Liz Mills scored 18 points and Krista Stabler added 16 in Saint Martin’s 66-58 exhibition win over Carroll College on Thursday night at Marcus Pavilion.
A three pointer by Mike Robinson with 10:54 left in the first half gave Carroll their largest lead of the game at 19-13. But Saint Martin’s battled back and the two teams took a tie into the locker room at 33.
SMU struck first in the second half on a layup by Krista Stabler but Katie Estey’s three a minute later gave Carroll the lead at 36-35, the last lead that Caroll would hold. They would tie it up at 41 but a 6-0 run capped off by Brooke Paulson’s jumper with 11:04 left put Saint Martin’s up for good. Mills twice gave SMU a nine point lead, once at the 4:10 mark and again with 1:14 left to play.
Elin Johansson scored 11 points and pulled down seven boards in her debut at Marcus Pavilion. Mills added seven rebounds to her game high 18 points and Stabler led the way with six assists.
Bailey Snelling scored 17 points for Carroll including 13 in the first half. Cassidy Hashley added 11 points and seven rebounds. The Saints of Carroll hit nine three pointers while the Saints of Saint Martin’s went 0-for-7 from long distance.
The Saints return to Marcus Pavilion on Wednesday, November 5th to take on Northwest Christian at 6:00 PM.
Men’s Basketball
University of Washington 88, Saint Martin’s 65
Seattle, WA
1st
2nd
Final
Saints
27
38
65
Huskies
44
44
88
Timberline alum Donaven Dorsey scored 11 points in his University of Washington debut and the Huskies knocked off Saint Martin’s 88-65 in an exhibition game at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle. Dorsey went 4-for-7 from the field and pulled down two rebounds in 13 minutes off the bench.
Tyler Copp led the Saints with 14 points and Tyler Idowu added 10 points including a couple PAC-12 level slam dunks. Isaac Bianchini hit three three pointers for nine points and Riley Carel had seven points, seven rebounds and five assists in the loss.
Next up for Saint Martin’s is another Divison I exhibition on Saturday when they travel to Missoula to take on Montana.
College Volleyball
Western Washington 3, Saint Martin’s 0 – Box Score
Bellingham, WA
1
2
3
Vikings (11-4 GNAC, 18-6 overall)
(3)
25
25
25
Saints (4-23 GNAC, 1-14 overall)
(3)
17
9
14
SMU: Brenna Peterson – 12 assists
Girls Soccer 4A Bi-District Tournament (winner to state, loser out)
Olympia 1, Todd Beamer 0
3A Bi-District Tournament (loser out)
Prairie 3, Capital 0 – Capital eliminated
Auburn Mountainview 3, North Thurston 0 – NT eliminated
2A District 4 Tournament (loser out)
Black Hills 3, Tumwater 2 – Tumwater eliminated
High School Volleyball 2A District 4 Tournament (double elimination)
Tumwater 3, Mark Morris 0 (25-11, 25-13, 25-20)
Woodland 3, Black Hills 0 (25-14, 25-21, 25-14)
Mark Morris 3, Black Hills 1 (25-13, 24-26, 25-12, 25-18) – BH eliminated
High School Football (week 10, non-playoffs)
North Thurston 44, Yelm 28
Women’s Basketball
Saint Martin’s vs. Carroll College – Marcus Pavilion – 7:00 PM
Girls Soccer 4A Bi-District Tournament (loser out)
Olympia vs. Todd Beamer – Mount Tahoma Stadium, Tacoma – 7:30 PM
3A Bi-District Tournament (loser out)
Capital vs. Prairie – Mount Tahoma Stadium, Tacoma – 5:30 PM
North Thurston vs. Auburn Mountainview – Harry Lang Stadiu, Lakewood – 7:00 PM
2A District 4 Tournament (loser out)
Tumwater vs. Black Hills – Tumwater District Stadium – 7:00 PM
High School Volleyball 2A District 4 Tournament (double elimination)
Tumwater vs. Mark Morris – RA Long HS, Longview – 4:00 PM
Black Hills vs. Woodland – Mark Morris HS, Longview – 4:00 PM
Loser of Tumwater and Black Hills matches – RA Long HS, Tumwater – 8:00 PM
Evergreen used a 9-1 run to open up the second half and took a 37-35 lead with 17:43 left but the Saint Martin’s went on their own 15-3 run over the next nine minutes and never trailed again in a 62-53 exhibition game win at the CRC Gymnasium on Tuesday night.
Brooke Paulson scored 18 points and Krista Stabler kicked in 16 for the Saints. Swedish Freshman Elin Johanson started in place of Megan Wiedeman and pulled down 12 rebounds to go with her eight points. The Saints held Evergreen without a field goal from the 14:35 mark to just under the two minutes left to play.
