Category: Sports

Source: North County Outlook, March 26, 2013

Baseball:

Marysville-Pilchuck: Thanks to last week’s crazy weather, Marysville-Pilchuck baseball started off the year playing three games in as many days. The Tommies lost 5-4 against Meadowdale to kick off the season, but won their next two games thanks to strong pitching performances from Cody Anderson and Jake Luton.

M-P’s first win came Friday over Shoreline, 4-0. Jake Luton struck out nine and walked two through five innings. Kacey Walker was 1-3 with two RBI, and Jake Merrick was 2-2 with an RBI.

The Tommies defeated Lake Stevens 4-1 in a non-league game on Saturday, pushing their record this year to 2-1. Cody Anderson pitched 4 innings of scoreless ball, and Kacey Walker went 2-3 with a walk, a run scored and an RBI.

Marysville Getchell: Marysville Getchell started the season off on the proper foot with a victory over Mariner 5-1, but then dropped two straight. Rylan Fausett pitched a complete game, striking out six and giving up just 6 hits in the Charger’s win. Mariner’s only run came in the top of the seventh inning. Jake Lund was 2-3 for MG with a double and three RBI.

On Wednesday MG gave up 11 hits and committed two errors against Shoreline. The game was called after the fifth inning, and Shoreline won 12-2. MG’s John Clark was 2-3 with a triple.

Getchell lost 14-1 on Friday against the Meadowdale Mavericks. Scoring was not reported for that game.

Arlington: The Eagles are 2-1 on the year after splitting a pair of games this week. Arlington lost on Monday 12-3 at Oak Harbor.

The Eagles were down by just a run heading into the bottom of the sixth, but Oak Harbor put up a pair of big innings, scoring four in the sixth inning and four more in the seventh to put the game out of reach.

On Saturday Ryan Walker picked up his second win of the year and scored the winning run. The Eagles relied on some late inning heroics, tying the game in the fifth, and winning in the bottom of the seventh. Walker was 2-4 with two doubles. Bryce Human drove in the winning run, and Isaiah Vaughn was 2-4.

Lakewood: The Lakewood Boys split a pair of games this week, and their record now sits at 3-1.

The Cougars started the week off with a big 13-2 win over South Whidbey. The five-inning contest saw Lakewood notch nine hits while South Whidbey committed 11 errors in the field. Bradley Keen was credited with the win.

Softball:

Arlington: The Eagles picked up two wins this week to push their record to 3-0. In the three games the Eagles have outscored their opponents 40-1.

On Tuesday Arlington defeated Stanwood in a five inning contest 16-1. Hayley Fields struck out nine, giving up just two hits and one run. Marisa Rathert was 4-4 with three stolen bases, Katelynn McDonald had two doubles, and Lynsey Amundson finished with a double and a triple. The Eagles amassed 21 hits in all.

Hayley Fields was at it again on Friday. She struck out 13, gave no runs, and pushed her record to 3-0 on the year. Fields also went 2-4 with a double. Lynsey Amundson and Marissa Rathert each hit a triple.

Lakewood: Lakewood split a pair of games this week, pushing their overall record to 3-1 on the year.

The Cougars took a tough loss against Cedarcrest 10-9 on Tuesday. Mikalya Holmes and Terah Barrio were both 3-4, and Hailey Malakowski added a dobule. Lakewood mounted a sixth inning rally, and out-hit the Redwolves 14-9, but the Cougars couldn’t claim the victory.

On Thursday Lakewood squeaked out a win against Archbishop Murphy, 3-2. Maddie Holmes collected three hits again, and Hailey Malakowski was credited with the win.

Marysville-Pilchuck: M-P went 1-2 this week in three tough non-conference games. They are 2-3 on the year without a conference game yet.

The Tomahawks first loss this week came against Monroe. Monroe scored 12 runs on 14 hits and the Tomahawks committed four errors. Hayley Fritz was 2-3 with two doubles and Rachael Delamare added two doubles for the Tomahawks in the losing effort.

It was more of the same when the Tomahawks hosted the Snohomish Panthers on Thursday. The Panthers scored 13 runs on 17 hits, and M-P again registered four errors. Abigail Otto doubled for the Tomahawks who scored three runs on four hits. Jordan Willard took the loss.

It was a different story in Sammamish when the Tomahawks traveled to play Skyline on Friday. The girls won 5-4, scoring two runs in the top of the seventh. Haley Fritz was the winning pitcher, and M-P moved to 3-2

Marysville Getchell: M-G split two games this week, picking up their first win of the year, and moving to 1-4 in the overall standings.

The Chargers dropped the first game of the week to Cascade in six innings of play on Monday. Aubrey Peterson three-hit the Chargers, and the Bruins scored 11 runs on 11 hits. Savannah Duce doubled in the loss.

MG turned the tables on Tuesday, when they beat Mariner 10-0 in six innings. Kymber Devlin allowed one hit in six innings, and she recorded a double at the plate. Ashlynne Hood was 2-3 with a HR.

Girls Tennis:

Marysville-Getchell: The Getchell girls lost 7-0 at Shorecrest on Monday and 4-3 at Oak Harbor on Tuesday. Marina Ciferry, Savaddy Lee, and Sammy Wallace all easily won their matches, but Oak Harbor dominated in the doubles. Thursday’s matchup against Marysville-Pilchuck was postponed until Friday, March 29.

Marysville-Pilchuck: M-P lost 5-2 at Monroe on Friday. Savannah Pearce won in three sets, and the doubles team of Sarah Cronin-Kailee Esser won in two sets.

