State Preps Report

Prep sports reclassification
County schools could feel effect of Friday's WIAA meeting

Red Raiders defeat Storm
The Bellingham fastpitch team, anchored by strong pitching from Megan Aucutt, defeated Squalicum 3-1 in a Northwest League game on Tuesday at Geri Fields.

Red Raiders rally in 7th to beat Lynden in baseball; Ferndale wins
Bellingham rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning Tuesday and beat Lynden 3-2 in a Northwest League baseball game at Joe Martin Field.

Bellingham, Burlington win golf meets
LYNDEN - The Bellingham girls golf team played out a familiar scene Tuesday, winning the Northwest League meet at Homestead Farms.

Whatcom County League receives mixed reviews
The first year of the five-team Whatcom County League is nearing its end, and conference athletic directors and coaches have come to two conclusions.

Kitsap Sun
Tides down Wolves, maintain grip on Bridge Division
Gig Harbor hands South Kitsap a 2-1 loss and remains in first place.

SK's Cooper signs with Cowboys
Seven rounds of the NFL draft passed over the weekend, and Roger Cooper's name wasn't called.

About an hour after the draft, the Dallas Cowboys called the former All-State football player out of Port Orchard and signed him to a free-agent contract.

North's Gonzales becomes a Pirate
The ink wasn't yet dry on the letter of intent, and Jacob Gonzales was already at work. The shooting guard from North Kitsap signed on to play basketball for the Peninsula Community College Pirates Tuesday.

Prep roundup

Liberty Bell forfeits soccer, baseball seasons
Liberty Bell High School is dropping out of baseball competition for the rest of the season and scaling back its boys' soccer program to a JV schedule only, according to athletic director Mike Wilson.

Player eligibility problems fueled both decisions, he said.

Another heartbreaker for EHS
Selah scores in last 90 seconds

It's been a season of near misses and lopsided results for the Ellensburg Bulldogs soccer team.

The tone was set in their season opener - a 4-3 overtime loss to Ephrata on March 25 - and the heartbreaks continued for Ellensburg High School on Tuesday. The Bulldogs gave up a late goal and lost to Selah 3-2 in Mid Valley League action at Mountain View Park.

Daily World
Baseball: Late rallies help Elma past Monte
ELMA - Two outs mean nothing to the Elma Eagles baseball squad - something Montesano witnessed first-hand Tuesday.

Another Cat rally produces win, 12-6
Hoquiam doubles up on Forks, 14-12
Monte's LaCroix turns missed signal into win

Consistency pays off for Highline girls tennis

Head over heels
Mark Morris struck for two first-half goals and let its defense do the rest in a 2-0 shutout of Kelso at Northlake Field on Tuesday in a Greater St. Helens 3A League soccer match.

Sequim baseball blasts Foster
No one throws heat in our league, says Sequim first baseman/catcher/pitcher Chad Wagner, moments after Sequim's bats ripped league foe Foster 8-3 on April 20.

Cubs stay alone atop league
Sedro-Woolley's baseball team leading logjam in Northwest 3A play

Pitching powers Tigers past Seahawks
Geoghegan strikes out 12 batters for the Burlington-Edison softball team

Baseball: Tigers pick up league win over Sehome
Burlington-Edison pitcher Lazzari earns the victory

Golf: Tiger golf pulls away
All five B-E golfers finish in top 10 at Northwest 3A tourney

Softball: Braves take league win

Tennis: Bulldogs can't beat Monroe

Tri-City Herald
BASEBALL
Richland sweeps Walla Walla
Top-ranked Richland dominated the sixth inning in both games of its Big Nine home sweep of Walla Walla, 8-0 and 6-3.

