Category Archives: Baseball
Saturday scoreboard: Saints softball splits, baseball sweeps; Budd Bay Rugby advances
College softball
Saint Martin’s 6, Western Oregon 5
Western Oregon 5, Saint Martin’s 1 – More from SMUSaints.com
Sam Munger hit a three run home run and pitched a complete game to pick up her 15th win of the season in Saint Martin’s 6-5 win in game one. Lacey McGladrey went 2-for-2 with two RBI and Megan Antonovich went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
In game two, Taylor Bakos gave up five unearned runs in the first three innings and the Saints were baffled by Western Oregon’s Myranda Sawyer and lost to the Wolves 5-1. Lacey McGladrey had two of the Saints’ four hits.
With the split and thanks to Central Washington’s sweep of first place Montana State Billings, the Saints move to four games back of the Yellowjackets. However, Billings’ magic number to clinch the GNAC’s automatic NCAA tournament bid is now just two.
College baseball
Saint Martin’s 8, Central Washington 7 – 10 innings
Saint Martin’s 12, Central Washington 10 – More from SMUSaints.com
Saint Martin’s didn’t do anything easy on Saturday but still managed to sweep Central Washington. After being down 5-1 after the top of the third inning, game one was eventually won on a two out infield chopper by Bobby Twedt that scored Casey Thorpe from third.
In game two, the Saints fell behind seven runs in the first three innings but scored the next 12 runs, including a six run inning in the third and a five run inning in the fifth, and held on for a 12-10 win.
Men’s Rugby
Budd Bay Buffaloes def. Bay Area
Budd Bay earned a trip to USA Rugby’s Western Regional with their win in the Pacific Coast Rugby Football Union D3 semifinals on Saturday in Portland. The Buffaloes take on Modesto in the championship game and with a win will earn a #3 seed. With a loss, they will get the #8 seed.
High school baseball
Timberline 14, Wilson 1
W.F. West 8, North Thurston 0
Boys soccer
Capital 1, Tumwater 1
Today (4/21): Saints baseball faces Wildcats
The Saint Martin’s baseball team finally returns back to campus when they take on Central Washington in a GNAC doubleheader this afternoon. The Saints haven’t played a home game in nearly a month, not since they split a four game series with Northwest Nazarene on March 23rd and 24th.
The Saints come into today’s game in at 7-11 in GNAC play and 11-25 overall. The Wildcats are a game ahead of the Saints for third place at 7-9 in conference and are 15-19 overall. The two teams have met six times this season already with Central coming out on top five times. The Saints only win came on February 19th when they beat the Wildcats 7-6 in the last day of the Lewis & Clark State tournament.
Olympia’s Nate O’Bryan gets the start in game one of today’s doubleheader for Saint Martin’s. First pitch is scheduled for 1:00 PM.
Friday scoreboard: Slam spoils Reign’s casino opener
International Basketball League
Bellingham Slam 133, Olympia Reign 104
Saint Martin’s alum Blake Poole scored 15 points and brought down 13 rebounds and the Saints’ Jeremy Green added 15 points to help the Bellingham Slam to a 133-104 spoiling of the Olympia Reign’s debut at the Skookum Creek Events Center at the Little Creek Casino. Three former Evergreen Geoducks – Mike Ward, Marcus Wright and Nick Moore – led the way for the Reign scoring 20, 13 and 12 points respectively.
The two teams battled back and forth for the first seven minutes of the game and Ward’s field goal at the 5:06 mark gave the Reign a 15-12 lead. The Slam then went on a 17-2 run to close out the first quarter and never allowed the Reign to get within eight points again.
Up 63-51 at halftime, the Slam reeled off the first seven points of the second half to take a 19 point lead. The Reign had one breath of life left cutting a 22 point lead to just 12 in the third quarter but the Slam outscored the Reign 46-29 over the last 13 minutes of the game to give themselves the easy victory.
Bellingham was led by Ira Graham’s 27 points and six rebounds. Morris Anderson added 26 points and seven boards. Paul Hafford chipped in 18 points and Michael Duty scored another 15.
Ward scored 18 points for the Reign in the first half but was held to just one basket in the final 24 minutes of play. River Ridge’s Giovanne Woods scored 11 points while Chris Weakley and Jacob Manning added ten points each for Olympia. Ex-Timberline Blazer and Geoduck superstar Nate Menefee looked rusty in scoring just six points on 1-for-8 shooting after arriving part way into the first quarter. The NAIA All-American averaged over 26 points for the Reign last season.
The Olympia Reign have over a week to work out the kinks and will travel to the 212 Sports Complex in Clackamas, Oregon on Saturday, April 28th to take on the Portland Chinooks. They return to Little Creek on Tuesday, May 1st when they play host to the Vancouver Volcanoes at 7:00 PM.
High school baseball
Tumwater 1, Aberdeen 0
Black Hills 4, River Ridge 3
Gig Harbor 6, Capital 3
Ocosta 5, Northwest Christian 4
High school softball
Tumwater 7, Aberdeen 0
Wednesday scoreboard: Saints sweep; Bears’ Houser pitches no-hitter
College softball
Saint Martin’s 11, Northwest Nazarene 0
Saint Martin’s 8, Northwest Nazarene 0 – More from SMUSaints.com
High school softball
Olympia 7, Central Kitsap 2
Tumwater 4, W.F. West 0
Centralia 7, Black Hills 4 – 8 innings
High school baseball
Olympia 11, Central Kitsap 0 – Trevor Houser pitches no-hitter.
