Category Archives: Baseball
Today (6/18): A’s, Cards, Linx and Saints
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Olympia Athletics vs. Hawks Prairie Cardinals – The RAC – 5:00 PM
West Olympia Linx vs. Lacey Saints – The RAC – 7:30 PM
Today (6/14): Senators face Cardinals at The RAC
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Thurston County Senators vs. Hawks Prairie Cardinals – The RAC – 7:30 PM
Thursday scoreboard: Fitzgerald, Baker and Nash power Silvers, Linx to victories
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Nisqually Silvers 13, Lacey Saints 7
West Olympia Linx 10, Hawks Prairie Cardinals 5
Colby Fitzgerald went 3-for-5 with two RBI singles and a three run home run (Bellevue University) in the Nisqually Silvers’ 13-7 win over the Lacey Saints in game one of a PSCL doubleheader at The RAC. The Silvers pounded out 14 hits with Motoki Kawashima (Merced College), Jeremy Camacho (River Ridge HS) and Travis Shaw (Saint Martin’s) each had two hits and Camacho and Shaw each scored three times.
The Saints collected 12 hits themselves including eight straight hits to open the game in a six run first inning. They got one more run in the seventh inning before Josiah Julagay (Timberline HS), Naoki Imeto (Olympic College) and Taylor Parks (Olympic College) combined to give up just three hits over the next 4 2/3 scoreless innings.
Josh Potter (Campbellsville), Bo Pearson (PLU) and Mervin Rincon (Centralia College) each went 2-for-3 and Jose Acosta (Centralia College) drove in a pair of runs for the Saints.
In game two, Austin Baker (Arkansas State) came a single away from the cycle and Colton Nash hit a two run home run in a 10-5 West Olympia Linx victory over the Hawks Prairie Cardinals. Baker led off the game with a triple, hit a three run home run in the third and doubled in the eighth. Nash’s homer drove home Baker to open the scoring in the first. He drove in two more runs in the second inning to finish with four RBIs total.
Linx starter Reilly Fairchild (Aberdeen HS) gave up three runs in the first inning but settled down and struck out seven in eight innings giving up just two more runs in the seventh. Kegan Duz-Aguilar (Centralia College) pitched a one hit ninth to pick up the save.
Brandon Grimsley (Murray State College) went 4-for-5 with a pair of RBIs for the Cardinals.
Today (6/13): PSCL keeps on rolling
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Lacey Saints vs. Nisqually Silvers – The RAC – 5:00 PM
Hawks Prairie Cardinals vs. West Olympia Linx – The RAC – 7:30 PM
Wednesday scoreboard: Senators top Studs
Baseball
Thurston County Senators 8, Seattle Studs 3
Tumwater Brewers 12, Olympia Athletics 4
Nisqually Silvers 7, Lacey Saints 3
Tuesday scoreboard: Brewers, Linx and Reign victorious
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Tumwater Brewers 7, Olympia Athletics 4
West Olympia Linx 8, Hawks Prairie Cardinals 2
Tanner Marty (Lower Columbia CC) went 3-for-4 with an RBI single in the third inning and a two run homer in the seventh in the Tumwater Brewers’ 7-4 win over the Olympia Athletics in game one at The RAC. The Brewers pounded out 13 hits including a 3-for-5 night from Spencer Dodd (Saint Martin’s) and a 3-for-3 night from Josh DeVaughn (Olympic College). Dodd drove in two runs and scored twice and DeVaughn scored three runs in the win.
JJ Nazzaro (Gardner-Webb) hit a two run home run of his own in the seventh inning and Joe Crunkilton (Western Nevada) and Kameron Banister each collected two hits for the A’s.
In game two, CJ Bader (Freed-Hardeman) hit a solo bomb in the third inning and Danny Flahie (Dakota State) and Zack Larsen each collected a pair of RBIs in a 8-2 West Olympia Linx win over the Hawks Prairie Cardinals. Connor Atchison (Centralia College) and Ryan Snyder (Oregon Tech) combined to hold the Cardinals to just three hits on the night.
International Basketball League
Olympia Reign 161, Nippon Tornadoes 117
Today (6/11): Reign return; PSCL doubleheader
International Basketball League
Olympia Reign vs. Nippon Tornadoes – SPSCC gymnasium – 7:00 PM
The Olympia Reign are back…at least for two games. The Reign are sitting out the 2013 season after losing the Little Creek Casino (and consequently their home court at the Skookum Creek Events Center) as a sponsor but are still part of the IBL as what they call a “Branding Team”. Basically, they are a way to fill out the Nippon Tornadoes schedule this season. The Reign will face the Tornadoes tonight and again on Thursday, June 20th again at SPSCC. No word on what the Reign roster will look like but expect a handful of locals on the court tonight.
