Kalama notches first win of season
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:22 AM PDT
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WHITE SALMON - Brandon Walker pitched Kalama's first win of the year on Monday, an 8-2 road defeat of White Salmon in SWW 1A Trico Division baseball action.
Walker struck out four, and Nick LaRoy (seven strikeouts) and Tyler Perryman (two strikeouts) also threw well for the Chinooks.
Chris Pierce, Jordan Sutherby and Matt Pollock were the top hitters for the Chinooks, and Pollock and Robbie Neal scored two runs each.
Kalama (1-1) hosts Stevenson on Thursday.
SOFTBALL
'Nooks knock off 'Dogs
KALAMA - The Kalama Chinooks opened their softball season on Monday with a 6-2 nonleague thumping of White Salmon.
Jessica Tangen pitched the win, scattering two hits and striking out eight in four innings. Corie McDaniel got the save, allowing one earned run on five hits and striking out two.
McDaniel went 2-for-3 at the plate with a triple and two runs scored, and Haley Bellows was 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored.
Weather permitting, the Chinooks visit R.A. Long today.
CR falls twice on road
YAKIMA - Defending 1A state champion Castle Rock dropped a pair of one-run games to Yakima-area schools East Valley and West Valley in nonleague softball on Saturday.
East Valley rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to topple CR 7-6, and West Valley slipped past the Rockets 4-3.
In the East Valley matchup, Lacey Seidl had two hits, including a home run, and scored three times, with Sam Watkins adding a hit and two RBIs. Watkins absorbed the loss, scattering eight hits and striking out six.
Against West Valley, Seidl had three, hits including a double, and Watkins added two hits with a double. Danielle Nevers allowed five hits and struck out three in taking the loss.
SOCCER
Scots lose heartbreaker
Skyview got a penalty kick in the first 15 minutes of Tuesday's nonleague boys soccer match against Kelso on Monday and made it stand for a 1-0 win over the Hilanders.
Kelso coach John Fromdahl praised the play of Mitchell Tate, Luis Navarro and McKehen Wheeler.
"Those three gave me great effort throughout the game. They were about the only reasons why we only gave up the penalty kick," he said.
Kelso hosts Mark Morris on Wednesday.
TENNIS
Monarchs win RAL Invite
Mark Morris won the team title, while the host Lumberjills tied for second in the two-day R.A. Long Invitational girls tennis tournament Saturday at the Mint Valley Racquet Complex.
The Monarchs tallied 40 points, with RAL and Centralia finishing tied for second with 31 points. Aberdeen was fourth with 30, followed by Hockinson (21), Tenino (7) and Castle Rock (5).
MM also won the inaugural event in 2005.
Laura Mahon of MM finished runner-up in first singles, beating Aberdeen 6-2, 6-3 in the semifinals before falling to Hockinson 2-6, 5-7 in the finals. In second singles, MM's Amanda Thomas grabbed third place.
For RAL, Jessica Smith placed fourth in first singles after losing to Hockinson (5-7, 2-6), beating Castle Rock's Ainsley Uhlenkott (6-2, 6-2) and losing to Aberdeen (6-7, 4-6). Katie Madison won the second singles crown after topping Tenino by default and beating Hockinson (6-2, 6-2) in the title match, and Katie Wright dropped two matches in third singles.
In first doubles, RAL's Kelsey Craft and Julie Linn were second after topping Aberdeen 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7-1 tiebreaker) in the semifinals, but fell to Centralia 3-6, 1-6 in the finals. Jordyn Ashford and Rachel Vermeeren topped Tenino 6-0, 4-6, 6-0 in second doubles, but fell to Centralia 5-7, 3-6 to place fourth.
Castle Rock's third doubles team of Maggie Montgomery and Dezmon Eyer grabbed fourth place with a 6-1, 7-6 (7-5 tiebreaker) over RAL, but fell to Centralia 1-6, 3-6.
For MM, Lindsey Dawkins and Erin Farquhar lost 3-6, 4-6 to Aberdeen in first doubles, and the second doubles team of Megan Boaglio and Lauren Salberg won 6-2, 6-1 in the finals against Aberdeen.
