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PHOTO GALLERY: Blazers claim league title with 2-0 win over Rams
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A double-squeeze laid down by Blake Nystrom in the third inning scored Chris Roy and Matt Mercer and that was all Timberline would need in claiming the 3A Narrows League title with a 2-0 win over North Thurston on the Rams’ home field.
Cobi Beal, Zach Owens and Tony Ortiz combined to pitch a two hit shutout for the Blazers, who are now 10-0 in league play and 15-2 overall and have outscored their opponents 101-6 in league play. They face Shelton for two games to finish out the regular season and will then be the #1 seed in the Narrows League tournament beginning next week at The RAC.
Riley Storedahl picked up the hard luck loss going 6 1/3 innings with six strikeouts and the Rams fell to 8-2 in league and 11-5 overall. They next face Mount Tahoma twice to close out the regular season and will likely go into the tournament as the #2 seed.
PHOTO GALLERY: Rams remain undefeated in league with 6-1 win over Shelton
Ryan Mets allowed just one run over six innings in North Thurston’s 6-1 victory over Shelton in a battle of 3A Narrows League undefeated teams. Hayden Maliska went 2-for-4 with a triple, a run batted in and a run scored and Matt Zeutenhorst drove in a pair of runs for the Rams off of the Washington State bound senior Jared Welander.
The win moves North Thurston to 7-0 in Narrows play. In those seven games, the Rams have outscored their opponents 79-4 and have given up just 10 hits. Shelton drops to 7-1. The two teams meet again on Wednesday in Shelton.
PHOTO GALLERY: Late goal lifts Capital to 1-0 win
It took 30 minutes, but the Capital boys soccer team finally broke through on a Benedict Thurnher goal and held on for a 1-0 win over Tumwater at Tumwater Stadium. The win moved the Cougars to 5-2 in the 2A Evergreen Conference while the T-Birds fell to 3-3.
PHOTO GALLERY: Budd Bay Buffaloes vs. Seattle Quake
Budd Bay thoroughly dominated the Seattle Quake winning 60-5 (unconfirmed) on Saturday afternoon at Rainier Vista. Surprisingly, the weather held out until just minutes after the final whistle when it started pouring. Sadly, no extremely muddy pictures. But thankfully, I stayed mighty dry.
Wednesday scoreboard: Wolves baseball moves to 5-0 in EvCo; Bears, Cougars softball post easy wins
High school baseball
Black Hills 11, Capital 8 (Photo gallery above)
Olympia 6, Yelm 0
North Thurston 10, Lincoln 0
Tumwater 4, Aberdeen 1
Timberline 10, Bellarmine 0
WF West 4, River Ridge 1
Northwest Christian vs. Taholah – No report
High school softball
Olympia 14, Shelton 0
Capital 7, Black Hills 1
South Kitsap 9, Timberline 1
Bellarmine 4, North Thurston 3
WF West 15, River Ridge 0
Tumwater vs. Aberdeen – No report
Tuesday scoreboard: Wolves baseball tops Cougars; T-Birds, Cougars softball get EvCo wins
High school baseball
Black Hills 7, Capital 2
WF West 9, River Ridge 0
Aberdeen 4, Tumwater 0
Black Hills’ Henry Cook gave up two earned runs over seven innings in the Wolves’ 7-2 win over Capital at Waits Field. Austin Lee went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI to keep Black Hills unbeaten in the 2A EvCo.
Brad Wallace pitched six innings without giving up an earned run and went 2-for-3 in the game but River Ridge made seven errors and fell 9-0 to WF West. The Bearcats scored three unearned runs in the third inning before extending their lead with six runs in the 7th inning. River Ridge remains winless in the 2A EvCo.
Aberdeen’s Riley Fairchild went the distance and gave up just three hits to give Aberdeen a 4-0 win over Tumwater. (Photo gallery above)
High school softball
Tumwater 10, Aberdeen 2
Capital 4, Black Hills 0
WF West 15, River Ridge 1
Britni Wilson struck out 14 batters and gave up just one hit over seven innings to lead Capital to a 4-0 win over Black Hills. Wilson also went 3-for-4 and drove in a run for the Cougars.
