Jessica Hamblen-Klepper has worked to coordinate the second Dance for the Creative Arts event set for 7 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at Kentlake’s Performing Arts Center, 21401 Se 300th St., Kent.
Tahoma’s bats were white hot Thursday.
In the first two games of the South Puget Sound League tournament Tahoma scored 30 runs combined in a pair of five inning victories over Todd Beamer and Rogers.
For those who campaigned in support of the Tahoma School District construction bond measure, which was rejected by voters April 26, its failure was a blow on many levels.
Members of the Voice of Tahoma Education committee as well as the district’s Board of Directors are left now to figure out why the measure failed and what needs to be done in the wake of those results.
Amanda White, a Tahoma High senior, committed to walk on to the Central Washington University women’s soccer team this fall.
During the past two weeks or so I’ve discovered that TJ Martinell, our new staff writer, and I have quite a bit in common.
Erika Smyth thought for sure the home run she hit in the bottom of the fourth wasn’t getting out of the infield.
Instead it carried over the center field fence at Kentwood to give Kentlake High’s fastpitch team a 4-0 lead in a first place tie breaker game against Tahoma.
The Falcons won 6-2 in the third meeting of the season with Bears — all in less than a week — earning the No. 1 seed out of the South Puget Sound League 4A North.
A year ago, Tahoma High’s boys soccer team suffered a second half collapse after leading the South Puget Sound League 4A North, which saw the squad just miss the playoffs.
This season the Bears finished in third place with a stretch late in the season where they won four out of five, including a 4-3 victory over Kentlake on April 30 that sealed their spot in the playoffs.
Like last year, Tahoma and Kentlake’s fastpitch teams split the season series and are tied atop the South Puget Sound League 4A North Division.
With Tahoma’s 9-0 victory Monday over Mount Rainier, the Bears earned a share of the division crown, something they split with the Falcons in 2010.
Unlike a year ago, when the No. 1 seed to the SPSL playoffs was decided by a coin flip, Tahoma and Kentlake will battle it out on the field at 5 p.m. on Tuesday at Kentwood High.
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One down, one to go for Tahoma’s fastpitch team.
After losing to Kentlake Thursday night, Tahoma bounced back Friday afternoon with a 4-2 win over Thomas Jefferson, the only other team its lost to all season.
Images of the devastation wrought by the earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan on March 11 motivated a group of students at Sawyer Woods Elementary to raise money for relief efforts.
Members of the Student Academic Leadership Team, SALT for short, felt like they had to do something to do something.
Pizza, frozen yogurt and grilled cheese is the breakfast of champions, or at least good students at Tahoma Junior High.
Tuesday morning as eighth graders prepared to take the Measurement of Student Progress, or the MSP, they munched on slices of pepperoni and cheese pizza from Garlic Jim’s or slurped frozen yogurt from tubes.
Tahoma’s 6-5 win Wednesday night over Kentlake was an instant classic.
And it was just the first installment of a two-part series with the second part slated for 7 p.m. Friday at Kentlake.
Kentlake suffered its first loss of the season Monday night 10-8 at the hands of Auburn Riverside.
Riverside jumped all over Kentlake in the bottom of the first inning when it scored six runs.
The annual Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce Fishing Derby drew a large crowd of eager youths looking to catch a whopper.
Joe Potts wants to reorganize a few things at Kentlake High.
During our recent Site Council meeting, Potts, the Kentlake principal, talked about creating a different organizational structure.
The club of 39 members will take the lessons it learned at regional competitions in Seattle and Portland with it to the national FIRST Robotics event in Missouri, explained junior Mark Eads.
The city’s Parks and Recreation Director Scott Thomas explained while Covington was ranked second in its category in the grant application process that doesn’t guarantee funding.
The Bears are standing atop the South Puget Sound League North Division with a 14-1 record in league heading into play on Wednesday.
With the first wave of ballots counted Tuesday night, the Tahoma School District construction bond measure did not have enough votes for approval, grabbing about 51 percent.
