Interlake beat Fife 4-0 last night at Surprise Lake in the West Central District 3 2A playoffs.

Eric Ritter picked up three assists in the game. Alex Quintana picked up the shutout.

Interlake will now play Kingston on Saturday at 5:15 p.m. at Franklin Pierce Stadium in a winner-to-state game.

Here’s the complete scoring summary for last night’s game.
Interlake 4, Fife 0
10th minute – Andy Fordyce (Eric Ritter)
22nd minute – Eric Fergerstrom (Fordyce)
37th minute – Ozzy Taluntuli (Ritter)
51st minute – Ben Titus (Ritter)

Shutout – Alex Quintana

It’s a tournament of upsets. First, Sammamish eliminated Liberty. After Bellevue handled Juanita on day 1, they went on to stun Mount Si in day 2. We’ll see what happens now.

All games will be held at Bannerwood Sports Park in Bellevue.

Tuesday, May 11
Game 1 – Sammamish 4, Liberty 1
Game 2 – Bellevue 5, Juanita 4

Thursday, May 13
Game 3 – Mercer Island 10, Sammamish 0
Game 4 – Bellevue 12, Mount Si 5

Friday, May 14
Game 5 – 7 p.m. – Mercer Island (16-6) vs. Bellevue (7-12) (KingCo 3A champion, winner to state)

Saturday, May 15
Game 6 – 4 p.m. – Sammamish (4-17) vs. Mount Si (17-5)
Game 7 – 7 p.m. – Loser Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6 (Winner is KingCo No.2 to play against Metro No.3 for state berth)

Here’s a look at the updated bracket.

KingCo 3A softball tournament
All games at Mount Si High School

Thursday, May 13
Game 1 - Bellevue 19, Sammamish 2
Game 2 – Mount Si wins over Liberty (no score available)

Friday, May 14
Game 3 – 3 p.m. – Field 1 – Bellevue (15-5) vs. Mount Si (Winner to game 5, loser is No.3 seed to district)
Game 4 – 3 p.m. – Field 2 – Sammamish (7-11) vs. Liberty (6-12) (Winner is No.4 seed to districts, loser is out)
Game 5 – 5 p.m. – Field 1 – Winner Game 3 vs. Juanita (16-4) (Winner is KingCo Champion and No.1 seed to district tournament; loser is No. 2 seed to district)

Anissa Bryant-Swift (left) and Malia Lum (right) won the KingCo 3A doubles title this week. Photos courtesy of Jeff Lum.

Here are the top performers this week. I’ll be adding an updated look at both the KingCo 3A baseball and softball brackets here in a bit.

Tennis
Anissa Bryant-Swift and Malia Lum captured the KingCo 3A doubles championship with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Chelsea Bailey and Julia Schubach of Mercer Island Tuesday. They will play in districts next week in an attempt to return to state and defend their doubles title.

Angela Chen, Amie Vo, Rixing Xu and Faith Mach all picked up singles wins as Newport beat Skyline 6-1 on Monday in KingCo 4A golf action. Two Knights doubles teams picked up wins as well, as Tomomi Matsushita and Emily Shavers beat Molly Knutson and Alyson Opitz 6-3, 6-2 and Crystal Shen and Miranda Edwards beat Nicole Nagao and Emilie Lehman 6-1,6-4.

Baseball
Monday wasn’t much of a highlight for Newport, but the finish of their game remains of note. The Knights, playing in a loser-out game against Lake Washington in the KingCo tournament, lost 5-4 in eight innings. Kang’s junior Wesley Russell hit a controversial home run high down the left field line. After a delay, the umpires ruled that the ball hooked around the foul pole. Newport would lose after failing to score in the bottom of the eighth.

Paul Heywood knocked in two runs and Rick Teegardan had a double and an RBI as Sammamish stunned Liberty 4-1 in the first round of the KingCo 3A tournament on Tuesday. Teegarden picked up the win on the mound for the Totems, while Heywood got the save. Sammamish scored four runs in the first inning of the loser-out game.

Bellevue beat Juanita 5-4 in the other loser-out game. No statistics were available following the game.

The Wolverines followed up that with a shocking 12-5 win over Mount Si that sent Bellevue into the KingCo title game. Charlie Kemp, Nick Moyer and Justin Patrick all knocked in two runs for the Wolverines. Michael Raine got the win on the mound.

Boys Lacrosse
Sammamish beat Nathan Hale 10-2 Monday in Division II lacrosse. Tyler Wright led Sammamish with three goals and four ground balls.

Brett Mennella scored four goals, had one assist and one ground ball to help Bellevue beat Northshore 13-9 in Division I lacrosse. Cole Hendrickson made six saves for the Wolverines.

Golf
Several Bellevue-area golfers qualified for the district tournament with good showings at the KingCo 3A/2A medalist tournament. Click here for the details on that.

