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Today (10/9): Busy Day at Saint Martin’s

Schedule for Thursday, October 9th

Men’s Soccer
Saint Martin’s vs. Northwest Nazarene – SMU Soccer Field – 1:00 PM

Women’s Soccer
Saint Martin’s vs. Simon Fraser – SMU Soccer Field – 3:30 PM
Evergreen vs. Corban – Geoducks Pitch – 4:00 PM

College Volleyball
Saint Martin’s vs. Simon Fraser – Marcus Pavilion – 7:00 PM

Girls Soccer
Timberline vs. Bellarmine – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Capital vs. Wilson – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:00 PM
River Ridge vs. White River – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Black Hills vs. WF West – Tumwater Stadium

High School Volleyball
Northwest Christian vs. Raymond – Northwest Christian HS – 7:00 PM
Tumwater vs. Centralia – Tumwater HS – 7:00 PM
Olympia vs. Yelm – Olympia HS – 7:00 PM
North Thurston vs. Shelton – North Thurston HS – 7:00 PM

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Wednesday Score: Clippers Drop A Close One

Men’s Soccer

Chemeketa 2, SPSCC 1 – Box score
The RAC 1st 2nd Final
Storm (4-4-1 NWAC South) 1 1 2
Clippers (0-9-0 NWAC South) 1 0 1
SPSCC Goal: Nick Salazar (41st minute)

Tuesday Scores: Geoducks Men Beat Concordia for First Time Since 2004

Men’s Soccer

Evergreen 3, Concordia 1 – Box score
Geoducks Pitch 1st 2nd Final
Cavaliers (5-2-0 CCC, 6-4-0 overall) 0 1 1
Geoducks (4-2-1 CCC, 4-5-1 overall) 2 1 3
TESC Goals: Juan Lopez (4th minute), Albert Anabtawi (39th), Ethan Sumlin (86th)

Juan Lopez and Albert Anabtawi each scored a first half goal and Evergreen held on to a 3-1 win over Cascade Conference leading Concordia on Tuesday afternoon at Geoducks Pitch. The win moves the Geoducks to 4-2-1 overall and are tied for third place with Corban with 13 points and are now just two points behind Northwest and Concordia for first place.

Concordia’s BJ Romac cut the Evergreen lead to just one goal with a looping header in the 70th minute. It was the only shot on goal for the Cavaliers in 90 minutes of play.

Ethan Sumlin finished off Concordia with an 86th minute goal on a header off of a Tanner Williams cross. The win was the first for Evergreen over Concordia since October 7th, 2004 breaking a 20 game losing streak.


Girls Soccer

Olympia 6, Timberline 0
OLY: 5-1-0 4A Narrows | TIM: 0-4-2 4A Narrows
OLY: Jenna Killman – 2 goals (3rd, 79th), Addy Glock – 2 goals (15th, 27th)

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North Thurston 4, Mount Tahoma 1
NT: 5-2-0 3A Narrows | MT: 0-7-0 3A Narrows
NT: Savannah Hakes – 3 goals (14th minute, 38th, 55th)

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Black Hills 7, Centralia 1
BH: 2-0 2A EvCo | 0-2 2A EvCo

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Tumwater 5, WF West 2
TUM: 2-0 2A EvCo | WFW: 0-2 2A EvCo
TUM: Sharlee Fine – 2 goals (9th minute, 79th)

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Franklin Pierce 4, River Ridge 0
FP: 6-1 2A SPSL | RR: 2-5 2A SPSL


High School Volleyball

North Thurston 3, Foss 0 (25-12, 25-15, 25-4)
NT: 7-1 3A Narrows |  FOSS: 1-7 3A Narrows

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Capital 3, Wilson 0 (25-12, 25-6, 25-6)
CAP: 8-0 3A Narrows | WIL: 1-7 3A Narrows

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Tumwater 3, WF West 0 (27-25, 25-16, 25-15)
TUM: 1-0 2A EvCo | WFW: 0-1 2A EvCo

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Centralia 3, Black Hills 1 (20-25, 25-18, 25-18, 25-20)
CENT: 1-0 2A EvCo | BH: 0-1 2A EvCo

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White River 3, River Ridge 0 (25-19, 25-15, 25-10)
WR: 6-2 2A SPSL | RR: 2-6 2A SPSL

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Northwest Christian 3, South Bend 0 (25-18, 25-22, 25-19)
NWC: 4-0 2B Pacific | SB: 1-2 2B Pacific

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Firm Foundation 3, Pope John Paul II 2 (25-16, 29-31, 24-26, 25-10, 15-9)

 

Today (10/7): Geoducks Men Hosts First Place Concordia

Schedule for Tuesday, October 7th

Men’s Soccer
Evergreen vs. Concordia – Geoducks Pitch – 3:00 PM

The Evergreen men host first place Concordia at 3:00 PM in what could potentially be called a must win. The Geoducks are 3-2-1 with 10 points in the Cascade Conference and are tied with Warner Pacific for fourth place. Meanwhile, Concordia sits at 5-1 with 15 points.

Girls Soccer
Black Hills vs. Centralia – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
Olympia @ Timberline – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Capital vs. Foss – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:00 PM

High School Volleyball
Pope John Paul II vs. Firm Foundation – St. Michael’s Gym – 7:00 PM
North Thurston vs. Foss – North Thurston HS – 7:00 PM
Tumwater vs. WF West – Tumwater HS – 7:00 PM
Capital vs. Wilson – Capital HS – 7:00 PM
River Ridge vs. White River – 7:15 PM

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Shut Up Fatty and Four Eyes: On That 91 Point Lincoln Win…

Shut Up Fatty and Four Eyes is a new feature on Oly Sports where my radio partner and friend, John McGlamery, and I discuss topics in the sports world that aren’t necessarily related to Olympia sports, though this one kind of is.

