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Tuesday scoreboard: Lots of runs at The RAC
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Olympia Athletics 12, West Olympia Linx 6
Nisqually Silvers 12, Hawks Prairie Cardinals 9
Andrew Lauritzen (Edgewood College) went 3-for-4, scored twice and drove in a pair of runs in the Olympia Athletics‘ 12-6 win over the West Olympia Linx. The A’s pounded out 18 hits with eight players collecting at least two hits including Sho Nakahama’s (Olympic College) 2-for-4, three RBI day.
The Nisqually Silvers sent 13 men to the plate in the first inning, scoring six runs on walks and wild pitches before Travis Shaw (Saint Martin’s) cleared the bases with a three run double. The Silvers scored three more runs in the third and fourth innings and withstood a nine run sixth inning from the Hawks Prairie Cardinals to win 12-9.
Motoki Kawashima (Merced College) scored twice in the first inning and drove in a pair of runs for the Silvers and Jens Omdal (Houghton College, River Ridge HS) scored three times on three hits for the Silvers. Grant Pierotti (Cuesta College) and Zach Scott (Whitworth) each drove in two runs in the Cardinals nine run sixth.
Today (6/4): PSCL doubleheader
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Hawks Prairie Cardinals vs. Nisqually Silvers – The RAC – 5:00 PM
Olympia A’s vs. West Olympia Linx – The RAC – 7:30 PM
Sunday scoreboard: Linx, Brewers and Silvers pick up PSCL wins
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
West Olympia Linx 6, Hawks Prairie Cardinals 3
Tumwater Brewers 6, Olympia Athletics 0
Nisqually Silvers 6, Lacey Saints 4
The West Olympia Linx rode a four run third inning to a 6-3 win over the Hawks Prairie Cardinals in the first game of a PSCL triple header today at The RAC. Danny Flahie (Dakota State) went 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI for the Linx. Zach Scott (Whitworth) collected three hits and drove in a run for the Cardinals in the loss.
Robby Campos (Olympic College), Josh Sontag (Saint Martin’s) and Brandon Santos (Lower Columbia) combined to give up just three hits in the Tumwater Brewers 6-0 win over the Olympia Athletics, the Brewers’ second straight shutout to open the season. Robert Ortiz (Oxnard College, Timberline HS) drove in a pair of runs and Jeff Walton (University of Puget Sound) had three hits and scored twice for the Brewers.
Travis Shaw (Saint Martin’s), Colby Fitzgerald (Bellevue University) and Cody Apilado (Olympic College) each had three hits in the Nisqually Silvers‘ 6-4 win over the Lacey Saints in the nightcap.
Today (6/2): Capital Stage Race, PSCL baseball; Underground Derby
Cycling
Capital Stage Race, Queen Stage – Rochester Primary School – 9:30 AM
Stage three of the Capital Stage Race is a 90 mile race for category 1, 2 and 3 men riders, a 67 mile race for category 1, 2 and 3 women and a 47 1/2 mile race for every other class that begins at Rochester Primary School at 9:30 AM. The 90 mile race goes all the way to Satsop and back. The men’s and women’s long loops get started at 1:20 PM.
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Olympia Athletics vs. Tumwater Brewers – The RAC – 1:00 PM
Hawks Prairie Cardinals vs. West Olympia Linx – The RAC – 3:30 PM
Lacey Saints vs. Nisqually Silvers – The RAC – 6:00 PM
Roller Derby
Underground Derby – Skateland! – 6:00 PM
Saturday scoreboard: A’s, Brewers, Linx pick up opening day wins
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Olympia Athletics 6, Hawks Prairie Cardinals 5
Tumwater Brewers 5, Lacey Saints 0
West Olympia Linx 10, Nisqually Silvers 5
In game one of the PSCL season, the Olympia Athletics scored a run in the seventh to tie the game and JJ Nazzaro (Gardner-Webb University) drove in the game winning run in the eighth to lead the A’s to a 6-5 win over the Hawks Prairie Cardinals. Tyler Watkins (Spokane Falls CC) went 2-for-2, scored twice and drove in two runs including the game tying run on a bases loaded walk in the seventh inning. Jeffrey Apigo (Skagit Valley College) went 1-for-3 with a run and two RBIs in the loss for the Cardinals.
Drew Fosnes (MSU-Billings) had the Tumwater Brewers only hit of the day in the first inning but scored what turned out to be the game winning run in fourth when he stole home and the Brewers would capitalize on walks, wild pitches and errors to knock off the Lacey Saints 5-0. Joe Hanley, Nick Mailhot (Saint Martin’s, Northwest Christian), Kevin Afflerbach (Edmonds CC) and Tony LaDue (Saint Martin’s) combined on a five hit shutout for the Brewers. David Tillotson (Centralia College) went 2-for-3 for the Saints.
