A couple quick links to articles over at ThurstonTalk.com including an extremely detailed account of a bowling tournament by Gail Wood…
Julie Hansen- An Ace On The Tennis Courts And In The Classroom At Black Hills High School
LeHew Beats Parkhurst Twice In Finals To Win Olympia Match Game tournament
Never got a chance to post this on Tuesday, but The Olympian’s Meg Wochnick had a very nice profile of Saint Martin’s 24 year-0ld senior Brok Pendleton that detailed his “long road to Lacey”. Pendleton went from Auburn High School to Brigham Young to Green River Community College to a mission in France back to Green River and finally to Saint Martin’s where he is is averaging 14.4 points and 7.4 rebounds per game for the Saints and has posted 24 and 26 points over hist last two games. For more, read the whole article in The Olympian…
Photo credit: Pieper (link)
Saint Martin’s alum Blake Poole had 14 points and 14 rebounds for BG Dorsten on Saturday in their 94-90 loss to Rheinland Versicherungen Hertener Löwen. Poole is averaging over 15 points and 13 rebounds for Dorsten of the Pro-B basketball league, the third tier of professional basketball in Germany. It was his 17th double-double in 20 games this season, which should come as no surprise if you ever watched him play for the Saints.
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).
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.
From the Saint Martin’s University Facebook page…
“Congratulations to Saints baseball players Stephen Mahnken and Casey Thorpe on being selected to join the Athletes in Action International Baseball team this summer! Stephen and Casey will travel to the Dominican Republic to play baseball and share their Christian faith. #GoSaints”
Mahnken is a freshman outfielder from Puyallup and Thorpe is a freshman catcher from Olympia High School.
SMUSaints.com has a preview of Thursday’s men’s basketball game against 6-11 Gonzaga transfer Andy Polling and his Seattle Pacific Falcons.
SMU up against another tall challenge, face 6-11 SPU center
Just a couple of recent stories from The Olympian that I missed…
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