Category Archives: Saint Martin’s University
Also today (2/28): Saints baseball in the rain, women’s basketball hosts Western
College baseball
Saint Martin’s vs. Lewis & Clark State – The RAC
Doubleheader began at 1:00 PM
Women’s basketball
Saint Martin’s vs. Western Washington – Marcus Pavilion – 7:00 PM
Tesch heading to NCAA Championships; Munger honored by GNAC; Swain and Clark earn all-CCC honors
Tesch qualifies for NCAA Championships – Saint Martin’s senior Laura Tesch is heading to Birmingham to compete in the high jump at the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships. Tesch is the first female Saint to qualify for the the NCAA indoor championships since the school moved to the NCAA in 1998. The Renton native and transfer from Humboldt State is currently ranked 18th in Divison II with a school record jump of 5′-6.5″.
Another GNAC honor for Munger – Saints’ sophomore Sam Munger was named GNAC Player of the Week for the second time this season thanks to hitting .467 with five runs scored and four RBI in four games at College of Idaho over the weekend. Munger also went 1-1 on the mound this weekend, losing the first game on Friday to the Coyotes but coming back and pitching a complete game on Saturday.
Swain and Clark honored by CCC – Evergreen women’s basketball’s Danielle Swain was named first team all-conference by the Cascade Conference on Tuesday. The Black Hills alum scored 12.8 points per game, hauled in 8.4 boards per game and blocked 41 shots this season to set a new school career record with 112 over her three years on the court for the Geoducks. Swain, a junior for the Geoducks, will graduate in the spring and will not return to the basketball team next season.
Sammi Clark was also named all-conference honorable mention. The junior scored 11.1 points per game and dished out 3.8 assists per game.
Sunday scores: Saints offense explodes in Idaho
College softball
Saint Martin’s 10, College of Idaho 7
Saint Martin’s 9, College of Idaho 4 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Sam Munger went 4-for-4, drove in three runs and gave up just one earned run over seven innings in Saint Martin’s 10-7 game one win over College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho. Dani Wall went 3-for-4 with four runs driven in and the Saints capitalized on eight Coyote errors.
In game two, Taylor Bakos went 2-for-3 with three RBI and got the win in a six inning, three earned run effort over COI. Joslyn Eugenio went 4-for-5 with a pair of runs driven in as the Saints pounded out 15 hits and moved to 7-5 overall early in the season.
Saturday scoreboard: Saints’ seniors deliver; Timberline shocks #2 Islanders, Hawks season ends
Men’s basketball
Saint Martin’s 84, Montana State-Billings 78 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Centralia 95, SPSCC 66 – Box score
Senior night at Saint Martin’s with their season on the line, Brady Bomber, Roger O’Neill and Eric Taylor delivered. The three seniors combined for 44 points, 30 in the second half, and sophomore Will Bond scored a career high 28 points in the Saints’ 84-78 win over Montana State-Billings at Marcus Pavilion.
The win, combined with Central Washington’s 30 point loss to Northwest Nazarene, keeps the Saints in the hunt for the sixth and final playoff spot. The Saints will need to beat Northwest Nazarene in Nampa and have Western Oregon knock off Central on Thursday to set up a game between the Saints and Wildcats in Ellensburg on Saturday with a trip to the playoffs on the line. Saint Martin’s hosts the GNAC playoffs March 6th through the 9th.
Will Bond’s second three pointer of the night put Saint Martin’s up by eight points, 19-11, at the 12:54 mark of the first half. Following a pair of buckets from Bond, Evan Coulter’s three put the Saints up 26-19 with nine minutes left in the half. The Yellowjackets would finish the half on an 18-9 run including Robbie Trabing’s layup at the buzzer to take a 39-35 lead into the locker room.
Jarrell Crayton’s layup on Billings’ first possession of the second half put them up 41-35 but two quick three pointers by Roger O’Neill and Eric Taylor tied the game at 41. But Sam Johnson’s jumper with 16:20 left to play gave the Yellowjackets their larget lead at 50-42.
But a 12-1 run over the next four minutes put the Saints up by three and they would hold the lead until Johnson surprised everybody by stepping out and hitting a long, straight away three pointer to give Billings a 60-58 lead with 9:30 to play. The two teams would trade the lead back and forth over the next eight and a half minutes.
Down 76-75 with less than a minute to play, Taylor’s drained a three pointer for a 78-76 lead and put the Saints up for good. Bomber, Bond and Taylor went 6-for-6 from the line in the final minute of play to ice the game and give the Saints the 84-78 win.
Seniors O’Neill and Taylor scored 13 points each in the second half to finish with 19 and 15 points respectively while fellow senior Bomber scored 10 points and dished out six assists. Bond scored 16 points in the second half en route to his career high 28.
Jarrell Crayton paced Billings with 19 points and David Arnold added 18.
