools.
6. Rainier Mountaineers (1-1)
Last week: #7 (+1)
Previous game: Mossyrock 23, Rainier 21
Next game: @ Rochester (1-1) – Rochester HS – Friday, 7:00 PM
Notes: With 21 points scored this week, the Mountaineers tied their 2012 point total in just two games. Rainier played Mossyrock tough and nearly came back from a 16-7 halftime deficit. McCoy Bichler scored once and Nick Henry added a pair of touchdowns. Next up: Rochester, which should be a fascinating game between two improved teams with new coaches.
7. Yelm Tornadoes (1-1)
Last week: #6 (-1)
Previous game: Olympic 7, Yelm 0
Next game: vs. Stadium (1-1) – Tornadoes Stadium – Friday, 7:00 PM
Notes: What to think of Yelm? They have only allowed seven points all season, so that’s good. A 48-0 win and then a 7-0 loss? Well, the first game was against a bad Highline team that was run 55-6 by White River this week. The Tornadoes should go back to their high scoring ways, at least for one week, when they play Stadium on Friday night.
8. Rochester Warriors (1-1)
Last week: #5 (-3)
Previous game: RA Long 49, Ridgefield 7
Next game: vs. Rainier (1-1) – Rochester HS – Friday, 7:00 PM
Notes: Meh, a 42 point loss to a good 2A team on the road: it happens. They only drop because it was the biggest loss of the three teams that are interchangeable at this point in the season: Rainier and Yelm. The Rainier game this week should be surprisingly curious fun.
9. Black Hills Wolves (0-2)
Last week: #9 (No change)
Previous game: North Thurston 38, Black Hills 16
Next game: vs. Bainbridge (0-2) – Tumwater Stadium – Friday, 7:00 PM
Notes: Despite getting thumped by North Thurston, the Wolves stay put at #9. Their razor thin loss to Clover Park doesn’t look as bad as it did last week and they could get back on track against Bainbridge, who has been outscored 85-12 in their first two games.
10. Capital Cougars (0-2)
Last week: #8 (-2)
Previous game: Olympia 20, Capital 6
Next game: @ Bothell (1-1) – Pop Keeney Stadium, Bothell – Saturday, 7:00 PM
Notes: Believe it or not, because of their unbelievably tough schedule taking on three 4A schools to begin with, Capital could easily go 0-4 to begin the season. They get Bothell on Saturday up north and then Tumwater the next week. Panic on Conger. I still think their youth will grow up and after the Tumwater game could put together a run for a playoff spot.
11. Tenino Beavers (0-2)
Last week: #10 (-1)
Previous game: Washougal 28, Tenino 7
Next game: @ Elma (0-2) – Davis Field, Elma – Friday, 7:00 PM
Notes: One loss to a 2B team, another to a 2A team. Open 1A Evergreen play at Elma on Friday.
12. Shelton Highclimbers (0-2)
Last week: #12 (No change)
Previous game: North Mason 20, Shelton 10
Next game: @ Wilson (2-0) – Stadium Bowl, Tacoma – Friday, 7:00 PM
Notes: The Highclimbers got on the board for the first time this season in the first quarter and built a 10 point lead but North Mason made the adjustments and scored the next 20 points to take home the Mason County Cup. Though they did force some turnovers, Shelton looked over-matched and will have their hands full with a high scoring Wilson squad.
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