Category Archives: High school
Friday scoreboard: Slam spoils Reign’s casino opener
International Basketball League
Bellingham Slam 133, Olympia Reign 104
Saint Martin’s alum Blake Poole scored 15 points and brought down 13 rebounds and the Saints’ Jeremy Green added 15 points to help the Bellingham Slam to a 133-104 spoiling of the Olympia Reign’s debut at the Skookum Creek Events Center at the Little Creek Casino. Three former Evergreen Geoducks – Mike Ward, Marcus Wright and Nick Moore – led the way for the Reign scoring 20, 13 and 12 points respectively.
The two teams battled back and forth for the first seven minutes of the game and Ward’s field goal at the 5:06 mark gave the Reign a 15-12 lead. The Slam then went on a 17-2 run to close out the first quarter and never allowed the Reign to get within eight points again.
Up 63-51 at halftime, the Slam reeled off the first seven points of the second half to take a 19 point lead. The Reign had one breath of life left cutting a 22 point lead to just 12 in the third quarter but the Slam outscored the Reign 46-29 over the last 13 minutes of the game to give themselves the easy victory.
Bellingham was led by Ira Graham’s 27 points and six rebounds. Morris Anderson added 26 points and seven boards. Paul Hafford chipped in 18 points and Michael Duty scored another 15.
Ward scored 18 points for the Reign in the first half but was held to just one basket in the final 24 minutes of play. River Ridge’s Giovanne Woods scored 11 points while Chris Weakley and Jacob Manning added ten points each for Olympia. Ex-Timberline Blazer and Geoduck superstar Nate Menefee looked rusty in scoring just six points on 1-for-8 shooting after arriving part way into the first quarter. The NAIA All-American averaged over 26 points for the Reign last season.
The Olympia Reign have over a week to work out the kinks and will travel to the 212 Sports Complex in Clackamas, Oregon on Saturday, April 28th to take on the Portland Chinooks. They return to Little Creek on Tuesday, May 1st when they play host to the Vancouver Volcanoes at 7:00 PM.
High school baseball
Tumwater 1, Aberdeen 0
Black Hills 4, River Ridge 3
Gig Harbor 6, Capital 3
Ocosta 5, Northwest Christian 4
High school softball
Tumwater 7, Aberdeen 0
Thursday scoreboard: Saints pound Wildcats; Blazers, Rams, Cougars score soccer wins
College softball
Saint Martin’s 13, Central Washington 0 – More from SMUSaints.com
On March 4th, the Saint Martin’s softball team lost a game to Central Washington 7-3. However, the Saints protested a home run in the bottom of the first inning that was originally called foul and then changed to fair after the umpires discussed the call at the request of the Wildcats’ coaches. The protest was upheld, the loss was struck from the Saints’ record and today the game resumed from just before the home run happened over a month ago.
And this time, Sam Munger got the out and proceeded to pitch a two hit, five inning mercy rule shutout and the Saints won easily, 13-0. Saint Martin’s had 17 hits in the game including six combined hits for Munger and Morgan Klemm that accounted for five of the Saints’ runs. Lacey McGladrey went 2-for-4 with a homer and two RBI.
The Saints have won three straight games to move to 28-15-1 overall and 18-10 in the GNAC.
Boys Soccer
Timberline 5, Yelm 2
North Thurston 4, W.F. West 0
Capital 2, Wilson 1
Centralia 5, River Ridge 1
Aberdeen 6, Black Hills 0
Olympia 1, South Kitsap 1
Xavier Wurtele and Dan Ceban each scored two goals for Timberline in their 5:2 win over Yelm on Thursday night. Wurtele struck first for the Blazers with a goal in the 37th minute, the only goal for the two teams in the first 60 minutes. Including Casey French’s goal in the 61st minute that opened up the floodgates, the two teams combined for six goals in the final twenty minutes of play.
Joey Renaud scored his first hat trick for North Thurston in their 4:0 win over W.F. West in the first game of the South Sound Stadium doubleheader. Keeper Desean Freeman had two saves for the Rams to earn the shutout.
Matteo Nartempi had the game winning goal in the 76th minute in Capital’s 2:1 win over Wilson at Stadium Bowl in Tacoma. Bryce Joling scored early for the Cougars with a goal in the third minute but the Rams answered back quickly with a goal of their own in the third minute from Chris Peterson. The two teams then battled for 73 minutes before Nartempi’s game winner.
Today (4/19): South Sound Stadium hosts soccer doubleheader
North Thurston kicks off a doubleheader of soccer action at South Sound Stadium at 5:00 PM with a 2A EvCo matchup with W.F. West. The Rams are fourth in conference at 4-4 while the Bearcats are fifth at 2-6. The two teams met on March 22nd and played to a 1:1 regulartion tie before a Nick Salazar overtime goal gave North Thurston the 2:1 victory.
In the second half of the doubleheader, Timberline hosts 3A Narrows League rival Yelm. The Blazers come into the game at 1-2-1 in league just ahead of 0-3-1 The Tornadoes. It will be the first meeting between the two teams this season. First kick is scheduled for 7:00 PM.
