Category Archives: Football

2012 high school football schedule

Week One
August 30th
Capital at Newport – Bill Green Stadium, Bellevue – 7:00 PM

August 31st
Black Hills vs. Clover Park – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
North Thurston @ Steilacoom – Steilacoom HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Olympia vs. Lake Oswego – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:00 PM
River Ridge @ Timberline – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Tumwater @ Shelton – Highclimber Stadium – 7:00 PM
Yelm @ Highline – Highline Stadium, Burien – 7:00 PM
Rochester vs. Ridgefield – Rochester HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Tenino @ Raymond – Raymond HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Rainier @ Naselle – Naselle High School – 7:00 PM

Week Two
September 7th
Black Hills @ North Thurston – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Timberline @ Tumwater – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
Olympia @ Capital – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:30 PM
Yelm vs. Olympic – Yelm HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Shelton @ North Mason – Pugh Stadium, Belfair – 7:00 PM
Rainier vs. Mossyrock – Rainier HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Tenino vs. Washougal – Tenino Stadium – 7:00 PM
River Ridge @ Sequim – Sequim High School – 7:00 PM
Rochester vs. RA Long – Rochester High School – 7:00 PM

Weet Three
September 13th
North Thurston vs. Foss – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM

September 14th
Black Hills @ Bainbridge – BI Stadium – 7:00 PM
Capital vs. Bothell – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:00 PM
Olympia @ Timberline – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Yelm @ Stadium – Stadium Bowl, Tacoma – 7:00 PM
Shelton vs. Wilson – Highclimber Stadium – 7:00 PM
Rochester @ Rainier – Rainer HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Tenino vs. Elma – Tenino Stadium – 7:00 PM
Tumwater vs. Inglemoor – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM

September 15th
Ridgefield vs. River Ridge – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM

Week Four
September 21st
Black Hills vs. Aberdeen – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
North Thurston @ Lincoln – Lincoln Bowl, Tacoma – 7:00 PM
Olympia vs. Stadium – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:00 PM
Timberline @ Wilson – Stadium Bowl, Tacoma – 7:00 PM
Shelton @ Yelm – Yelm HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Rochester @ Hoquiam – Olympic Stadium, Hoquiam – 7:00 PM
River Ridge vs. Hockinson – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Tenino vs. Forks – Tenino Stadium – 7:00 PM
Rainier @ Elma – Elma High School – 7:00 PM

September 22nd
Tumwater @ Capital – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:00 PM

Week Five
September 27th
Timberline vs. Lincoln – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM

September 28th
Black Hills @ River Ridge – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Capital @ Centralia – Tiger Stadium, Centralia – 7:00 PM
Olympia @ South Kitsap – SK Stadium, Port Orchard – 7:00 PM
Tumwater vs. W.F. West – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
Shelton vs. Foss – Highclimber Stadium – 7:00 PM
Yelm @ Central Kitsap – Silverdale Stadium – 7:00 PM
Rainier vs. Tenino – Rainier HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Rochester vs. Elma – Rochester High School – 7:00 PM

September 29th
North Thurston vs. Wilson – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM

Week Six
October 5th
Black Hills vs. W.F. West – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
Capital @ Bellarmine – Memorial Field, Tacoma – 7:00 PM
Olympia vs. Central Kitsap – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:00 PM
Tumwater @ North Thurston – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Timberline @ Foss – Mount Tahoma Stadium, Tacoma – 7:00 PM
Yelm vs. South Kitsap – Yelm HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Shelton @ Lincoln – Lincoln Bowl, Tacoma – 7:00 PM
River Ridge @ Centralia – Tiger Stadium, Centralia – 7:00 PM
Rainier @ Forks – Forks High school – 7:00 PM
Tenino @ La Center – La Center High School – 7:00 PM
Rochester @ Montesano – Montesano High School – 7:00 PM

Week Seven
October 12th
Black Hills @ Capital – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:00 PM
North Thurston @ Shelton – Highclimber Stadium – 7:00 PM
Olympia @ Gig Harbor – Roy Anderson Field – 7:00 PM
Tumwater vs. Centralia – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
Timberline vs. Mount Tahoma – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Yelm @ Bellarmine – Memorial Stadium, Tacoma – 7:00 PM
Rainier vs. Hoquiam – Rainier HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Tenino vs. Montesano – Tenino Stadium – 7:00 PM
River Ridge @ W.F. West – Bearcat Stadium – 7:00 PM
Rochester vs. Forks – Rochester HS – 7:00 PM

Week Eight
October 18th
Tumwater @ River Ridge – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM

October 19th
Black Hills vs. Centralia – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
Capital @ W.F. West – Bearcat Stadium, Chehalis – 7:00 PM
Olympia vs. Bellarmine – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:00 PM
Timberline @ North Thurston – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Shelton @ Mount Tahoma – Mount Tahoma Stadium, Tacoma – 7:00 PM
Yelm vs. Gig Harbor – Yelm HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Rainier @ Montesano – Montesano HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
Tenino @ Hoquiam – Olympic Stadium, Hoquiam – 7:00 PM
Rochester @ Stevenson – Stevenson HS – 7:00 PM

Week Nine
October 26th
Black Hills @ Tumwater – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
North Thurston @ Mount Tahoma – Mount Tahoma Stadium – 7:00 PM
Olympia @ Yelm – Yelm HS Stadium – 7:00 PM
River Ridge @ Capital – Ingersoll Stadium – 7:00 PM
Shelton @ Timberline – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Tenino @ Rochester – Rochester HS – 7:00 PM
Rainier vs. Seton Catholic – Rainier HS Stadium – 7:00 PM

Oly area alumni list – summer (UPDATED 6/21)

One of the goals of Oly Sports is to keep track of local area alumni and their post Olympia area high school or college sports careers. So below is a list of athletes playing professional, semi-pro or in collegiate summer leagues this summer…

Baseball

Minor League Baseball
Jared Sandberg (Capital HS) – Manager, Hudson Valley Renegades
Adam Conley (Olympia HS) – Greensboro Grasshoppers Called up to Jupiter Hammerheads
Seth Harvey (River Ridge HS) – Wisconsin Timber Rattlers Promoted to Brevard County Manatees
Kramer Champlin (Olympia HS) – Lansing Lugnuts
Alex Phillips (Tenino HS) – Connecticut Tigers
Jacob Pettit (Hawks Prairie Cardinals – PSCL) – Bowie Baysox
Cody Hebner (Olympia Athletics – PSCL) – Fort Wayne Tincaps
Chris Scholl (Hawks Prairie Cardinals – PSCL) – Arkansas Travelers
Jake Shadle (Hawks Prairie Cardinals – PSCL) – Giants extended spring training

Independent Baseball
Joash Brodin (North Thurston HS) – London Rippers

Collegiate wood bat summer baseball
Jason Monda (Capital HS) – Brewster Whitecaps
Kellen Camus (Capital HS) – Waterloo Bucks
Jourdan Weiks (Capital HS) – Herndon Braves
Tanner Nielsen (North Thurston HS) – Klamath Falls Gems
Cabe Reiten (Olympia HS) – Wenatchee Applesox

Basketball

Semi-pro
Blake Poole (Saint Martin’s) – Bellingham Slam
Jeremy Green (Saint Martin’s) – Bellingham Slam Left team
Nate Menefee (Timberline HS, Evergreen) – Olympia Reign
Giovanne Woods (Evergreen, River Ridge HS) – Olympia Reign
Mike Ward (Evergreen) – Olympia Reign
Marcus Wright (Evergreen) – Olympia Reign
Marcus Whitaker (Evergreen) – Olympia Reign
Nicholas Moore (Evergreen) – Olympia Reign
Julio Feliciano (Evergreen) – Olympia Reign

Football

National Football League
Jonathan Stewart (Timberline HS) – Carolina Panthers
Matt Johnson (Tumwater HS) – Dallas Cowboys

Rugby

Scott LaValla (North Thurston HS) – US National Team

Soccer

Zach Lubin (Saint Martin’s) – Kitsap Pumas

I’m sure this is not a complete list. If you know someone that I have left off, please let me know in the comments or drop me an email.

And I purposefully didn’t include anybody playing in the Puget Sound Collegiate League because there are so many of them. You can find them by going to the PSCL website.

Tumwater’s Matt Johnson drafted by Cowboys

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2007 Tumwater High School graduate Matt Johnson was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the fourth round of the NFL Draft today. The safety out of Eastern Washington is the first player from Tumwater to be drafted. Meg Wochnick at The Olympian has the full story with reaction from Johnson himself.

Here is what Twitter had to say…

https://twitter.com/#!/dallascowboys/status/196297495763095553

https://twitter.com/#!/Matt_Johnson5/status/196328792602591232

https://twitter.com/#!/TBirdFootball/status/196301478028251137

https://twitter.com/#!/Tbird_boysbball/status/196394502649430016

https://twitter.com/#!/BigIrishman16/status/196349747815129088

https://twitter.com/#!/gstoney23/status/196389788771815424

Congratulations to Matt and you can bet that Oly Sports will keep you updated on his progress.

Photo credit: EWU Athletics