Evergreen is going south for their last road series of the season. The Geoducks take on Oregon Tech Friday night and Southern Oregon Saturday night. Geoducks athletics has their weekly previews, read more about the men’s games here and the women’s here.
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Quick links: Smith named all-area POY; Much, much more
Kierstin Smith named player of the year of The Olympian’s all-area fastpitch team. Two other Tumwater and two Olympia stars named to the team.
The Olympian also has a ton of recruiting news including the news that Black Hills and SPSCC’s Anye Turner is moving on to the Western Washington basketball team for 2012-2013. – The Olympian
Here is everything you ever wanted to know about Ultimate Frisbee in Olympia. – Thurston Talk
Saint Martin’s catcher Chandler Tracy was named NCAA Division II West Region Freshman of the Year. – SMUSaints.com
Two other Saints were named to an all-region team. Kyle Van Santen made it for the 5K and Sam Washington for the shot put. – SMUSaints.com
The 2013 NCAA Division II regional golf tournament is coming to The Home Course in DuPont and will be hosted by Saint Martin’s. – SMUSaints.com
The Evergreen State College reopened their challenge course this week. – Evergreen Athletics
Evergreen also inducted the first class into their Recreation and Athletics Hall of Fame. – Evergreen Athletics
Quick links: Klemm, Brown, Weyand, Fairchild, Bean and O’Connell
Morgan Klemm named All-West region second team – SMUSaints.com
Meet Olympia’s Tyler Brown, 15 years-old and playing hockey in Canada – ThurstonTalk.com
Really interesting profile of Tumwater’s German soccer sensation, Kevin Weyand – The Olympian
Oly’s Michael Fairchild honors Crandall Field namesake – The Olympian
Tumwater’s Ryan Bean signs to play baseball for the independent Florence Freedom – Florence Freedom
Emmett O’Connell has an interesting look at Olympia’s minor league baseball stadium in the early 1900’s – Olympia Time
Coaching vacancies: Tafoya out at Timberline; Summers at Black Hills
The Olympian reports today that Mike Tafoya has resigned as head boys basketball coach at Timberline high School. Tafoya will remain a teacher at Timberline and his reason for leaving basketball is to focus more on his teaching duties. the Blazers went 7-12 overall and just 1-8 in the 3A Narrows League this season.
Timberline is the second Olympia area school with a boys basketball coaching vacancy. Jamie Berg resigned as head coach at Black Hills last month.
Also last week, Meg Wochnick reported that Black Hills girls soccer coach Lisa Summers stepped down. Summers coached the Wolves in 14 of their 15 seasons and led them to their best record this last fall.
Quick links: Bryant to UW; Rise to Oly; More
Tumwater’s Jaimie Bryant verbally commits to play football for the Huskies. – The Olympian
New semi-pro basketball team scheduled to play in Olympia. – ABA Live
The always energetic Anne Larson has a profile of Olympia soccer players Evan Munn and Jamison Corbin – Thurston Talk
Washington State University coaches Mike Leach and June Daugherty and athletic director Bill Moos will be at Saint Martin’s tonight. – Register here
Miami Marlins fan blog gives their take on Olympia’s Adam Conley – Fish Tales
Speaking of Conley, his wife Kendall has a blog about their time in Greensboro this season – Kendall Conley
Quick Links: Saints, Saints and more Saints (and some other stuff too)
Capital baseball coach Eric Stark to resign after the season. – The Olympian
Good read about Saints softball sensation (aliteration!) Morgan Klemm. – The Olympian
Another really good read about the set of sisters playing for Saint Martin’s softball. – SMUSaints.com
And another Saint Martin’s athlete, thrower Sam Washington, is featured on SMUSaints.com
Tumwater’s Carly McIsaac has signed to play hoops for Oregon Tech. – Cascade Collegiate Conference
Two Central Kitsap athletes are heading to Saint Martin’s. Krista Stabler was the 4A Narrows League MVP in basketball and Josh Sontag will play baseball. – Kitsap Sun Prep Beat Blog
You can vote for Saint Martin’s Blake Poole to be the ProB League player of the year by just clicking like on his photo on the league’s Facebook page. – ProB League Facebook
Berg out at Black Hills
After just two seasons, Jamie Berg will not be back for a third as head boys basketball coach at Black Hills, reports The Olympian. Berg was 18-26 in two seasons with the Wolves and led them to their only state appearance in school history in the 2010-2011 season.
Olympia Reign whispers their 2012 schedule
There was no press release or anything to announce the release of the Olympia Reign’s 2012 schedule, just a suddenly updated website that I stumbled upon. According to their website, the season will feature ten games at the Skookum Creek Events Center at the Little Creek Casino. They open on April 20th against the Bellingham Slam at 7:00 PM.
Here is the complete 2012 home schedule:
Friday, April 20th – Bellingham Slam
Tuesday, May 1st – Vancouver Volcanoes
Thursday, May 3rd – Portland Chinooks
Friday, May 11th – Salem Soldiers
Saturday, May 12th – Bellingham Slam
Thursday, May 24th – Portland Chinooks
Thursday, May 31st – Japan
Thursday, May 14th – Japan
Thursday, May 28th – Los Angeles
Tuesday, July 3rd – Orlando Venom
All games are schedule for a 7:00 PM tip-off. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for children.
The team has tryouts scheduled for March 17th and 18th at South Puget Sound Community College. See the team’s website for more information.
Blake Poole’s season comes to an end
Photo credit: Pieper
Saint Martin’s alum Blake Poole’s fantastic rookie season in Germany came to an end on Saturday with a 74-67 playoff loss to Uni-Riesen Leipzig. Poole scored 15 points and had 15 rebounds in the loss and finished the season averaging 14.9 points per game and 12.9 rebounds per game. He had 20 double-doubles in 26 games and led the team in rebounding in all but one game this season. His best game came on January 28th when he scored 21 points and pulled down 19 boards in a 91-78 defeat of Herzöge Wolfenbüttel.
Yet another double-double for Poole
Former Saint Martin’s Saint Blake Poole keeps on rolling in Germany. Poole had 15 points and 12 rebounds for BG Dorsten in their 86-65 win over Alba Berlin on Saturday. It was his 18th double-double of the season and he has led Dorsten in rebounding in every one of their 21 games this season. Here’s more on Poole’s performance from the Dorsten website, as translated by Bing…
“Now, had the nose but Blake Poole fully and took the booklet in hand. So far still not quite as much succeeded him, but now he used his stature to just highlight the conditions. He brought many rebounds and contributed even one or other points of the 45: 36-break guide at.”
Got it? He took the booklet in hand, of course.
But seriously, the win clinched a spot in the playoffs for Poole and BG Dorsten. Congrats!
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