Today (7/19): Saints vs. Silvers
The first place Lacey Saints take on the last place Nisqually Silvers tonight in a Puget Sound Collegiate League makeup game. The Saints are 11-6 in the league portion of play and sit just a half game ahead of the Olympia Athletics. The A’s swept the Tumwater Brewers this week to put themselves into second place with a chance to be tied for first going into the last week of play.
First pitch tonight is scheduled for 5:00 PM.
Wednesday scoreboard: Saints extend lead on Cards, A’s keep pace
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
West Olympia Linx 3, Tumwater Brewers 2
Lacey Saints 3, Hawks Prairie Cardinals 1
Olympia A’s 6, Nisqually Silvers 5
PSCL wraps up weekday series
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Lacey Saints @ Hawks Prairie Cardinals – Saint Martin’s – 5:00 PM
West Olympia Linx @ Tumwater Brewers – The RAC – 5:00 PM
Nisqually Silvers @ Olympia A’s – The RAC – 7:30 PM
Tuesday scoreboard: Cardinals, A’s cut Saints lead to half a game
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Hawks Prairie Cardinals 6, Lacey Saints 2
Olympia Athletics 3, Nisqually Silvers 2
Tumwater Brewers 4, West Olympia Linx 3
Chris McElderry’s (Oklahoma Wesleyan, Yelm HS) two run single and Chandler Tracy’s (Saint Martin’s) two run home run in a five run seventh inning busted the game wide open as the Hawks Prairie Cardinals won their second straight over the first place Lacey Saints, 6-2. McElderry went 3-for-3 and scored two runs along with his two RBI. Cody Evans (Oregon Tech, Yelm HS) had two hits and Connor Huesers (Wenatchee Valley CC) and Conor Cook (Central Washington) each drove in a run for the Cardinals. Shimpie Sato (Skagit Valley College) pitched seven scoreless innings to pick up the win. The Cardinals are now 10-7 in league play while the Saints drop to 10-6 and own just a half game lead over both the Cardinals and Olympia Athletics.
Nikko Saenz (St. Mary’s) went 3-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI and Bret Grey (Central Washington) and Riley Shintaffer (Centralia College) each had two hits to lead the Olympia Athletics to a 3-2 win over the Nisqually Silvers. Two two teams were tied 1-1 going into the bottom of the seventh when Saenz scored on a wild pitch and Grey drove in Bret Bitow (Saint Martin’s) for the eventual game winning run. Roderick Fields (Green River CC) gave up just one earned run on four hits over seven innings to get the win while Bitow struck out the side in a scoreless ninth to get the save. Brandon Evans (Colorado State-Pueblo), Jordan Falcon (New Mexico Highlands) and Spender Dodd (Saint Martin’s) had six of the Silvers’ seven hits. The win runs the A’s record to 10-7, just a half game behind the Saints.
Dick Nichols retires
Meg Wochnick of the Olympian wraps up her two part series about 76 year-old Dick Nichols’ retirement today. Nichols broadcast more than 3,000 sporting events in his 50 year career but doesn’t plan on going completely away, he may do more events for other networks in the future. KGY plans to replace Nichols and longtime partner Larry McMillan with a new pair for high school sports.
Also notable in this article, KGY didn’t broadcast a Saint Martin’s basketball game for the first time in over 20 years this past season.
Part one of the series can be found here . Photo Credit: KGY Radio
Poole, Ward, Bain named to IBL all-star teams
One Saint Martin’s alum and two members of the Olympia Reign were named International Basketball League all-stars on Monday. Blake Poole was named to the first team and barely missed out on the MVP award in leading the Bellingham Slam to the IBL championship and the Reign’s Mike Ward and Gjio Bain were named to the second team after leading the Reign to the IBL semifinals. All three players will represent the IBL in the Southern California Summer Pro League July 24-29th.
Former Saint Blake Poole earned first team honors after averaging 18.7 points per game and 13.2 rebounds per game. In his second season with the Slam, the 6’5″ center had 15 double-doubles out of 20 games this season including a 24 point, 22 rebound, six assist game against the Yamhill HighFlyers on June 23rd and a 23 point, 15 rebound, seven assist game against the Portland Chinooks in the IBL championship game on July 8th. This winter, Poole will return to Germany for a second season but with a new team, BG Topstar Leitershofen. He starred for BG Dorsten in his first German Pro-B season averaging 14.9 ppg and 12.9 rpg.
In his fourth season with the Olympia Reign, Mike Ward was the team’s most consistent player this season, averaging 20.7 points per game, 6.2 board per game and 4.2 assists per game from the guard position. Ward, an Evergreen alum, had his best game on May 18th when he scored 39 points against the Portland Chinooks. Ward also came up big in two late season games against the Edmonton Energy. Ward had 30 points, six boards and seven assists in an overtime win to close the regular season and 27 points, five boards and six assists in an playoff opening round upset of the Energy.
After joining the Reign on June 22nd during their trip to Orlando, Gjio Bain solidified their center position by scoring 15 points per game and hauling in 12.8 rebounds per game and the Reign went 4-2, their best stretch of the season, in his six games with the team. Bain, a seven footer from Southern Miss, had averaged 8.8 ppg and 8.9 rpg as a member of the Orlando Venom.
Andre Murray of the Vancouver Volcanoes was named MVP and Bellingham’s Morris Anderson was named Defensive Player of the Year. The full list of honorees can be found here.
Today (7/17): All six PSCL teams in action
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Nisqually Silvers @ Olympia Athletics – Saint Martin’s – 5:00 PM
Hawks Prairie Cardinals @ Lacey Saints – The RAC – 5:00 PM
West Olympia Linx @ Tumwater Brewers – The RAC – 7:30 PM
Monday scoreboard: A’s, Linx, Cardinals
Olympia Athletics 4, Nisqually Silvers 3
West Olympia Linx 6, Tumwater Brewers 4
Hawks Prairie Cardinals 3, Lacey Saints 2
Today (7/16): PSCL homestretch begins
The end of the Puget Sound Collegiate League is near and the homestretch kicks off this evening with three games featuring all six teams. As the season comes down to it’s last two weeks, the standings look like this…
- Lacey Saints – 10-4
- Hawks Prairie Cardinals – 8-7
- West Olympia Linx – 8-8
- Olympia Athletics – 7-8
- Tumwater Brewers – 7-8
- Nisqually Silvers – 4-10
Today begins with the West Olympia Linx facing the Tumwater Brewers at Saint Martin’s and the Nisqually Silvers taking on the Olympia Athletics at The RAC. Both games get started at 5:00 PM. In the nightcap, the the Hawks Prairie Cardinals look to close the gap on the Lacey Saints. First pitch is at 7:30.
Lubin’s season ends; Sounders U23s head to Cali
The Kitsap Pumas will not defend their title as PDL champs this season after a 2-1 playoff loss to the Portland Timbers U23s at Gladstone High School in Gladstone, Oregon reports goalWA.net. The Pumas ended their season at 10-5-2
Saint Martin’s alum Zac Lubin won nine games for the Pumas this season and tied for second in the PDL with seven shutouts. Lubin, the keeper for the Saints’ GNAC conference championship team in 2009, finished his second season with the Pumas. Last season he appeared in just two games backing up current Seattle Sounders FC keeper Bryan Meredith before taking over in goal this season.
Representing the PDL’s Northwest Division in the western regionals will be the Timbers U23s and the team that called Tumwater Stadium home for one game this season, the Sounders U23s. The Sounders will face FC Tucson on Saturday in Ventura, California while the host Ventura County Fusion will try to take down the Timbers.
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