Category Archives: Soccer
Quick links: Klemm, Brown, Weyand, Fairchild, Bean and O’Connell
Morgan Klemm named All-West region second team – SMUSaints.com
Meet Olympia’s Tyler Brown, 15 years-old and playing hockey in Canada – ThurstonTalk.com
Really interesting profile of Tumwater’s German soccer sensation, Kevin Weyand – The Olympian
Oly’s Michael Fairchild honors Crandall Field namesake – The Olympian
Tumwater’s Ryan Bean signs to play baseball for the independent Florence Freedom – Florence Freedom
Emmett O’Connell has an interesting look at Olympia’s minor league baseball stadium in the early 1900’s – Olympia Time
Today (5/8): 2A district soccer; Narrows League leaders meet
The postseason is in full swing today, let’s start with the 2A District IV soccer playoffs…
The undefeated and #1 seeded Tumwater T-Birds face Washougal today at Tumwater Stadium. The T-Birds scored four goals in the first six minutes of their opening district game and demolished W.F. West 9-0. Washougal is coming off a 2-1 win over Aberdeen. First kick is at 6:00 PM.
The North Thurston soccer team upset #1 seed Hockinson 3-0 on Saturday and now faces the GSHL #2 seed Mark Morris at Longview Memorial Stadium with a spot at state on the line. Kickoff is at 7:00 PM.
In other soccer action, the top two teams from the 3A Narrows League meet today at Ingersoll Stadium at 7:00 PM. Capital currently sits in first place at 7-0-2 with Wilson hot on their heels at 7-1-1. Wilson, though, has scored the most goals of any Narrows League team by 40 goals. They currently have 65 goals on the season but were limited to just one goal in their 2-1 loss to Capital on April 19th.
Saturday scoreboard: T-Birds roll; Rams upset Hockinson; Saints snap WOU winning streak
Boys soccer – 2A District IV playoffs
Tumwater 9, W.F. West 0
North Thurston 3, Hockinson 0
College baseball
Western Oregon 19, Saint Martin’s 0
Saint Martin’s 4, Western Oregon 3 – More from SMUSaints.com
High school baseball
Capital 7, North Thurston 5
Today (5/5): District IV soccer playoffs; Saints doubleheader; Rams & Cougars at Cheney
The 2A District IV boys soccer playoffs start today when the EvCo #1 seed and undefeated Tumwater T-Birds host W.F. West. Tumwater got the better of the Bearcats in the regular season winning 2-0 on March 20th and 6-1 on April 17th. First kick at Tumwater Stadium is at 2:30 PM.
In other playoff action, the North Thurston boys soccer team travels to Battle Ground to take on Hockinson, the #1 seed from the Greater St. Helen’s League who are 12-1-2 overall this season. First kick at Battle Ground Stadium is at 6:00 PM.
The Saint Martin’s baseball team returns to action on campus with a doubleheader against GNAC runaway leader Western Oregon. The Wolves are 22-2 in the GNAC and are ten games up on second place Northwest Nazarene and 14 up on the Saints who are 10-18 in conference play. The Saints will honor Ben DeMond, a former Saint Martin’s baseball player that was killed by a drunk driver earlier this spring in Norwich, Connecticut. The memorial will begin at 12:30 PM with first pitch coming at 1:00 PM.
The North Thurston and Capital baseball teams square off in a non-league game at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma. This is the second season the two teams have played at the Triple-A ballpark of the Tacoma Rainiers. Tickets are $15 and includes a ticket to an upcoming Rainiers game, a hot dog and a drink. Game time is at 1:00 PM.
And it wouldn’t surprise me if there are a ton of makeup softball and baseball games around town. Check your local ball yard.
Finally, South Sound Speedway continues their season with a whole host of races tonight including my favorite, bump-to-pass. Qualifying begins at 5:00 PM and racing starts at 6:30.
Thursday scoreboard: Cougars beat Blazers; Chinooks knock off Reign
Boys soccer
Capital 2, Timberline 1
International Basketball League
Portland Chinooks 123, Olympia Reign 113
Today (5/3): Reign, rain, rain
The Olympia Reign hope to get back on track when they host the Portland Chinooks tonight at the Skookum Creek Events Center.
On Saturday night, the Reign picked up their first win of the season with a 138-127 win over the Chinooks in Portland but stumbled Tuesday against the Vancouver Volcanoes losing 114-99. In Saturday’s win, Nicholas Moore and Marcus Whitaker both scored over 30 points and Giovanne Woods added 27. The Chinooks’ Jared Cunningham – from Cleveland State, not the NBA bound, early entry from Oregon State – scored 32 points and brought down 14 boards.
Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 PM
In boys soccer action, Timberline travels to Ingersoll Stadium to take on 3A Narrows League leader Capital at 7:00 PM. Capital is 6-0-2 on the season and Timberline is 3-3-2, good enough for third in league. The two teams played to a 1:1 tie on April 11th.
