Tuesday scoreboard: Saints and Linx win; Senators top Elks

Jul 24

Posted by


Click on any image to go to gallery and see full size pictures

Baseball

Lacey Saints 13, Hawks Prairie Cardinals 8
West Olympia Linx 9, Tumwater Brewers 7
Thurston County Senators 8, Bend Elks 3

Posted in Baseball, Hawks Prairie Cardinals, Lacey Saints, Puget Sound Collegiate League, Thurston County Senators, Tumwater Brewers, West Olympia Lynx

Leave a comment

Today (7/23): PSCL in the homestretch

Schedule for Tuesday, July 23rd

Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball

Hawks Prairie Cardinals vs. Lacey Saints – The RAC – 5:00 PM
Tumwater Brewers vs. West Olympia Linx – The RAC – 7:30 PM


Tuesday news and notes (updated throughout the day)

Warner-17

Kyle Warner

Tumwater alum Kyle Warner has been named to the first team of the 25th Annual USA College Football Division III Preseason All-America list. Warner, a junior wide receiver for Pacific Lutheran, set the Lutes single season receiving record last year 1,264 yards and scored eight touchdowns. Warner was named 2A player of the year in Tumwater’s 2010 state title run. – Link

—————

Lower Columbia College announced the hiring of Eddie Smith to take over as the head baseball coach for the Red Devils. The 2002 North Thurston grad returns to the Northwest after a year as a volunteer assistant coach for his alma mater, Notre Dame. Smith was also an assistant at Santa Clara and Virginia before moving back to South Bend and played two years at Centralia College and two for the Irish and is a 2006 grad of Notre Dame. – Link

Posted on | Aside

Monday scoreboard: Banister and Nazzaro batter Silvers, Kalen and King deal for Cards

Jul 22

Posted by

Nazzaro

JJ Nazzaro

Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball

Olympia Athletics 13, Nisqually Silvers 4
Hawks Prairie Cardinals 5, Lacey Saints 1

Kameron Banister doubled three times and drove in five runs to lead the Olympia Athletics to a 13-4 win over the Nisqually Silvers in game one of a PSCL doubleheader at The RAC. JJ Nazzaro (Gardner-Webb) doubled, tripled, drove in three runs and stole two bases and Josh Moss (Saint Martin’s, Rochester HS), Anthony Kuntz (Saint Martin’s) and Austin Taylor (Centralia College) combined to allow four earned runs on seven hits for the A’s.

Jens Omdal (Houghton College, River Ridge HS) and Alex Bielaski (Saint Martin’s) each collected two hits and Bielaski and Cody Apilado (Olympic College) each drove in a run for the Silvers.

—————

Ethan Kalen gave up one earned run on two hits with six strikeouts and Justin King pitched four scoreless innings in relief and the Hawks Prairie Cardinals knocked off the Lacey Saints 5-1. Cole Nagamine (Hawaii-Hilo) hit a two run homer in the eighth inning and Brandon Grimsley (Murray State College) went 2-for-4 and doubled in the first Cardinals run of the game in the third. Jeffrey Apigo (Skagit Valley College) scored the eventual game winner when Lucas Gately (Gonzaga) grounded into a double play in the fifth.

Mervin Rincon (Centralia College) went 2-for-4 with a triple and Chris McConnell (PLU) added two hits and scored the Saints lone run on a Jordan Potis (Centralia College, Northwest Christian HS) ground out in the fifth inning.

Posted in Baseball, Hawks Prairie Cardinals, Lacey Saints, Nisqually Silvers, Olympia Athletics, Puget Sound Collegiate League

Leave a comment

Today (7/22): PSCL doubleheader; Sunday scores; Conley, Brodin dominate

Schedule for Monday, July 22nd

Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball

Olympia Athletics vs. Nisqually Silvers – The RAC – 5:00 PM
Hawks Prairie Cardinals vs. Lacey Saints – The RAC – 7:30 PM


Sunday scores

Thurston County Senators 14, Trail Orioles 4 – Senators move to 23-5
Kitsap Hornets 7, Capital City Bombers 3


Monday news and notes (updated throughout the day)

Adam Conley picked up his second win in a row last night allowing just one unearned run on two hits over seven innings in Jacksonville’s 8-1 win over the Tennessee Smokies. The Olympia grad is now 9-4 with a 3.41 ERA for Miami’s double-A affiliate. – Link

Brodin-Connects-7-19-13

Joash Brodin – Photo courtesy of liducks.com

Joash Brodin was named the Atlantic League Player of the Week today after a week that saw him hit .429 (12-for-29) with three home runs including a walk off grand slam. The North Thurston alum drove in eight runs and stole three bases for the Long Island Ducks and now is second in the league with a .337 batting average and first in the runs scored with 62. – Link

—————

The Olympian profiles area transplant Stephen Vogt, who is back with the triple-A Sacramento Rivercats after a short stint with the Oakland A’s. – Link

—————

Northwest Christian is looking for a new head baseball coach after Damon Ford announced today that he is moving to California. Ford spent three seasons at the helm of the Navigators after taking over for Don Heinze, who also moved to California. – Link

Posted on | Aside

Saturday scoreboard: Keller and Hanley twirl no hitter in Senators sweep

Jul 20

Posted by

Baseball

Thurston County Senators 9, Trail Orioles 2
Thurston County Senators 15, Trail Orioles 1

Nick Keller and Joe Hanley combined to no hit the Trail Orioles in game two of the Thurston County Senators convincing doubleheader sweep in British Columbia on Saturday night.