Boys soccer
Shelton 3, Timberline 0
North Thurston 2, Foss 2
Centralia 2, Capital 1 (Centralia won shootout 4-3)
River Ridge @ Tumwater – No report
PHOTO GALLERY: Northwest Fight Challenge XVI
Northwest Fight Challenge XVI featured 13 bouts in front of a near capacity crowd last night at South Sound Sports Center. New laws enacted by the State of Washington tripped some fighters up and a couple of regulated MMA bouts had to be changed to unregulated Muay Thai Kickboxing bouts because the fighters were not licensed through the state to fight MMA, but those fights turned out to be some of the more brutal, thrilling bouts of the night.
Here are the results from Northwest Fight Challenge XVI…
1. David Gines defeated Rocky Olsen – First round tapout
2. Marcus Mendoza defeated Brian Spears
3. Talon Hammons defeated Ryan Edwards
4. Luis Gomez faced Hector Lopez – I Missed the decision of this bout
5. Steve Pederson defeated Josh Cristelli
6. Josh Bean defeated Bryan Reiser
7. Thomas Pierce defeated Curtis Iglesias
8. Nick Coughran defeated Sefo Nansen
9. Julien Martin defeated Armondo Best
10. Joe Briggs defeated Jason Swan
11. Marquis Bryant defeated Omar Petty – TKO after 16 seconds
12. J.D. Cullens defeated Matt Juarez
13. Nick Ryan defeated Woo Johnson – TKO after the first round
Thank you to Dani Shank Johnson and the Academy of Brian Johnson for access and for putting on a well organized (despite a couple of snafus including the fan that collapsed, it looked bad but it sounds like he just fainted) and exciting event.
PHOTO GALLERY: Monday scoreboard: Abes nip Blazers for district title
Boys basketball
3A West Central/SW Bi-District championship
Lincoln 52, Timberline 51
Tied at 51 at the ShoWare Center in Kent, Colorado bound Tre’Shaun Fletcher hit one of two free throws to give Lincoln a 52-51 lead. Timberline took the rebound on the missed free throw, brought the ball over half court and called timeout with 9.2 seconds. Down by one in this back and forth battle, the Blazers would have the last opportunity to win the district title…
Sophomore point guard Brandel Evans had Donaven Dorsey open on a back cut but Evans lost the handle, had to track the ball down and had the last second desperation shot blocked by Fletcher and the Abes would hold on to claim the West Central/Southwest Bi-District championship and the #1 seed into the regionals.
Dorsey scored a game high 25 points while Evans added 12 for the Blazers, who have won eight of their last ten games including a loser out game in the opening round of the districts and two upsets over Lakes and Foss to get to the final game. Timberline will claim the #2 seed and will face Mercer Island on Saturday at Mount Tahoma High School. Tip is set for 4:00 PM.
Fletcher scored 21 points for the Abes and Cal commit Ahmaad Rorie added 13. The Abes will play Columbia River on Saturday, also at Mount Tahoma.
PHOTO GALLERY: Shock win PASL Northwest Division Title
The South Sound Shock, who played two of their regular season games this season and their entire inaugural season in 2012 at Tumwater Indoor Sports, knocked off the Kitsap Pumas 7-4 at the Gig Harbor Athletic Club on Sunday afternoon. The win sends the Shock to San Diego for the PASL’s national tournament in March.
Derek Johnson (#9) scored twice for the Shock and Nate Ford (#11) notched the hat trick including a full pitch goal in the closing minutes on an empty net while the Pumas were using a sixth attacker. Aaron Anderson was credited with 22 saves.
Matt Friesen scored twice and Dustyn Brim made 21 saves for the Pumas.
Read more on the game from the Kitsap Sun.
PHOTO GALLERY: South Sound Shock vs. WSA Rapids
In a wild back and forth game, the South Sound Shock and WSA Rapids finished tied at seven all after regulation and went to penalty kicks at Gig Harbor Athletic Club on Saturday night. Each team had a goal disallowed during the penalty kick session but Joey Gjertsen’s blast in the third and final round gave the Shock a 9-8 win that moves them into the PASL Northwest Finals against the Kitsap Pumas on Sunday night.
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