From the Sidelines

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.