The Tahoma boys basketball team lost to Thomas Jefferson 55-51 Friday, Jan. 11
The girls did not rush out of the gym. Instead, they lingered, chatting, joking around and having fun together. This is what the seniors — there are six — on the team think separate the Conquerors squad from the rest of the South Puget Sound League North. It’s a level of chemistry which is a result of a half dozen girls who began playing together years ago.
The Seattle Eighth Grade team, which has players from Kent and Covington, made it to the Football University national championship game Saturday but lost 31-0 to GFL Georgia.
A roundup of this afternoon’s high school sports events.
Danny “Mooms” Mumaugh’s new goalie helmet sports an image of the Denver, Colo., skyline as well as Seattle’s.
Winter break means holiday hoops tournaments and non-league contests for prep girls and boys basketball teams from Kentwood, Kentlake and Tahoma.
Seattle’s seventh and eighth-grade teams with Kent-area players will travel to San Antonio, Texas this weekend to compete for a national youth football championship.
Tahoma is posting updates on the Bears via @TahomaWrestling on Twitter.
The team won it’s first game yesterday, 61-58, against San Juan Hills.
A trio of Kentwood wrestlers brought home medals from the Rogers Girls Holiday Wrestling Tournament Dec. 21 and helped the Conquerors take fifth place as a team.
Tahoma opened the South Puget Sound League 4A North dual meet schedule with wins over Kentwood and Thomas Jefferson.
Kentwood’s Dalton Meyers works to score points against Tahoma’s Justin Weiding in the 145 pound match during a dual meet between the Conquerors and the Bears Dec. 18. Meyers won 8-0.
Kentlake’s Josh Beckler pins his opponent from Auburn in the 160 pound weight class to end a dual meet between the teams Dec. 18.
Tahoma, the reigning league dual meet champion for more for the better part of the past decade, appears to be in a rebuilding year. Kentwood’s Meyers brothers, Dalton and Walker, will look to continue the family tradition of bringing home medals from state. Kentlake juniors Nick Smith and Josh Beckler should set the standard for Falcons this season.
Kentlake’s gymnastics program has a pair of new faces in co-coaches Lindsey Duerre and Sheila Clark who replaced Marla Boyd.
Tahoma High boys basketball beat Mt. Rainier at home 85-62.
A year ago the Tahoma boys basketball team won its first league championship in school history but the Bears already learned how hard it is to repeat.
Nearly 1,900 people participated in Kent’s 31st annual Christmas Rush Fun Run/Walk on Saturday.
A year ago the Vikings women’s soccer team made it to the round of 16 teams in the NCAA Division II tournament for the first time in WWU history, but fell in an overtime loss to University of California San Diego.
Boys swim and dive season kicks off with the first dual meets this week for Tahoma, Kentwood and Kentlake in the South Puget Sound League North.