Women’s basketball
Alaska-Fairbanks 67, Saint Martin’s 65 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Centralia 90, SPSCC 27 – Box score
Boys basketball
3A Regionals
Timberline 56, Mercer Island 55
Donaven Dorsey scored 27 points and Timberline held off #2 ranked Mercer Island’s final second attempt to continue their postseason run to the Tacoma Dome with a 56-55 win at Mount Tahoma High School. Elijah Sanders added 12 points for the Blazers who will head to state for the first time since 2004.
2A Regionals
Renton 73, River Ridge 57
District IV champion River Ridge’s bad luck draw of two loss Renton in the regional round came back to kill the Hawks. Renton held Brad Wallace to just 14 points and the Hawks had no answer for Jonathan Patterson, who scored 20. The loss ended River Ridge’s 14 game winning streak and their season ends at 17-7 overall. Wesley Coats added 12 points in the loss.
College softball
College of Idaho 6, Saint Martin’s 2
Saint Martin’s 6, College of Idaho 4
Today (2/23): Senior night at Saint Martin’s; Hawks, Blazers face tough regionals foes
Seniors Brady Bomber, Roger O’Neill and Eric Taylor play in their last home game at Saint Martin’s tonight when the Saints host Montana State-Billings at Marcus Pavilion. Tip-off is set for 7:00 PM.
Bomber has amassed over 700 assists in four seasons as the point guard for the Saints and it will be strange to see them without his steady presence next season.
O’Neill has started every game over the last two seasons and scored his 1,000 career point earlier this season. He averaged 13 points per game last season and leads the Saints at 15.5 points a game in his senior campaign.
Taylor has come off the bench as the Saints’ sixth man for most of his career and is averaging 10 points per game in that role this season. Taylor missed most of his junior season with an ankle injury but played in to many contests to qualify as a redshirt. You can read more about Taylor in this profile from the Saints’ Kyle Karnofski.
Last night it was the girls turn, today it’s the boys in the regional round of the state basketball tournament.
River Ridge, winners of 14 straight games and champions of 2A District IV, draw a ridiculously tough opponent when they take on Renton at 6:00 PM at Tumwater High School. Renton is 22-2 this season and started 19-0 before a late season loss to Kennedy and another to Sumner in the district playoffs. Tonight’s game can be heard on 1240 AM KGY.
After their district run fell just short in the title game, Donaven Dorsey and 15-9 Timberline heads to Tacoma to face 22-3 Mercer Island. The Islanders lost once to a team from Arizona, a one point loss to Bellevue in the regular season and a seven point loss to Lakeside in the district tournament. They are led by 6-8 senior Joe Rasmussen, who will be heading to Seattle Pacific for college.
In others regionals action around the Olympia area…
2A Regionals
Mark Morris vs. Anacortes – Tumwater – 4:00 PM
1B Regionals
Evergreen Lutheran vs. Sunnyside Christian – Timberline HS – 4:00 PM
Tulalip Heritage vs. Taholah – Timberline HS – 6:00 PM
Thursday scoreboard: Saints go cold against Seattle Pacific and Anchorage
Men’s basketball
Seattle Pacific 60, Saint Martin’s 46 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Saint Martin’a led #5 Seattle Pacific 23-21 at the 6:30 mark in the first half but it would be the Saints last basket of the half as the Falcons took a 33-23 lead into the locker room with a 12-0 run. The Falcons extended their lead to 23 points before the Saints rallied to get within 12 points with three minutes to play. But it was too little, too late and Seattle Pacific moved to 20-3 overall with a 60-46 win at Marcus Pavilion.
Roger O’Neill scored 12 first half points but the Falcons defense buckled down and O’Neill managed to hit just one free throw the rest of the night to finish with a team high 13. Will Bond scored 10 points including the three pointer late in the game that cut the SPU lead to 12 and Brady Bomber dished out seven assists.
David Downs scored 20 points for the Falcons including his 1,000th point of his career and 6’4″ guard Riley Stockton pulled down 15 rebounds. SPU killed the Saints on the boards outrebounding them 48-23 scoring 21 second chance points. The Falcons also went 19-of-30 from the charity stripe on 21 SMU fouls. Seattle Pacific was called for just nine personal fouls.
The Saints fall to 8-15 overall and 4-11 in GNAC play.
Women’s basketball
Alaska Anchorage 76, Saint Martin’s 58 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Chelsea Haskey scored 22 points including 18 in the second half as the Saints shot 50% from the field in the final 20 minutes but were unable to overcome a 21 point halftime deficit and fell to Alaska Anchorage 76-58 in Alaska.
Tonight (2/21): Saints host #5 Seattle Pacific
Just two home games remain in the Saint Martin’s men’s basketball season starting tonight when the Saints take on #5 ranked Seattle Pacific at Marcus Pavilion. Tonight’s game is a “Black Out” and fans are encouraged to wear black and there will be a Harlem Shake video filmed at halftime.
At 4-10 in conference, the Saints still mathematically have a chance to make the GNAC Tournament but they are a long shot. They currently trail Central Washington for sixth place by three games with four games left to play including a matchup with the Wildcats on the final day of the regular season. Roger O’Neill is sixth in the GNAC scoring 15.6 points per game.
