Category Archives: Soccer
Tonight (3/24): Fight night in Olympia
If you’ve parked your car in just about any lot in Olympia over the last couple weeks, you’ve either pulled a flyer off your windshield or seen a discarded one on the ground for tonight’s Northwest Fight Challenge XIII -Annihilation! Brought to you by the Academy of Brian Johnson, there will be 10+ MMA fights on the card at the former Apex Carting facility in Tumwater. Tickets are $25 or $50 for VIP, doors open at 6:00 PM and fighting starts at 7:00.
The Saint Martin’s baseball team continues it’s series with Northwest Nazarene today at The SMU baseball field. The two teams split yesterday’s doubleheader and will play another two today starting at noon. Capital grad Tommy Deboer will get the start in game one for the Saints.
Olympia hosts Shelton in a 4A Narrows League game at Ingersoll Stadium at 7:00 PM. Bring yourself a chair and a blanket and enjoy front row seating on the track.
Across town at South Sound Stadium, Timberline hosts Tumwater in a non-league game at 1:00 PM. The feel of tin on your bottom will make you long for dry rot and a closed grandstand and your own camp chair on the track.
Friday scoreboard: Saints split doubleheader
College baseball
Saint Martin’s 8, Northwest Nazarene 1
Northwest Nazarene 6, Saint Martin’s 5 – More from SMUSaints.com
Senior Nate O’Bryan pitched a complete game four hitter and Chandler Tracy hit a three run homerun to highlight a five run third inning to lead Saint Martin’s to an 8-1 win in game one. Zach Leonard went 3-for-5 and Travis Jones added two hits for the Saints in the game.
In game two, the Saints took a 5-1 lead into the seventh inning but River Ridge’s Jon Matos drove in two runs that proved to be the game winner for Northwest Nazarene. Kaleb Wilson pitched five strong innings giving up just one run, Tracey went 3-for-4 and Bobby Twedt and Jones added two hits for the Saints.
High school baseball
North Thurston 3, Aberdeen 2
Black Hills 1, Centralia 0
W.F. West 11, Tumwater 0
High school fastpitch
Olympia 16, Shelton 0
Tumwater 7, W.F. West 6 – 8 innings
Olympia’s Nikki Schroeder went 2-for-3 with four RBI and pitched a complete game shutout giving up just four hits and striking out five Shelton batters. Gabby Braniff and Alexis Sanderlin each had three RBI for the Bears.
Tumwater scored a run in the eighth inning to beat W.F. west, 7-6. The T-Birds took a 6-4 lead into the top of the seventh but the Bearcats scored two to tie the game before the T-Birds redeemed themselves in extra innings.
Boys soccer
North Thurston 0, Capital 0
Today (3/23): Saints baseball, Cougars versus Rams
It seems like it’s been forever since Saint Martin’s played a baseball game in town, but they are back today at SMU Field with great weather for today’s doubleheader against Northwest Nazarene.
The Saints come into the game at 7-19 overall and 3-5 in the GNAC. After a 3-1 start in conference they dropped a pair of doubleheaders at Central Washington and are now in third place. The Crusaders are 13-9 overall and 2-4 in the GNAC and are fourth in the conference. River Ridge alum Jon Matos is hitting .203 with one homerun for NNU. First pitch is at 1:00 PM today.
The North Thurston and Capital boys soccer teams each notched league victories on Thursday night and will square off tonight in a non-league tilt at South Sound Stadium. Nick Salazar has scored two straight game winning goals for the Rams and Matteo Nartempi has scored three goals in his past two games. First kick is at 7:00 PM.
In high school baseball action, Tumwater hosts W.F. West at 4:30 PM and there are probably other makeup games scheduled that I have not seen on schedules yet.
Slideshow: Capital vs. Lincoln
This is my first go around with a brand new lens for my camera, so some of these pictures aren’t great since I was just trying to figure it out, but here’s the first slideshow in Oly Sports history – hopefully a regular feature. Capital beat Lincoln, 3-1.
Thursday scoreboard: Mets spins a gem
Sadly, this is going to be a more incomplete list than usual because I’m unable to find quite a few soccer scores from tonight. If you are a coach or have a score to report, please email me at olysportsblog@gmail.com. Anyway, here it goes…
Boys soccer
Capital 3, Lincoln 1
North Thurston 2, W.F. West 1 – OT
Foss @ Timberline – no report
Aberdeen @ Black Hills – no report
Centralia @ River Ridge – no report
Matteo Nartempi scored his third goal in his last two games to put Capital up 2-0 at the 22 minute mark and it was enough for the Cougars to knock off the Abes, 3-1. Ling Hnair had North Thurston’s lone goal in regulation before Nick Salazar ended it with an overtime goal to give the Rams the 2-1 victory over W.F. West. Capital and North Thurston face each other in a non-league game at South Sound Stadium on Friday night.
