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Today (5/3): Reign, rain, rain
The Olympia Reign hope to get back on track when they host the Portland Chinooks tonight at the Skookum Creek Events Center.
On Saturday night, the Reign picked up their first win of the season with a 138-127 win over the Chinooks in Portland but stumbled Tuesday against the Vancouver Volcanoes losing 114-99. In Saturday’s win, Nicholas Moore and Marcus Whitaker both scored over 30 points and Giovanne Woods added 27. The Chinooks’ Jared Cunningham – from Cleveland State, not the NBA bound, early entry from Oregon State – scored 32 points and brought down 14 boards.
Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 PM
In boys soccer action, Timberline travels to Ingersoll Stadium to take on 3A Narrows League leader Capital at 7:00 PM. Capital is 6-0-2 on the season and Timberline is 3-3-2, good enough for third in league. The two teams played to a 1:1 tie on April 11th.
Weather has already cancelled the 3A Narrows League title game today between Timberline and Yelm. They will go to Districts as the #1 and #2 seeds respectively.
Weather has also moved the Tumwater/North Thurston baseball game to the RAC at 6:00 PM, if it gets played at all. River Ridge is also scheduled to play Centralia today, but it is highly doubtful they will get that game in.
UPDATE: River Ridge and Centralia have been moved to the RAC with first pitch scheduled for 3:00 PM.
Tuesday scoreboard: Hawks knocked out; T -Birds complete undefeated regular season; Reign go cold; Cougars earn spot in districts
Boys soccer
North Thurston 3, River Ridge 3 – NT win 5-4 in shootout
Tumwater 6, Black Hills 1
Timberline 2, Lincoln 1
Capital 4, Yelm 0
River Ridge led by two goals with 24 minutes left to play, a playoff bid on the line, but North Thurston came back to tie it and take it to a shootout where the Rams won, 5-4. River Ridge is out while North Thurston moves on to play Hockinson on Saturday at 6:00 PM at Battle Ground Stadium in the 2A District IV playoffs.
Kevin Weyand and Connor Sigmon scored two goals apiece and secured an undefeated regular season for Tumwater with a 6-1 win over Black Hills.
Bruce Joling also scored two goals for Capital in their 4-0 blanking of Yelm.
International Basketball League
Vancouver Volcanoes 114, Olympia Reign 99
The Olympia Reign returned home to the Little Creek casino but shot just 38% from the field in a 114-99 loss to the defending IBL champion Vancouver Volcanoes. Former Evergreen Geoducks Mike Ward and Nicholas Moore led the Reign with 20 points apiece and Marcus Wright was the only other Reign to crack double digits with 12 points.
High school baseball
Capital 10, Wilson 2
Capital’s 10-2 win over Wilson earned them a spot in the West Central District III playoffs
Also tonight (5/1): Olympia Reign host Vancouver Volcanoes
The Olympia Reign return to the Skookum Creek Events Center at Little Creek tonight when they play host to the Vancouver Volcanoes.
The Reign are 1-1 on the season after a 138-127 victory over the Portland Chinooks Saturday night. The Volcanoes are 1-0 after their 113-112 Saturday night victory over the Salem Soldiers.
Game time is 7:00 PM and tickets are $7 for adults or $5 with a Little Creek Players Club card.
Coaching vacancies: Tafoya out at Timberline; Summers at Black Hills
The Olympian reports today that Mike Tafoya has resigned as head boys basketball coach at Timberline high School. Tafoya will remain a teacher at Timberline and his reason for leaving basketball is to focus more on his teaching duties. the Blazers went 7-12 overall and just 1-8 in the 3A Narrows League this season.
Timberline is the second Olympia area school with a boys basketball coaching vacancy. Jamie Berg resigned as head coach at Black Hills last month.
Also last week, Meg Wochnick reported that Black Hills girls soccer coach Lisa Summers stepped down. Summers coached the Wolves in 14 of their 15 seasons and led them to their best record this last fall.
