From the Sidelines

Here’s a roundup of the KingCo 3A baseball tournament. Sammamish was definitely the surprise of the tournament, going 3-1 and eliminating Liberty, Mount Si and Bellevue to earn the right to play O’Dea tomorrow for a state berth. If they win tomorrow, they’ll clinch a state appearance – with a record of 10 games under .500.

Sammamish on the verge of a state berth
The Sammamish Totems are on the verge of clinching a state berth after finishing the regular season with just three conference victories.

After knocking off Liberty in the opening round of the KingCo 3A tournament, the Totems (6-17) lost to eventual-champion Mercer Island in the semifinals – then won two-straight games to reach Tuesday’s state play-in game against O’Dea of the Metro League.

After a 10-0 loss to the Islanders Sammamish rallied to beat Mount Si (17-6) 2-1 in a nail-biter on Saturday. Rick Teegarden pitched seven superb innings, allowing just three hits and no runs with six strikeouts. Brett Berkey and Aaron Lawrenson each drove in runs to eliminate the Wildcats, who finished the regular season tied for the conference lead.

In Saturday’s second game, Berkey and Chris Strain each provided five RBI as the Totems thumped Bellevue 15-6.

Berkey hit a triple and had two stolen bases while Strain added a triple and a home run. Paul Heywood picked up the win for the Totems. With the victory, Sammamish plays O’Dea Tuesday for a state berth. The Irish (16-8) creamed Nathan Hale 18-1 Saturday to reach Tuesday’s play-in game.

KingCo Championship (Friday)
Mercer Island 4, Bellevue 3
Mike Potoshnik scored on a passed ball in the eighth inning to give Mercer Island a 4-3 win over Bellevue in the KingCo 3A championship game.

Potoshnik hit a leadoff double in the eighth and Cameron Ogard moved Potoshnik over to third with a bunt single to set up the winning run.

Bellevue led the game until the bottom of the fifth. After Mercer Island tied it up, the Islanders brought in pitcher Willy Reel in relief. Reel retired all nine batters he faced to get the win.

Mercer Island (17-6) clinched a state berth with the win.

FINAL TOURNAMENT RESULTS
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 4, Bellevue 3 (Mercer Island is KingCo champion at 17-6, heads to state)

Saturday, May 15
Game 6 – 4 p.m. – Sammamish 2, Mount Si 1
(Mount Si eliminated, finishes season 17-6)
Game 7 – 7 p.m. – Sammamish 15, Bellevue 6 (Bellevue finishes season 7-13; Sammamish plays O’Dea Tuesday in winner-to-state game)

Conley Nemyre of Bellevue was named to the All-State Second Team for Girls Division I lacrosse today. Nemyre, a junior attacker, was the only area player named to an All-State team. Forest Ridge’s junior varsity team earned the sportsmanship award.

Here’s the complete All-State Team

2010 Washington Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association All-State Honors & Awards

(As selected by Division I and II coaches in eastern and western Washington)

Girls Division I First Team
Position        Name                                     Year   School (Team – if different from school)
Goal                Madeline Stevenson           Fr.       Bainbridge High School
Defense         Jahmie Day                           Jr.        Glacier Peak High School (Snohomish)
Defense         Ellen Zocher                         Sr.       Lakeside School
Defense         Sarah Clevenger                 Jr.        Roosevelt High School
Defense         Joanna  Shea                       Sr.       Bainbridge High School
Midfield          Sylvia Warren                       Sr.       Lakeside School
Midfield          Jaclyn Biggers                      Jr.        Bainbridge High School
Midfield          Eline Cove                            Sr.       Stadium High School (Tacoma)
Midfield          Ellen Haas                            Sr.       Mercer Island High School
Midfield          Monique Villanueva                        Sr.       Holy Names Academy
Midfield          Angie Anderson                   Sr.       Roosevelt High School
Midfield          Taylor Cone                          Sr.       Seattle Prep
Attack             Sarah Pollnow                     Sr.       Lakeside School
Attack             Emmy Armintrout                 Sr.       Lakeside School
Attack             Meaghan Hess                     Jr.        Lake Stevens High School (Snohomish)
Attack             Sydney Whitaker                 Sr.       Bainbridge High School