I posted this story yesterday about Newport‘s dominance at the 4A District 2 championship.

Track and Field
Nick Eisenhauer of Newport won the KingCo 4A title with a toss of 177-6 in day one of the league championship meet. Kristine Wong tied for second with two other athletes for second in the high jump for the Knights. She made leap of of 5-0.

Willie Gervais of Bellevue took the shot put title with a throw of 49-10 in day one of the KingCo 3A championships at Eastlake. Bellevue’s Tanner Lien finished second in the javelin with a throw of 180-6. Peter Stacy of Liberty won the javelin with a toss of 186-3. Michael Williams of Bellevue took second in the 1,600 with a time of 4:23.66. Kristin Suzuki finish third for the Wolverines in the long jump with a leap of 15-5.

Montana Malarkey-Kessler took first place in the 100-meter hurdles at the 2A West Central District Qualifier Wednesday night at Fife for Interlake. Qiaoyi (Joy) Zhang won the high jump (5-02) and Olivia Domini won the pole vault (10-0) for the Saints as well. Interlake had several athletes place in the top-3.

Softball
Interlake beat Sammamish 10-6 Monday in KingCo 3A softball action. Erin Scott picked up the win in the circle for the Saints. Marsha Brinck went 2 for 3 and scored a run for Interlake. The Saints beat Liberty 7-3 the next day. No results were available.

Newport beat Garfield 18-0 Tuesday. Indiana Coxey went 2 for 3 with a double, triple and four RBI. Natsumi Ueda knocked in three runs and Danae Greenfield and Mandi Monson each had two RBI. Jessica Barry got the win in the circle for Newport, going five innings and striking out seven while allowing just two hits.

Anjani Briggs and Corri McAllister each knocked in two runs but Bellevue lost to Kentridge 6-5 Tuesday in a tune-up game for the KingCo 3A softball tournament.

Kayla Reynolds struck out eight and overcame six walks to help Newport beat Eastlake 5-2 Wednesday.

Amanda Klug scored three runs and got the win in the circle for Forest Ridge as they defeated University Prep 7-0.

Taylor Cooke went 2 for 4 with four RBI and Anjani Briggs added three RBI as Bellevue crushed Sammamish 19-2 in the first round of the KingCo 3A softball tournament. Kelly Meggs scored two runs for Bellevue. Emily Fleischman got the win.

Sammamish gymnastics coach Jerry Penney was inducted into the WIAA  Hall of Fame yesterday in Renton. Penney, a Renton alum, was one of 11 individuals honored at the luncheon yesterday.

Interlake coach Dan Peterson informed me today that the Saints (7-8-1) have qualified for the 2A district playoffs. The Saints play tonight at Fife High School at 7 p.m.

Anson Frederick competes in the long jump event during the All-Bellevue track meet at Newport High School, May 6, 2010.

Here’s the full results from last week’s Bellevue City Meet, held at Newport on Thursday.

Casey Warendorf and Kristin Suzuki of Bellevue were the sole multiple event winners at the Bellevue City Meet last Thursday.
Warendorf won both the 800 (2:25.7) and 1,600 (5:29.5) meter races. Suzuki captured the long jump (15-6.5) and triple jump (32-9.5).

List of boys winners:
100 meters – Anson Fredrick, Interlake, 11.1
200 meters – Will Fields, Bellevue, 22.9
400 meters – Bruce Thomas, Bellevue, 51.1
800 meters – Addison Woolsey, Bellevue, 1:57.1
1,600 meters – Staal Githinji, Interlake, 4:40.3
3,200 meters – Michael Williams, Bellevue, 9:35.7
110 hurdles – Anthony Monahan, Bellevue, 15.1
300 hurdles – James Dupar, Newport, 41.6
4×100 relay – Bellevue (Freddie Levine, Ari Morales, Fields, Monahan), 44.0
4×400 relay – Interlake (Ashish Suntosh, Evan Turman, Cameron Campbell, Robert Mueller), 3:34.0
Shot put – Willie Gervais, Bellevue,  49-4
Discus – Patrick Taiwo, Newport, 129-10
Javelin – Nick Eisenhauer, Newport, 168-8
High jump – Rio Bacon, Newport, 6-0
Pole vault – Wesley Zhao, Interlake, 13-3
Long jump – Ryan McCord, Newport, 19-4 3/4
Triple jump – John Bay, Newport, 43-0

