Category Archives: Softball
Today (3/13): Lacey Legends cup; softball at the RAC; baseball doubtful
Boys soccer
North Thurston vs. Timberline – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
College softball
SPSCC vs. Centralia – The RAC – 1:00 PM Tomorrow, 3/14
High school softball
North Thurston vs. River Ridge – The RAC – 3:30 PM
High school baseball – (Doubtful these will play today)
North Thurston vs. Yelm – North Thurston HS – 4:00
Tumwater @ River Ridge – River Ridge HS – 4:00
Monday scoreboard: Bears soccer blanks Coug; Bears, T-Birds, Blazers, Cougs get diamond wins
Boys soccer
Olympia 4, Capital 0
Yelm 4, Timberline 3
High school baseball
Olympia 14, Auburn Riverside 3
Tumwater 10, Yelm 4
Timberline 3, Aberdeen 0
Adna 12, Northwest Christian 5
High school fastpitch
Capital 7, Franklin Pierce 6
Sunday scoreboard: Saints drop pair of twinbills; Sabres stop Rise
College baseball
Montana State Billings 10, Saint Martin’s 1
Montana State Billings 5, Saint Martin’s 3 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
College softball
Western Oregon 6, Saint Martin’s 2
Western Oregon 4, Saint Martin’s 3 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
American Basketball Association
Salem Sabres 122, Olympia Rise 114
Today (3/9): GNAC Championship games; Saints doubleheaders
Four of the best Division II basketball teams in the country will take the court tonight at Saint Martin’s with the GNAC men’s and women’s tournament championship on the line.
In game one, the top seeded Western Washington women take on second seed Simon Fraser in a matchup between the #6 and #10 teams in the country. The Clan are led by GNAC player of the year Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe while the Vikings feature a balanced attack led by Britt Harris. The two teams split their season series. Tip off is set for 5:15 PM and can be seen on Root Sports.
Game two features the #2 and #3 ranked teams in the nation in Western Washington and Seattle Pacific. Western Washington swept the season series but the game on February 2nd between the two teams was an instant classic that eventually saw the Vikings pull ahead in overtime for the win.
Both teams are very similar with a lot of outstanding players. Western features GNAC player of the year John Allen while GNAC defensive player of the year Riley Stockton will more than likely blanket him for Seattle Pacific.
Olympia grad Alex Weber-Brader came off the bench to give the Falcons a much needed boost of energy in the semifinals game and Black Hills alum and former SPSCC Clipper Anye Turner’s length off the bench for the Vikings disrupted anything Alaska Fairbanks brought in the middle in their semifinal game.
Tip is scheduled for 7:30 and can be seen on Root Sports.
The SMU campus is a busy place today. Not only does it host the GNAC championships but there are a pair of diamond doubleheaders. The Saint Martin’s baseball team and softball team takes on Montana State Billings starting at noon.
Saturday scoreboard: O’Neill, Bomber, Taylor end careers in style; Saints softball sweeps Northwest
Men’s basketball
Saint Martin’s 82, Central Washington 71 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Roger O’Neill scored 23 points, Brady Bomber set a career high with 15 and Eric Taylor added 12 and the three Saint Martin’s seniors went out in style knocking off Central Washington 82-71 in Ellensburg. Sophomore Will Bond continued his outstanding stretch run adding 21 points.
The Saints finish the season at 10-16, 6-12 in the GNAC.
Women’s basketball
Simon Fraser 74, Saint Martin’s – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Girls basketball
2A 3rd/5th place game
Renton 34, River Ridge 33
College softball
Saint Martin’s 10, Northwest 0
Saint Martin’s 11, Northwest 4 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Today (3/2): Saints softball, senior night basketball; Hawks play for 3rd
Women’s basketball
Saint Martin’s vs. Simon Fraser – Marcus Pavilion – 7:00 PM
Saint Martin’s hosts #10 Simon Fraser on senior night at Marcus Pavilion. The Saints will honor two seniors, Shelby Ferguson and Erika Wilson before the game.