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Olympia Athletics vs. Tumwater Brewers – The RAC – 5:00 PM
Hawks Prairie Cardinals vs. West Olympia Linx – The RAC – 7:30 PM
Sunday scoreboard: Sounders U-23s fall; Oly Rollers top London late; A’s, Linx, Cards, Silvers win
Soccer
Portland Timbers U-23 1, Sounders U-23 0 – Recap
Roller Derby
Oly Rollers Cosa Nostra Donnas 186, London Rollergirls 175
England’s London Rollergirls opened up a 140-109 lead over the Oly Rollers’ Cosa Nostra Donnas midway through the second half but On’Da Sligh’s jam with 3:55 left to play gave Oly their first lead since the first half at 160-154 and the Cosa Nostra Donnas held on for a hard fought 186-175 win at Skateland! on Sunday night.
Baseball
Olympia Athletics 6, Lacey Saints 5
West Olympia Linx 6, Tumwater Brewers 4
Hawks Prairie Cardinals 9, Nisqually Silvers 4
Nisqually Silvers 4, Thurston County Senators 0
Capital City Bombers 19, Tacoma Cascades 13
Today (6/9): Cascadia soccer rivalry, international derby highlight busy Sunday
Extremely busy and exciting sports Sunday ahead of us today, so let’s get right to it…
Baseball
Olympia Athletics vs. Lacey Saints – The RAC – 10:00 AM
Capital City Bombers vs. Tacoma Cascades – Crandall Field – 11:00 AM
Tumwater Brewers vs. West Olympia Linx – The RAC – 1:00 PM
Hawks Prairie Cardinals vs. Nisqually Silvers – The RAC – 4:00 PM
Thurston County Senators vs. Nisqually Silvers – The RAC – 7:00 PM
Soccer
Sounders U-23s vs. Portland Timbers U-23s – Tumwater Stadium – 2:00 PM
First place in the PDL Northwest Division is on the line this afternoon at Tumwater Stadium when the Sounders U-23s face the Portland Timbers U-23s at 2:00 PM. Tickets are $10 at the door. Read previews of the Timbers U-23s here and the Sounders U-23s here.
Roller Derby
Oly Rollers Cosa Nostra Donnas vs. London Rollergirls – Skateland! – 6:00 PM
The Cosa Nostra Donnas, the varsity squad of the Oly Rollers organization, makes their 2013 debut in this international WFTDA bout. Tickets are $15 at the door.
Olympia’s Champlin nearly perfect
Olympia High School alum Kramer Champlin made his first start of the season on Saturday night for the single-A Lansing Lugnuts in a seven inning game two of a doubleheader against the West Michigan Whitecaps in Comstock Park, Michigan.
Champlin, a 6-foot-6 right-hander who was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 33rd round of the 2011 draft out of Arizona State, had retired all 18 batters that he faced through six innings and entered the final inning of the game with a 2-0 lead and a perfect game on the line.
He made quick work of the Whitecaps’ Zach Kirksey, who lined out to left field on the first pitch and then struck out Jered Reaves for the second out of the inning. With just one out to go to perfection, Devon Travis hit a tough chopper that ate up shortstop Emilio Guerrero on a short hop, went under his glove and bounced into left field.
So, with the perfect game off the table but a no-hitter still a possibility, you make the call, is this a hit or an error? Watch the video by clicking here.
It’s a tough call, but the the official scorer gave Travis a base hit, ending Champlin’s bid for a no-hitter. Lugnuts play-by-play announcer, Jesse Goldberg-Strasser, described Lansing players throwing up their hands in disgust and looking up to the press box following the play, obviously rooting for that to go down as an error.
Champlin promptly struck out the next batter, his tenth strikeout of the game, to secure the complete game, one hit shutout in his seventh career start. He moved to 3-1 on the season and lowered his ERA by nearly a point from 4.01 before the game to 3.13.
His performance comes one day after another Olympia High School star pitched his best game of the season. Adam Conley, a second round pick of the Miami Marlins in the 2011 draft out of Washington State, struck out eight and gave up just one earned run on seven hits for the double-A Jacksonville Suns. He moved to 5-2 in 12 starts this season and lowered his ERA to 4.10.
Image courtesy of the Lansing Lugnuts Facebook page
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