Evergreen is going south for their last road series of the season. The Geoducks take on Oregon Tech Friday night and Southern Oregon Saturday night. Geoducks athletics has their weekly previews, read more about the men’s games here and the women’s here.
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Friday recap: No playoff surprises, Geoducks struggle in Oregon, Saints struggle in California
Girl’s basketball
River Ridge 53, Hockinson 30
Mark Morris 64, Tumwater 41
North Thurston 59, Woodland 56 – 2OT
W.F. West 58, Black Hills 38
No surprises on the girl’s side of the 2A District IV playoff bracket on Friday night. River Ridge got an easy win over Hockinson behind Necy Wade’s 13 points and Kyahri Adams’ 14 points, Mark Morris three pointed Tumwater to death, Woodland took North Thurston to double overtime before the Rams prevailed thanks to Catie Mets’ 23 points and W.F. West beat Black Hills for the third time this season.
Next up: River Ridge plays Mark Morris on Tuesday in Tumwater at 6:00 PM and the North Thurston/W.F. West game follows at 7:45. On the loser’s side of the bracket, Tumwater plays Hockinson at 6:00 PM and Black Hills takes on Woodland at 7:45 at W.F. West in Chehalis.
Boy’s basketball
Bellarmine 68, Olympia 51
Dominick Francks scored 22 points but was the only Olympia player to crack double digits, a rarity for the usually balanced offensive attack of the Bears, and Bellarmine ran right past them in the second half to secure the #1 seed out of the 4A Narrows. Oly led at halftime, 30-24, but Bellarmine outscored them in the second half 44-21. The Bears will next host either Kentlake or Rogers on Tuesday night.
Women’s basketball
Oregon Tech 61, Evergreen 45 – More from the Geoducks
Despite the loss, Evergreen remains only a half game out of a CCC playoff spot. They are chasing Concordia, who lost to Corban tonight.
Men’s basketball
Oregon Tech 90, Evergreen 62 – More from the Geoducks
College softball
Cal State Dominguez Hills 2, Saint Martin’s 1
Cal State Dominguez Hills 5, Saint Martin’s 1 – More from SMUSaints.com
College baseball
Chico State 7, Saint Martin’s 2 – More from SMUSaints.com
Wednesday recap: Northwest Christian advances, Capital goes home, SPSCC sweeps Green River
Girl’s basketball
Capital 43, Foss 33
Olympia 43, Shelton 33
Timberline 66, Yelm 52
W.F. West 50, Black Hills 29
Timberline clinched the #2 seed out of the 3A Narrows with their win over Yelm. Black Hills’ loss to W.F. West drops them to the #5 seed out of the EvCo.
Boy’s basketball
Northwest Christian 72, Napavine 58
Olympia 56, Shelton 35
Foss 64, Capital 45
Timberline 57, Yelm 54
Black Hills 63, W.F. West 58
Tumwater 70, Centralia 47
Zach Carras had 27 points in Northwest Christian’s win over Napavine in the 2B District IV playoffs. Austin Koukal and Kevin Suaviso each added ten for the Navigators and they move on to play Toutle Lake on Saturday.
Capital falls to Foss and their season comes to an end at 10-11. And with wins by both Black Hills and Tumwater, the #4 seed goes to Black Hills and the #5 seed goes to Tumwater.
Men’s basketball
SPSCC 67, Green River 66 – OT
Women’s basketball
SPSCC 69, Green River 67 – OT
Tonight (2/8): high school seeding on the line, Clippers host Green River
Seeding on the line in a couple of girl’s games tonight. Yelm and Timberline play with second place on the line in the 3A Narrows. The Blazers are 7-2 in conference and in second behind Wilson while the Tornados are 6-3 in conference and in third. Timberline won the first meeting on January 30th, 59-49 in Yelm.
Across town in Tumwater, Black Hills takes on W.F. West with the fourth seed in the EvCo on the line for the Wolves. Conversely, on the line for the Bearcats is the #1 seed. The two teams met on December 15th and W.F. West won easily, 62-48.
Here is the full girl’s schedule in Olympia tonight….
Foss at Capital – 7:00 PM
Shelton at Olympia – 7:00 PM
Yelm at Timberline – 7:00 PM
W.F. West at Black Hills – 7:00 PM
Only one game in town on the boy’s side. Tumwater hosts Centralia at 7:30 PM. Tumwater can get the fourth seed out of the EvCo with a win and a Black Hills loss in Chehalis. The T-Birds beat the Tigers by 25 on December 16th.
There are a couple of important out-of-town games to keep an eye on for the boy’s: Northwest Christian takes on Napavine at 6:30 PM in Montesano in the first round of the 2B District IV tournament, Capital plays Foss in Tacoma in a winner makes the playoffs, loser goes home game, and Olympia goes to winless Shelton with first place in the 4A Narrows on the line.
In college basketball action, the SPSCC men and women host Green River with the women’s game tipping at 6:00 PM and the men at 8:00 PM. The Lady Clippers are still looking for their first win in the NWAACC West and could easily get one against the 4-14 Gators who only won their first meeting by four, 54-50 in Auburn in early January. The men, meanwhile, could jump up to fifth place in the NWAACC West with a win. They also lost a close game to the Gators earlier this season, 85-82.
