Today (4/23): Narrow League baseball leaders meet; Undefeated T-Birds softball hosts Tigers
The top two teams in the 3A Narrow League meet this afternoon when Timberline plays host to Yelm at 4:00 PM. The Blazers are on top of the league standings at 7-1 but the Tornadoes are just a half game behind at 7-2. Charlie Hinson, Rick Ahlf and Ryan Tydingco will be honored on Senior Day with festivities starting at 3:45 PM.
In other 3A Narrows League action, Capital plays Foss at Waits Field at 4:00 PM. The Cougars are just 1-5 in league while Foss is third at 5-3.
The undefeated Tumwater softball team hosts Centralia at 4:30 PM. The T-Birds have only given up one run in their last five games with Kierstin Smith picking up the win in four games over that stretch. The two teams met once this season on April 10th and the Tigers gave Tumwater their toughest challenge. The T-Birds scored four runs in the top of the eighth inning and held on to pick up a 9-5 extra inning win.
Sunday scoreboard: Saints alive; DeBoer goes the distance; Budd Bay champs
College softball
Saint Martin’s 11, Central Washington 3
Central Washington 13, Saint Martin’s 4 – More from SMUSaints.com
With the split, Saint Martin’s must now win their last four games and have Montana State Billings lose their last four for the Saints to win the GNAC title.
College baseball
Saint Martin’s 3, Central Washington 1
Central Washington 13, Saint Martin’s 2 – More from SMUSaints.com
Tommy DeBoer gave up just one run in the first inning in a complete game 3-1 Saint Martin’s win in game one.
Men’s Rugby
Budd Bay def. Modesto
The Budd Bay Buffaloes beat Modesto on Sunday afternoon in Portland to win the Pacific Coast Rugby Football Union championship. The Buffaloes now move on to the USAR west regional as the #3 seed.
Today (4/22): Saints baseball, softball hosts Wildcats
Big day on the Saint Martin’s campus with two important doubleheaders against Central Washington on tap.
Saints baseball starts it off at noon in a pair of games that could either keep them in second place or land them in last. Western Oregon leads the GNAC standings by eight games at 16-2. The other four teams are separated by just one game far behind. Saint Martin’s is 9-11 in conference while Central is 7-11. Montana State Billings and Northwest Nazarene are 10-14.
Central Washington softball comes into town as giant killers having swept first place Montana State Billings yesterday. The sweep kept the Saints’ conference champion hopes alive and taking two from the Wildcats today could move them to three behind the Yellowjackets with a trip to Billings still ahead next week. A win today would also give the Saints their first 30 win season in program history.
The Saints will honor four seniors – Morgan Klemm, Megan Antonovich, Kelsie McGladrey and Tiffany Griffiths – in their last home games of the season. First pitch is scheduled for 1:00 PM.
Saturday scoreboard: Saints softball splits, baseball sweeps; Budd Bay Rugby advances
College softball
Saint Martin’s 6, Western Oregon 5
Western Oregon 5, Saint Martin’s 1 – More from SMUSaints.com
Sam Munger hit a three run home run and pitched a complete game to pick up her 15th win of the season in Saint Martin’s 6-5 win in game one. Lacey McGladrey went 2-for-2 with two RBI and Megan Antonovich went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
In game two, Taylor Bakos gave up five unearned runs in the first three innings and the Saints were baffled by Western Oregon’s Myranda Sawyer and lost to the Wolves 5-1. Lacey McGladrey had two of the Saints’ four hits.
With the split and thanks to Central Washington’s sweep of first place Montana State Billings, the Saints move to four games back of the Yellowjackets. However, Billings’ magic number to clinch the GNAC’s automatic NCAA tournament bid is now just two.
