Men’s basketball
Warner Pacific 91, Evergreen 60 – More from Geoducks athletics
Women’s basketball
Warner Pacific 57, Evergreen 45 – More from Geoducks athletics
Boy’s basketball
Capital 45, Lincoln 43
Wilson 57, Timberline 47
Olympia 69, Mount Tahoma 49
Willapa Valley 55, Northwest Christian 44
Black Hills 86, Tumwater 79
Girl’s basketball
Tumwater 61, Black Hills 44
Olympia 77, Mount Tahoma 67 – OT
Wilson 82, Timberline 56
Lincoln 55, Capital 29
Willapa Valley 49, Northwest Christian 28
River Ridge 53, North Thurston 39
College baseball
Cal-Poly Pomona 20, Saint Martin’s 0 – More from SMUSaints.com
Bowling
Timberline is third in the 3A/2A state tournament after the first day trailing Mark Morris and Wilson. Black Hills is sixth.
Coming off the best year in program history, head coach Ken Garland and the Saint Martin’s baseball team have made a lot of changes and are welcoming a lot of new faces to the program.
Two starting pitchers – seniors Tommy DeBoer and Nate O’Bryan – and their closer Kaleb Wilson return but the Saints will rely on a bunch of freshman to fill out the rest of the pitching staff. And in the field, five starters return but all of them will be playing new positions including second-team all-conference catcher Zach Leonard, who is moving to center field, and Bobby Twedt Jr., who was the second-team all-conference second baseman and will be moving to left field this season.
SMUSaints.com has the full preview. The Saints baseball team opens their season on Friday with a four game series at Cal-Poly Pomona.
The tenth ranked men’s team in the NAIA Division II comes to town on Friday night to take on the struggling Evergreen Geoducks. Warner Pacific is 10-2 in the Cascade Collegiate Conference and 18-5 overall. Meanwhile, the Geoducks have lost 17 straight games, are winless in conference and have just one win overall and were beaten by the Knights 93-67 in Portland on January 7th. Tip-off is set for 7:30 PM.
The Geoduck women also host Warner Pacific at the CRC Gymnasium on Friday night. The Knights are 9-3 in the CCC and 15-8 overall and have won eight straight games. Evergreen is just 2-11 in conference but have given good teams fits over the last couple of weeks including a near upset of #8 Eastern Oregon last Saturday night. Warner Pacific won the first match-up 70-55. Tip-off is at 5:00 PM.
The big high school game tonight is the North Thurston/River Ridge girl’s game. The two teams are tied for second place in the 2A EvCo just one game behind W.F. West. The Rams took the first meeting 44-42 on January 12th. Tip-off is at 7:30 at North Thurston.
Plenty of other high school games around town as well, here is the rest of the schedule…
Girl’s basketball
Black Hills at Tumwater – 6:00 PM
Mount Tahoma at Olympia – 7:00 PM
Boy’s basketball
Lincoln at Capital – 7:00 PM
Wilson at Timberline – 7:00 PM
Black Hills at Tumwater – 7:45
Men’s basketball
Simon Fraser 88, Saint Martin’s 85 – Game recap on SMUSaints.com
The Saints went on an 8-0 run that started with just 41 seconds left and they tied the game with four seconds left on a Ryan Votaw 3-pointer. But Justin Brown’s buzzer beating heave from half court went down and so did the Saints. Brown scored 35 points for the Clan who move to 2-9 in the GNAC while the Saints drop to 4-8 in conference. The Saints were led by Brok Pendleton’s 26 points and Jeremy Green added 25.
Women’s basketball
Simon Fraser 78, Saint Martin’s 48 – More from Simon Fraser Athletics
Boy’s basketball
River Ridge 67, North Thurston 63
River Ridge built a 17 point halftime lead and weathered North Thurston’s comeback attempt that included a 25-13 third quarter to pull even with the Rams at 8-3 in the 2A EvCo. Brad Wallace had 20 points for the Hawks, Micah Hardeman had 19 and Howie Harper added 14 in the win. The Rams two leaders, Landon Rushton and Ben Broeker scored 20 and 18 respectively.
Girl’s basketball
Raymond 51, Northwest Christian 43
Kami Bates had 19 points and Allison Sowers had 15 points on the Navigator’s senior night but it wasn’t enough to get past Raymond.
