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Oly Town Artesians Indoor Soccer Debuts This Fall
I am excited to announce this new venture…
TUMWATER, Wash. – Semi-professional indoor soccer will return to the Olympia area for the 2014-2015 season when the Oly Town Artesians take the field at Olympia Indoor Soccer as a founding member of the Western Indoor Soccer League. The inaugural season for the Artesians and the WISL will kick off in November.
Tim Smith, owner and operator of Olympia Indoor Soccer in Tumwater, and OlySports.com and Oly Town FC founder Brandon Sparks have teamed up and purchased a team in the locally operated WISL. Sparks has been named General Manager and will lead the operations side of the Artesians.
“Thanks to Tim Smith and Olympia Indoor Soccer, I’m excited to bring fast-paced, up-tempo soccer action and fun, affordable family entertainment back to town,” said Sparks, who volunteered as the communications and marketing manager for the Tumwater Pioneers indoor soccer team during their lone season in 2012-2013.
“I saw the great…
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Today (8/20): Saints Women Host Geoducks in Soccer Opener
File photo from 2013 Saints/Geoducks game
Women’s soccer
Saint Martin’s vs. Evergreen – SMU Soccer Field – Noon
The Saint Martin’s soccer season gets underway today when the Saints host the crosstown Geoducks in a scrimmage at noon. The Saints were picked to finish sixth in the GNAC this season while Evergreen is coming off of a 4-1 opening day win over UBC-Okanagan on Saturday morning.
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Today (5/30): Cougars. T-Birds. State!
High school softball
3A State Tournament – The RAC
The last sixteen 3A teams left battle it out at The RAC over the next two days. Games start at 9:00 AM and run all afternoon until the final games of the day get underway at 6:00. No Olympia area teams remain, unfortunately.
2A State Tournament – Carlon Park, Selah
Tumwater vs. Fife – 10:00 AM
Capital vs. Sequim – Noon
Tumwater (18-5), the second place team out of the 2A EvCo and #3 seed from District 4, get an extremely tough first round match-up in Fife. The Trojans are 23-2 this season and
rolled through the sub-district and District 3 tournaments outscoring their opponents 59-13. The winner will move on to play either Sultan or Othello in the next round at 4:00 PM while the loser will play one of those two teams at 2:00 PM.
Capital (11-12) knocked off the GSHL’s regular season champ and then pulled another upset by beating Tumwater to make it to the state tourney. Now they face the Olympic League’s regular season champion and District 3 runners-up, Sequim. The Wolves are 19-4 overall. The winner plays Lynden or Ellensburg at 4:00 and the loser plays the loser of that game at 2:00.
High school baseball
2A State Tournament Semifinals – Radio
Tumwater vs. Lake Washington – Yakima County Stadium – 1:00 PM
Two masterful regionals pitching performances from Garrett Terrell and Elijah Hill sent Tumwater into the state semifinals today where they will face Lake Washington. The T-Birds (22-4) get a Kangs team that is 16-9 overall but have won six straight and outscored their opponents in the postseason 35-6. They mercy ruled both of their regionals opponents, North Kitsap and Archbishop Murphy, and are led by John Lyon both on the mound and at the plate.
The winner gets Anacortes or Ellensburg in the finals on Saturday at 4:00 PM. The loser will play in the 3rd/4th place game at 10:00 AM.
Boys soccer
2A State Tournament Semifinals – Radio
Capital vs. Sedro-Woolley – Sunset Chev Stadium – 8:00 PM
2A EvCo offensive MVP Nigel El-Sokkary (21 goals, 18 assists) and defensive MVP Jakob Racimo (16 shutouts in goal) and the 20-2 Cougars face Sedro-Woolley (15-4-3) in the last game of the day at Sunset Chev Stadium in Sumner.
Both teams dropped games in districts. Capital fell to Hockinson 3-2 while Sedro-Woolley dropped a pair, 4-1 to Anacortes and 5-1 to Archbishop Murphy.
In the first two rounds of the state tournament, the Cougars pulled a pair of 1-0 wins over Anacortes and Kingston to advance to Sumner. After dropping Ridgefield in a shootout in the first round, the Cubs exorcised the Archbishop Murphy demon with a 3-2 win.
The winner takes on either Toppenish or Squalicum in the championship game on Saturday at 5:00 PM. The loser plays in the 3rd/4th place game on Saturday at noon.
Schedule for Tuesday, May 20th
Score from Monday, May 19th
High school softball
Tumwater 6, Fife 5
Schedule for Tuesday, May 20th
Boys soccer
2A State Tournament First Round
Capital vs. Anacortes – Oak Harbor HS – 6:00 PM
Capital takes a long road trip to Oak Harbor High School for the first round of the 2A state tournament. The Cougars, who were undefeated in the 2A EvCo and are 18-2 overall with losses to Olympia and a district tourney loss overtime loss to Hockinson, face an Anacortes team that went 14-3-2 this season. The winner faces the winner of the Kingston/Orting game in the quarterfinals.
With apologies to the spring sports that are currently in playoffs, Oly Sports is taking a little break until Monday, May 19th. Thanks!
Schedule for Friday, May 2nd
Schedule for Friday, May 2nd
College softball
GNAC Championships – Elimination game
Saint Martin’s vs. Western Washington – Columbia Playfield, Richland – 4:30
College baseball
Saint Martin’s vs. Central Washington (DH) – SMU Baseball Field – 1:00 PM
High school baseball
Tumwater @ River Ridge – River Ridge HS – 4:00 PM
Capital vs. Centralia – Capital HS – 4:30 PM
High school softball
North Thurston vs. Shelton – North Thurston HS – 4:00 PM
River Ridge @ Tumwater – Tumwater HS – 4:30 PM
Boys soccer
North Thurston vs. Shelton – South Sound Stadium – 7:00 PM
Can you help me bring the Tall Boys to Oly Town?
The EPLWA season is nearly ready to kick off and Olympia will be absent from the inaugural season. Emmett O’Connell at Olympia Time laments this fact and asks the question, “What is it about Olympia that has prevented anyone from coming forward with a team?” There are some barriers to entry that I have found, but it does surprise me that I’m the only one in town to seriously think about founding a team.
Here is my original plea for help. There have been some good developments since then and some setbacks but Oly Town FC is still a possibility at some point in the future…
Today the Evergreen Premier League announced the seventh team accepted to the startup semi-pro soccer league slated to begin play in 2014. The Spokane Shadow joined Bellingham United, South Sound FC (Tacoma), Wenatchee United, Seattle Stars (Tukwila), WestSound FC (Silverdale) and FC Three Rivers (Tri-Cities) as inaugural members of the EPLWA and the league has suggested that there is a very good chance that they will cap the number of teams for the first season at eight instead of the previous 10 expected teams due to scheduling concerns and to keep the quality of the organizations high.
One area of the state that the EPLWA wanted to target was Olympia but no group has come forward and applied for entry to the league. I have been working to put together a bid and secure some financing but talks with an existing organization to take their team to the next level…
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Oly Sports is Taking Another Break
Regular posting will resume on April 14th. I will likely be tweeting throughout the week at @OlySportsBlog.
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