Tuesday scoreboard: Saints get first win, Linx extend lead
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Lacey Saints 4, Olympia Athletics 2
West Olympia Linx 2, Nisqually Silvers 1
Today (6/25): Linx and Silvers battle for PSCL lead
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Olympia Athletics vs. Lacey Saints – The RAC – 5:00 PM
West Olympia Linx vs. Nisqually Silvers – The RAC – 7:30 PM
The Puget Sound Collegiate League continues on Tuesday evening with games between the winless Lacey Saints (0-12) and the fourth place Olympia Athletics (5-8) in game one and a battle between the two top teams in the league, the West Olympia Linx (10-2) and the Nisqually Silvers (9-3), in the nightcap.
Sunday scoreboard: Linx, Silvers, Cards win, Bombers blitz Tacoma, Senators sweep Trail
Baseball
West Olympia Linx 4, Tumwater Brewers 3
Nisqually Silvers 8, Olympia Athletics 4
Hawks Prairie Cardinals 11, Lacey Saints 1
Capital City Bombers 14, Tacoma Tigers 3
Thurston County Senators 3, Trail Orioles 1
Thurston County Senators 2, Trail Orioles 1
Nick Schultz (Centralia College) scored the game winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the West Olympia Linx a 4-3 win over the Tumwater Brewers. Schultz went 3-for-4, drove in a run and scored twice and Jake Ross (Tacoma CC) collected two hits in the win.
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Jeremy Camacho (River Ridge HS) singled in the game tying run and Kano Shota (Olympic College) doubled in the eventual game winner minutes later as the Nisqually Silvers scored five runs in the last two innings to knock off the Olympia Athletics 8-4. Camacho, Shota and Colin McCusker (Pacific University, Timberline HS) each had a pair of hits for the Silvers. Chris Strain (Occidental College) went 3-for-3 for the A’s.
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The Hawks Prairie Cardinals broke open a 2-1 game scoring nine runs in the top of the fifth inning in a rain shortened 11-1 win over the Lacey Saints. Jack Freeman (Saint Martin’s) had three hits and scored three times, Jake Ayers (University of Redlands) drove in three runs and Brandon Grimsley (Murray State College) and Cole Nagamine (Hawaii-Hilo) collected two RBIs for the Cards.
Today (6/23): Busy breezy baseball Sunday
Baseball
Capital City Bombers vs. Tacoma Tigers – Crandall Field – 11:00 AM
Thurston County Senators vs. Trail Orioles (DH) – Saint Martin’s – 11:00 AM
Tumwater Brewers vs. West Olympia Linx – The RAC – 12:00 PM
Olympia Athletics vs. Nisqually Silvers – The RAC – 3:00 PM
Hawks Prairie Cardinals vs. Lacey Saints – The RAC – 6:00 PM
Saturday scoreboard: Cards comeback, A’s pound Silvers, Linx shutout Brewers
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Hawks Prairie Cardinals 5, Lacey Saints 4
Olympia Athletics 18, Nisqually Silvers 4
West Olympia Linx 9, Tumwater Brewers 0
Tyler Hiles’ (Grays Harbor College) two run walk-off single capped off a five run comeback to give the Hawks Prairie Cardinals a 5-4 win over the Lacey Saints. The Cardinals strung together four straight singles in the final inning to score three runs to take home the victory. Colin Lang (Hawaii-Hilo) walked and scored in the seventh and singled in a run in the eighth.
Cameron Steffey (Green River CC) gave up just two hits in 6 1/3 scoreless innings and David Tillotson (Centralia College) collected two hits and an RBI for the Saints.
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The Olympia Athletics scored 18 runs in just five innings in their 18-4 win over the Nisqually Silvers. Ned Jones (Yakima CC) went 3-for-4 with three runs and three RBIs, Tyler Watkins (Spokane Falls) singled, walked and was hit by a pitch twice and scored all four times he reached base and JJ Nazzaro (Gardner-Webb) went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a pair of runs scored.
