Category Archives: Alumni
Puget Sound Collegiate League leaders: Hitting
The Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball season is coming down to the wire with just three regular season games left. So let’s take a look at the league leaders. First, the hitters.
The most impressive line this season belongs to Olympia High School and Green River Community College’s Chris Womac of the West Olympia Linx. Womac is tied for third with 24 hits and third in singles with 20, second in walks with 19 and leads the league in on base percentage (.536), OPS (1.031) and batting average (.387). He also leads the league with 14 stolen bases and is tied for first with 17 runs scored.
Saint martin’s Chandler Tracy is continuing his outstanding end to the Saints season in the PSCL. Tracy, a member of the Hawks Prairie Cardinals, is tied for third in hits (24), second in triples (3), first in RBI (16), third in runs scored, fifth in OBP (.427), first in slugging (.536) second in OPS (.963) and second in batting average (.348).
And it’s hard to look past the seasons of Kyle Thomson, Devin Ferguson, Naoki Imoto and may others.
Tomorrow, we’ll look at the pitching leaders…
Gonzales hosts second annual charity tournament
Capital graduate and awesome facial hair owner Andres Gonzales will host the second annual Andres Gonzales Charity Golf Tournament at the Tacoma Golf and Country Club in Lakewood on September 17th, reports Todd Miles. Gonzales, who currently sits in fourth on the money list on the Web.com tour and will likely play again on the PGA tour next season, raised $60,000 for pancreatic cancer awareness and the First Tee of South Puget Sound during his first tournament last year. For more information including how to sign up, read more from The News-Tribune.
Photo credit: Keith Allison
Poole, Ward, Bain named to IBL all-star teams
One Saint Martin’s alum and two members of the Olympia Reign were named International Basketball League all-stars on Monday. Blake Poole was named to the first team and barely missed out on the MVP award in leading the Bellingham Slam to the IBL championship and the Reign’s Mike Ward and Gjio Bain were named to the second team after leading the Reign to the IBL semifinals. All three players will represent the IBL in the Southern California Summer Pro League July 24-29th.
Former Saint Blake Poole earned first team honors after averaging 18.7 points per game and 13.2 rebounds per game. In his second season with the Slam, the 6’5″ center had 15 double-doubles out of 20 games this season including a 24 point, 22 rebound, six assist game against the Yamhill HighFlyers on June 23rd and a 23 point, 15 rebound, seven assist game against the Portland Chinooks in the IBL championship game on July 8th. This winter, Poole will return to Germany for a second season but with a new team, BG Topstar Leitershofen. He starred for BG Dorsten in his first German Pro-B season averaging 14.9 ppg and 12.9 rpg.
In his fourth season with the Olympia Reign, Mike Ward was the team’s most consistent player this season, averaging 20.7 points per game, 6.2 board per game and 4.2 assists per game from the guard position. Ward, an Evergreen alum, had his best game on May 18th when he scored 39 points against the Portland Chinooks. Ward also came up big in two late season games against the Edmonton Energy. Ward had 30 points, six boards and seven assists in an overtime win to close the regular season and 27 points, five boards and six assists in an playoff opening round upset of the Energy.
After joining the Reign on June 22nd during their trip to Orlando, Gjio Bain solidified their center position by scoring 15 points per game and hauling in 12.8 rebounds per game and the Reign went 4-2, their best stretch of the season, in his six games with the team. Bain, a seven footer from Southern Miss, had averaged 8.8 ppg and 8.9 rpg as a member of the Orlando Venom.
Andre Murray of the Vancouver Volcanoes was named MVP and Bellingham’s Morris Anderson was named Defensive Player of the Year. The full list of honorees can be found here.
Lubin’s season ends; Sounders U23s head to Cali
The Kitsap Pumas will not defend their title as PDL champs this season after a 2-1 playoff loss to the Portland Timbers U23s at Gladstone High School in Gladstone, Oregon reports goalWA.net. The Pumas ended their season at 10-5-2
Saint Martin’s alum Zac Lubin won nine games for the Pumas this season and tied for second in the PDL with seven shutouts. Lubin, the keeper for the Saints’ GNAC conference championship team in 2009, finished his second season with the Pumas. Last season he appeared in just two games backing up current Seattle Sounders FC keeper Bryan Meredith before taking over in goal this season.
