Category Archives: Saint Martin’s University
Tonight (3/24): Fight night in Olympia
If you’ve parked your car in just about any lot in Olympia over the last couple weeks, you’ve either pulled a flyer off your windshield or seen a discarded one on the ground for tonight’s Northwest Fight Challenge XIII -Annihilation! Brought to you by the Academy of Brian Johnson, there will be 10+ MMA fights on the card at the former Apex Carting facility in Tumwater. Tickets are $25 or $50 for VIP, doors open at 6:00 PM and fighting starts at 7:00.
The Saint Martin’s baseball team continues it’s series with Northwest Nazarene today at The SMU baseball field. The two teams split yesterday’s doubleheader and will play another two today starting at noon. Capital grad Tommy Deboer will get the start in game one for the Saints.
Olympia hosts Shelton in a 4A Narrows League game at Ingersoll Stadium at 7:00 PM. Bring yourself a chair and a blanket and enjoy front row seating on the track.
Across town at South Sound Stadium, Timberline hosts Tumwater in a non-league game at 1:00 PM. The feel of tin on your bottom will make you long for dry rot and a closed grandstand and your own camp chair on the track.
Slideshow: Saint Martin’s 8, Northwest Nazarene 1
Photos from game one of Saint Martin’s 8-1 victory over Northwest Nazarene. Again, I’m still figuring out how to use my new lens so these pictures are a bit rough.
Friday scoreboard: Saints split doubleheader
College baseball
Saint Martin’s 8, Northwest Nazarene 1
Northwest Nazarene 6, Saint Martin’s 5 – More from SMUSaints.com
Senior Nate O’Bryan pitched a complete game four hitter and Chandler Tracy hit a three run homerun to highlight a five run third inning to lead Saint Martin’s to an 8-1 win in game one. Zach Leonard went 3-for-5 and Travis Jones added two hits for the Saints in the game.
In game two, the Saints took a 5-1 lead into the seventh inning but River Ridge’s Jon Matos drove in two runs that proved to be the game winner for Northwest Nazarene. Kaleb Wilson pitched five strong innings giving up just one run, Tracey went 3-for-4 and Bobby Twedt and Jones added two hits for the Saints.
High school baseball
North Thurston 3, Aberdeen 2
Black Hills 1, Centralia 0
W.F. West 11, Tumwater 0
High school fastpitch
Olympia 16, Shelton 0
Tumwater 7, W.F. West 6 – 8 innings
Olympia’s Nikki Schroeder went 2-for-3 with four RBI and pitched a complete game shutout giving up just four hits and striking out five Shelton batters. Gabby Braniff and Alexis Sanderlin each had three RBI for the Bears.
Tumwater scored a run in the eighth inning to beat W.F. west, 7-6. The T-Birds took a 6-4 lead into the top of the seventh but the Bearcats scored two to tie the game before the T-Birds redeemed themselves in extra innings.
Boys soccer
North Thurston 0, Capital 0
Today (3/23): Saints baseball, Cougars versus Rams
It seems like it’s been forever since Saint Martin’s played a baseball game in town, but they are back today at SMU Field with great weather for today’s doubleheader against Northwest Nazarene.
The Saints come into the game at 7-19 overall and 3-5 in the GNAC. After a 3-1 start in conference they dropped a pair of doubleheaders at Central Washington and are now in third place. The Crusaders are 13-9 overall and 2-4 in the GNAC and are fourth in the conference. River Ridge alum Jon Matos is hitting .203 with one homerun for NNU. First pitch is at 1:00 PM today.
The North Thurston and Capital boys soccer teams each notched league victories on Thursday night and will square off tonight in a non-league tilt at South Sound Stadium. Nick Salazar has scored two straight game winning goals for the Rams and Matteo Nartempi has scored three goals in his past two games. First kick is at 7:00 PM.
In high school baseball action, Tumwater hosts W.F. West at 4:30 PM and there are probably other makeup games scheduled that I have not seen on schedules yet.
Today (3/20): play ball?
One day after the first passable day of the spring, the weather is once again wreaking havoc with the schedule. Today and Wednesday’s scheduled doubleheaders between Saint Martin’s and Northwest Nazarene’s softball teams have already been cancelled and I’d describe these high school baseball and fastpitch games as questionable to doubtful…
High school baseball
Centralia @ North Thurston – 4:30 PM – Postponed to Saturday
Bonney Lake @ Timberline – 4:00 PM
High school fastpitch
Tumwater @ River Ridge – 4:00 PM
North Thurston @ Black Hills – 4:30 PM
The weather won’t stop these 2A EvCo soccer games though…
Aberdeen @ River Ridge – 7:00 PM
W.F. West @ Tumwater – 7:00 PM
Sunday scoreboard: Oly Rollers and Saints softball crush it
College softball
Saint Martin’s 8, Simon Fraser 2
Saint Martin’s 4, Simon Fraser 2 – More from SMUSaints.com
Saint Martin’s took three out of four games in Burnaby over the weekend to take over control of second place in the GNAC behind Montana State-Billings. On Sunday, the Saints shutdown the Simon Fraser bats with Sam Munger and Taylor Bakos both pitching complete games giving up just two runs apiece. Tiffany Griffiths, Joslyn Eugenio and Morgan Klemm each went 4-for-7 in Sunday’s doubleheader for the Saints. Saint Martin’s is now 12-8 overall and 10-5 in the GNAC.