College baseball
Saint Martin’s 8, Central Washington 7 – 10 innings
Saint Martin’s 12, Central Washington 10 – More from SMUSaints.com
Saint Martin’s didn’t do anything easy on Saturday but still managed to sweep Central Washington. After being down 5-1 after the top of the third inning, game one was eventually won on a two out infield chopper by Bobby Twedt that scored Casey Thorpe from third.
In game two, the Saints fell behind seven runs in the first three innings but scored the next 12 runs, including a six run inning in the third and a five run inning in the fifth, and held on for a 12-10 win.
Men’s Rugby
Budd Bay Buffaloes def. Bay Area
Budd Bay earned a trip to USA Rugby’s Western Regional with their win in the Pacific Coast Rugby Football Union D3 semifinals on Saturday in Portland. The Buffaloes take on Modesto in the championship game and with a win will earn a #3 seed. With a loss, they will get the #8 seed.
High school baseball
Timberline 14, Wilson 1
W.F. West 8, North Thurston 0
Boys soccer
Capital 1, Tumwater 1
Also today (4/21): Racing at South Sound Speedway
It’s race day at South Sound Speedway…
Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 teens 13-17 years-old, seniors and military, $5 for kids 6-12 and free for kids five and under.
Today (4/21): Saints baseball faces Wildcats
The Saint Martin’s baseball team finally returns back to campus when they take on Central Washington in a GNAC doubleheader this afternoon. The Saints haven’t played a home game in nearly a month, not since they split a four game series with Northwest Nazarene on March 23rd and 24th.
The Saints come into today’s game in at 7-11 in GNAC play and 11-25 overall. The Wildcats are a game ahead of the Saints for third place at 7-9 in conference and are 15-19 overall. The two teams have met six times this season already with Central coming out on top five times. The Saints only win came on February 19th when they beat the Wildcats 7-6 in the last day of the Lewis & Clark State tournament.
Olympia’s Nate O’Bryan gets the start in game one of today’s doubleheader for Saint Martin’s. First pitch is scheduled for 1:00 PM.
Friday scoreboard: Slam spoils Reign’s casino opener
International Basketball League
Bellingham Slam 133, Olympia Reign 104
Saint Martin’s alum Blake Poole scored 15 points and brought down 13 rebounds and the Saints’ Jeremy Green added 15 points to help the Bellingham Slam to a 133-104 spoiling of the Olympia Reign’s debut at the Skookum Creek Events Center at the Little Creek Casino. Three former Evergreen Geoducks – Mike Ward, Marcus Wright and Nick Moore – led the way for the Reign scoring 20, 13 and 12 points respectively.
The two teams battled back and forth for the first seven minutes of the game and Ward’s field goal at the 5:06 mark gave the Reign a 15-12 lead. The Slam then went on a 17-2 run to close out the first quarter and never allowed the Reign to get within eight points again.
Up 63-51 at halftime, the Slam reeled off the first seven points of the second half to take a 19 point lead. The Reign had one breath of life left cutting a 22 point lead to just 12 in the third quarter but the Slam outscored the Reign 46-29 over the last 13 minutes of the game to give themselves the easy victory.
Bellingham was led by Ira Graham’s 27 points and six rebounds. Morris Anderson added 26 points and seven boards. Paul Hafford chipped in 18 points and Michael Duty scored another 15.
Ward scored 18 points for the Reign in the first half but was held to just one basket in the final 24 minutes of play. River Ridge’s Giovanne Woods scored 11 points while Chris Weakley and Jacob Manning added ten points each for Olympia. Ex-Timberline Blazer and Geoduck superstar Nate Menefee looked rusty in scoring just six points on 1-for-8 shooting after arriving part way into the first quarter. The NAIA All-American averaged over 26 points for the Reign last season.
The Olympia Reign have over a week to work out the kinks and will travel to the 212 Sports Complex in Clackamas, Oregon on Saturday, April 28th to take on the Portland Chinooks. They return to Little Creek on Tuesday, May 1st when they play host to the Vancouver Volcanoes at 7:00 PM.