List of girls winners:
100 meters – Randi Boseman, Newport, 12.7
200 meters – Esther Sutton, Bellevue, 27.2
400 meters – Summer Hanson, Interlake, 60.2
800 meters – Casey Warendorf, Bellevue, 2:25.7
1,600 meters – Warendorf, Bellevue, 5:29.5
3,200 meters – Jessica Spray, Newport, 12:16
100 hurdles – Ilaria Hinrichsen, Bellevue, 15.8
300 hurdles – Montana Malarkey-Kessler, 48.2
4×100 relay – Newport (Boseman, Charcel Wafer, Lauren Pelo, Emily Idemoto), 51.7
4×200 relay – Interlake (Alexis Hulen, Nicole Shahbazian, Rachel Wattley-Williams, Qiaoyi (Joy) Zhang), 1:57.2
4×400 relay – Newport (Braeden Small, Sabine Whitney, Alisa Poplawski, Mary Carr), 4:11.5
Shot put – Jackie Hamilton, Bellevue, 33-4
Discus – Maggie Roe, Newport, 115-1
Javelin – Brenda Agus, Interlake, 92-5
High jump – Zhang, Interlake, 5-2
Pole vault – Olivia Domini, 10-0
Long jump – Kristin Suzuki, Bellevue, 15-6.5
Triple jump – Suzuki, Bellevue, 32-9.5

The All-KingCo selections

2010 All-KingCo Teams
Player of the Year: Ryan Herman, Mount Si
Coach of the Year: Darren Brown, Mount Si
Team of the Year: Sammamish

All-KingCo First Team
Midfielders - Brett Hightower, Jr., Bellvue; Mike Kunz, Sr., Mount Si; Garrett Lee, Sr., Juanita; Doug Silvius, Sr., Mount Si; Eric Baumgardner, Jr., Mount Si; Taylor Backous, Sr., Sammamish. Forwards – Race Sciabica, Sr., Bellevue; Andy Fordyce, Sr., Interlake; Tyler Ybarra, Sr., Mercer Island; Danny Strome, Sr., Mercer Island; Dyson Fowler, Sr., Mount Si. Defenders – Dean Byron, Sr., Liberty; Matt Johnson, Sr., Mercer Island; Taylor Ward, Sr., Mercer Island; Sam Evans, Sr., Mount Si; Nick Rooney, Jr., Sammamish. Keepers – Ryan Herman, Jr., Mount Si; Stuart Ellsworth, Jr., Sammamish.

All-KingCo Second Team
Midfielders – Miguel Castillo, Soph., Interlake; Kevin Baretto, Sr., Liberty; Jene-Wook Shin, Sr., Mercer Island; James Kashima, Sr., Mercer Island; Kyle Bauman, Jr., Mount Si; Taylor Berg, Jr., Sammamish. Forwards – Niccolo Piancentini, Sr., Bellevue; Nick Ward, Sr., Mercer Island; Sammy Gonzalez, Soph., Sammamish; Duncan Dickerson, Sr., Sammamish. Defenders – Max Lyon, Jr., Bellevue; Christian Schultz, Sr., Interlake; Austin Tran, Sr., Juanita; Tanner Klein, Sr., Juanita; Jay Haberman, Sr., Liberty; Dane Aldrich, Soph., Mount Si; Beau Blanchard, Fr., Sammamish; Chris Lider, Jr., Sammamish. Keepers – Alex Quintana, Jr., Interlake; Seth Kuhns, Sr., Juanita.

Honorable Mention
Bellevue – Ahmed Namrouti, Will Rattigan. Interlake – Erik Fergerstrom, Matt Grinnell. Juanita – Nick Horne. Liberty – Blake Kessler, Riley Mackey. Mercer Island – David Yount, CT Crow. Mount Si – Jonathan Cramer, Sam Joselyn. Sammamish – Isaac Velarde, Kittredge Hawkins.

KingCo 3A softball tournament
All games at Mount Si High School

Thursday, May 13
Game 1 – 4:30 p.m. – Field 1 – Sammamish (7-10) vs. Bellevue (14-5)
Game 2 – 4:30 p.m. – Field 2 – Mount Si vs. Liberty (6-11)

Friday, May 14
Game 3 – 3 p.m. – Field 1 – Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 (Winner to game 5, loser is No.3 seed to district)
Game 4 – 3 p.m. – Field 2 – Loser of Game 1 vs. Loser of Game 2 (Winner is No.4 seed to districts, loser is out)
Game 5 – 5 p.m. – Field 1 – Winner Game 3 vs. Juanita (16-4) (Winner is KingCo Champion and No.1 seed to district tournament; loser is No. 2 seed to district)

Scout.com  reported today that 2009 Bellevue graduate Colton Christian has signed with the University of Michigan basketball team.

The 6-foot-6 forward spent last season at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia and signed with Tulane in the fall. Tulane coach Dave Dickerson left the school in March and Christian re-opened his recruiting after Dickerson left.

He becomes the third player from Bellevue’s 2008-09 third-place team to sign with a “power conference” program. Alex Schrempf, also a 2009 graduate, spent last season with UCLA, while Aaron Bright (2010) signed with Stanford and will play for the Cardinal next year.

Matt Olson (2009) also plays D1 basketball. He is a freshman at Pepperdine. Hard to believe four of their five starters from that 2008-2009 team will be playing college basketball next season.