Representing the PDL’s Northwest Division in the western regionals will be the Timbers U23s and the team that called Tumwater Stadium home for one game this season, the Sounders U23s. The Sounders will face FC Tucson on Saturday in Ventura, California while the host Ventura County Fusion will try to take down the Timbers.
Quick Links: Perry, Nichols, Buckland, Bossio, Brodin, Poole, Green and a Geoduck
I am way behind on posting links, so here are some from just the last week that have caught my eye…
- North Thurston cross country coach and teacher Heidi Perry is running 135 miles in Death Valley – The Olympian
- Dick Nichols is retiring – The Olympian
- Capital’s Brodie Buckland will be rowing for Australia in the Olympics – ThurstonTalk.com
- Another Capital grad, Jarred Bossio is still alive in the PNW Amateur golf tournament – The News Tribune
- North Thurston’s Joash Brodin was named the MVP of the Frontier League All-Star game last night – Pantagraph.com
- Saint Martin’s Blake Poole and Jeremy Green and the Bellingham Slam won the IBL Championship on Sunday – Bellingham Slam
- Uh oh. The Evergreen basketball team will play Pac-12 Utah in Salt Lake City on December 14th – Utah Utes
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Oly Sports road trip: Kitsap Pumas vs. North Sound Seawolves photo gallery
Took a drive up to Bremerton today to check out my favorite PDL soccer team, the Kitsap Pumas take on the North Sound Seawolves. To keep this somewhat Olympia sports-centric, former Saint Martin’s goalkeeper Zach Lubin made five saves for the Pumas in their 2-1 win. Lubin (gray jersey and orange socks in the pictures above) and the Pumas are on top of the PDL’s Northwest Division with 29 points, two points ahead of the Sounders U23s. The Pumas and Sounders face each other on Friday, July 6th at 7:30 PM if you would like to take in the sights and sounds of charming Bremerton Memorial Stadium for yourself.
Oly area alumni list – summer (UPDATED 6/21)
One of the goals of Oly Sports is to keep track of local area alumni and their post Olympia area high school or college sports careers. So below is a list of athletes playing professional, semi-pro or in collegiate summer leagues this summer…
Baseball
Minor League Baseball
Jared Sandberg (Capital HS) – Manager, Hudson Valley Renegades
Adam Conley (Olympia HS) – Greensboro Grasshoppers Called up to Jupiter Hammerheads
Seth Harvey (River Ridge HS) – Wisconsin Timber Rattlers Promoted to Brevard County Manatees
Kramer Champlin (Olympia HS) – Lansing Lugnuts
Alex Phillips (Tenino HS) – Connecticut Tigers
Jacob Pettit (Hawks Prairie Cardinals – PSCL) – Bowie Baysox
Cody Hebner (Olympia Athletics – PSCL) – Fort Wayne Tincaps
Chris Scholl (Hawks Prairie Cardinals – PSCL) – Arkansas Travelers
Jake Shadle (Hawks Prairie Cardinals – PSCL) – Giants extended spring training
Independent Baseball
Joash Brodin (North Thurston HS) – London Rippers
Collegiate wood bat summer baseball
Jason Monda (Capital HS) – Brewster Whitecaps
Kellen Camus (Capital HS) – Waterloo Bucks
Jourdan Weiks (Capital HS) – Herndon Braves
Tanner Nielsen (North Thurston HS) – Klamath Falls Gems
Cabe Reiten (Olympia HS) – Wenatchee Applesox
Basketball
Semi-pro
Blake Poole (Saint Martin’s) – Bellingham Slam
Jeremy Green (Saint Martin’s) – Bellingham Slam Left team
Nate Menefee (Timberline HS, Evergreen) – Olympia Reign
Giovanne Woods (Evergreen, River Ridge HS) – Olympia Reign
Mike Ward (Evergreen) – Olympia Reign
Marcus Wright (Evergreen) – Olympia Reign
Marcus Whitaker (Evergreen) – Olympia Reign
Nicholas Moore (Evergreen) – Olympia Reign
Julio Feliciano (Evergreen) – Olympia Reign
Football
National Football League
Jonathan Stewart (Timberline HS) – Carolina Panthers
Matt Johnson (Tumwater HS) – Dallas Cowboys
Rugby
Scott LaValla (North Thurston HS) – US National Team
Soccer
Zach Lubin (Saint Martin’s) – Kitsap Pumas
I’m sure this is not a complete list. If you know someone that I have left off, please let me know in the comments or drop me an email.