JJ Nazzaro hit three home runs in the two games and Olympia and Saint Martin’s grad Tommy Deboer threw a four hit complete game in the night’s opener.

Posted in Baseball, Thurston County Senators

Leave a comment

Saturday news & notes: Brodin’s waddle off slam

Saturday news and notes (updated throughout the day)

North Thurston alum Joash Brodin hit a “waddle off” grand slam last night in the Long Island Ducks’ 11-8 win over the Camden Riversharks. Skip to the 3:43:00 mark of the video above to see Brodin hit the very first pitch he saw in the at-bat well over the right field wall in Bethpage, New York to end the game. Brodin went 3-for-5 with two home runs and seven RBIs in total and is now hitting .336 with 11 homers and 42 RBIs for the independent Ducks.  – Box score

—————

Olympia’s Kramer Champlin relieved Lansing starter Daniel Norris after a rain delay and gave up just two hits over the next 3 1/3 innings to pick up his fifth win of the season in a 2-1 Lugnuts win over the Clinton Lumberjacks. Champlin is now 5-2 with a 3.75 ERA this season. – Box score

Posted on | Aside

Today (7/20): NWFC XVII, Big Rigs at the speedway

Jul 20

Posted by

Big day of sports in the South Sound today with the Capital Lakefair Volleyball Tournament taking place on the Capitol Campus all day and the Kick In the Grass Soccer Tournament at various sites in Tumwater and two spectator sports take place in town tonight that are worth your time…

Mixed martial arts

NWFC-XVI40
Northwest Fight Challenge XVII – South Sound Sports Center – 7:00 PM

17 amateur MMA and kickboxing fights are scheduled for tonight’s Northwest Fight Challenge XVII at the South Sound Sports Center in Tumwater. Tickets for the event are $25 for general admission and $50 for VIP ringside and are available at the door. Doors open at 6:00 PM with fights getting underway at 7:00 PM.

Auto racing

july_20th_website
Big rigs, bumblebees, mini stocks and hobby stocks – South Sound Speedway – 6:30 PM

Posted in Auto racing, Mixed Martial Arts

Leave a comment

Thursday scoreboard: Saints, Linx squeak by

Jul 18

Posted by

Click any image to go to gallery and see full size.


Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball

Lacey Saints 4, Hawks Prairie Cardinals 2
West Olympia Linx 4, Tumwater Brewers 3

Posted in Baseball, Hawks Prairie Cardinals, Lacey Saints, Puget Sound Collegiate League, Tumwater Brewers, West Olympia Lynx

Leave a comment

Evergreen Premier League: Let’s bring a team to Olympia

Jul 18

Posted by

epl-posterOur friend David Falk over at goalWA.net has launched an ambitious and exciting campaign to create a low cost, semi-pro level men’s soccer league for Washington State and Olympia is one of the big targets for the Evergreen Premier League.

From the EPLWA introductory post on goalWA.net…

“The idea behind the Evergreen Premier League is to form a league of ten clubs around the state that would play 18 matches from May through July. The league would not be specifically ‘developmental’ in terms of players. There would be no age limits or restrictions. It would be a higher, statewide level of what some of the current adult leagues in various cities are doing. It would value soccer culture and club culture, putting importance on crests, colors, scarves, pubs, community connections, as well as the soccer.”

This is the type of team and league that I think would be ideal for Olympia and I want in. I don’t have the resources or soccer experience to be a team owner but I certainly could team with someone that does have that experience to make a team in Olympia be the best it can be. I can offer my media expertise, marketing experience and unbridled energy and enthusiasm for a team in Olympia.

Let’s do this. If this sounds good to you, please visit the EPLWA Facebook page and then contact me, Brandon Sparks, at olysportsblog@gmail.com and David Falk at goalWA@gmail.com.

Posted in Soccer

2 Comments

Thursday schedule; Conley pitches 1-2-3 inning; Roth hired at Oly

Schedule for Thursday, July 18th

Baseball

Hawks Prairie Cardinals vs. Lacey Saints – The RAC – 5:00 PM
Thurston County Senators vs. Seattle Studs – Saint Martin’s – 6:00 PM
Tumwater Brewers vs. West Olympia Linx – The RAC – 7:30 PM


Thursday news and notes (updated throughout the day)

ConleyThe South All-Stars pitched a one hitter against the North All-Stars last night in the Southern League All-Star game played in Jacksonville, Florida. A crowd of over 9,500 saw Olympia’s Adam Conley pitch a 1-2-3 inning in the fourth for the South. Two of the three batters the Miami Marlins farmhand faced played in the 2013 Futures Game on Sunday in New York. Conley got Arismendy Alcantara to ground out and struck out Joc Pederson to end the inning. – Link

—————

16 year assistant Steve Roth has been hired as the head baseball coach at Olympia, reports The Olympian. Roth takes over for interim coach Greg Creighton who managed the team this past season when head coach Todd McDougall was diagnosed with a brain tumor. – Link

—————

Black Hills grad Cody Peterson will captain the Navy football team this season and NavySports.com has a profile of the Midshipman senior. – Link

—————

Saint Martin’s released the 2013 schedule for the volleyball team today. Unfortunately, the Kara Peterson led Saints play just eight of their 30 games at Marcus Pavilion this season. They will play a home series October 31st and November 2nd against the Alaska schools at a yet to be determined site and a home game at Black Hills High School against Montana State-Billings when the WIAA state volleyball tournament is at the Pavilion on November 16th. – Link

Posted on | Aside

← Older Posts
Newer Posts →