Centralia 3, Tumwater 2
W.F. West 3, Black Hills 2
Aberdeen 7, River Ridge 5 – Completeion of suspended game – 11 innings
Aberdeen 15, River Ridge 8
Today (4/18): Can the Saints’ bats heat back up?
If the weather can hold, today is a very good day for the Saint Martin’s softball team’s bats to heat back up. Since returning from their California road trip, the Saints have been shutout in five of their last ten games and have dropped to third place in the GNAC, six and a half games behind MSU Billings. But Northwest Nazarene comes into today at just 5-21 in the GNAC and 6-29 overall and were swept by the Saints 11-3 and 4-0 in a doubleheader on April 4th. First pitch for today’s doubleheader is scheduled for noon. UPDATE: Today’s games have been moved to the RAC.
There are also a handful of high school games scheduled for today…
High school baseball
Lincoln @ Capital – 4:00 PM
Centralia @ Tumwater – 4:30 PM
High school softball
Capital @ Timberline – 4:00 PM
Centralia @ Black Hills – 4:00 PM
Tuesday scoreboard: Blazers baseball keeps winning; Tumwater soccer stays undefeated
High school baseball
Timberline 13, Wilson 9
Centralia 13, Tumwater 1
W.F. West 12, Black Hills 0
Aberdeen 4, River Ridge 4 – suspended in 7th inning due to darkness
High school soccer
Tumwater 6, W.F. West 1
Centralia 4, Black Hills 1
Aberdeen 4, River Ridge 1
High school softball
W.F. West 6, River Ridge 0
Today (4/17): Wolves host first place Bearcats
Fingers crossed, the weather looks promising this afternoon for all of the baseball on the schedule.
Three 2A EvCo league games highlight the schedule with first place W.F. West and star pitcher and Washington State commit Mitch Gueller coming to Black Hills. The Bearcats are in first place at 8-1 while the Wolves are fifth at 4-6. The two teams met on March 30th and W.F. West won easily, 11-1.
Here is the full schedule of baseball games around town today…
W.F.West @ Black Hills – 4:30 PM
Aberdeen @ River Ridge – 4:30 PM
Centralia @ Tumwater – 4:30 PM
Wilson @ Timberline – 4:00 PM
Regardless of weather, soccer plays on with one 2A EvCo game in town tonight and one self-indulgent Olympia sports blogger’s coed over-30 SWSA soccer game on the schedule…
Boys soccer
Centralia @ Black Hills – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
Coed over-30 soccer
ABCDE FC vs. Ramblin’ Jacks – Horizon Pointe – 6:00 PM
Monday scoreboard: The up too late edition
Up way too late working on a new logo for Oly Sports (I’m not finished since I keep seeing little things that make me unhappy, but you can see the new look below), so no recaps tonight. The Olympian has the highlights right here.
High school baseball
Olympia 7, Central Kitsap 3 – More from The Olympian
Northwest Christian 9, Wishkah Valley 6
High school softball
Capital 10, Lincoln 0
Tumwater 19, River Ridge 1
Tumwater 6, River Ridge 0
Black Hills 8, North Thurston 4
Black Hills 11, North Thurston 8
Wilson 5, Timberline 4
Today (4/16): Baseball and fastpitch, maybe
Rain is in the forecast all week and could be trouble for all our bat and stick games this week. Today should be one of the better days though rain might hit as early as 3:00 PM, just in time to mess up today’s games…
High school baseball
Central Kitsap @ Olympia – 4:00 PM
Wishkah Valley @ Northwest Christian – Bucknell Park – 4:00 PM
High school fastpitch
North Thurston @ Black Hills – 4:30 PM
River Ridge @ Tumwater – 4:30 PM
Stadium @ Olympia – Stevens Field – 4:00 PM
Sunday scoreboard: Dropkick Donnas Scandalized; Saints split again
Roller Derby
Port Scandalous 106, Dropick Donnas 103
The Oly Rollers’ Dropkick Donnas and the Port Scandalous Rollergirls were tied at 103 with just over a minute to play but Port Scandalous got the last three points of the bout to pull out a thrilling 106-103 win at Skateland on Sunday night. The Donnas were down by ten at halftime and eleven with 14 minutes to play before closing the gap to draw even.
College baseball
Saint Martin’s 1, MSU Billings 0
MSU Billings 1, Saint Martin’s 0 – More from SMUSaints.com
Offense was scarce at Dehler Park in Billings on Sunday when the two teams combined for just two runs total over 16 innings, the lowest scoring doubleheader in GNAC history. In game one, the Saints’ Tommy Deboer gave up just four hits and struck out six Yellowjackets in eight scoreless innings of work. Travis Jones’ double in the top of the ninth inning drove in Mario Sanelli for the only run of the game and Zach Carter worked a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth to preserve the win for the Saints.
In game two, Kaleb Wilson and Josh Moss combined to give up one run on four hits for the Saints but were out dueled by Matt Eames’ two hit, seven inning complete game shutout. With the weekend split, the Saints are now 11-25 overall and 7-11 in GNAC play.
Men’s soccer
Sounders U23s 3, Gonzaga University 2
Capital High School’s Josh Phillips, a sophomore defender for Gonzaga, is pictured above clearing the ball for the Zags.
Though not officially an Olympia team, the Sounders U23s will play the Portland Timbers U23s in Tumwater on June 2nd and I am covering the team this season for GoalWa.net. You can read my quick and easy recap here and see more photos from the game on the Oly Sports Facebook page.
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