Big big big game tonight in Lacey when River Ridge hosts North Thurston. The Rams are in first place at 8-2 in the 2A Evergreen Conference but the Hawks are nipping at their heels just one game behind at 7-3. North Thurston won the first game 68-51 on January 13th behind 18 points each by seniors Landon Rushton and Ben Broeker. River Ridge’s Brad Wallace scored 20 in the first meeting. All three have had big games recently. Wallace scored 37 points against Tumwater on Tuesday, Broeker scored 36 against Black Hills on Tuesday and Rushton had 38 against Tumwater on Friday. Tip-off is set for 7:30.
In men’s basketball action, Saint Martin’s (8-12 overall, 4-7 GNAC) returns home to take on Simon Fraser (6-12 overall, 1-9 GNAC). The Saints scorched the Clan 90-68 in their first meeting in Burnaby, British Columbia on January 7th. Jeremy Green had 26 points and Brok Pendelton had 21. Simon Fraser features Cal Poly transfer Justin Brown – the GNAC’s fifth leading scorer at 15.7 points per game – at guard. The Saints’ Green is third at 17.4 ppg. Tip-off at Marcus Pavilion is at 7:00 PM.
It’s also senior night for the Northwest Christian girls when they take on Raymond at 7:15 PM. Raymond beat the Navigators 42-40 in their first meeting.
Men’s basketball
Clark 86, SPSCC 77 – More from ClarkPenguins.com (which is a ridiculously nice community college athletics website, by the way)
Women’s basketball
Clark 96, SPSCC 69 – More from ClarkPenguins.com
Boy’s basketball
Olympia 49, Gig Harbor 43
Lincoln 54, Timberline 43
Yelm 50, Capital 46
Girl’s basketball
Yelm 59, Capital 47
Timberline 64, Lincoln 47
Gig Harbor 53, Olympia 47
Believe it or not, it is almost baseball and softball season.
Saint Martin’s opens their season on Saturday with a home game against the University of British Columbia at 1:00 PM before heading to California for a couple games. The Saints went 9-30 last season but expect to be better this season. They return two all-conference players in 1B Joselyn Eugenio and 2B Lacey McGladrey – the conference freshman of the year last season – and will rely on four newcomers for their pitching with Sam Munger, a freshman from Everett, filling the #1 role.
SMUSaints.com has the full preview.
I missed the SPSCC/Grays Harbor men’s and women’s games played on Monday night at SPSCC, my apologies.
The Choker women dropped the Clippers 65-63 to notch their first conference win of the season while the Clipper men worked over Grays Harbor 93-63. The Daily World has recaps for both games (women and men).
Men’s basketball
SPSCC 75, Centralia 66
Eastern Oregon 109, Evergreen 63 – More from Geoducks athletics
MSU-Billings 82, Saint Martin’s 74 – More from MSUBsports.com
SPSCC ground out the only win for Olympia area colleges on Saturday night knocking off Centralia College 75-66 despite 32 points from Centralia’s Van Lockett. The Clippers improve to 3-5 in the NWAACC West division and Centralia drops to 2-7.
Women’s basketball
Centralia 61, SPSCC 41
Eastern Oregon 54, Evergreen 53 – More from Geoducks athletics
MSU-Billings 58, Saint Martin’s 52 – More from SMUSaints.com
The Evergreen State College women, just 4-18 on the season, continue to give ranked opponents fits. On Saturday in La Grande, the Geoducks fell just a buzzer beater short of beating the #8 ranked Eastern Oregon Mountaineers falling 54-53. The Geoducks led by as many as ten in the second half and were up by one with just 2.4 seconds left but were whistled for a fould and EOU’s Dominique Johnson sank both her free throws to win the game. Black Hill’s Danielle Swain led the way for Evergreen with 18 points and nine rebounds.
Boy’s basketball
Northwest Christian 66, Ocosta 48
Zach Carras scored 21 points for the Northwest Christian Navigators…all in the second quarter. That’s a solid eight minutes of work.
Indoor Soccer
South Sound FC Shock 13, WSA Rapids 8 – Unofficial score, as recalled by @Emmettoconnell
UPDATE FROM SSFC: South Sound FC 12, WSA 9
Big win for the South Sound FC in their third home game at Tumwater Indoor Sports. WSA Rapids was undefeated coming into the game and had beaten the shock 11-3 at the Bellingham Sportsplex in December. The win moves the Shock’s record to .500 at 3-3.
Busy morning in the OlySports.com household, sorry for the delay. I’m sitting in Meconi’s typing this on my phone. Mmm…delicious Meconi’s.
Tonight the Saint Martin’s women play MSU-Billings at Marcus Pavilion at 7:00 PM.
The South Sound FC Shock play WSA Rapids at Tumwater Indoor Sports at 7:00 PM. According to their website, tonight they’ll have a beer garden, giveaways and merchandise for sale. Score!
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