In the nightcap, the Nisqually Silvers scored four runs in the top of the eighth to take a 5-4 lead but the West Olympia Linx answered back with six runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning to take a 10-5 win. Austin Baker (Arkansas State), Ben Krueger (Oregon Tech) and Cody Evans (Oregon Tech) each had two hits for the Linx while Colby Fitzgerald (Bellevue University) and Travis Shaw (Saint Martin’s) each had a pair of hits for the Silvers.
Today (6/1): PSCL season kicks off; Capital Stage Race; Speedway Saturday
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Olympia Athletics vs. Hawks Prairie Cardinals – The RAC – 11:00 AM
Tumwater Brewers vs. Lacey Saints – The RAC – 3:00 PM
West Olympia Linx vs. Nisqually Silvers – The RAC – 6:00 PM
The Puget Sound Collegiate League returns for another season kicking off with a triple header at The RAC beginning at 11:00 AM.
The PSCL is a developmental summer wood bat league featuring players primarily from Northwest community colleges and other local four year schools. The season runs most days for the next two months from today, June 1st, until the championship game on July 31st.
I hope to publish a PSCL preview sometime in the next week.
Cycling
Capital Stage Race, time trials – Heritage Park – 7:00 AM
Capital Stage Race, Capital Criterium – State Capitol Campus – 1:40 PM
As I type, the Capital Stage Race has taken over Deschutes Parkway from Heritage Park for the time trial stage of the two day, three stage event.
The race continues this afternoon with the Capital Criterium, a timed race around a circuit at the State Capitol Campus and Capitol Way. Racing at the Capitol begins at 1:40 PM continuing until at least 7:00 PM.
Auto racing
The season at South Sound Speedway is underway despite the weather and it looks like racing should be on tonight. Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 for teenagers, seniors and military, $5 for kids 6-12 and free for the little ones.
Sunday scoreboard: Cards, A’s advance to championship game
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball playoffs
(#1) Olympia Athletics 4, (#5) Tumwater Brewers 3
(#4) Hawks Prairie Cardinals 6, (#3) West Olympia Linx 2
(#1) Olympia Athletics 6, (#3) West Olympia Linx 5
With their season on the line, the Tumwater Brewers struck first in game one of the third round of the PSCL playoffs. Kyle Holtman (St. Claire County CC) drove in one run in the first and another in the third and the Brewers took a 3-0 lead over the Olympia Athletics. But the A’s scored four unanswered runs and held on, 4-3, to extend their season and end the Brewers’ year. Drew Fosnes (Green River CC) drove in two of the A’s four runs including the eventual game winner in the eighth inning. Sean Murphy (Murray State College) and Nikko Saenz (St. Mary’s) scored all of the A’s four runs. Holtman went 5-for-5 with three doubles and two RBI for the Brewers in the loss. With the win, the A’s moved on to another elimination game later on Sunday night.
In game two, the Hawks Prairie Cardinals remained undefeated in the playoffs and advanced to the championship game on Monday night with a 6-2 win over the West Olympia Linx. The Cards pounded out 13 hits and Justin King and Eli Fulton (Clark College, Capital HS) combined to give up just five hits and two earned runs. The loss dropped the Linx into an elimination game with the A’s in the next game.
And in the winner to championship/loser out nightcap, the A’s scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth to take a 6-5 lead just a half inning after the Linx broke a 3-3 tie in with two runs in the top of the sixth. Murphy and Bret Bitow (Saint Martin’s) allowed just two hits over the next three innings and the A’s held on to move into the championship game on Monday. Bitow got the save and went 3-for-5 with three runs scored while Saenz and Bret Grey (Central Washington) each collected two hits. Mac Gridley (Lower Columbia CC) went 3-for-4 with two RBI for the Linx in their last game of the season.
Today (7/29): PSCL playoffs continue
The Puget Sound Collegiate league playoffs are into their third day at the RAC and two more teams will be eliminated leading to the championship game on Monday.
Game one pits the #5 seed Tumwater Brewers against the #1 seed Olympia Athletics in an elimination game. The Brewers lost to the Hawks Prairie Cardinals on Friday to drop into the losers bracket and then eliminated the Nisqually Silvers yesterday. Meanwhile, the A’s had a first round bye, lost an epic 17 inning affair on Saturday to the West Olympia Linx but rallied in an elimination game and knocked out the A’s last night. First pitch is at 1:00 PM.
Game two is a winners bracket game between the #4 seed Hawks Prairie Cardinals and the #3 seed West Olympia Linx. The Cards beat the Brewers and A’s while the Linx beat the Silvers on Friday and the A’s in 17 innings on Saturday. The winner moves on to the championship on Monday while the loser faces an elimination game immediately following this game. First pitch is at 4:00 PM.
The 7:00 game pits the winner of game one against the loser of game two with a trip to the championship game on the line.