Lincoln beat Mount Tahoma 91-0 last night. Yeah, that really did happen. Let’s take a look at how it happened.

Jordan Kitna, the son of Lincoln head coach and former NFL quarterback Jon Kitna, started it off with a 25 yard touchdown run. He then threw a five yard TD and a 12 yard TD to give the Abes a 21-0 lead before an interception return gave them a 28-0 lead still in the first quarter. Up 28-0, Kitna threw for one more touchdown in the first, a 20 yard pass to Jayson Williams.

Up 35-0, Kitna then threw for four touchdowns in the second quarter (of 24, 14, 26, 29 yards) and Lincoln took a punt return to the house and took a 70-0 lead into the locker room. Kitna returned for the beginning of the third quarter but was pulled early on and the backups scored 21 more points to finish things off giving the Abes their biggest win ever, 91-0.

Kitna threw for 197 yards, seven passing touchdowns and one rushing touchdown. The Abes reportedly had a short field the entire game because of Mount Tahoma’s ineptness on offense and according to the Tacoma News Tribune’s TJ Cotterill, Mount Tahoma coach Rickey Daley didn’t feel like the Abes were running up the score.

Perhaps. But the fact is, Jordan Kitna was still throwing the ball up 28-0, up 35-0, up 42-0, up 49-0, up 63-0 in the first half. They may have been screen passes and nobody from Mount Tahoma was going to stop anybody from Lincoln, that’s probably true, but they couldn’t have just handed the ball off? Why was it necessary to keep throwing the ball?

These kind of things happen in high school football. Sometimes, no matter what a coach does, the other team can’t stop them. But having seen Lincoln first hand last year obviously run up the score on Shelton, I have a hard time giving Jon Kitna the benefit of the doubt.

At Highclimbers Stadium in 2013, Lincoln absolutely dominated Shelton. It wasn’t even close. Jake Beck, the poor quarterback for Shelton, and running back Jake Henry couldn’t even make it to each other for the handoff before a Lincoln defender was all over them. Jordan Kitna and the offense had their way and did basically whatever they wanted. The only reason that the score wasn’t higher was because of big mistakes and incredibly stupid penalties by the Abes, otherwise, it could have been a 91 point win.

Up 27-0 with 51 seconds left in the first half, the Abes called a timeout to stop the clock after a second down running play by Shelton. They then forced an incompletion on third and a punt on fourth. With 39 seconds left in the half, Kitna threw a bomb on first down that barely missed his receiver. On second down, J’Maka Love took a short pass and took it 70 yards untouched to the house and Lincoln took a 34-0 lead to the half.

Kitna returned for the second half and kept running their hurry up offense and kept on throwing. Their defense kept blitzing on every play and going hard after Beck and after not rushing the punter in the first half, they brought everybody at Colton Hubble on every punt in the second half. Because of their own mistakes, they only managed seven more points, but it was pure and utter domination and Kitna did not sit until midway through the fourth quarter in a 41-6 win.

After the game, the Abes celebrated like they had won the Super Bowl and in front of the Shelton crowd, they performed a terrible version of the Haka with multiple players doing backflips across the field in the background.

After seeing that performance last year and then hearing that Kitna played late into the fourth quarter last week in a 62-0 win over the Highclimbers (a game in which he threw five touchdown passes, two in the third quarter after they had a 36-0 halftime lead), it is hard for me to listen to Coach Daley and believe that the Abes weren’t running up the score in their 91-0 win over lowly Mount Tahoma.

I want to like the Abes. I want to like all the good that Jon Kitna has done at Lincoln. But these games in which he continues to have his son throw the ball despite absolute domination and with a huge lead are undermining that likability. I am not fan.

UPDATE: Here are Jordan Kitna’s highlights from the big win. Six of his eight touchdowns, at least. Watching videos of Lincoln play this season, the one thing you can say in defense of them is that they seem to be running the same plays no matter the situation. Not sure if that really is in defense of them, but I guess you can’t fault them for playing their game for the first half, at least.

Today (10/4): The Busiest Day at Evergreen

Schedule for Saturday, October 4th

Men’s Soccer
Evergreen vs. Oregon Tech – Geoducks Pitch – 12:00 PM
Saint Martin’s vs. Western Washington – SMU Soccer Field – 1:00 PM

Women’s Soccer
Evergreen vs. Northwest – Geoducks Pitch – 2:00 PM

College Volleyball
Evergreen vs. Southern Oregon – CRC Gymnasium – 5:00 PM

AP Washington State Prep Football Poll – How They Fared in Week 5

So. Many. Blowouts. Try these on for size: Lincoln 91, Mount Tahoma 0 and Okanogan 83, Manson 0. Yikes.

Jordan Kitna threw seven touchdowns and rushed for another for the Abes. That means that up 28-0, he was still throwing. Up 35-0, he was still throwing. Up 42-0, he was still throwing. Up 49-0, he was still throwing. Up 56-0, he was still throwing. Up 63-0, he was still throwing. Then the half mercifully came to an end at 70-0 and it looks like the second team got their opportunity.

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