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Sam Shadle (Pierce College) gave up just two hits and struck out five over 5 2/3 scoreless innings and the West Olympia Linx ran past the Tumwater Brewers 9-0 in the nightcap. Ryan Snider (Oregon Tech) and Keegan Duz-Aguilar (Centralia College) allowed just one base runner over the final 3 1/3 innings to preserve the shutout. Ryan Atkinson (Columbia Basin) collected three hits including a pair of doubles and drove in three runs and Ben Krueger (Oregon Tech) drove in three runs of his own for the Linx.
Today (6/22): PSCL triple-header; MIA Derby Girls; Racing in Rainier, Rochester
First of all, happy Pride! The Capital City Pride festival goes all day long in downtown and the parade gets going at noon. Enjoy!
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Olympia Athletics vs. Nisqually Silvers – The RAC – 12:00 PM
Hawks Prairie Cardinals vs. Lacey Saints – The RAC – 3:00 PM
Tumwater Brewers vs. West Olympia Linx – The RAC – 6:00 PM
Roller Derby
MIA Derby Girls vs. Skagit Valley/Sisters of Slaughter – South Sound Sports Center – 6:00 PM
Auto Racing
Rainier Flat Track racing – Rainier, WA – 4:30 PM
South Sound Speedway – Rochester, wA – 6:30 PM
Jared Sandberg’s Hot Rods no-hit Lugnuts
Bowling Green’s four pitchers and catcher following their no-hitter.
Jared Sandberg, a Capital High School alum and current Bowling Green Hot Rods manager, presided over the first nine inning no-hitter in franchise history tonight in the Hot Rods’ 14-1 win over the Lansing Lugnuts in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
While usually a manager just has to keep an eye on the pitch count and keep quiet during a no-hitter, Sandberg had to use four pitchers after his starter, Blake Snell, walked five batters and gave up one run in the third inning after a walk and two errors. Eduar Quinonez, Nick Sawyer and Marcus Jensen combined to pitch the final six innings with just two walks the rest of the way. Left fielder Marty Ganntt made the play of the game in the ninth inning robbing Dalton Pompey of a base hit with a leaping catch.
“It is great to be part of history,” Sandberg told Michael Compton of the Bowling Green Daily News. “No-hitters are difficult, especially when you get a bunch of pitchers involved. In the ninth inning, when Gantt made the play, everybody jumped off their seats. You could see over the course of the game that the guys were sitting in the same spot, had the same tendencies, the superstitions. You started to feel it around the sixth inning – the nervous energy.”
Sandberg, the former third baseman for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays who is in his first year with the Rays’ full season Single-A affiliate in Bowling Green, recently picked up his 200th career managerial win and won the New York-Penn League championship with the Hudson Valley Renegades last season. The Hot Rods are 40-30 under his guidance this year.
Photo courtesy of Bowling Green Hot Rods.
Today (6/21): Senators face Brewers
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Thurston County Senators vs. Tumwater Brewers – The RAC – 7:30 PM
Thursday scoreboard: Reign finish perfect season; Silvers top Brewers
International Basketball League
Olympia Reign 128, Nippon Tornadoes 115
Mike Ward scored 37 points and pulled down eight rebounds and the Olympia Reign finished their abbreviated 2013 season with a perfect record (2-0) with a 128-115 comeback win over the Nippon Tornadoes at the SPSCC gymnasium.
The Reign trailed by 12 points at halftime but outscored the Tornadoes 41-27 in the third to take a 96-94 lead into the fourth. Olympia continued their hot second half putting up another 32 points in the final quarter and held on for the 13 point victory.
Virgil Matthews and Patrick Lewis scored 25 and 22 points respectively and Giovonne Woods came close to a triple-double with 12 points, 14 assists and eight rebounds. Antonio McClinon led the Reign with 11 boards.
Puget Sound Collegiate League baseball
Nisqually Silvers 7, Tumwater Brewers 5
West Olympia Linx vs. Lacey Saints – No report
The Nisqually Silvers put a five spot on the board in the first inning and added runs in the fifth and seventh inning to hold off the Tumwater Brewers 7-5 in game one at The RAC. Naoki Imeto (Olympic College), Travis Shaw (Saint Martin’s) and Colby Fitzgerald (Bellevue University) each collected two hits and Shaw scored three times and Imeto drove in a pair of runs.
Spencer Dodd (Saint Martin’s) went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and Tanner Marty (Lower Columbia CC) added a two hits for the Brewers.
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