Roller derby
Oly Rollers Costa Nostra Donnas 169, Jet City Rollergirls Bombers 66
Oly Rollers Bella Donnas 46, Dockyard Derby Dames Femme Fiannas 24
College baseball
Central Washington 9, Saint Martin’s 6
Central Washington 19, Saint Martin’s 12 – More from SMUSaints.com
With two wins on Sunday, Central Washington completed the series sweep of Saint Martin’s dropping the Saints to 7-19 overall and 3-5 in the GNAC. LF Adam Hudspeth went 2-for-3 with a home run and RF Chandler Tracy added three hits for the Saints in game one. In game two, the Wildcats put up ten runs in the fourth inning including seven runs off of Saints reliever Josh Moss without recording an out. 2B Mario Sanelli went 2-for-5 with six RBI in game two.
Tuesday scoreboard: Saints roughed up, Blazers beat Hawks, T-Birds and Rams win
College baseball
Concordia 12, Saint Martin’s 5 – More from CascadeConference.org
Concordia jumped out to a 8-0 lead through five innings in a non-conference game in Portland on Tuesday afternoon and never looked back knocking off Saint Martin’s 12-5. Adam Hudspeth, Bobby Twedt and Travis Jones each had two hits for the Saints. Concordia’s Jared Young went 2-for-4 with four RBI and Timberline graduate Ben Talbot drove in a run for the Cavaliers.
College softball
Corban vs. Saint Martin’s – Canceled
Boys soccer
North Thurston 1, Aberdeen 1 – North Thurston wins 6-5 in shootout
Timberline 2, River Ridge 1
Tumwater 3, Centralia 1
Decatur 2, Capital 1
W.F. West 3, Black Hills 1
Timberline and River Ridge were scoreless until the 51st minute when Alec Davies scored the first goal for the Blazers. The Hawks got the equalizer three minutes later from Augustin Arriaga before Casey French scored the game-winner for the Blazers with less than two minutes remaining. The Blazers are now 2-0 overall. North Thurston got a goal from David Gregg in the 50th minute and took their second straight game to the shootout this time beating Aberdeen 6-5. The Rams are 1-1 overall and 1-0 in the 2A EvCo. Tumwater’s Kevin Weyand scored twice in their 3-1 win over Centralia. Nathaniel Gunderson also scored a goal in the 50th minute for the T-Birds.
Blake Poole’s season comes to an end
Photo credit: Pieper
Saint Martin’s alum Blake Poole’s fantastic rookie season in Germany came to an end on Saturday with a 74-67 playoff loss to Uni-Riesen Leipzig. Poole scored 15 points and had 15 rebounds in the loss and finished the season averaging 14.9 points per game and 12.9 rebounds per game. He had 20 double-doubles in 26 games and led the team in rebounding in all but one game this season. His best game came on January 28th when he scored 21 points and pulled down 19 boards in a 91-78 defeat of Herzöge Wolfenbüttel.
Saturday scoreboard: Saints baseball takes 2 of 3, softball swept
College baseball
Saint Martin’s 4, MSU-Billings 3 – 10 innings (completion of Friday’s game)
Saint Martin’s 9, MSU-Billings 7
MSU-Billings 7, Saint Martin’s 4 – More from SMUSaints.com
Saint Martin’s had two more comeback wins on Saturday before losing the final game to Montana State-Billings and are now 7-13 overall and 3-1 in the GNAC, good enough for second place behind Western Oregon. In the first game, the Saints scored two runs in the bottom of the 10th on an error by the Yellowjackets catcher on a Chaz Ferreira bunt and in the second game, down 7-4, the Saint scored five runs in the sixth inning and held on for the victory.
College softball
MSU-Billings 7, Saint Martin’s 4
MSU-Billings 3, Saint Martin’s 1 – More from SMUSaints.com
Tough day for Saint Martin’s who dropped two to the Yellowjackets and fell out of first place in the GNAC. Timberline graduate Annaleisha Parsley picked up the win for the Yellowjackets in game one. Morgan Klemm went 4-for-8 in the doubleheader to lead the Saints.
Boys soccer
North Thurston 5, North Thurston alumni 2
Timberline alumni 4, Timberline 2
Capital vs. Black Hills – No report
North Thurston alum Andy Cantrall had the save of the game on Saturday night at South Sound Stadium but the youth and speed of Coach Knudson’s team was too much for the NTHS alumni who dropped the game 5-2.
High school baseball
West Seattle 6, Tumwater 1
Capital at Centralia – Rained out
Today (3/10): Saints and Yellowjackets continue, boys soccer kicks off
The Saint Martin’s/Montana State-Billings softball and baseball doubleheader extravaganza continues on Saturday and even includes some extra baseball from a third game. It all starts at 11:00 AM at the SMU baseball field when the Saints and Yellowjackets continue their 2-2 suspended game from Friday afternoon. It then continues with a doubleheader at both the baseball and softball field with first pitch for both games scheduled for 1:00 PM. Weather may move the baseball games to the RAC, which is a good bet since it is currently pouring.
Boys soccer kicks off around town today with a handful of games. At South Sound Stadium are a fun pair of alumni games. The Timberline boys play Blazer alumni at 3:00 PM and North Thurston plays their alumni at 7:00 PM and there will be a 21-and-0ver alumni after party at O’Blarney’s following the games.
Black Hills and Capital also kick off their seasons on Saturday with a 2:00 PM game at Black Hills High School.
Oly Sports 