Saints Pendleton profiled in The Olympian
Never got a chance to post this on Tuesday, but The Olympian’s Meg Wochnick had a very nice profile of Saint Martin’s 24 year-0ld senior Brok Pendleton that detailed his “long road to Lacey”. Pendleton went from Auburn High School to Brigham Young to Green River Community College to a mission in France back to Green River and finally to Saint Martin’s where he is is averaging 14.4 points and 7.4 rebounds per game for the Saints and has posted 24 and 26 points over hist last two games. For more, read the whole article in The Olympian…
Sunday recap: Saints lose a close one
College baseball
Cal Poly Pomona 6, Saint Martin’s 5 – Game recap from Cal Poly athletics
After being outscored 51-5 in the first three games of the season at Cal Poly Pomona, the Saints took a 5-0 lead into the sixth inning. But Tommy DeBoer allowed four runs in the sixth and Kaleb Wilson surrendered two runs in the bottom of the ninth including the game winning single by Joseph Eusebio that gave the Broncos the series sweep.
Sophomore Alex Bielaski went 2-for-4 with two runs scored for the Saints in the loss and went 3-for-10 in the series. Junior Bobby Twedt also had three hits in the series and freshman Chandler Tracey hit the only home run for the Saints.
The Saints travel to Chico State next weekend for another four game series.
Poole scores another double-double in Germany
Photo credit: Pieper (link)
Saint Martin’s alum Blake Poole had 14 points and 14 rebounds for BG Dorsten on Saturday in their 94-90 loss to Rheinland Versicherungen Hertener Löwen. Poole is averaging over 15 points and 13 rebounds for Dorsten of the Pro-B basketball league, the third tier of professional basketball in Germany. It was his 17th double-double in 20 games this season, which should come as no surprise if you ever watched him play for the Saints.
Saints/Vikings in tweets
OlySports.com went to the Saint Martin’s men’s basketball game on Saturday night and got a little wild with the Twitter updates. SMUSaints.com has the recap, but here are the 20+ tweets that I sent from the game, one that got a little wild at times, so much so that I used the !!! at one point…
http://twitter.com/OlySportsBlog/status/165996388889538561
Saturday recap: Geoducks women, Saints softball, Rams and Navigators all win
Men’s basketball
Western Washington 70, Saint Martin’s 67 – Game recap from SMUSaints.com
Concordia 67, Evergreen 58 – More from the Geoducks
Women’s basketball
Western Washington 83, Saint Martin’s 50 – More from WWUVikings.com
Evergreen 74, Concordia 51 –More from Geoducks athletics
College Softball
Saint Martin’s 5, University of British Columbia 2 – Doubleheader recap from the Saints
Saint Martin’s 6, University of British Columbia 6 – Game called due to darkness
College Baseball
Cal Poly Pomona 19, Saint Martin’s 3
Cal Poly Pomona 12, Saint Martin’s 2 – More from Cal Poly Pomona athletics
Indoor Soccer
Kitsap Pumas 8, South Sound FC 6
Boy’s basketball
Northwest Christian 69, South Bend 53
North Thurston 66, Aberdeen 39
Girl’s basketball
North Thurston 66, Aberdeen 46
Bowling
Timberline finishes 5th and Black Hills finishes 6th in the 3A/2A State Tournament
Tonight (2/4): Geoducks, Saints and Shock
Two games on the Saint Martin’s campus today, starting first with an opening day softball doubleheader against the University of British Columbia at 1:00 PM. Rick Noren’s Saints were 9-30 last season but have a lot of new faces and are expected to be better than they were last year in hist first season as head coach. The Thunderbirds are a member of the NAIA and were 23-20 last season.
The Saints men’s basketball team then hosts Western Washington at Marcus Pavilion. The Vikings are 19-3 overall and 10-1 in the GNAC and are ranked #16 in the NCAA Division II. The Vikings average 84 points per game and are led by Rory Blanche who is scoring 16.9 ppg. Tip-off is at 7:00 PM. SMUSaints.com has a full preview.
The Evergreen State Geoducks men and women host Concordia on Saturday night. The Lady Cavaliers come into the game at 7-16 overall and 3-10 in the Cascade Conference, just one game ahead of the Geoducks. On January 6th the Geoducks came up just a little bit short losing 60-59 behind 22 points from Danielle Swain. Tip-off is at 5:00 5:30 PM at the CRC Gymnasium.
The Evergreen men are still looking for their first conference win and only their second win overall and will have a tough time against Concordia, who last week knocked off the #1 team in the nation, Oregon Tech. The Cavaliers are coming off an 82-74 loss at Northwest University on Friday night and are just 5-8 in the CCC but knocked off the Geoducks by 23 points in their first meeting this season.
South Sound FC wrap up their home schedule on Saturday night against the PASL-Premier Northwest Division leading Kitsap Pumas who come into the game undefeated at 4-0-2. But the Shock pulled off the upset last week of the division leader beating WSA Rapids 12-9. Game time is at 7:00 PM at Tumwater Indoor Sports. Tickets are $5 at the door. For more information on the Shock, visit their website.
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