Category Archives: Basketball
Saint Martin’s men’s basketball 2012-2013 printable preview
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College basketball is back! Last night the Evergreen men played an exhibition against the Seattle Mountaineers and today the Saint Martin’s guys head to Idaho to take on NCAA Division I Boise State at Taco Bell Arena.
College basketball is my favorite sport to follow and I have been a Saint Martin’s fan since the NAIA days of Michael Courtney, Anthony Pendleton and Troy Whiteto. For quite a few years from middle school well into high school, I cut The Olympian’s Saints preview – which included the schedule, team picture, a feature article and usually individual pictures and bios of players – out of the newspaper and put it on my school binder and studied it like it was gospel. Before the days of the internet, it was the first glimpse of the team that season and and it would get me psyched for the season.
Now, The Olympian will probably post a short preview but nothing worth cutting out and throwing on a binder. Space restrictions, a more crowded sports scene and manpower have contributed to the loss of one of my favorite features.
So I have put together my own Saints preview that could, in theory, be printed out and put on a binder. It features a team photo, schedule, coaches, pictures of the current roster and a very short preview of the season. I hope you enjoy.
Time permitting, I hope to put one of these together for each team in the area, men and women. Stay tuned.
Today (10/27): Evergreen alumni basketball; Saints soccer and volleyball
Women’s basketball
Evergreen alumni game – CRC Gymnasium – 3:00 PM
Men’s basketball
Evergreen alumni game – CRC Gymnasium – 5:00 PM
College basketball is (kind of) back! Get your first look at the two Evergreen teams tonight when they take on an alumni team. The women get going at 3:00 PM and the men follow at 5:00 PM.
Women’s soccer
Saint Martin’s vs. MSU Billings – SMU Soccer Field – 2:00 PM
Senior day in Lacey today when Saint Martin’s takes on MSU Billings at 2:00 PM. Sadly, the Saints have been eliminated from postseason contention but they will honor seniors Caley Wiseman, Ashley Engel, Nicole Nedervelt and Andrea Thyne before the game.
College volleyball
Saint Martin’s vs. Western Washington – Marcus Pavilion – 7:00 PM
Olympia School Board upholds Galloway decision
After meeting in executive session for an hour and fifteen minutes following the regular school board meeting in which ten Galloway supporters spoke, the Olympia School Board upheld the decision to not extend the contract of Doug Galloway as the head boy’s basketball coach at Capital High School. He will not coach the Cougars this season.
UPDATE
The Olympian’s story can be found here
And here is KOMO’s story
TUESDAY UPDATE
The Olympia School Board posted this letter today regarding their decision on Monday night.
Galloway dismissed as Capital basketball coach
Shocking news reported today by The Olympian: Doug Galloway has been dismissed as the boy’s basketball coach at Capital High School due to a “lack of supervision” at a basketball camp at Western Washington University where there was an incident described as “forced sexual contact” between students.
The camp took place June 28-30 and the incident happened on June 29th when Galloway was attending a university event.
Galloway will remain as a PE teacher and the girl’s golf coach at Capital.
With Galloway’s dismissal, Capital joins River Ridge, Timberline and Black Hills as area boy’s basketball programs that will have new coaches for the 2012-2013 season.
Olympia area alumni list – Update
Baseball
Minor League Baseball
Jared Sandberg (Capital HS) – Manager, Hudson Valley Renegades
Adam Conley (Olympia HS) – Jupiter Hammerheads
Seth Harvey (River Ridge HS) – 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) – Long Island Ducks
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
German Pro-B
Blake Poole (Saint Martin’s) – BG Topstar Leitershofen Stadtbergen
Football
National Football League
Jonathan Stewart (Timberline HS) – Carolina Panthers
Matt Johnson (Tumwater HS) – Dallas Cowboys
Rugby
French National Rugby League Top 14
Scott LaValla (North Thurston HS) – Stade Francais
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.
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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Today (7/6): Reign face Portland in IBL final four
The red hot Olympia Reign continue their quest for an International Basketball League title this evening when they face the #2 seed Portland Chinooks at Whatcom Pavilion in Bellingham.
The Reign are riding a four game wining streak and are 5-3 since an ill-fated trip to Canada at the beginning of June. Much of the Reign’s success can be linked to the reemergence of Nate Menefee’s game. In the last eight games, Menefee has scored 24.5 points per game and has been the floor general dishing out 6.5 assists per game. Mike Ward has continued his solid season scoring 22.5 points per game during the stretch and newcomer Gjio Bain has taken control of the center position pulling down 13 rebounds per game in his five games with the Reign. In those five games, the Reign are 4-1.
Olympia and Portland met four times in the regular season. The Reign won the first game 138-127 in Clackamas but the Chinooks took the next three meetings.
Tip-off in Bellingham tonight is scheduled for 5:00 PM. Updates on the game can be found on the IBL Or Bellingham Slam Twitter pages.
Thursday scoreboard: Reign upset Energy again; Linx, A’s win
International Basketball League
Earlier this season, without three of their top five scorers, the Olympia Reign were rocked by the Edmonton Energy in a two game series in Edmonton losing by a combined 91 points. Since those two losses to the Energy, the Reign have gone 5-2 and have scored two straight upsets over the 14 win and #3 seeded Energy including tonight’s 101-89 victory in the first round of the IBL playoffs. Mike Ward scored 27 points and both Nicholas Moore and Gjio Bain posted double-doubles to lead the the Reign. The Reign are 4-1 since they picked up Bain, a seven foot center from Southern Miss, from the Orlando Venom on their trip to Florida.
Next up for the Reign is the #2 seed Portland Chinooks in the IBL final four tomorrow at 5:00 PM at Whatcom Pavilion in Bellingham.
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
West Olympia Linx 3, Nisqually Silvers 1
Olympia Athletics 4, Hawks Prairie Cardinals 3
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