Behind a pitching gem by Nikole Weber and the defensive play of the year by center fielder Erin Crowley, Kentlake hung on to beat Puyallup 3-1 for the South Puget Sound League title on Friday evening at Service Club Ballfields in Kent.
Tahoma High senior Derek Eager swept the throwing events at the subdistrict meet Thursday and Friday at Kent Meridian.
Eager broke the SPSL record in the javelin and won both the discus and shot put.
Tahoma earns spot in SPSL fastpitch semi-final, Kentwood splits its games and Kentlake will take on Rogers in the other semi-final game on Friday.
It all started in 1975 with a group of 20 media members, who came together to form Media Stables. With Media Stables, Victor Cozzetti began his career as a syndicate manager in the horse racing industry.
As time went by, the horses changed, the tracks changed, and even the stable names changed, yet Cozzetti remained a loyal contributor to racing in the Northwest. Cozzetti admits that times haven’t always been great. But racing, after all, is an industry that can produce unimaginable highs and lows.
In March 2009, trainer Carlos Moreno decided to take a chance. So, Moreno put in a $50,000 claim on a 5-year-old gray gelding by the name of Kruger Park and immediately threw him in with the best handicap runners in the northwest.
The 2009 Longacres Mile has proven to be an exceptionally productive race. Horses that ran in the mile have won 13-of-28 subsequent starts, including a remarkable 11 stakes, and $916,935 in earnings.
It’s not yet panic time for the Kentwood High baseball team.
But after Saturday’s 10-6 loss to Puyallup in the South Puget Sound League championship game, there is some head scratching going around.
Despite home runs from Austin Voth, Taylor White and Bryant VanEngelenburg, the sixth-ranked Conquerors were unable to overcome a fast start by the No. 1 Vikings.
Things fell apart for the Kentlake High fastpitch team a year ago.
This spring, they’ve come together.
Kentwood came through in a pair of must win games in the past week to earn the fifth spot in the South Puget Sound League 4A North Division.
It started with a gutty 3-2 win at home against Thomas Jefferson on May 6 and was followed up with a 5-4 win Tuesday in a tiebreaker game against Auburn Riverside at Brannan Park in Auburn.
Kentlake will play in a semi-final game at 4 p.m. on Friday.
Tahoma will play Spanaway Lake at 4 p.m. Thursday.
Kentridge will play Todd Beamer at 4 p.m. Thursday.
Kentwood will get Rogers, the no. 2 seed from the SPSL South, at 4 p.m. on Thursday.
The Tahoma track and field team wrapped up the South Puget Sound League, 4A North Division regular season May 5 at Kentridge.
The Tahoma High girls won 115-35.
Kassie Jensen took the 100 meters in 13 seconds and the 200 in 27.13.
Sierra Haverfield won the 400 in 62.9 and Chelsea Olson took the 800 in 2:28.7.
The Kentlake track and field team finished the regular season against Auburn May 6.
The Falcon girls made strong showing with Madelayne Varela winning three events.
Kentwood’s Tess Manthou and Alyssa Nagai proved to be the area’s brightest shining stars during the SPSL girls tennis tournament, which finished up at Kent-Meridian High on Tuesday. Manthou and Nagai teamed up to beat Tahoma’s Sierra Southworth and Maria Bahlenhorst for the doubles title, 6-1-6-4. Manthou and Nagai were the only players from Kent to bring home a championship.
The gymnasium at Kentwood High is filled with championship banners.
In fact, the nearly 30-year-old building is the home of title banners from virtually every sport — except one.
It has been a long road for Kentwood’s girls track and field team, one that has not included a South Puget Sound League North Division title.
Kentwood beats Auburn Riverside on a game winning single by freshman catcher Allison Newcomb, who drove in four of the Conqueror’s runs in a 5-4 victory.
When 31-year-old thoroughbred Chinook Pass, the oldest living Eclipse Award winner, marked his birthday recently, it wasn’t much different from any other day at Jill Hallin’s tidy little ranch in Maple Valley. He had breakfast and was turned out with his small band of running buddies. All of them are at least two decades his junior, but he’s still the boss.
The Tahoma baseball team will be swinging the bats at the West Central District tournament Saturday with a shot to punch a ticket for the state tournament.
The Kentlake baseball team ended their season with victory and a loss at the South Puget Sound League playoffs.
The Falcons ended the regular season in fifth place in SPSL 4A North and earned a spot in the SPSL playoffs.
Kentlake and Tahoma are in the South Puget Sound League fastpitch tournament which starts Thursday but Kentwood still needs to win one more game to get in.
Feeling Fancy loves to race at Emerald Downs.
The Sky Mesa filly is 3-for-3 at Emerald Downs including her first stakes win Sunday in the $50,000 Federal Way Handicap for 3-year-old fillies.