High school baseball
Tumwater 1, Aberdeen 0
Black Hills 4, River Ridge 3
Gig Harbor 6, Capital 3
Ocosta 5, Northwest Christian 4
High school softball
Tumwater 7, Aberdeen 0
Today (4/20): Reign open against Slam
The 2012 International Basketball League season kicks off tonight when the Olympia Reign hosts the Bellingham Slam in their new home at the Skookum Creek Events Center at the Little Creek Casino.
The game features a slew of former Saint Martin’s and Evergreen basketball players including the Geoducks’ Nate Menefee, Mike Ward, Marcus Whitaker and Nicholas Moore for the Reign and former Saints Blake Poole and Jeremy Green for the Slam.
Tip-off is set for 7:00 PM. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 Players Club members and children 12 under are free. And the Skookum Creek Events Center will feature something that the Reign have never been able to offer before at their home games, a beer garden open for fans 21 and over.
Read more about the Reign’s opener in The Olympian’s preview. The Olympian also had a feature about Blake Poole yesterday that is worth a read.
Thursday scoreboard: Saints pound Wildcats; Blazers, Rams, Cougars score soccer wins
College softball
Saint Martin’s 13, Central Washington 0 – More from SMUSaints.com
On March 4th, the Saint Martin’s softball team lost a game to Central Washington 7-3. However, the Saints protested a home run in the bottom of the first inning that was originally called foul and then changed to fair after the umpires discussed the call at the request of the Wildcats’ coaches. The protest was upheld, the loss was struck from the Saints’ record and today the game resumed from just before the home run happened over a month ago.
And this time, Sam Munger got the out and proceeded to pitch a two hit, five inning mercy rule shutout and the Saints won easily, 13-0. Saint Martin’s had 17 hits in the game including six combined hits for Munger and Morgan Klemm that accounted for five of the Saints’ runs. Lacey McGladrey went 2-for-4 with a homer and two RBI.
The Saints have won three straight games to move to 28-15-1 overall and 18-10 in the GNAC.
Boys Soccer
Timberline 5, Yelm 2
North Thurston 4, W.F. West 0
Capital 2, Wilson 1
Centralia 5, River Ridge 1
Aberdeen 6, Black Hills 0
Olympia 1, South Kitsap 1
Xavier Wurtele and Dan Ceban each scored two goals for Timberline in their 5:2 win over Yelm on Thursday night. Wurtele struck first for the Blazers with a goal in the 37th minute, the only goal for the two teams in the first 60 minutes. Including Casey French’s goal in the 61st minute that opened up the floodgates, the two teams combined for six goals in the final twenty minutes of play.
Joey Renaud scored his first hat trick for North Thurston in their 4:0 win over W.F. West in the first game of the South Sound Stadium doubleheader. Keeper Desean Freeman had two saves for the Rams to earn the shutout.
Matteo Nartempi had the game winning goal in the 76th minute in Capital’s 2:1 win over Wilson at Stadium Bowl in Tacoma. Bryce Joling scored early for the Cougars with a goal in the third minute but the Rams answered back quickly with a goal of their own in the third minute from Chris Peterson. The two teams then battled for 73 minutes before Nartempi’s game winner.
Today (4/19): South Sound Stadium hosts soccer doubleheader
North Thurston kicks off a doubleheader of soccer action at South Sound Stadium at 5:00 PM with a 2A EvCo matchup with W.F. West. The Rams are fourth in conference at 4-4 while the Bearcats are fifth at 2-6. The two teams met on March 22nd and played to a 1:1 regulartion tie before a Nick Salazar overtime goal gave North Thurston the 2:1 victory.
In the second half of the doubleheader, Timberline hosts 3A Narrows League rival Yelm. The Blazers come into the game at 1-2-1 in league just ahead of 0-3-1 The Tornadoes. It will be the first meeting between the two teams this season. First kick is scheduled for 7:00 PM.
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