Believe it or not, it is almost baseball and softball season.
Saint Martin’s opens their season on Saturday with a home game against the University of British Columbia at 1:00 PM before heading to California for a couple games. The Saints went 9-30 last season but expect to be better this season. They return two all-conference players in 1B Joselyn Eugenio and 2B Lacey McGladrey – the conference freshman of the year last season – and will rely on four newcomers for their pitching with Sam Munger, a freshman from Everett, filling the #1 role.
SMUSaints.com has the full preview.
I missed the SPSCC/Grays Harbor men’s and women’s games played on Monday night at SPSCC, my apologies.
The Choker women dropped the Clippers 65-63 to notch their first conference win of the season while the Clipper men worked over Grays Harbor 93-63. The Daily World has recaps for both games (women and men).
Boy’s basketball
North Thurston 61, Black Hills 59 – OT (or 67-63, depending on your source)
Raymond 68, Northwest Christian 59
River Ridge 80, Tumwater 68
Black Hills put a scare into North Thurston but Ben Broeker’s 36 points, including the first four points in overtime (according to @MegWochnick), kept the Rams from dropping a shocker to the Wolves. Meanwhile, River Ridge kept pace with the Rams with their victory over Tumwater. Brad Wallace had 37 points in the win and helped set up a game on Thursday between the second place Hawks at 7-3 and North Thurston with the league title on the line.
Girl’s basketball
River Ridge 59, Tumwater 46
Northwest Christian 49, South Bend 48
North Thurston 75, Black Hills 62
Ciara Williams had 24 points for North Thurston in their win over Black Hills and Kyahri Adams had 20 in River Ridge’s defeat of Tumwater setting up a game on Friday night between two 8-2 teams in the 2A EvCo with second place potentially on the line.
Biggest game on the docket tonight is in the 2A EvCo when the River Ridge boys host Tumwater with second place and keeping pace with North Thurston on the line. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:45 PM.
Here is the full schedule…
Boy’s basketball
Black Hills at North Thurston – 7:30 5:45
Tumwater at River Ridge – 7:45
King’s Way Christian at Pope John Paul II – at St. Michael’s – 7:00 PM
Girl’s basketball
Tumwater at River Ridge – 6:00 PM
Black Hills at North Thurston – 7:30 PM
First of all, I apologize for not having a couple of these games on the “tonight” post this morning. Still trying to find a reliable source for a schedule. The makeup games are from the snowstorm have made things a little confusing.
Boy’s basketball
Olympia 75, South Kitsap 49
Capital 104, Foss 100 – 3OT
Timberline 61, Yelm 54
Capital and Foss played an epic game on Monday night. The third overtime finally settled it as the Cougars took home an 104-100 victory over Foss. Three players, Karl Peterson (26 points), Keenan Williams (25) and Jaren Eidenmuller (23) combined for 74 of their 104 points. Olympia moved to 9-1 in the 4A Narrows League and are still tied for first place with Bellarmine who beat Gig Harbor 57-48 tonight. And Timberline picked up it’s first conference win on the season.
Girl’s basketball
South Kitsap 64, Olympia 44
Timberline 59, Yelm 49
Foss 42, Capital 37
Timberline got 28 points from Sasha Weber in their 59=49 win in Yelm. The win moves Timberline to 6-1 in the 3A Narrows League one game behind Wilson who beat Lincoln 71-35 tonight. The Blazers play host to Lincoln on Wednesday before traveling to Wilson on Friday with first place possibly on the line.
Something’s got to give tonight in Lacey when Yelm visits Timberline. Both teams come in winless in the 3A Narrows League. Timberline is 5-10 overall while Yelm is just 2-13. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 PM.
Photo credit: Peter Haley, The News Tribune
The Sprinker Ice Rink in Spanaway reopened today after an eight month, $6 million renovation. The News Tribune has the full story. I post this here at OlySports.com because Sprinker is the closest sheet of ice to Olympia and gets a lot of action from Olympia area residents.
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for Olympia to have an ice rink. I don’t expect anybody to open one anytime soon, I don’t see enough demand to make it worth the price for a private enterprise. But if it were part of a larger development, perhaps. Olympia could really use a convention center, combine that with a hockey arena – Olympia would be a perfect fit for the junior North American Hockey League – and there you go. It’s probably a pipe dream in this economy, but what the heck, it’s always good to dream.
Roller Derby is back for 2012! The Oly Rollers kick of ftheir season with a doubleheader that will pit Olympia’s Bella Donnas against Centralia’s Rainy City Roller Dolls and Oly’s Dropkick Donnas against Corvallis, Oregon’s Sick Town Derby Dames.
Tell me, what about this doesn’t look like awesome fun times…
Photo credit: JoeRollerFan.com
The action kicks off at 6:00 PM at venerable Skateland. Tickets are $15 and are available through Brown Paper Tickets or at the door.
Men’s basketball
SPSCC 75, Centralia 66
Eastern Oregon 109, Evergreen 63 – More from Geoducks athletics
MSU-Billings 82, Saint Martin’s 74 – More from MSUBsports.com
SPSCC ground out the only win for Olympia area colleges on Saturday night knocking off Centralia College 75-66 despite 32 points from Centralia’s Van Lockett. The Clippers improve to 3-5 in the NWAACC West division and Centralia drops to 2-7.
Women’s basketball
Centralia 61, SPSCC 41
Eastern Oregon 54, Evergreen 53 – More from Geoducks athletics
MSU-Billings 58, Saint Martin’s 52 – More from SMUSaints.com
The Evergreen State College women, just 4-18 on the season, continue to give ranked opponents fits. On Saturday in La Grande, the Geoducks fell just a buzzer beater short of beating the #8 ranked Eastern Oregon Mountaineers falling 54-53. The Geoducks led by as many as ten in the second half and were up by one with just 2.4 seconds left but were whistled for a fould and EOU’s Dominique Johnson sank both her free throws to win the game. Black Hill’s Danielle Swain led the way for Evergreen with 18 points and nine rebounds.
Boy’s basketball
Northwest Christian 66, Ocosta 48
Zach Carras scored 21 points for the Northwest Christian Navigators…all in the second quarter. That’s a solid eight minutes of work.
Indoor Soccer
South Sound FC Shock 13, WSA Rapids 8 – Unofficial score, as recalled by @Emmettoconnell
UPDATE FROM SSFC: South Sound FC 12, WSA 9
Big win for the South Sound FC in their third home game at Tumwater Indoor Sports. WSA Rapids was undefeated coming into the game and had beaten the shock 11-3 at the Bellingham Sportsplex in December. The win moves the Shock’s record to .500 at 3-3.
Busy morning in the OlySports.com household, sorry for the delay. I’m sitting in Meconi’s typing this on my phone. Mmm…delicious Meconi’s.
Tonight the Saint Martin’s women play MSU-Billings at Marcus Pavilion at 7:00 PM.
The South Sound FC Shock play WSA Rapids at Tumwater Indoor Sports at 7:00 PM. According to their website, tonight they’ll have a beer garden, giveaways and merchandise for sale. Score!
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