Wednesday scoreboard: Saints sweep; Bears’ Houser pitches no-hitter
College softball
Saint Martin’s 11, Northwest Nazarene 0
Saint Martin’s 8, Northwest Nazarene 0 – More from SMUSaints.com
High school softball
Olympia 7, Central Kitsap 2
Tumwater 4, W.F. West 0
Centralia 7, Black Hills 4 – 8 innings
High school baseball
Olympia 11, Central Kitsap 0 – Trevor Houser pitches no-hitter.
Centralia 3, Tumwater 2
W.F. West 3, Black Hills 2
Aberdeen 7, River Ridge 5 – Completeion of suspended game – 11 innings
Aberdeen 15, River Ridge 8
Today (4/18): Can the Saints’ bats heat back up?
If the weather can hold, today is a very good day for the Saint Martin’s softball team’s bats to heat back up. Since returning from their California road trip, the Saints have been shutout in five of their last ten games and have dropped to third place in the GNAC, six and a half games behind MSU Billings. But Northwest Nazarene comes into today at just 5-21 in the GNAC and 6-29 overall and were swept by the Saints 11-3 and 4-0 in a doubleheader on April 4th. First pitch for today’s doubleheader is scheduled for noon. UPDATE: Today’s games have been moved to the RAC.
There are also a handful of high school games scheduled for today…
High school baseball
Lincoln @ Capital – 4:00 PM
Centralia @ Tumwater – 4:30 PM
High school softball
Capital @ Timberline – 4:00 PM
Centralia @ Black Hills – 4:00 PM
Tuesday scoreboard: Blazers baseball keeps winning; Tumwater soccer stays undefeated
High school baseball
Timberline 13, Wilson 9
Centralia 13, Tumwater 1
W.F. West 12, Black Hills 0
Aberdeen 4, River Ridge 4 – suspended in 7th inning due to darkness
High school soccer
Tumwater 6, W.F. West 1
Centralia 4, Black Hills 1
Aberdeen 4, River Ridge 1
High school softball
W.F. West 6, River Ridge 0
Today (4/17): Wolves host first place Bearcats
Fingers crossed, the weather looks promising this afternoon for all of the baseball on the schedule.
Three 2A EvCo league games highlight the schedule with first place W.F. West and star pitcher and Washington State commit Mitch Gueller coming to Black Hills. The Bearcats are in first place at 8-1 while the Wolves are fifth at 4-6. The two teams met on March 30th and W.F. West won easily, 11-1.
Here is the full schedule of baseball games around town today…
W.F.West @ Black Hills – 4:30 PM
Aberdeen @ River Ridge – 4:30 PM
Centralia @ Tumwater – 4:30 PM
Wilson @ Timberline – 4:00 PM
Regardless of weather, soccer plays on with one 2A EvCo game in town tonight and one self-indulgent Olympia sports blogger’s coed over-30 SWSA soccer game on the schedule…
Boys soccer
Centralia @ Black Hills – Tumwater Stadium – 7:00 PM
Coed over-30 soccer
ABCDE FC vs. Ramblin’ Jacks – Horizon Pointe – 6:00 PM
Monday scoreboard: The up too late edition
Up way too late working on a new logo for Oly Sports (I’m not finished since I keep seeing little things that make me unhappy, but you can see the new look below), so no recaps tonight. The Olympian has the highlights right here.
High school baseball
Olympia 7, Central Kitsap 3 – More from The Olympian
Northwest Christian 9, Wishkah Valley 6
High school softball
Capital 10, Lincoln 0
Tumwater 19, River Ridge 1
Tumwater 6, River Ridge 0
Black Hills 8, North Thurston 4
Black Hills 11, North Thurston 8
Wilson 5, Timberline 4
Today (4/16): Baseball and fastpitch, maybe
Rain is in the forecast all week and could be trouble for all our bat and stick games this week. Today should be one of the better days though rain might hit as early as 3:00 PM, just in time to mess up today’s games…
High school baseball
Central Kitsap @ Olympia – 4:00 PM
Wishkah Valley @ Northwest Christian – Bucknell Park – 4:00 PM
High school fastpitch
North Thurston @ Black Hills – 4:30 PM
River Ridge @ Tumwater – 4:30 PM
Stadium @ Olympia – Stevens Field – 4:00 PM
Saturday scoreboard: Saints split; Navigators, Rams win
College softball
Saint Martin’s 8, Western Washington 0
Western Washington 8, Saint Martin’s 0 – More from SMUSaints.com
College baseball
Saint Martin’s 8, MSU Billings 5
MSU Billings 12, Saint Martin’s 5 – More from SMUSaints.com
Women’s soccer
Saint Martin’s 1, Concordia 1 – Exhibition game – More from SMUSaints.com
High school baseball
Northwest Christian 6, Charles Wright 5
North Thurston 15, Black Hills 0
Aberdeen 4, River Ridge 0
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