South Puget Sound has postponed tonight’s games at Tacoma until Monday night…
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At least the women’s team has games to postpone this season.
Last night: Saints men win, women lose
Men’s Basketball: Saint Martin’s 70, Alaksa-Fairbanks 53 – The Saints outscored the Nanooks 49-24 in the second half and moved to 8-9 overall and 4-4 in conference play. Brok Pendelton led the Saints with 22 points and Roger O’Neil chipped in 16. The Saints trailed at halftime 21-29 on only eight field goals in the first half. SMUSaints.com has the full story.
Women’s Basketball: Alaska-Fairbanks 62, Saint Martin’s 51 – Chelsea Haskey scored 19 points for the Saints in Fairbanks but the Nanooks picked up their first conference win and snapped a seven game losing streak behind 17 points and 12 rebounds by Mukilteo native Nicole Bozek. The loss drops the Saints to 7-11 and 2-6 in the GNAC. Here’s the game recap at SMUSaints.com
Tonight: Nothing
All area high school games have been postponed and Evergreen’s games against Northwest Christian have been moved to Sunday. So Olympia, we got nothing tonight. Go read a book. May I recommend The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach?
Evergreen weekly releases
UPDATE: Friday’s doubleheader against Northwest Christian has been moved to Sunday at 2:00 and 4:00 PM.
The Evergreen basketball teams play Northwest Christian and Corban College at the CRC Gymnasium at Evergreen this weekend. Tip-off on Friday and Saturday is at 5:30 for the women and 7:30 for the men. Here is Evergreen’s weekly release for the women and for the men.
Tonight: Saint Martin’s men vs. Alaska-Fairbanks
UPDATE: Saints win! Saints win! 70-53. They move to 4-4 in GNAC play.
The Saint Martin’s men’s basketball team (7-9 overall, 3-4 GNAC) take on the Nanooks of Alaska-Fairbanks (4-13, 1-6 GNAC) tonight at Marcus Pavilion at 7:00 PM. As of 7:00 AM, the game is still a go despite the snow and ice blanketing Olympia. Hopefully the Nanooks are already in town (and enjoying our tropical weather, comparatively) and the game will be played in front of a loud crowd of bored, snowbound students and otherwise hearty souls. Gail Wood has the preview over at smusaints.com.
Meanwhile, the Saints women are in Fairbanks to take on the Nanooks tonight at 8:00 PM. Live stats are available here.
North Thurston girls are the area’s highest ranked basketball team
The latest AP state basketball rankings are out and the North Thurston girls are the highest ranked Olympia area basketball team coming in at ninth in 2A. No other area basketball team is ranked but Olympia, North Thurston, Tumwater and River Ridge all received votes in their respective classes on the boys side while River Ridge and Black Hills received votes on the girls side. The Olympian has the full rankings.
Snowpocalypse Causes Cancellations
What a day to start an Olympia sports blog!? You know, the day that there is no news other than EVERYTHING IS CANCELED! Anyway, Meg Wochnick has the full list of cancellations and rescheduled games over at The Olympian.
Welcome to Oly Sports!
Welcome to Oly Sports! My name is Brandon Sparks and I will bring you news and notes from the various recreational leagues, high school, college and professional sports teams here in the Olympia area. I’ll have some original content, links, schedules and all sorts of whatnot. I am only one man who also takes care of two little girls for my full time job so there will probably be things that I miss. Just be cool, we’re all in this together.
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