Saturday scoreboard: PSCL playoffs – #2 seed Saints, #6 seed Silvers eliminated
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball playoffs
(#3) West Olympia Linx 3, (#2) Lacey Saints 2 – 17 innings
(#4) Hawks Prairie Cardinals 6, (#1) Olympia Athletics 5
(#5) Tumwater Brewers 6, (#6) Nisqually Silvers 3
(#1) Olympia Athletics 4, (#2) Lacey Saints 3
The second round of the Puget Sound Collegiate League playoffs kicked off at 11:00 AM with an epic 17 inning game, the longest in league history, between the #3 seed West Olympia Linx and the #2 seed Lacey Saints. The Saints got on the the board first when Devin Ferguson drove in a run in the bottom of the first. Mac Gridley drove in a run in the top of the second to even the game up for the Linx and both teams added a run in the sixth inning. After the sixth, the two teams combined for just eight hits and advanced a runner past first base only six times over the next eleven innings before a Skyler Wheeler single drove in Daniel Armstrong for the game winning run in the top of the 17th inning. Justin Dibble started the game for the Linx and gave up two runs in six innings. Micah Donor relieved him in the seventh and gave up two hits over the next eight innings. Seth Gregorich pitched a scoreless 15th. Kyle Leady pitched the 16th and closed out the game in the 17th to pick up the win. With the win, the Linx moved on to Sunday while the Saints dropped into an elimination game on Saturday evening.
In game two, the #4 seed Hawks Prairie Cardinals opened up a six run lead through five innings thanks to a Conor Cook two run double in the first inning and a Daniel Flahie RBI single in the fifth. But the Olympia Athletics rallied in the seventh. Bret Bitow singled to drive in a run and load the bases and then Sean Murphy hit a grand slam to cut the Cardinals lead to just one, 6-5. But Eli Fulton got the last out in the seventh and the A’s managed just one hit over the next two innings and the Cardinals upset the #1 seed A’s, 6-5. Sam Shadle pitched 7 1/3 innings and gave up just one hit while striking out eleven A’s to get the win. The Cardinals moved into the third round on Sunday and the A’s fell into the elimination game against the Lacey Saints.
In the first elimination game, Chris Hackworth gave up two earned runs over 7 1/3 innings to lead the #5 seed Tumwater Brewers past the #6 seed Nisqually Silvers, 6-3. Blake Woosley went 2-for-3 with two RBI and Bobby Twedt, Kyle Doucette and Cole Pittman each added two hits for the Brewers. Spencer Dodd and Ryan Taylor each drove in a run for the Silvers in their last game of the season.
In the nightcap, the Olympia A’s got a masterful pitching performance from their ace, Ryan Smith, and cruised to a 4-1 victory, eliminating the #2 seed Lacey Saints from the PSCL playoffs. Bret Bitow drove in a run in the third inning with a suicide squeeze. Nikko Saenz followed Bitow and drove in the eventual game winning run. Bitow relieved Smith in the eighth inning to pick up the save. The A’s face the Brewers in another elimination game tomorrow afternoon.
Today (7/28): PSCL playoffs, MIA Derby Girls, Racing
The Puget Sound Collegiate League playoffs continue today with the top two seeds kicking off their playoff run in the morning and early afternoon and continuing later with two elimination games.
Game one pits the #3 seed West Olympia Linx against the #2 seed Lacey Saints. The Saints were solidly on top of the PSCL standings but were swept by the Olympia Athletics in the last week of play and were just 2-6 over their last eight games. On the other hand, the Linx went 5-3 over their last eight games including a 1-0 11th inning win over the Nisqually Silvers last night. The Saints and Linx met six times this season with the Saints taking the season series 4-2. First pitch at the RAC is at 11:00 AM.
The #1 seed Olympia Athletics get their playoff run underway at 2:00 PM at the RAC against the Hawks Prairie Cardinals. The A’s and Cardinals have met six times this season with the A’s taking four games with one of the Cardinals wins came from an 8-8 tie where the win was awarded to the Cards based on tiebreaker rules. The A’s come into the playoffs red hot winning nine of the last ten games.
The first elimination game gets underway at the RAC at 5:00 and pits the tough luck first round loser Nisqually Silvers against the Tumwater Brewers. The two teams just wrapped up the “Mohawk Series” with the Silvers taking two of three from the Brewers and resulting in a new hairdo for Brewers head coach Abe Lupkin.
And finally, the day wraps up with the second elimination game at 7:45 between the loser of the Linx/Saints game and the loser of the A’s/Cardinals game.
Also on the docket today, the MIA Derby Girls host their third bout in their short existence. They will take on The Vodun at South Sound Sports Center in Tumwater at 6:00 PM. Tickets are $15 at the door.
Last, but not least, the racing season continues at South Sound Speedway with legends, street stocks, bump to pass, outlaw compacts and baby grands. Tickets are $14 for adults with qualifying beginning at 5:00 PM and racing starting at 6:30.
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