Pasco baseball sweeps Southridge
Kamiakin takes two from Eastmont
Kennewick sweeps Wenatchee
Roundup

SOFTBALL
Kennewick, Wenatchee split doubleheader
Southridge sweeps Pasco
Richland sweeps Walla Walla
Kamiakin, Eastmont split twinbill
Roundup

TRACK
Notebook: Connell's Casper faces many hurdles in career
Roundup

GOLF
Roundup

SOCCER
Wenatchee 1, Pasco 0
Tristen Ryles recorded 15 saves for Wenatchee, and the Panthers beat Pasco 5-4 in a shootout to remain unbeaten in Big Nine play.

Moses Lake 1, Eastmont 0
Roundup

TENNIS
Roundup

UPDATED STATS AND STANDINGS
Mid-Columbia boys soccer standings.
Current standings for 2005 Big Nine baseball.
Current standings for 2005 Big Nine softball.

Camas hammer throwers shaping up

Fort Vancouver replaces football, boys basketball coaches

Tuesday's highlights and stars

On Further Review: The week in prep sports

Prep notebook: Hockinson not waiting to make impact in baseball

Drew Griffin proves himself a winner
Fort Vancouver's Griffin is a three-sport athlete who has earned 11 varsity letters - all on struggling teams.

Area Boys Track and Field Bests

Pair of goals is just enough for Davis
Another day, another game and yet another one-goal loss for the Eisenhower boys soccer team.
The Cadets came up short once again with a 2-1 defeat against Big Nine rival Davis on Tuesday at Marquette Stadium. Eisenhower now has lost five games by one... More...

Prep roundup: Zillah sweeps Wahluke to stay perf
ZILLAH — Led by the doubles tandem of Alex Dahlin and Danny Dunbar, the Zillah boys tennis team improved to 8-0 on the season by defeating Wahluke 4-0 in a SCAC West matchup on Tuesday. More...

Soccer roundup: Diaz leads Highland past Naches Valley
NACHES — Leo Diaz scored in the 51st minute to break a tie match and spark Highland to a 4-3 victory over Naches Valley in CWAC/SCAC play on Tuesday.

Baseball roundup: Naches Valley drops No. 1 East Valley

Fastpitch roundup: White Swan edges Wapato

Tilley wins state wrestling title, Triple Crown Award
Dane Tilley of the Sons of Thunder Wrestling Club won the state championship in the 250-pound Schoolboy class at the Greco Roman state championships Saturday in Shelton.

Shockey leads Blaine
BLAINE - Blaine's Ryan Shockey drove in the winning run, and the Borderites stayed perfect in Whatcom County League baseball play, beating Nooksack Valley 4-3 Monday.

Kitsap Sun
Wolves stay perfect
South Kitsap rolled to its 11th straight victory, stopping Bremerton 12-2 in five innings Monday in Port Orchard.

SupersoNique
Dominique Radcliffe isn't on the runway long, whether sprint or jump.

Rainier's Dale Taylor steps down
RAINIER ---- When Dale Taylor took over the Rainier girls basketball program in 1999, the Columbians had not won a league game in three years.

Lassies shine at regional gymnastics Level 9 meet
Kelso High School students Katie Boyko and Danielle Talley, and Rainier Middle School student Jordan Clarke placed in their respective events at the recent USA Gymnastics Junior Olympic Women's Level 9 Western National Championships in Whitefish, Mont.

Roundup: Bears take late lead to slip past Stadium
TACOMA -- Olympia gained the lead in the fifth inning, and pitcher Erin Bordner made sure it stood up, as the Bears edged Stadium 2-1 on Monday in a Narrows League Bay Division fastpitch game.

Prep golf: Bulldogs third in WesCo tourney
O'Laughlin leads the way for inexperienced squad

Bianchini third in Elks Hoop Shoot
Isaac Bianchini was at his best when it counted Saturday.

Prep roundup: Sedro-Woolley posts tennis win
Tigers, Seahawks lose in Northwest 3A League

Letter of Thanks: Community rallied behind young wrestler

Tri-City Herald
Prep baseball notebook: Richland bats on record pace
The highest batting average a Richland baseball team has ever posted for a single season is .406.

