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Today (8/30): Saints and Geoducks soccer at home; Capital football opens in Bellevue
The college soccer regular season gets underway in earnest today with a pair of games at Saint Martin’s and Evergreen.
This afternoon, the Saint Martin’s women host Cal State Stanislaus. The Warriors are the defending California Collegiate Athletic Association champions and went 11-4-6 in 2011. First touch is scheduled for 2:00 PM at the SMU Soccer Field.
Following the Saints game, head across town to Evergreen where the Geoduck men host Menlo College at 5:00 PM. Menlo is coming off of a California Pacific Conference championship and a trip to the NAIA national championships in 2011.
And the high school football season kicks off this evening when Capital travels to Bellevue to take on Newport at 7:00 PM. Capital is the #2 ranked 2A team in The News Tribune’s coaches poll released yesterday while Newport was unranked by the coaches in the 4A poll.
My pick…
Capital 35, Newport 24
Saturday scoreboard: Bellas fall to Rodeo City, Nostras knock off Minnesota; Geoducks volleyball drops two more
Roller derby
Rodeo City 178, Oly Rollers Bella Donnas 151
Oly Rollers Cosa Nostra Donnas 212, Minnesota 152
The Bella Donnas outscored Rodeo City 105-63 in the second half but it wasn’t enough after digging themselves a hole in the first to trail 115-46 at the break.
In the second bout, the Minnesota Rollergirls led by as many as 23 points in the first half before the Cosa Nostra Donnas stormed back to take a 16 point lead at the half. The Donnas then went on a 30-3 run to open up the second half and withstood a barrage that brought Minnesota to within 11 points with 16 minutes left to play and outscored MNRG 72-23 the rest of the way to take home a 212-152 victory.
College volleyball
Montana Tech 3, Evergreen 2 (23-25, 25-15, 25-17, 25-22, 15-7)
Montana Northern 3, Evergreen 0 (25-17, 25-13, 25-18) – More from Geoducks athletics
The Evergeen volleyball team came so close to winning their first game under Greg Spector’s and their first game since 2010, but after forcing a fifth set with a 25-22 win in the fourth, the Geoducks ran out of steam and dropped the final set to Montana Tech, 15-7.
Then, in their final game at the Red Lion Frontier/Cascade Challenge in Spokane, the Geoducks were swept in straight sets by Montana Western to finish the weekend at 0-5.
Friday scoreboard: Geoducks volleyball drops two; Senators fall to Studs
College volleyball
Great Falls 3, Evergreen 0 (25-12, 25-6, 25-16)
Montana Western 3, Evergreen 0 (25-16, 25-18, 25-21) – More from Geoducks athletics
Baseball
Seattle Studs 11, Thurston County Senators 9
Thursday scoreboard: Geoducks volleyball falls in opener
College volleyball
(#21) Carroll College 3, Evergreen 0 (25-8, 25-12, 25-5) – More from Geoduck athletics
The college volleyball season got underway at the Red Lion Cascade/Frontier Challenge in Spokane when Carroll College beat Evergreen in straight sets, 25-8, 25-12 and 25-5. Carroll was ranked #21 in NAIA Division II to open the season and have already knocked off the #7 team in the nation while Evergreen was picked to finish last in the CCC.
The Geoducks play two games tomorrow in Spokane, first against the University of Great Falls at noon foilowed by a a matchup with the University of Montana Western at 4:00 PM. Live stats for both games can be found here.
Saints vs. Geoducks women’s soccer photo slideshow
Saint Martin’s and Evergreen squared off today at SMU Soccer Field and both teams fought extremely hard in the first half for what was just a preseason scrimmage. Since it is against NCAA rules to report stats or scores from scrimmages, no final score was reported, but I did see one goal scored by Saint Martin’s in the half that I watched.
Today (8/20): Saints and Geoducks square off
The Geoducks have to replace their two leading scorers including all-CCC second teamer Brianna Speed.
Saint Martin’s women’s soccer plays their third and final scrimmage today and Evergreen kicks off their season when the two teams meet today at SMU Soccer Field at 3:00 PM.
Evergreen was picked to finish eighth in the ten team Cascade Collegiate Conference this season. The Geoducks lost their two leading scorers, Anastasia Daniels and Brianna Speed, the only two seniors on last season’s squad. Daniels scored seven goals and Speed scored four times and had three assists leading the Geoducks to a 5-9-1 record.
Sophomore Lauren Davidson played 14 games in goal in her freshman year last season and made 72 saves and posted a 2.17 goals against average. Dierdra Dornay lead all underclassmen with three goals while Sophie Krauza, Katie Hebein and Rayna Murphy each chipped in two goals.
Evergreen’s biggest problem last season was the road where they went 1-7. At Evergreen Pitch, the Geoducks went 4-2-1 including an overtime loss to Northwest and a shocking upset of then #3 ranked Concordia.
Saturday scoreboard: Trinity spoils Evergreen’s opener.
Men’s soccer
Trinity Lutheran 3, Evergreen 1 – More from Evergreen athletics
In the season opener for both schools, a Sergio Martinez goal put Trinity Lutheran ahead 1-0 in the seventh minute and Amin Lemrini found the back of the net in the 60th minute to give the Eagles a 2-0 lead that proved insurmountable in their 3-1 defeat of Evergreen on Saturday morning.