The Geoducks were led by Uriah Thomas and Brittany Gray with 11 points apiece. Evergreen played just eight players and both Sadee Thomas and Gray fouled out.
Oh yeah, the college hoops season tips off when Saint Martin’s and Evergreen play their annual games. Tonight, the games are out at Evergreen beginning with the women at 5:00 PM and continuing at 7:30 with the men.
Both of Evergreen’s teams are coached by new head coaches. The women are led by former Geoducks assistant coach Jennifer Schooler and her challenge is to keep her eight players fresh throughout the game. Injuries and ineligible players has left them shorthanded but still talented with forward Brittany Gray leading their returnees.
Meanwhile, the men are now coached by Tim Malroy, an Olympia native and previously the head coach at Green River Community College. The Geoducks have a couple of solid returnees in Frankie Johnson and Jordan Dam but will rely on a bevy of transfers to round out the roster and hopefully improve on three straight awful years in the CCC.
Meanwhile, in Lacey, the Saints women look to make the playoffs once again and return a solid squad led by senior Angela Gelhar. All-GNAC forward Chelsea Haskey graduated but the emergence of Megan Wiedeman last season tempers that loss and a lot will be expected of the junior forward this season.
On the men’s side, Michael Ostlund enters his second season as head coach and not much is expected out of his squad, at least in the pre-season GNAC poll where they finished tied for 9th. The Saints will likely play various small lineups again with returning guards Riley Carel, Ryan Rogers, Tyler Copp, Isaac Bianchini and Will Bond playing together in various combinations.
Girls Soccer 2A District 4 Tournament
Tumwater vs. Aberdeen – Tumwater Stadium – 5:00 PM (loser-out)
Black Hills vs. Hockinson – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM (winner-to-state)
Willie Spurr’s goal in the 99th minute gave Evergreen their fourth straight shutout win as the Geoducks knocked off Corban 1-0. Angel Guerra recorded four saves in goal for the Geoducks and they moved into a tie with the Warriors for third place in the Cascade Conference at 8-4-1. Juan Oropeza recorded his fifth assists of the season on the Spurr goal.
SPSCC Goals: Fernando Aguilar (8th and 26th minutes)
Fernando Aguilar scored twice in the first half to knock off Southwestern Oregon 2-0 in the final game of the season for the Clippers. Alan Caro made six saves in the win.
Northwest Nazarene 4, Saint Martin’s 1 – Box Score
Nampa, ID
1st
2nd
Final
Saints (3-10-0 GNAC, 3-17-0 overall)
0
1
1
Crusaders (12-1-0 GNAC, 13-3-1 overall)
0
0
0
SMU Goal: Kyle Witzel (90th minute)
Women’s Soccer
Saint Martin’s 2, Western Oregon 0
SMU Soccer Field
1st
2nd
Final
Wolves (4-6-4 GNAC, 6-8-4 overall)
0
0
0
Saints (3-10-1 GNAC, 3-13-2 overall)
0
0
0
SMU Goals: Jessica Christian (58th minute), Kari Inch (76th)
On senior day at Saint Martin’s, the Saints got second half goals from two seniors, Jessica Christian and Kari Inch, and won their season finale 2-0 over Western Oregon. The Saints bid adieu to nine seniors who finished 3-13-2 overall this season.
Women’s Basketball
Evergreen 86, Walla Walla 44
CRC Gymnasium
1st
2nd
Final
Wolves
21
23
44
Geoducks
43
43
86
LaNiecia Weatherspoon, Sadee Jones and Brittany Gray each scored a double-double to lead Evergreen to an 86-44 win over Walla Walla in the Geoducks 2014-2015 season opener. Weatherspoon scored 20 points with 10 boards, Jones racked up 19 points and 10 rebounds and Gray also notched 19 points and led Evergreen with 14 rebounds. The Geouducks outrebounded Walla Walla 54-28.
South Puget Sound Community College’s Sara Gettys produced this 23 minute “documentary” about the turbulent 2013-2014 SPSCC men’s basketball season. It’s a little long but you can really see the wear and tear that a season filled with defections, injuries and other problems that left them with just five players playing meaningful minutes had on head coach Aaron Landon.
The Clippers coaches have been hard at work to once again fill the roster and have some nice recruits coming into the program. They have added locals Khalil Matheney (Olympia) and Elijah Sanders (Timberline), Wilson’s Anthony Gray, Woodinville’s Robbie Jackson and out-of-staters Cade Cattell and Nicholas Springer.