Tennis roundup

Younger Raivio goes to JC in Colorado
After a year off, Nik Raivio is taking his basketball game to the next level. A year from now, he hopes to ascend another step.

Raivio, a 2004 Mountain View High graduate, will attend Northeastern Junior College in Sterling, Colo., next fall.

High School - Monday's Prep Report

Ike golf finishes fourth
A trend of parity continued in boys golf in the Big Nine Conference with Eisenhower and Davis taking fourth and 11th, respectively, at a league meet Monday at Yakima Country Club.

Blue Devil boys pad Big Nine golf lead
YAKIMA - Max Reinland shot a 3-under par 69 at the Yakima Country Club to take medalist honors and lead Wa-Hi boys golfers to a first-place finish at a Big Nine Conference pod competition.

Pitching keys Pioneers' sweep
MILTON-FREEWATER - Amber Knight and Sara Truax combined to limit DeSales to four hits and help Mac-Hi sweep a non-conference softball doubleheader here Monday.

Koenen signs with Falcons
Western Washington kicker lands two-year deal.

Jensen, Janigo pace Raiders in track
PASCO - Bellingham junior Joel Jensen ran a personal best of 1 minuted, 56.99 seconds in the 800 meters to place third at the Pasco Invitational on Saturday.

Tri-City Herald
Prep golf notebook: Eastmont team to beat in Big Nine
If last week's pod match is any kind of barometer, Eastmont's talent and depth might be too much for the rest of the Big Nine boys to overcome.

Prep tennis notebook: Kennewick building with talented twin-billing

Twilight meet on top again
This week's high school sports schedule is highlighted by a couple of events that hope to lure many of the top athletes in Clark County from their respective sports-- one event that's been around for years, and a second making its inaugural appearance.

Davis High grad Stubblefield goes undrafted, agrees to deal with Carolina.

Prep roundup: Pirate tennis splits with Lions
KENNEWICK — The Davis boys and girls tennis teams got mixed results when they traveled to play Kennewick on Sunday. The boys dropped to 1-5 overall with a 5-2 loss to the Lions and the girls improved to 3-3 overall with a 4-3 win.

Wa-Hi tangles with Wildcats
The Blue Devils boys beat Eastmont but the girls fall in Big Nine tennis play Saturday.

Hirschkorn, Thompson lead Sehome
SEDRO-WOOLEY - Jeremy Hir-schkorn went 3-for-4 with three RBI and sophomore Dane Thompson pitched the Mariners out of a jam in the sixth inning to help Sehome beat Sedro-Woolley 6-3 on Thursday afternoon.

Blaine's Lawson throws no-hitter
LYNDEN - Sirita Lawson struck out 16 and pitched her second no-hitter of the season (third of her career) to lead Blaine over Lynden Christian 9-0 on Thursday afternoon.

Defense betrays Chinooks
KALAMA ---- Kalama pitcher Stephanie Kilkelly didn't allow an earned run through the first four innings, but a shaky Chinooks defense undermined her solid effort during a 9-2 loss to Onalaska here Thursday in Southwest Washington 1A League fastpitch softball.

Late rally lifts Braves past Columbians
RAINIER ---- The Banks softball team came into Thursday's game against Rainier undefeated in Cowapa League action.

Tigers take two from Corbett
CLATSKANIE ---- Ryan Taylor tossed a shutout in a 6-0 victory and crushed his sixth homer of the season in a 12-2, six-inning win as Clatskanie swept Corbett in a Northwest 2A League baseball doubleheader here Thursday.

T-Birds' Graham named top A.D.
Tim Graham recently found himself in an awkward situation -- on a stage with the focus on him.

Wolves' Curtis no-hits Aberdeen
TUMWATER -- One of these days, Black Hills pitcher Tara Curtis is going to need some rest.