Girls basketball
2A 3rd/5th place game
River Ridge vs. Renton – Yakima SunDome – 1:00 PM
College softball
Saint Martin’s vs. Northwest (DH) – SMU Softball Field – 12:00 PM
College baseball
Olympic College vs. Grays Harbor (DH) – The RAC – 12:00 PM
Tesch heading to NCAA Championships; Munger honored by GNAC; Swain and Clark earn all-CCC honors
Tesch qualifies for NCAA Championships – Saint Martin’s senior Laura Tesch is heading to Birmingham to compete in the high jump at the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships. Tesch is the first female Saint to qualify for the the NCAA indoor championships since the school moved to the NCAA in 1998. The Renton native and transfer from Humboldt State is currently ranked 18th in Divison II with a school record jump of 5′-6.5″.
Another GNAC honor for Munger – Saints’ sophomore Sam Munger was named GNAC Player of the Week for the second time this season thanks to hitting .467 with five runs scored and four RBI in four games at College of Idaho over the weekend. Munger also went 1-1 on the mound this weekend, losing the first game on Friday to the Coyotes but coming back and pitching a complete game on Saturday.
Swain and Clark honored by CCC – Evergreen women’s basketball’s Danielle Swain was named first team all-conference by the Cascade Conference on Tuesday. The Black Hills alum scored 12.8 points per game, hauled in 8.4 boards per game and blocked 41 shots this season to set a new school career record with 112 over her three years on the court for the Geoducks. Swain, a junior for the Geoducks, will graduate in the spring and will not return to the basketball team next season.
Sammi Clark was also named all-conference honorable mention. The junior scored 11.1 points per game and dished out 3.8 assists per game.
Sunday scores: Saints offense explodes in Idaho
College softball
Saint Martin’s 10, College of Idaho 7
Saint Martin’s 9, College of Idaho 4 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Sam Munger went 4-for-4, drove in three runs and gave up just one earned run over seven innings in Saint Martin’s 10-7 game one win over College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho. Dani Wall went 3-for-4 with four runs driven in and the Saints capitalized on eight Coyote errors.
In game two, Taylor Bakos went 2-for-3 with three RBI and got the win in a six inning, three earned run effort over COI. Joslyn Eugenio went 4-for-5 with a pair of runs driven in as the Saints pounded out 15 hits and moved to 7-5 overall early in the season.
Saturday scoreboard: Saints’ seniors deliver; Timberline shocks #2 Islanders, Hawks season ends
Men’s basketball
Saint Martin’s 84, Montana State-Billings 78 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Centralia 95, SPSCC 66 – Box score
Senior night at Saint Martin’s with their season on the line, Brady Bomber, Roger O’Neill and Eric Taylor delivered. The three seniors combined for 44 points, 30 in the second half, and sophomore Will Bond scored a career high 28 points in the Saints’ 84-78 win over Montana State-Billings at Marcus Pavilion.
The win, combined with Central Washington’s 30 point loss to Northwest Nazarene, keeps the Saints in the hunt for the sixth and final playoff spot. The Saints will need to beat Northwest Nazarene in Nampa and have Western Oregon knock off Central on Thursday to set up a game between the Saints and Wildcats in Ellensburg on Saturday with a trip to the playoffs on the line. Saint Martin’s hosts the GNAC playoffs March 6th through the 9th.
Will Bond’s second three pointer of the night put Saint Martin’s up by eight points, 19-11, at the 12:54 mark of the first half. Following a pair of buckets from Bond, Evan Coulter’s three put the Saints up 26-19 with nine minutes left in the half. The Yellowjackets would finish the half on an 18-9 run including Robbie Trabing’s layup at the buzzer to take a 39-35 lead into the locker room.
Jarrell Crayton’s layup on Billings’ first possession of the second half put them up 41-35 but two quick three pointers by Roger O’Neill and Eric Taylor tied the game at 41. But Sam Johnson’s jumper with 16:20 left to play gave the Yellowjackets their larget lead at 50-42.
But a 12-1 run over the next four minutes put the Saints up by three and they would hold the lead until Johnson surprised everybody by stepping out and hitting a long, straight away three pointer to give Billings a 60-58 lead with 9:30 to play. The two teams would trade the lead back and forth over the next eight and a half minutes.
Down 76-75 with less than a minute to play, Taylor’s drained a three pointer for a 78-76 lead and put the Saints up for good. Bomber, Bond and Taylor went 6-for-6 from the line in the final minute of play to ice the game and give the Saints the 84-78 win.