Saturday scoreboard: Saints softball season (probably) ends
College softball
Saint Martin’s 8, Northwest Nazarene 5
Northwest Nazarene 10, Saint Martin’s 2 – More from SMUSaints.com
With their game one win and Montana State Billings’ loss to Simon Fraser, Saint Martin’s got to within one game of earning the GNAC’s automatic NCAA tournament bid, but the Saints’ best season likely came to an end in the first inning of game two when Northwest Nazarene pushed five runs across and cruised to a 10-2 victory.
The Saints finish third in the GNAC at 23-13 and 33-18-1 overall, a 24 win improvement in Rick Noren’s second season at the helm. They still have a very slim chance of being one of five teams to receive an at-large bid into the West Regional.
College baseball
Northwest Nazarene 4, Saint Martin’s 2
Northwest Nazarene 7, Saint Martin’s 6 – More from SMUSaints.com
Track & Field – Saint Martin’s Invitational
Saint Martin’s winners…
Joscelyn Minton – 800 meters – 2:13.39
Kyle Van Santen – 1500 meters – 3:53.2
Frank Krause – 800 meters – 1:56.32
Ashley Llapitan – 10,000 meters – 42:30.4
Edd Brown – 200 meters – 22.15
International Basketball League
Olympia Reign 138, Portland Chinooks 127
High school baseball
North Thurston 3, Aberdeen 0
Quick links: Bryant to UW; Rise to Oly; More
Tumwater’s Jaimie Bryant verbally commits to play football for the Huskies. – The Olympian
New semi-pro basketball team scheduled to play in Olympia. – ABA Live
The always energetic Anne Larson has a profile of Olympia soccer players Evan Munn and Jamison Corbin – Thurston Talk
Washington State University coaches Mike Leach and June Daugherty and athletic director Bill Moos will be at Saint Martin’s tonight. – Register here
Miami Marlins fan blog gives their take on Olympia’s Adam Conley – Fish Tales
Speaking of Conley, his wife Kendall has a blog about their time in Greensboro this season – Kendall Conley
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
Today (4/20): Reign open against Slam
The 2012 International Basketball League season kicks off tonight when the Olympia Reign hosts the Bellingham Slam in their new home at the Skookum Creek Events Center at the Little Creek Casino.
The game features a slew of former Saint Martin’s and Evergreen basketball players including the Geoducks’ Nate Menefee, Mike Ward, Marcus Whitaker and Nicholas Moore for the Reign and former Saints Blake Poole and Jeremy Green for the Slam.
Tip-off is set for 7:00 PM. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 Players Club members and children 12 under are free. And the Skookum Creek Events Center will feature something that the Reign have never been able to offer before at their home games, a beer garden open for fans 21 and over.
Read more about the Reign’s opener in The Olympian’s preview. The Olympian also had a feature about Blake Poole yesterday that is worth a read.
Quick Links: Saints, Saints and more Saints (and some other stuff too)
Capital baseball coach Eric Stark to resign after the season. – The Olympian
Good read about Saints softball sensation (aliteration!) Morgan Klemm. – The Olympian
Another really good read about the set of sisters playing for Saint Martin’s softball. – SMUSaints.com
And another Saint Martin’s athlete, thrower Sam Washington, is featured on SMUSaints.com
Tumwater’s Carly McIsaac has signed to play hoops for Oregon Tech. – Cascade Collegiate Conference
Two Central Kitsap athletes are heading to Saint Martin’s. Krista Stabler was the 4A Narrows League MVP in basketball and Josh Sontag will play baseball. – Kitsap Sun Prep Beat Blog
You can vote for Saint Martin’s Blake Poole to be the ProB League player of the year by just clicking like on his photo on the league’s Facebook page. – ProB League Facebook
Berg out at Black Hills
After just two seasons, Jamie Berg will not be back for a third as head boys basketball coach at Black Hills, reports The Olympian. Berg was 18-26 in two seasons with the Wolves and led them to their only state appearance in school history in the 2010-2011 season.
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