In third doubles, Lauren Anneberg and Jill Isaacson also won the title with a hard-fought 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 victory over Aberdeen.
CC SOFTBALL
LCC captures Crossover
RICHLAND - The Lower Columbia College Lady Devils stretched their winning streak to 11 after sweeping four games in the NWAACC Crossover Softball Tournament, which concluded Sunday at the Columbia Playfields.
LCC (11-1) blanked Everett 10-0 and outlasted Spokane 9-6 on Saturday, and shut out Shoreline 6-0 and beat host Columbia Basin 5-1 on Sunday.
Kelsey Forrest twirled the victory over Shoreline, which featured six doubles by the Lady Devils. Forrest and Camy Way had two hits apiece, with Samantha Petrich adding a hit and two RBIs.
Carri O'Neil tossed the victory over Columbia Basin and helped her cause with two hits, and Petrich added three hits, with a home run and two RBIs.
On Saturday, O'Neil struck out seven Everett batters and helped herself at the plate with two hits and two RBIs. Kayla Vickaryous had three hits, Jessi Hanna added two and Petrich drilled a home run.
Courtney Sherman picked up the victory over Spokane in relief of Forrest. Hanna had four hits, including a home run, Hayley Ridout added two hits with a home run and two RBIs, and Petrich had three hits, including a double and triple with three RBIs.
LCC entertains the Linfield JVs in a doubleheader at 5 p.m. Thursday at Tam O'Shanter Park.
CC BASEBALL
Devils can't hold lead
BELLEVUE - Lower Columbia College pounded out 13 hits and had one error, but the Red Devils came out on the short end of a 7-6 setback to Bellevue in the first game of a nonleague baseball doubleheader on Saturday.
The second game of the twinbill was halted because of rain in the first inning.
"We didn't step on the gas and put them away when we had the chance," LCC coach Kelly Smith said. "I don't think we're getting the message yet."
Bellevue also had 13 hits and one error.
LCC grabbed a 5-0 lead in the second inning, highlighted by an RBI double from Jett Hart, and run-scoring singles from Nic Shadle, De'Andre Wheeler and Bas Nooij. After Bellevue plated solo runs in the third and fourth, LCC countered with an RBI single from Richie Allen for a 6-2 lead.
Bellevue erupted for five runs in the fifth inning.
Allen finished with three hits. Hart and Shadle had two hits and two RBIs apiece, with Wheeler and Jeremy Lorance chipping in two hits each.
LCC (10-3) plays in the Walla Walla Tournament beginning Friday.
TRACK AND FIELD
Doumit wins high jump
RAINIER, Wash. - Sarah Doumit of Wahkiakum cleared 5 feet, 2 inches to win the high jump to lead the Mules to a fifth-place finish at the 18-team Rainier Invitational on Saturday.
Stevenson won the girls' meet with 109 points and the host Mountaineers were second with 93. Wahkiakum scored 59.
Other top performers for the Mules were Whitley Wirkkala, who was third in the 100 (13.72 seconds), and Valle Ledtke, who was third in the 400 (1:05.86) and fifth in the 200 (28.77).
Montesano won the boys' team title with 97 points and Elma was second with 83. Wahkiakum finished 11th with 29, led by Walker Riley's second-place showing in the 800 (2:07.94).
Also for the Mules, John Murphy was fifth in the 200 (24.71), and the coed 800 sprint medley of Abby Burns, Muphy, Ledtke and Riley was first in 1:49.17.
JV report
Baseball
Kelso 13, Mark Morris 2 -
Garrett McCoy pitched the win with six strikeouts, and Brandon Middleton (three hits, three RBIs), Ben Warthen (two hits, two RBIs) and Blake Giles (three hits) were Kelso's top hitters.
Soccer
Mark Morris 6, Hudson's Bay 0 -
Eric Cotterel led MM with two goals, while Jordan Wilson, Sam Oakley, Owen Baird and Miguel Linares added one each.
Skyview 5, Kelso 4 -
Jeremy Hess scored two of Kelso's goals, and Luis Flores and Fernando Navarro had one apiece.
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