Lost in the high school sports madness that was Friday was the announcement from The Evergreen State College that they have hired a new men’s basketball coach.
Olympia High School graduate and former South Puget Sound Community College women’s basketball head coach Tim Malroy becomes the fifth head coach in Geoducks history. Malroy comes from Green River Community College where he spent the last ten seasons in the same position compiling a 114-147 record, one appearance in the NWAACC Championships and two winning seasons. This season, the Gators went 10-15 overall and finished fifth with a 7-9 record in the nine team NWAACC West.
Malroy takes over an Evergreen program that has made some small improvements since bottoming out with a 1-26 season in 2011-2012. The Geoducks won two games during the 2012-2013 season and doubled their win total and were far more competitive last season. Since Jeff Drinkwine stepped down after an NAIA national tournament appearance in 2010, the Arvin Mosley Jr. led Geoducks went just 15-91.
The SPSCC women went 40-41 in his three years leading the program and appeared in the NWAACC tournament in 2002 and 2003.
Central Washington 2, Saint Martin’s 0 – Box score
MONMOUTH, OR
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
R
H
E
SMU (18-30)
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
2
CWU (29-18)
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
X
2
6
0
W: Brandon Williams (9-3) L: Josh Moss (3-10)
The Saint Martin’s baseball team’s season came to an end on Friday afternoon after their 2-0 loss to Central Washington dropped them to 0-2 at the GNAC Championships. Earlier in day, the Saints fell 4-2 to the host Western Oregon.
Both starting pitchers for the Saints pitched well. Zach Carter gave up four earned runs on four hits over eight innings in game one against the Wolves and Josh Moss allowed just two unearned runs over eight innings in game two.
The Saints finished their season at 18-30 overall.
High school baseball Narrows League Tournament championship game
Timberline 8, North Thurston 1
Blazers (#2 seed), Rams (#1 seed)
Timberline scored two runs in the first, three runs in the second and three more runs in the third to build an 8-0 lead and Brandon Olson threw a two hitter to lead the Blazers to an 8-1 win over North Thurston in the 3A Narrows League championship game. With the win, the Blazers get the #1 seed to districts and earn a first round bye. They next play on Wednesday at 7:00 PM in Tacoma. The Rams will face a loser-out game on Tuesday at 7:00 at Heidelberg Park in Tacoma.
Boys soccer District 4 Playoffs
Nigel El-Sokkary and Kellan O’Neill each scored two goals and Capital opened up districts with a 5-2 win over Black Hills at Ingersoll Stadium. The Cougars will face the winner of Saturday’s Centralia/Hockinson game on Tuesday night while the Wolves will get the loser of that game.
College softball
W: Brooke Williams (13-5) L: Amanda Rupright (0-29)
International Basketball League
Bellingham Slam 139, Olympia Reign 106 – Box score
BELLINGHAM
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Final
REIGN (0-1 IBL)
23
26
21
36
106
SLAM (2-2 IBL)
35
31
28
45
139
OLY: Kyle Calhoun – 29 points, Virgil Matthews – 23 points
BELL: Nick Moore – 31 points, Blake Poole 21 points, 18 rebounds
The Olympia Reign made their debut in Bellingham but it was an Evergreen grad and a Saint Martin’s grad that starred for the Slam in their 139-106 win. Ex-Greener Nick Moore scored 31 points and Saints great Blake Poole scored 21 and pulled down 18 boards in the win.
2013-2014 Geoduck Kyle Calhoun led the Reign with 29 points and Virgil Matthews added 23 in the loss.
The two teams were set to meet in Olympia on Saturday but the game has been cancelled because of some kind of problem at the Sound Sound Sports Center in Tumwater.
Matheney and Sanders signing – Photo from Aaron Landon
Olympia senior Khalil Matheney and 2013 Timberline grad Elijah Sanders signed their letters of intent on Wednesday to play basketball for SPSCC next season.
After a strong career for the Blazers that ended with a state appearance in 2013, the 6-6 Sanders went to Central Wyoming College and played in two games last season before leaving the program. It is not clear whether or not he will be a freshman or a sophomore for the Clippers.
Matheney, 6-0 guard, scored 14.6 points per game as a senior for the Bears and scored a season high 24 points against Gig Harbor on January 17th.
The two locals join California high schooler Nick Springer and Condordia University transfer Robbie Jackson as recent signees to Aaron Landon’s squad that played most of the 2013-2014 season with just five players clocking meaningful minutes.
Also signing an NWAACC LOI on Wednesday was River Ridge senior center Rebecca Stevenson. She will continue her playing career at Wenatchee Valley next season.
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