The Tahoma baseball team took one loss, but picked up two important victories moving the boys up in the South Puget Sound League, 4A North Division.
The team is in third place as the season turns into the final stretch of games and the prospect of post season play looks bright for the Bears.
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Kentlake kept up its winning streak on the fastpitch diamond late last week while Tahoma bounced back from its loss on Tuesday.
Since the loss to the Bears on March 24, the Falcons have won 10 straight, including an 11-1 pounding of Federal Way on April 22 and a 12-7 rain-shortened victory over Kentwood on April 23.
Gallant Son teamed with Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith for a 1 ¾-length victory Sunday in the $100,000 Inglewood Handicap (GIII) at Hollywood Park. It was the first graded win for Emerald Downs’ Top Juvenile of 2008.
Boundtogetbusy dominated his opposition Sunday while posting a four-length victory in the $18,000 feature race for 3-year-olds at Emerald Downs.
The lightly raced gelding—a full brother to multiple stakes winner Bound to Be M V P—ran 5 ½ furlongs in a brisk 1 minute, 2 1/5 seconds and paid $3.40, $2.40 and $2.10. Troy Stilwell rode the winner for trainer Charles Essex and owners K J Star Stable and Brad Case.
Clair Annette, a 7 year old that seems to get better with age, will attempt to defend her title in the $50,000 Hastings Handicap for fillies and mares on Sunday, May 2.
The 15th running of the six-furlong Hastings will be the first of 31 stakes races at the 2010 Emerald Downs’ meeting. The added-money schedule is worth $1,760,000, with the 75th running of the $250,000 Longacres Mile (G3) on Aug. 22 the richest race on the slate.
Perfect Finish led all the way Saturday for an easy 7 ¾-length victory in the $18,000 allowance feature for fillies and mares at Emerald Downs.
The roll continued for the Kentwood High baseball team on Friday afternoon.
The roll continued for the Kentwood High baseball team on Friday afternoon.
A day after barely getting past rival Tahoma, the Conquerors exploded for 18 hits en route to a 15-9 South Puget Sound League win over Kentlake.
Emancipated battled back for a nose victory over Immigration in Friday’s featured Cascade Coffee Purse for older horses at Emerald Downs.
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As a parent of two boys (4 and 10), I’ve come to learn that some things are a lot funnier when they happen to someone else.
That thought has never rung more true than last week at Safeco Field during the Mariners home opener against the Oakland A’s. Attending the first game of the season at Safeco is a tradition in the Walker household.
Tahoma track and field star Derek Eager signed a national letter of intent to attend the University of California, Los Angeles Wednesday, April 21.
According to information sent out in an e-mail for Eager’s mother, Sally, he has a full scholarship for five years, which allows him to red shirt his freshman year.
A little bit of sun went a long way for Kentwood High’s Holly DeHart this past weekend.
DeHart, a junior, delivered a big-time show at Edgar Brown Stadium during the Pasco Invitational on Saturday. DeHart won the 100-meter dash (12.25), the 200 (24.90), finished second in the long jump (17-feet-6 inches) and helped both of Kentwood’s relay teams finish among the top three.
Blister problems held back Austin Voth on the baseball diamond last spring.
Today, the only blistering going on in the Kentwood High right-hander’s world is the kind he is currently administering on his South Puget Sound League North Division foes.
Nikole Weber described her Kentlake fastpitch team as “blood thirsty” heading into Tuesday night’s re-match with Tahoma.
“Just mentally we’ve been really looking forward to the game,” Weber, a senior co-captain who is the ace for Kentlake in the circle.
“That last loss was tough. We really wanted to take first place.”
It was one of those games for the Tahoma boys soccer team, just as a victory was within reach it slipped away.
The Bears lost to Kentridge 2-1 at French Field Friday. Tahoma dropped out of first place in the South Puget Sound League, 4A North Division by one point.
Doris Harwood’s barn flexed its muscles Sunday in the $20,000 allowance feature for older horses at Emerald Downs.
Forener lived up to billing Saturday with an impressive victory in his first start as a 3-year-old at Emerald Downs.
With Gallyn Mitchell riding, Forener shook off double stakes winner Koala Beach in upper stretch and edged clear for a 1 ¾-length victory in the $18,0000 allowance feature for 3-year-olds.
Kentlake’s 5-3 win over Kentridge Friday night had a feeling of deja vu to it.
Blame the Jockey and newcomer Francisco Duran cruised to a 4 ¾-legnth victory Friday in the featured Widmer Brothers Brewing Company Purse for 3-year-olds at Emerald Downs.