Weather has already cancelled the 3A Narrows League title game today between Timberline and Yelm. They will go to Districts as the #1 and #2 seeds respectively.
Weather has also moved the Tumwater/North Thurston baseball game to the RAC at 6:00 PM, if it gets played at all. River Ridge is also scheduled to play Centralia today, but it is highly doubtful they will get that game in.
UPDATE: River Ridge and Centralia have been moved to the RAC with first pitch scheduled for 3:00 PM.
Tuesday scoreboard: Hawks knocked out; T -Birds complete undefeated regular season; Reign go cold; Cougars earn spot in districts
Boys soccer
North Thurston 3, River Ridge 3 – NT win 5-4 in shootout
Tumwater 6, Black Hills 1
Timberline 2, Lincoln 1
Capital 4, Yelm 0
River Ridge led by two goals with 24 minutes left to play, a playoff bid on the line, but North Thurston came back to tie it and take it to a shootout where the Rams won, 5-4. River Ridge is out while North Thurston moves on to play Hockinson on Saturday at 6:00 PM at Battle Ground Stadium in the 2A District IV playoffs.
Kevin Weyand and Connor Sigmon scored two goals apiece and secured an undefeated regular season for Tumwater with a 6-1 win over Black Hills.
Bruce Joling also scored two goals for Capital in their 4-0 blanking of Yelm.
International Basketball League
Vancouver Volcanoes 114, Olympia Reign 99
The Olympia Reign returned home to the Little Creek casino but shot just 38% from the field in a 114-99 loss to the defending IBL champion Vancouver Volcanoes. Former Evergreen Geoducks Mike Ward and Nicholas Moore led the Reign with 20 points apiece and Marcus Wright was the only other Reign to crack double digits with 12 points.
High school baseball
Capital 10, Wilson 2
Capital’s 10-2 win over Wilson earned them a spot in the West Central District III playoffs
Today (5/1): 2A EvCo soccer wraps up regular season; Narrows League baseball playoffs underway
I’m getting ready to head to Kansas City for the rest of the week so I’ll have to keep this short. While there, though, Oly Sports will continue in normal fashion since my broken ankle will keep me a lot less busy than I originally planned.
On the schedule tonight, the last regular season soccer games in the 2A EvCo including River Ridge playing for a playoff spot. And the Narrows League baseball playoffs get underway in Tacoma…
Boys soccer
Lincoln @ Timberline – South Sound Stadium – 5:00 PM
North Thurston @ River Ridge – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Black Hills @ Tumwater – 7:00 PM
High School baseball
North Thurston @ River Ridge – 4:30 PM
Black Hills @ Tumwater – 4:30 PM
Wilson vs. Capital – 3A Narrows League playoff – Heidelberg Park, Tacoma – 1:00 PM
Coaching vacancies: Tafoya out at Timberline; Summers at Black Hills
The Olympian reports today that Mike Tafoya has resigned as head boys basketball coach at Timberline high School. Tafoya will remain a teacher at Timberline and his reason for leaving basketball is to focus more on his teaching duties. the Blazers went 7-12 overall and just 1-8 in the 3A Narrows League this season.
Timberline is the second Olympia area school with a boys basketball coaching vacancy. Jamie Berg resigned as head coach at Black Hills last month.
Also last week, Meg Wochnick reported that Black Hills girls soccer coach Lisa Summers stepped down. Summers coached the Wolves in 14 of their 15 seasons and led them to their best record this last fall.
Thursday scoreboard: Saints still alive; T-Birds stay undefeated
College softball
Saint Martin’s 5, Montana State Billings 3 – More from SMUSaints.com
Saint Martin’s 11, Montana State Billings 8 – 9 innings
Saint Martin’s came up huge with their sweep of GNAC leader Montana State Billings in Billings on Thursday afternoon. The Saints had to win to keep their GNAC title hopes alive and after winning game one 5-3, the Saints found themselves down 7-4 in the fourth inning of game two. Morgan Klemm hit a three run homerun to tie the game and then took an 8-7 lead in the top of the seventh but couldn’t hold the lead in the bottom of the seventh and the Yellowjackets tied the game at 8-8. The Saints broke through with three runs in the top of the seventh and held on for the win.
The sweep brings the Saints within two games of the Yellowjackets with just two conference games left to play for both teams. To get the GNAC’s NCAA bid, the Saints have to sweep Northwest Nazarene and hope that Simon Fraser can sweep in Billings on Saturday.
Boys soccer
Tumwater 5, Aberdeen 1
Capital 2, Foss 0
Centralia 1, North Thurston 0
Stadium 3, Olympia 0
W.F. West 2, River Ridge 1
High school baseball
Northwest Christian 12, North Beach 10
W.F. West 5, Tumwater 4
Centralia 7, Black Hills 4
High school softball
Wilson 9, Capital 1
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