And I purposefully didn’t include anybody playing in the Puget Sound Collegiate League because there are so many of them. You can find them by going to the PSCL website.
Friends of Mia Alumni Soccer Tournament Photo Slideshow
Capital won the inaugural Friends of Mia Soccer Tournament defeating Olympia 3:0 in the a penalty shootout after the two tired teams failed to score in regulation.
Saturday scoreboard: Capital wins FoM Tourney; Brewers, Saints, A’s split
Friends of Mia Alumni Soccer Tournament
Pool play
Timberline 2, River Ridge 1
Olympia 4, Black Hills 1
Capital 2, Tumwater 0
North Thurston 3, Shelton 1
Olympia 4, Tumwater 1
North Thurston 3, River Ridge 2
Capital 5, Black Hills 0
Shelton 1, Timberline 1
North Thurston 6, Timberline 1
Tumwater 1, Black Hills 1
Olympia 2, Capital 1
Shelton 3, River Ridge 1
Semifinals
Olympia 5, Shelton 0
Capital 3, North Thurston 0
Finals
Capital 0, Olympia 0 – Capital wins penalty shootout 3:0.
Pictures from the tournament to come tomorrow, in the meantime head over to ThurstonTalk.com who has a nice article on the event.
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
West Olympia Linx 10, Tumwater Brewers 1
Tumwater Brewers 6, Nisqually Silvers 1
Olympia Athletics 3, Lacey Saints 2
Lacey Saints 6, Olympia Athletics 0
Today (6/9): Tourneys time; PSCL play four; Underground Derby championships; Racing
It’s another huge day of sports in the South Sound. It all starts early in the morning with the Capitol City Men’s Amateur Golf Tournament. Jon McCaslin has won the tournament three times in a row and The Olympian has a preview article featuring Tumwater High School alum Kyle Schrader. Tee off for the tournament at Capitol City Golf Club is at 7:30 AM.
Shortly after tee time, the Friends of Mia Alumni Soccer Tournament gets underway at South Sound Stadium. Soccer alumni from Black Hills, Capital, North Thurston, Olympia, River Ridge, Shelton/Yelm, Timberline and Tumwater gather to honor Mia and raise money for childhood cancer. First kick of pool play is at 8:45 AM. The semifinals start at 2:15 PM with the finals kicking off at 4:15. Everybody is invited to the post tournament party and benefit at Faith Community Center at 6:00. For the full schedule and more information, visit the Oly Sports post from yesterday. All events are free and donations will be accepted.
And the tournaments keep on rolling along with Budd Bay Rugby’s 20th annual Tatunka 7’s Tournament at The Evergreen State College. The tournament used to coincide with Evergreen’s Super Saturday but even after the elimination of Super Saturday, the tournament continues on the Saturday before graduation. The action gets underway at 10:00 AM.
If golf, soccer and rugby aren’t enough for you, the Puget Sound Collegiate League plays a baseball quadruple-header on Saturday. First up at noon, the Tumwater Brewers take on the West Olympia Linx. Then at 2:30, the Brewers play game two against the Nisqually Silvers. In the evening games, the Lacey Saints and the Olympia Athletics play two starting at 5:00 PM. All four games take place on the wonderful turf surface at the Regional Athletic Center. All PSCL games are free.
Golf, soccer, rugby, baseball. What else could you want? How about some championship roller derby action? Skateland! will be rocking when the Underground Derby League has their interleague championships. The Rolling Regulators, Fembots, Oly Outlaws and South Bay Bombers will battle it out to see who takes home the hardware. Tickets are $15 at the door, doors open at 6:00 PM and derby action gets underway at 6:30.
And finally, weather pending, petrolheads (I’ve been watching a lot of Top Gear on BBC America lately) get their fix this weekend at South Sound Speedway. Hobby Stocks, Mini Stocks, FSCRA and Legends start qualifying at 5:00 PM with racing getting underway at 6:30 PM. Tickets are $12 at the gates.
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