High school fastpitch
Aberdeen 13, North Thurston 2
Centralia 15, Black Hills 1
W.F. West @ Tumwater – no report
Rough day for our area fastpitch teams. Ouch.
High school baseball
Timberline 5, Auburn Mountainview 4
River Ridge 9, Centralia 3
North Thurston 4, Tumwater 0
Naselle 10, Northwest Christian 2
David Padilla went 2-for-3 with two RBI to lead Timberline past Auburn Mountainview. Josiah Julagay got the win for the Blazers. Brad Wallace picked up the win for River Ridge and Jens Omdal went 2-for-4 with an RBI for the Hawks. Ryan Mets pitched a gem for North Thurston going seven shutout innings giving up just three hits, striking out 11 and walking just two batters in the Rams 4-0 win over Tumwater. Gabe Dominguez went 2-for-3 and Nick Mailhot added two more hits for Northwest Christian but it wasn’t enough as Naselle took advantage of four Navigator errors to win 10-2.
Tonight (3/22): Every lighted pitch occupied
Big boys soccer day with four league games in town tonight…
Lincoln @ Capital – 7:00 PM – Ingersoll Stadium
Aberdeen @ Black Hills – 7:00 PM – Tumwater Stadium
Centralia @ River Ridge – 7:00 PM – South Sound Stadium
Foss @ Timberline – 7:00 PM – the RAC
High school fastpitch
Aberdeen @ North Thurston – 4:30 PM
W.F. West @ Tumwater – 4:30 PM
Wednesday scoreboard: Bears and Wolves win
High school baseball
Olympia 14, Shelton 0
Black Hills 4, Aberdeen 3
Mark Morris 2, Tumwater 1
Centralia 3, North Thurston 2
W.F. West 3, River Ridge 1
High school fastpitch
Olympia 21, Mt. Tahoma 0
Black Hills 8, River Ridge 3
Centralia 7, North Thurston 1
Boys soccer
Stadium 2, Olympia 1
Capital 6, Lakes 1
Today (3/21): Looking good
Blue skies out my window and the weather report says nothing of rain. Let’s play some ball.
Lots of rescheduled baseball and fastpitch games today including another community college baseball doubleheader at the RAC. And Olympia plays the lone boys soccer game in town tonight. Bring your chair to Ingersoll Stadium and sit right next to the field while the stands are closed.
High school baseball
W.F. West @ River Ridge – 4:30 PM
Shelton @ Olympia – 4:00 PM
Mark Morris @ Tumwater – 4:00 PM
Aberdeen @ Black Hills – 4:00 PM
High school fastpitch
River Ridge @ Black Hills – 4:30 PM
Mt. Tahoma @ Olympia – 4:00 PM
Boys soccer
Stadium @ Olympia – 7:00 PM
College baseball
Olympic College vs. Clackamas Community College @ RAC – 4:00 PM
Tuesday scoreboard: T-Birds, Blazers win
Boys soccer
Tumwater 2, W.F. West 0
Centralia 2, Black Hills 1
Aberdeen 4, River Ridge 0 (as of seven minutes left)
Tumwater got goals from Jacob Irwin and Kevin Weyand i their 2-0 2A EvCo win. Jacob Maeger scored for Black Hills but Nathaniel Orosco’s two goals were enough for Centralia to pick up the league win. The River Ridge/Aberdeen was reported by someone that left with seven minutes left, which is good enough for a blog.
High school baseball
Timberline 6, Bonney Lake 2
Today (3/20): play ball?
One day after the first passable day of the spring, the weather is once again wreaking havoc with the schedule. Today and Wednesday’s scheduled doubleheaders between Saint Martin’s and Northwest Nazarene’s softball teams have already been cancelled and I’d describe these high school baseball and fastpitch games as questionable to doubtful…
High school baseball
Centralia @ North Thurston – 4:30 PM – Postponed to Saturday
Bonney Lake @ Timberline – 4:00 PM
High school fastpitch
Tumwater @ River Ridge – 4:00 PM
North Thurston @ Black Hills – 4:30 PM
The weather won’t stop these 2A EvCo soccer games though…
Aberdeen @ River Ridge – 7:00 PM
W.F. West @ Tumwater – 7:00 PM
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