Category Archives: High school
Today (3/15): soccer plays in the rain
I’m not going to worry about posting the schedules for baseball or fastpitch or any other weather dependent sport unless I hear that they are going to try to play through this mess. But soccer isn’t weather dependent, typically, so here’s what is going on tonight…
Tumwater @ North Thurston – 7:00 PM
Enumclaw @ Capital – 7:00 PM
River Ridge @ Black Hills – 7:00 PM
Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s the most wonderful day of the year. Yes, I have the March Madness.
Wednesday scoreboard: Navigators, Bears win
About the games on turf fields in Lacey, the high school fastpitch and baseball teams were able to play their games today, but the big boys from Olympic College and Lower Columbia were rained out. What gives? I don’t blame them one bit, it was nasty.
High school baseball
Northwest Christian 8, Tacoma Baptist 7
Tied 5-5 through five innings, Northwest Christian scored three runs in the sixth inning and held off Tacoma Baptist in the seventh inning to pick up their first on-field win of the season.
High school fastpitch
Olympia 7, Curtis 6
Curtis scored five runs in the top of the seventh inning to tie Olympia 6-6 but the Bears scored in the bottom of the seventh to pick up the win. Nikki Schroeder pitched all seven innings for the Bears to pick up the win.
Tonight (3/14): baseball on turf
If your team doesn’t have a turf field, don’t expect to play today. But the Regional Athletic Complex does have a nice turf baseball field and it is getting a workout right now. And not just from local teams.
Today, Olympic College plays a doubleheader against Lower Columbia College starting at 3:00 PM. This is a makeup of a doubleheader that was rained out at Story Field in Longview last week. This is Olympic College’s second third doubleheader that has been moved to the RAC. The Rangers (OC) are 4-4 this season and the Red Devils 1-1.
And just down the road, Bucknell (Skyhawks) Park has a turf field, albeit with a very short porch. Northwest Christian is taking advantage of that park today when they play Tacoma Baptist at 4:00 PM. The Navigators are 1-0 after a Monday forfeit by Oakville.
UPDATE: Olympia’s fastpitch team takes on Curtis today at the RAC. First pitch is scheduled for 3:45. Turf!
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.
Tonight (3/13): spring sports are a go
STOP THE PRESSES: The University of Washington plays in the NIT tonight! Just kidding. Move on.
The spring sports season gets going in earnest tonight and it looks like even this snow won’t stop the fun. Here is the schedule in town as far as I can tell. Of course, all softball and baseball games could easily be canceled…
College softball
Corban University @ Saint Martin’s – doubleheader – 2:00 PM
High school soccer
Aberdeen @ North Thurston – 5:00 PM
Decatur @ Capital – 7:00 PM
Centralia @ Tumwater – 7:00 PM
High school baseball
Tumwater @ North Thurston – 4:30 PM
Centralia @ River Ridge – 4:30 PM
High school fastpitch
River Ridge @ Black Hills – 4:30 PM
Tumwater @ North Thurston – 4:30 PM
Monday scoreboard: Timberline wins in shootout, Northwest Christian wins without getting wet
Boys soccer
Timberline 1, North Thurston 1 – Blazers win shootout 14-13
High school baseball
Northwest Christian 1, Oakville 0 – Oakville forfeited
Tonight (3/12): Lacey Legends Cup 2012
North Thurston and Timberline renew their Lacey Legends Cup rivalry tonight when they open the 2012 boy’s soccer regular season at South Sound Stadium at 7:00 PM. The Rams won last year’s matchup 4-3 in a shootout.
Both schools will be honoring one alumni each. North Thurston will honor 1991 graduate, Jason Dunn. Dunn was a four year all-state player in high school and member of the Rams’ 1991 state championship team. Dunn went on to play at Seattle Pacific University where he was a two time All-American and won an NCAA Division II National Championship. He played professionally for the Seattle Sounders, Witchita Wings, Seattle SeaDogs and Harrisburg Heat and made three appearances with the U.S. National Team.
Timberline is honoring 1999 graduate Willy Leiste. Leiste was named all-league three times while a Blazer and went on to play college ball at Barry University in Miami, Florida. While in at Barry, Leiste went to the NCAA tournament three times, the Final Four twice and the NCAA championship game once in 2000. Following college, Leiste returned to Washington and has been coaching youth, high school and college soccer ever since.
In high school baseball action, Northwest Christian hosts Oakville at Bucknell Park at 4:oo PM. Northwest Christian’s baseball Twitter account has confirmed that this game will go on despite the weather.
In high school fastpitch action, River Ridge is scheduled to play Northwest Christian in but the game will probably be cancelled due to this storm.
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.
Friday scoreboard: Saints baseball wins, Saints softball splits
College baseball
Saint Martin’s 9, MSU-Billings 8 – More from SMUSaints.com
Saint Martin’s 2, MSU-Billings 2 after four innings. Postponed due to darkness, will resume tomorrow
In game one of today’s doubleheader, Saint Martin’s took a 7-0 lead before MSU-Billings scored eight straight runs to take an 8-7 lead in the eighth inning. But Chandler Tracy doubled in two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning and freshman Zach Carter pitched a scoreless ninth inning and the Saints came away with another comeback victory, 9-8. Tracey went 4-for-4 in the game with a triple and two doubles. The second game was tied 2-2 when darkness forced the game to be postponed until 11:00 AM on Saturday morning.
College softball
Saint Martin’s 2, MSU-Billings 1
MSU-Billings 5, Saint Martin’s 3 – More from SMUSaints.com
Saint Martin’s freshman Sam Munger shut down the potent Billings offense pitching a five hitter in a 2-1 Saint victory in game one of this important GNAC weekend series. The Saints scored both of their runs in the first inning on an infield error and held on the rest of the way for the victory. In game two, the Saints held a 2-1 lead after four innings but couldn’t hold on losing 5-3. The Saints are now 7-2 in conference while the Yellowjackets are right behind them at 7-3.
High school baseball
North Thurston 3, Timberline 2
Unofficial score as it is coming from a Twitter user that was a little unsure about the final. Will updated when I see something official.
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