The Kentwood fastpitch team played Bothell to a 1-1 tie Saturday at home.
Bothell went up 3-1 in the top of the seventh, but the Kentwood girls did not get an to swing the bat in the bottom of the seventh due to a time limit on the game.
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Kentlake knocks off Bothell 6-1 in first game of the season.
The faces and names have changed this spring on the Kentwood High baseball diamond.
The optimism, well, that has remained largely the same.
Kentwood won its first Class 4A state title last season since 2000. And though the Conquerors graduated 11 seniors, including their top pitcher and South Puget Sound League North Division MVP Austin Voth and a slew of sluggers, they expect a repeat.
Looking at the favorite, the contenders and the sleeper of the SPSL North 2011 baseball season.
There have been plenty of coaching openings for Quientin Poil to choose from over the years. A baseball junky who has both played and coached at the college level, none of the previous vacancies felt quite right.
Instead of giving the potential openings at least a tip of the cap, Poil let them pass by like a fading changeup out of the strike zone.
Spring is right around the corner which means the Tahoma High baseball team is back between the lines.
Coach Russ Hayden is in his 19th year at the helm of the Bears baseball program and carries a career record coming into the season of 241-147-4.
Hayden said the team has only just started practice and played one game, but, the early results were impressive.
First came the weights.
Then came the power for Kentridge High shortstop Kyle Leady.
Leady, a senior, entered last season among the unknowns in the South Puget Sound League North Division. An infielder who bounced in and out of the starting lineup, between shortstop and third base and most often hitting toward the bottom of the order, big numbers weren’t quite expected. Yet, in a span of two weeks, Leady went from a blip on the SPSL North radar to one of the most feared hitters in the league.
Emerald Downs, which recently announced plans to offer a limited number of quarter horse races at its upcoming 82-day meeting, will host a major quarter horse race on Sunday, Sept. 4.
The $60,000-added Bank of America Emerald Downs Challenge Championship for older horses at 440 yards highlights a quarter horse stakes double-header also featuring the $15,000 Pfizer Starter Allowance at 350 yards for horses which have started for a claiming price of $5,000 or less in the last 12 months.
Synergy Volleyball clubs continue to have success in tournaments as the U16 squad took second place in a recent tournament while the U12 Purple won its latest tournament.
Tahoma Lacrosse Club’s high school mens team is loaded with experienced players.
Co-captains Brody Lundquist, Justin Hanson and Justin Ross lead a team that lost just three players to graduation last year.
Practices began for the spring season on Feb. 28 at Wilson Field. The Bears are coached by Vern Smith, who is in his 13th year at the helm.
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Summit Gymnastics of Maple Valley competed in its first home tumbling and trampoline meet of the season. The meet was attended by seven teams from Washington and Oregon and included more than 100 participants. Level 3 senior elite athletes competed in three events: tumbling (TU), trampoline (TR) and double mini (DM).
Tahoma High hoops standout Christian Behrens verbally committed to play basketball at the University of California on Monday.
The Washington Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame will host its ninth annual induction ceremony at Emerald Downs following the races Saturday, Aug. 20.
The Reporter photographer Charles Cortes covered the Mat Classic XXIII state wrestling tournament.
The Kentwood High boys basketball team opened with a bang, but finished with a fizzle Monday night at the ShoWare Center.
Behind 22 points from star guard DaVonte Lacy, fourth-ranked Curtis denied Kentwood 59-43 in the championship game of the West Central/Southwest Bi-District tournament.
Over 225 racing enthusiasts gathered at Emerald Downs in Auburn for the Washington Champions and Annual Awards Banquet on Feb. 19 to celebrate the 2010 Washington champion racehorses and honor industry members whose contributions throughout the years have added so much to our wonderful sport.
He got the match he wanted.
He even got the win he was looking for.
Neither, however, happened when or how Tahoma High junior Steven Hopkins had planned. Hopkins, who won the 103-pound Class 4A state title last year, was looking for a repeat performance – albeit at 119 pounds – Saturday afternoon at the Tacoma Dome during Mat Classic XXIII.
This time last year, Kentwood diver Jesse Dehnert wasn’t even competing at the 4A state boys swim and dive championships.
What a difference a year makes.
At the end of Saturday he was wearing a seventh place medal having tallied 314 points.