Brady Espinoza scored the Geoducks’s first goal of the season on a free kick to cut the lead to a goal but Trinity put it away in the 83rd minute on a goal by Sekou Rolland.
Today (8/18): Evergreen soccer kicks off, Saints women scrimmage, Underground Derby doubleheader, Racing
The Evergreen fall athletics season kicks off on Saturday morning at 9:00 AM with a men’s soccer game against Trinity Lutheran at Evergreen Pitch.
The Geoducks were picked to finish fifth in the eight team Cascade Collegiate Conference this season as they return four of their top five scorers from a team that went 5-11-2 overall last season. Senior midfielder George Bundy scored four goals and had four assists last season to lead all returning Geoducks in points. Fellow seniors Josh Flavin and Brandon Wood each also scored four goals last season while yet another senior Josh Strasser added two goals and two assists.
Evergreen and Trinity Lutheran met twice last season with Trinity taking both games by a combined score 0f 6-0.
And if that isn’t enough college soccer for you on Saturday, head over to the SMU Soccer Field for the Saint Martin’s women’s second scrimmage of the young season. The Saints take on NAIA powerhouse Concordia at 4:00 PM. The Cavaliers were the national runners-up in NAIA Division II last season posting a 20-5-1 record, are the unanimous choice to win the Cascade Collegiate Conference this season and are currently ranked #2 in the nation.
When you have had your fill of soccer, head over to Skateland! for an Underground Derby doubleheader featuring the UDL’s Death Dealing Dolls taking on the Spokanibals followed by a Grease themed bout featuring members of the other UDL teams playing as the Pink Ladies and the T-Birds.
Doors to the Dog Days of Summer bouts open at 6:00 PM with derby action getting underway at 6:30. Tickets to the doubleheader are $15 and can be purchased at the doors.
And finally, it should be a really nice evening to head out to South Sound Speedway for the super late model 100, street stocks, bumblebees, WMRA and NW Pro-4 Trucks. Tickets are $16 for adults at the speedway. Qualifying begins at 5:00 PM and racing starts at 6:30.
Poole, Ward, Bain named to IBL all-star teams
One Saint Martin’s alum and two members of the Olympia Reign were named International Basketball League all-stars on Monday. Blake Poole was named to the first team and barely missed out on the MVP award in leading the Bellingham Slam to the IBL championship and the Reign’s Mike Ward and Gjio Bain were named to the second team after leading the Reign to the IBL semifinals. All three players will represent the IBL in the Southern California Summer Pro League July 24-29th.
Former Saint Blake Poole earned first team honors after averaging 18.7 points per game and 13.2 rebounds per game. In his second season with the Slam, the 6’5″ center had 15 double-doubles out of 20 games this season including a 24 point, 22 rebound, six assist game against the Yamhill HighFlyers on June 23rd and a 23 point, 15 rebound, seven assist game against the Portland Chinooks in the IBL championship game on July 8th. This winter, Poole will return to Germany for a second season but with a new team, BG Topstar Leitershofen. He starred for BG Dorsten in his first German Pro-B season averaging 14.9 ppg and 12.9 rpg.
In his fourth season with the Olympia Reign, Mike Ward was the team’s most consistent player this season, averaging 20.7 points per game, 6.2 board per game and 4.2 assists per game from the guard position. Ward, an Evergreen alum, had his best game on May 18th when he scored 39 points against the Portland Chinooks. Ward also came up big in two late season games against the Edmonton Energy. Ward had 30 points, six boards and seven assists in an overtime win to close the regular season and 27 points, five boards and six assists in an playoff opening round upset of the Energy.
After joining the Reign on June 22nd during their trip to Orlando, Gjio Bain solidified their center position by scoring 15 points per game and hauling in 12.8 rebounds per game and the Reign went 4-2, their best stretch of the season, in his six games with the team. Bain, a seven footer from Southern Miss, had averaged 8.8 ppg and 8.9 rpg as a member of the Orlando Venom.
Andre Murray of the Vancouver Volcanoes was named MVP and Bellingham’s Morris Anderson was named Defensive Player of the Year. The full list of honorees can be found here.
Quick Links: Perry, Nichols, Buckland, Bossio, Brodin, Poole, Green and a Geoduck
I am way behind on posting links, so here are some from just the last week that have caught my eye…
- North Thurston cross country coach and teacher Heidi Perry is running 135 miles in Death Valley – The Olympian
- Dick Nichols is retiring – The Olympian
- Capital’s Brodie Buckland will be rowing for Australia in the Olympics – ThurstonTalk.com
- Another Capital grad, Jarred Bossio is still alive in the PNW Amateur golf tournament – The News Tribune
- North Thurston’s Joash Brodin was named the MVP of the Frontier League All-Star game last night – Pantagraph.com
- Saint Martin’s Blake Poole and Jeremy Green and the Bellingham Slam won the IBL Championship on Sunday – Bellingham Slam
- Uh oh. The Evergreen basketball team will play Pac-12 Utah in Salt Lake City on December 14th – Utah Utes
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