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.
The Maple Valley 11U select baseball team grabbed its second tournament title of the season last weekend during the USSSA Ultimate Baseball Weekend showcase in Lacey.
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.
Washington Synergy 98, a 12U fastpitch team made up of girls from South King County including Covington and Maple Valley, won four straight games to win the Kent Bash Tournament on April 23.
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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.
The Kentridge High girls tennis team turned the tables on Kentwood last week during a pivotal match between two of…
Turnabout is fair play, just ask the Kentlake High fastpitch team, which beat Tahoma 5-2 on Thursday night.
This came little more than 24 hours after Tahoma beat Kentlake 6-5
Several members of the local handicapping fraternity along with Emerald Downs’ personnel were polled for selections for the 137th Kentucky Derby. If their consensus is right, Arch Arch Arch will be wearing a garland of roses Saturday in Louisville.
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.
Reese McGuire; Chris Kubeja; Becca Peterson; Jordan Downing; Kiley Dunn; Reed Johnson.
The Maple Valley 11U select baseball team grabbed its second tournament title of the season last weekend during the USSSA Ultimate Baseball Weekend showcase in Lacey.
Washington Synergy 98, a 12U fastpitch team made up of girls from South King County including Covington and Maple Valley, won four straight games to win the Kent Bash Tournament on April 23.
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 spring air bites as you walk through the barn area on the backstretch of Emerald Downs in Auburn. Dodging the puddles on the blacktop, the overnight rain has refreshed and heightened the aroma of dirt, sawdust pellets, manure bins and that all so alluring scent of horses.
Dream Sweeper, the longest shot in the race, wore down No Flies On Doodle and scored a 1 ½-length victory Sunday in the $21,000 Industry Sign and Graphics Purse for fillies and mares at Emerald Downs.
The Seattle Thunderbirds office is once again putting a team together for the Kent Relay for Life on June 3 and 4.
Rescue Plan, a front-runner most of his career, rallied from last place to score an exciting victory Saturday in the $10,900 Coors Miller Purse for older horses at Emerald Downs.
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