Olympia trio tosses no-no at Mount Tahoma
TACOMA -- Matt Wyckoff, Jeramey Probert and Alan Wright combined for a no-hitter Thursday as Olympia blew past Mount Tahoma 14-0 in the Bears' third baseball game in as many days.

Pitcher's duel ends in Lions' favor
Concrete beats La Conner in Northwest 1A/B game

Prep track and field
Concrete boys, La Conner girls win track meet
Five teams compete in afternoon Concrete event

Prep softball
Concrete stays unbeaten, tops La Conner
Howell strikes out 10 in 9-0 league shutout

Prep roundup
Anacortes baseball downs Bellingham in league battle

Prep schedule and results

Prep roundup

Baseball: Clauson steps into the spotlight
The differences could hardly be more pronounced for Andrew Clauson regarding his roles on the Davis basketball and baseball teams, transcending even the inherent contrasts between the sports. More...

Tennis: Ike puts WV away
If, as they say, the whole is sometimes greater than the sum of its parts then file the Eisenhower girls tennis tandem of Ciara Schultz and Katie Staudinger under scary good.

Five of the state's top six girls in the shot put are from Class 3A schools and two are from the Mid-Valley League. Here are the 3A state leaders:

Prep roundup

Bulldogs bite Pioneers twice
BAKER - Mac-Hi's softball team gave No. 1-ranked Baker a scare in the nightcap of a Greater Oregon League doubleheader her Thursday before the Bulldogs remained undefeated with a sweep of the Pioneers, 7-0 and 3-1.

Irish bat, pitch by BMC foe Pomeroy
POMEROY - DeSales' pitching allowed one Pomeroy hit and the Irish bats put 28 runs on the scoreboard in a Blue Mountain Conference softball sweep of the Pirates here Thursday, 17-0 and 11-0.

Irish boys golf to third place
RICHLAND - The DeSales boys golf team had to settle for third place in a Class B three-school golf match here Thursday at Columbia Point.

Blaine High principal reinstated
Daniel Newell will be reinstated as principal of Blaine High School on May 20, after a 30-day suspension without pay, Blaine School Board has decided.

Double Duty
LUMMI NATION - Lummi junior Andrew Jefferson finished the 100-meter sprint and then made one more mad dash.

Spring state allocations announced
The WIAA released the allocations for spring sports, and there isn't much change from recent years for Northwest District schools.

Prep roundup: Blaine edges Lyncs in WCL soccer

Pasco Invitational track & field standings

Longview's little shooting star

Lady Devils split doubleheader with Clackamas
Fastpitch softball is about making adjustments.

Anderson's hat trick helps Lumberjacks blank Castle Rock
John Anderson scored the season's first hat-trick for R.A. Long as the Lumberjacks blanked Castle Rock 6-0 in a nonleague boys soccer match Wednesday at Longview Memorial Stadium.

Columbians rout Tillamook
RAINIER ---- Between warm-ups and the first inning, Tillamook's baseball coach had words for his players.

Family values winning
Before Isaiah Herrera agreed to return for his second year as North Thurston's boys soccer coach, he sought a special favor from his star player.

Capital extends fastpitch shutout streak
TACOMA -- Capital freshman Krista Shannon struck out 14, walked one and allowed four hits to shut out Bellarmine in a 2-0 fastpitch victory Wednesday.

Capital, Shelton track athletes to compete in Pasco
For years, the Pasco Invitational track meet has been one of the premier events of the spring sports season, with teams often making the trek across the state to face top-notch competition.

Water polo? You saw it here:

Peninsula beats GH 10-8 in first of two league contests
Round one of the crosstown rivalry water polo series belongs to the Peninsula Seahawks.
With a first-half stronghold and solid defensive containment on Monday at Gig Harbor High School, Peninsula beat the Gig Harbor Tides 10-8 in South Sound League West Division play.

