The Sound Puget Sound Clippers host the Pierce College Raiders tonight with the women’s game tipping-off at 6:00 PM and the men’s game to follow.
The Lady Clippers are 4-16 overall and 1-10 in conference this season and have been much improved over their last four games including a 69-67 overtime win over Green River last week. Sophomore Alychia Colon leads the Clippers with 14.77 points per game, River Ridge’s Monteaka Norwood is right behind her averaging 14.44 ppg and Black Hills‘ Aisha Jones also averages double digits at 12.35 ppg. While it has been a rough season for the Clippers, it is still a far cry from last season when they had to forfeit nearly half their season because they just didn’t have enough bodies to field a team. Pierce College won the first meeting between the two teams, 86-36, behind 25 points from Unique Taufa’asau and Kawehi Hagi’s 23 points. The Raiders also feature two of Monteaka Norwood’s former River Ridge teammates, Natasha Trinidad and Janay Creamer.
The men have also been playing a lot better lately, winning three of their last five games and improving their record to 8-13 overall and 4-7 in conference. Freshman Anye Turner leads the NWAACC in rebounding pulling down 11.76 boards per game. The freshman from Black Hills is also scoring 13.27 points per game. The Clippers are led by freshman Scotty Ewing’s 15.91 ppg. Pierce is coached by former North Thurston girl’s and SPSCC men’s and women’s coach Bill Mendelson (also my driver’s ed teacher) and are led by Alaskan John Palmer’s 12.27 ppg and Tumwater’s Dan Devries 10.58 ppg. The Clippers won the first meeting 73-72 thanks to Anye Turner’s monster 26 point, 20 rebound effort.
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
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.
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
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.
Boy’s basketball
Olympia 56, Bellarmine Prep 53
Foss 61, Timberline 37
Wilson 74, Capital 58
North Thurston 60, W.F. West 53
It was a game of ups-and-downs in Olympia. The Bears took a 15 point lead at halftime but were outscored by Bellarmine 25-9 in the third quarter and found themselves down 44-43. But Olympia took the final period 13-9 to score the upset of the state’s #1 ranked team. Senior guard Trevor Houser led the way for Olympia with 17 points while Dominick Franks and Brendan Leonard each added 12 points.
Girl’s basketball
Bellarmine Prep 65, Olympia 47
Wilson 71, Capital 17
Timberline 49, Foss 29
Women’s basketball
Highline 60, SPSCC 45
Men’s basketball
According to Twitter, Highline blew out the Clippers though I can’t find a score anywhere. Highline 80, SPSCC 51.
P.S…I know that I’m missing some makeup games around town that were not listed on any schedules or calendars. The only one I found was the North Thurston/W.F. West boy’s basketball score.
Big boy’s basketball game in the 4A Narrows League tonight when Olympia (10-3 overall, 6-1 Narrows) plays host to #1 ranked Bellarmine Prep (12-1 overall, 8-0 Narrows). on December 16th, the Bears nearly pulled off the upset losing 51-49 at Bellarmine. Tip-off is set for 7:00 PM at Chick Rockey Gym.
In other boy’s basketball action, Timberline (5-8 overall, 0-4 Narrows) hosts Foss (10-2 overall, 2-1 Narrows) and Capital (5-5 overall, 2-1 Narrows) hosts #6 ranked Wilson (12-2 overall, 4-0 Narrows).
The South Puget Sound Clippers host Highline tonight. The doubleheader tips off at 6:00 with the women and continues at 8:00 with the men.
After forfeiting a good portion of their games last year when they couldn’t field a team, the Clippers women (3-11 overall, 0-5 NWAACC West) are again down to only seven players. Three players do most of the work for the Clippers as Alychia Colon, Monteaka Norwood and Aisha Jones all average just over 13 points per game.
The men’s team (5-10 overall, 1-4 NWAACC West) is lead by Black Hill’s Anye Turner and Georgia native Scotty Ewing, who are each scoring 15 points per game. They’ll have to stop Highline’s (4-12 overall, 3-4 NWAACC West) 6’10” freshman forward, Nikosi Ali (another Georgia native) and his 16.8 points per game.
Men’s basketball
Corban College 82, Evergreen 65 – read more in Evergreen’s game recap.
Tacoma CC 92, SPSCC 80 – More from The Olympian.
Women’s basketball
Corban College 61, Evergreen 50 – More from Evergreen.
Tacoma CC 66, SPSCC 56 – More from The Olympian.
Boy’s basketball
Wilson 61, Timberline 49
Lincoln 60, Capital 33
Centralia 56, River Ridge 49 in overtime
Girl’s basketball
Wilson 70, Timberline 44
River Ridge 38, Centralia 21
South Puget Sound has postponed tonight’s games at Tacoma until Monday night…
https://twitter.com/#!/spscc_athletics/status/160056280516526080
At least the women’s team has games to postpone this season.
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