Girls Division I Second Team
Position        Name                                     Year   School (Team – if different from school)
Goal                Morgan Miller                        Fr.       Snohomish High School (Snohomish)
Defense         Kristin Moore                                    Sr.       Skyline High School (Lake Sammamish)
Defense         Chase McMahon                 So.      Bainbridge High School
Defense         Catherine Laplant                Sr.       Mercer Island High School
Defense         Madeline Barnes                 Sr.       Lakeside School
Midfield          Emma Dorland                     Jr.        Lakeside School
Midfield          Kelsey Mackin                      So.      Bainbridge High School
Midfield          Grace Deery-Schmitt           So.      Bainbridge High School
Midfield          Talia Homchick                    Sr.       Mercer Island High School
Midfield          Nicole Nevin                         Sr.       Roosevelt High School
Midfield          Claire Monsaas                    Fr.       Redmond Junior High (Lake Sammamish)
Midfield          Linnea Whisman                 Jr.        Garfield High School
Attack             Conley Nemyre                    Jr.        Bellevue High School
Attack             Mary Sesler                           So.      Seattle Prep
Attack             Hannah Bahn                      Sr.       Mercer Island High School
Attack             Delaney Larkin                     Sr.       Bainbridge High School

Girls Division II First Team
Position        Name                                     Year   School (Team – if different from school)
Goal                Teagan Cameron                 Sr.       Issaquah High School (Issaquah)
Defense         Callie Gionet                         Jr.        Snohomish High School (Snohomish)
Defense         Kate Slyngstad                     Jr.        Eastside Catholic School
Defense         Megan Jemley                      So.      Mercer Island High School
Defense         Katie Jovanovich                 Sr.       Kennedy High School
Midfield          Brittany Hogan                     Jr.        Skyline (Issaquah)
Midfield          Emily Mincin                         Fr.       Skyline (Issaquah)
Midfield          Melanie Hughes                  Sr.       Kennedy High School
Midfield          Alex Foreman                       Jr.        Eastside Catholic School
Midfield          Allie Willson                          Sr.       Tahoma High School (Bellevue East)
Midfield          Claire Krueger                      Sr.       Overlake School
Midfield          Hannah Morse                     Sr.       Auburn Mountainview High School
Attack             Natalie Merrill                       Sr.       Kennedy High School
Attack             Katie Mincin                          Jr.        Skyline (Issaquah)
Attack             Alison Havran                      Sr.       Overlake School
Attack             Haley Mincin                                    Fr.       Skyline (Issaquah)

Girls Division II Second Team
Position        Name                                     Year   School (Team – if different from school)
Goal                Sofie Morales                       Sr.       Kennedy High School
Defense         Kelsey Barta                         Jr.        Ballard High School
Defense         Jo Canino                             Fr.       Lakeside School
Defense         Malia Bachesta                    So.      Eastside Catholic School
Midfield          Alyssa Overton                     Sr.       Kamiak High School (Mukilteo)
Midfield          Kerri Smith                            So.      Overlake School
Midfield          Lauren Breynaert                 So.      Eastside Catholic School
Midfield          Dulce Moll                             Fr.       Mercer Island High School
Midfield          Dana Jensen                                    So.      Kamiak High School (Mukilteo)
Midfield          Maddie Soukup                    Jr.        Ballard High School
Midfield          Sale Rhodes                         So.      Lakeside School
Attack             Kaya Reilly                            Jr.        Snohomish High School (Snohomish)
Attack             Jayne Barnes                       Jr.        Ballard High School
Attack             Alex Corrado                         So.      Eastside Catholic School
Attack             Sierra Shaw                          So.      Kamiak High School (Mukilteo)

Coach of the Year
Division I:  Jamie Asaka, Lakeside School
Division II: Lise Martin, Ballard High School

Team Sportsmanship Award
Division I:                  Curtis High School
Division II:                 Mercer Island High School
Junior Varsity:          Forest Ridge School

Team Scholastic Achievement Award
Holy Names Academy

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.

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