Seattle Pacific is 19-3 overall and 12-2 in conference play with both losses coming to #2 ranked Western Washington. The Falcons are led by David Downs’ 14 points per game and 5.5 assists per game while Jobi Wall is second in the NCAA Division II shooting 46.2% from behind the arc. SPU easily handled the Saints in their first meeting, an 82-54 victory at Royal Brougham Pavilion in Seattle.
Tip-off is set for 7:00 PM. If you can’t make it to Marcus Pavilion, you can watch the game and hear me on the call by clicking here.
Sunday scoreboard: Shock win title; Rise knock off Gymrats; Saints baseball falls in Arizona
PASL Northwest Division championship
South Sound Shock 7, Kitsap Pumas 4 – Photo gallery
American Basketball Association
Olympia Rise 115, Shizuoka Gymrats 78
College baseball
Grand Canyon 5, Saint Martin’s 4 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Saturday scoreboard: Blazers, Hawks seasons continue, Cougars, Wolves seasons end; Saints win, Geoducks women make playoffs
Boys basketball
3A West Central/SW Bi-District semifinals
Timberline 52, Foss 48
Timberline’s Cinderella run continued on Saturday night with their 52-48 upset of Foss. Donaven Dorsey scored 16 points including 10 points in the fourth quarter. Dezymyn Trent scored 29 points for the Falcons in the loss. The Blazers will take on Lincoln on Monday at the ShoWare Center for the district title. Both teams have already qualified for the regionals. Tip-off is scheduled for 4:00 PM.
2A District IV consolation
Washougal 74, Capital 67
Capital’s season comes to an end with their 74-67 loss to Washougal at Mark Morris High School in Longview.
Girls basketball
2A District IV consolation
River Ridge 48, Hockinson 35
Centralia 73, Black Hills 62
Jazzlyn Brewster scored 18 points to keep River Ridge’s season alive with a 48-35 win over Hockinson. The Hawks will take on Centralia in a loser out/winner to regionals game on Tuesday night following the Tigers’ victory 73-62 win over Black Hills. Sydney Sauls scored 16 points and Hope Mortensen added 15 points for the Wolves in the loss.
Men’s basketball
Saint Martin’s 80, Simon Fraser 60 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Northwest 89, Evergreen 63 – Recap from Evergreen athletics
Grays Harbor 103, SPSCC 97 – Box score
Roger O’Neill scored 24 points and Rei Jensen added 13 in Saint Martin’s 80-60 win over Simon Fraser in Burnaby, British Columbia. Will Bond and Eric Taylor each scored 11 points and Brady Bomber dished out eight assists.
Evergreen wrapped up their season with an 89-63 loss to Northwest University. Cody Peters scored 15 points off the bench and senior Elzie Dickens scored 10 in his last game as a Geoduck. Evergreen finishes the season at 2-24 and are 3-50 over the last two seasons.
Scotty Ewing scored 29 points, Jamey Smith added 21 points and 12 boards and Kole Podowicz chipped in 19 but Grays Harbor outran South Puget Sound 103-97.
Women’s basketball
Saint Martin’s 58, Western Oregon 53 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Evergreen 55, Northwest 47 – Recap from Evergreen athletics
Grays Harbor 58, SPSCC 33 – Box score
Chelsea Haskey scored 18 points and MacKenzie Taylor added 15 points, all in the first half, to lead Saint Martin’s to a 58-53 win over Western Oregon at Marcus Pavilion. The Saints’ continued to play outstanding defense forcing the Wolves into 27 turnovers and held Western’s two leading scorers to just 13 points.
With a 55-47 win over Northwest in Kirkland, Evergreen qualified for the playoffs for the second straight season. Danielle Swain scored 14 points and pulled down 12 boards and Jessica Denmon posted a double-double of her own with 10 and 10. With the win, Evergreen moved into the #6 seed in the CCC playoffs and will travel to Klamath Falls to take on Oregon Tech on Tuesday night at 7:00 PM.
Stephanee Stedham and McKenzie Raben combined for 28 points, unfortunately the rest of the Clippers could only manage five points in South Puget Sound’s 59-33 loss to Grays Harbor in Aberdeen.
College baseball
Grand Canyon 7, Saint Martin’s 1 – Recap from GCULopes.com
Tonight (2/16): District basketball continues; Saints women at the Pavilion
Three local basketball teams put their seasons on the line tonight, Timberline attempts to move into the district finals and the Saints women take on Western Oregon…
Women’s basketball
Saint Martin’s vs. Western Oregon – Marcus Pavilion – 7:00 PM
Boys basketball
3A West Central District semifinals
Timberline vs. Foss – Franklin Pierce HS, Tacoma – 8:00 PM
2A District IV consolation (loser out)
Capital vs. Washougal – WF West HS, Chehalis – 7:45 PM
Girls basketball
2A District IV consolation (loser out)
River Ridge vs. Hockinson – Mark Morris HS, Longview – 6:00 PM
Black Hills vs. Centralia – Tumwater HS – 7:00 PM
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