Seniors O’Neill and Taylor scored 13 points each in the second half to finish with 19 and 15 points respectively while fellow senior Bomber scored 10 points and dished out six assists. Bond scored 16 points in the second half en route to his career high 28.
Jarrell Crayton paced Billings with 19 points and David Arnold added 18.
Women’s basketball
Alaska-Fairbanks 67, Saint Martin’s 65 – Recap from SMUSaints.com
Centralia 90, SPSCC 27 – Box score
Boys basketball
3A Regionals
Timberline 56, Mercer Island 55
Donaven Dorsey scored 27 points and Timberline held off #2 ranked Mercer Island’s final second attempt to continue their postseason run to the Tacoma Dome with a 56-55 win at Mount Tahoma High School. Elijah Sanders added 12 points for the Blazers who will head to state for the first time since 2004.
2A Regionals
Renton 73, River Ridge 57
District IV champion River Ridge’s bad luck draw of two loss Renton in the regional round came back to kill the Hawks. Renton held Brad Wallace to just 14 points and the Hawks had no answer for Jonathan Patterson, who scored 20. The loss ended River Ridge’s 14 game winning streak and their season ends at 17-7 overall. Wesley Coats added 12 points in the loss.
College softball
College of Idaho 6, Saint Martin’s 2
Saint Martin’s 6, College of Idaho 4
Saturday scoreboard: Rams roll; Geoducks cruise; Saints split
High school football
North Thurston 34, Wilson 0
North Thurston posted their second shutout of the year, knocking off Wilson 34-0 at South Sound Stadium. The Rams have now allowed just 42 points through five games this season. Mo Manning rushed for three touchdowns and Ryan Mets passed for one touchdown finding Joshua Cahill in the endzone for the Rams’ second score of the game. A Hayden Maliska rushing touchdown with under a minute left to play in the first half rounded out the scoring for the game.
The Rams are now 5-0 on the season and 3-0 in 3A Narrows League play. The last time North Thurston sat at 5-0 was 1992 when Rocky Patchin was in his first season and future NFL pro-bowler Mike Sellers played running back and linebacker for the Rams.
Men’s soccer
Evergreen 4, Northwest Christian 0 – Recap from Evergreen athletics
Jack Fortune scored 27 seconds into the game and Evergreen added three more goals in the second half to drop Northwest University 4-0 in Kirkland. Mirzic Memic scored two goals for the Geoducks, the first on a penalty kick in the 50th minute and another on a header in the 75th minute. Goalkeeper Mauricio Sanchez made five saves in the shutout.
Women’s soccer
Seattle Pacific 2, Saint Martin’s 1 (2OT) – Recap from SPUFalcons.com
Oregon Tech 5, Evergreen 0 – Recap from Evergreen athletics
Shayla Page scored off of a corner kick with just ten seconds left in double overtime to give Seattle Pacific a dramatic 2-1 win over Saint Martin’s at Interbay Stadium in Seattle. After the Falcons’ Ali Martin opened the scoring in the 18th minute, Ashley Richardson scored the equalizer collecting the rebound off of a Nicole Nedervelt shot that hit the crossbar.
Ashely Engel made 11 saves but the Saints only forced SPU keeper Alexa Hughes to make two saves. The Saints fall to 3-3 in the GNAC.
College volleyball
Saint Martin’s 3, Simon Fraser 2 (22-25, 23-25, 29-27, 25-17, 15-11) – Recap
Concordia 3, Evergreen 0 (25-12, 25-22, 25-22) – Recap from the Geoducks
Saint Martin’s rallied back from two sets down in Burnaby, BC to knock off Simon Fraser 3-2. Kristyn Ross led the Saints with 17 kills and 24 digs while Carrie Starbuck added 12 kills and 20 digs.
College softball fall ball
SPSCC 11, Skagit Valley 1 – five innings
Everett 7, SPSCC 0
Lower Columbia 7, SPSCC 2
Puget Sound Collegiate League fall ball
Timberline 3, Yelm 0 – Winning pitcher: Matt Mercer (Perfect game)
Olympia 2, Black Hills 1 – Winning pitcher: Elliott Loague
Olympia 4, Black Hills 0 – Winning pitcher: Eric Mullins
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