Cub tennis tops Tigers
Sedro-Woolley wins Northwest 3A battle
BURLINGTON — The Sedro-Woolley girls' tennis beat Burlington-Edison 5-2 on Wednesday in the first of two matches between the teams in two days.

Brock throws perfect game for Sedro-Woolley
Cubs' hurler leads her softball team to win over Stanwood.

Patterson uncorks Purdue javelin toss freshman record
Kara Patterson's preparation for her first season as a college javelin thrower didn't go exactly as planned.

A broken wrist limited the Skyview High graduate's training during her first winter at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. But that setback hasn't stopped Patterson from making a quick impact for the Boilermakers.

She was named the Big Ten Conference athlete of the week on April 12, after she recorded the second-best javelin throw in Purdue history during the Brutus Hamilton Invitational in Berkeley, Calif. Her throw of 170 feet, 11 inches, is a Purdue freshman class record. It was only her third meet of the season.

Wednesday's highlights and star performances

Prep roundup: Clauson pitches Pirates to split at Kamiakin
KENNEWICK — Andrew Clauson held Kamiakin to one earned run over six innings and Bo Lybeck had a two-run triple as Davis beat the Braves 11-3 in the first game if a Big Nine Conference baseball doubleheader Wednesday.

Smiles surround Blue Devils
In his previous outing last Friday in Wenatchee - the second game of a Big Nine Conference baseball doubleheader - Wa-Hi pitcher John Robinson threw just 61 pitches over six innings and allowed only one run and five hits.

Sehome smashing on the tennis court
FERNDALE - Sehome remained undefeated in the Northwest League with a 7-0 Northwest League victory over Ferndale on Monday.

Roundup: McIntosh throws two-hitter for Red Raiders

Local wrestlers win at state; skater first in Victoria event
Dane Tilley and David Burnham of the Sons of Thunder wrestling club won state titles Saturday at the Washington State Freestyle Championships at East Valley High School in Spokane.

Hurlers lead Kelso past MM
The skies finally cleared Monday, permitting the local titans of the Greater St. Helens 3A League to begin settling their baseball differences and ---- Hallellujah! ---- get out of the batting cage.

Mark Morris, Woodland still ranked among state's Top 10
Mark Morris moved up one spot from fourth to third in the latest installation of the top-10 rankings conducted by Lem Elway at Washingtonbaseballpoll.com.

Lassies' O'Neil silences Monarchs
Kelso pitcher Carri O'Neil has command.

Notebook: Tornados' pitching dazzles while offense dominates
LACEY -- Batterymates Zach Rush and Mike Duffrin dominated Timberline as Yelm hung a 12-0 defeat on the Blazers in a Pacific-9 League baseball game.

Pitchers come out ahead on high school diamonds
Pitching highlighted the day as high school baseball and fastpitch teams returned to action after spring break and a long stretch of rain.

South Sound sports schedule

Cubs' Wardell to play basketball at Seattle Pacific
Guard helped high school team into state tourney

SEDRO-WOOLLEY — This winter, Adam Wardell helped guide the Sedro-Woolley boys' basketball team to its first wins in the state tournament.

Keeping track is not easy
If you wanted to irritate any high school track and field coach (or, for that matter, a coach for wrestling, tennis, golf, cross country... ), just refer to their sport as an "individual sport."

They dislike the term, believing it downplays the importance of the team in the success of their program.

Local gymnast vaults to national championship
Kari Kelly didn't even have a high school gymnastics team on which to compete, but now she's a national champion.
Kelly, a 2001 Eisenhower graduate who competed for 10 years for Yakima's Gymnastics Plus club, finished first on the vault Saturday at.

On their best days
But when school records didn't fall at her feet, she had to settle for meet records. And considering the event was the 79th annual Davis Invitational, which drew 24 schools to Zaepfel Stadium, Saturday turned into a fine day indeed for West Valley's jumper extraordinaire.