Arlington: The Eagles dropped Tuesday’s match at Monroe 4-3, and then fell 7-0 to Stanwood on Saturday. Macy Mackey and Chloe Erickson easily won their singles matches in Monroe, and Maya Manzano and Sally Hatfield won their doubles match in three sets.

Lakewood: The Lakewood girls lost to Coupeville 4-1 on Monday, and had Thursday’s match at Granite Falls rescheduled for Friday, only to have that match postponed again. Match results for Coupeville were not reported.

Track:

Lakewood: The Cougars hosted Archbishop Murphy on Thursday, and both the boys and girls teams bested their Wildcat foes. The boys won 99-42, and the girls won 87-61.

Arlington: The Eagles track team was at the Lake Stevens event on Thursday. The boys scored 11 points to Glacier Peak’s 75, and 70 to Lake Stevens’ 75. The girls scored 82-67 vs. Glacier Peak and 96-53 vs. Lake Stevens.

Marysville Getchell: The Chargers didn’t fare well in Stanwood, where Jackson took the top honors 95-44 against the boys and 110-46 against the girls. Alfredo Diaz scored the only victory for the Chargers boys by winning the shot-put event. The girls fared better, winning the 400 relay (Weikel, Terrell, Cannal, Jarvis), 800 (Rachel Lefstad), the 1,600 relay (Lefstad, Jarvis, Weikel, Terrell) and the high jump (Kaitlyn McCormick).

Marysville-Pilchuck: The Tomahawks hosted Meadowdale and Shorecrest on Thursday. Both the boys and the girls scored victories. The boys beat Shorecrest 84-61 and Meadowdale 87-58. The girls beat Shorecrest 74-60 and Meadowdale 81-52.

Golf:

Marysville Getchell: Mikaela Schwartz came away the medalist at Cedarcrest G.C when the MG girls faced off against Shorecrest. Schwartz beat out two Shorecrest golfers, Audrey Penner and Claire Mrozek, by a stroke, 48-49. Shorecrest finished at 269, and MG finished at 274.

Earlier in the week, at Whidbey Golf and Country Club, Jacqueline Martin led the Chargers with a 53 and Schwartz shot a 56. Oak Harbor finished at 268, MG at 293 and Everett at 372.

The boys played Arlington at Cedarcrest on Wednesday, where Gage St. John and Conner Lindgren both shot 44. Arlington finished with 220 and MG finished at 235.

The boys also finished fourth in a five-team tournament in Everett on Thursday. They finished the par 72 at 452. Ryan Clausen shot an 86, 11 strokes back of the leader.

Marysville-Pilchuck: The girls attended the Stanwood tournament on Thursday, and shot a 386 at the par 36. They finished third in the three-team field. Cassie Coate led the Tomahawks with a 54, seven strokes back of the leader. The girls also attended the Whidbey shootout last Tuesday. They finished 13th in a field of 16. Shanna Sterling shot a 104, 23 strokes back of the leader.

The boys finished fifth at the five-team tournament in Everett, shooting a 458 at the par 72. Connor Martinis shot an 81, six strokes behind the leader.

Arlington: The girls attended the Monroe tournament on Thursday and finished fourth in a five team field. They shot 312, and were led by Emmi Modahl, who shot a 58, 12 strokes back of the lead.

The boys played Marysville Getchell at Cedarcrest on Wednesday, where Anthony Allen led the pack with 36. Cody Mclane and Cory Taylor both shot a 44. Arlington finished with 220 and MG finished at 235. The played at Gleneagle on Tuesday, where they shot a 201, 11 back from the leader, Snohomish. The Eagles finished second in a field of five. Anthony Allen led the pack with a 36.

Lakewood: The Cougars girls’ team traveled to South Whidbey for 9 holes on Tuesday where they shot a 43 to South Whidbey’s 72. Hailey Duitsman finished with 13, Nina Forsell 12, and E. Dowell 12.

The Cougar boys went to Cedarcrest to shoot with Sultan on Thursday, scoring a 253 to Sultan’s 235. Christian Case and Brady Camp each shot 44, six strokes back of the leader.

Boys Soccer:

Lakewood: The Cougars defeated Coupeville 1-0 on Friday on the strength of Antino Bellizzi’s first half goal, but dropped a 5-2 match to Archbishop Murphy earlier in the week. Randy Anaya and Antino Bellizzi each scored a goal for the Cougars, who were shut out in the second half of that game.

Arlington: The Eagles dropped two matches this week beginning with a 5-1 contest against Mount Vernon. Mason Herrera scored the Eagles goal off a Danny Herrera assist.

On Friday the Eagles fell 3-0 against Lake Stevens. They open the year 0-3-1 overall.

Marysville-Pilchuck: M-P lost their first game this week at Bothell 4-2. Julio Aguilar scored two goals for the Tomahawks.

Fabian Panduro led the Tomahawks to victory over the Chargers on Friday night scoring the games only goal off a free kick. The Tomahawks are now 2-1-1.

Marysville Getchell: The Chargers lost two conference games this week, first falling to Oak Harbor 4-2, and then to M-P 1-0. Christian Fuerte and Cody Probst recorded the MG goals. Getchell drops to 0-5 overall.

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NLL Week 11: Washington 5 at Minnesota 12

By Mike McQuaid, March 16, 2013, http://www.stealthlax.com,

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Looking for just a single win to earn a post-season berth, the Washington Stealth ran into a Minnesota team firing on all cylinders Saturday night, falling to the Swarm 12-5 before 7,830 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn.

For a Washington offense that at times has been stellar this season, including its performance in a three-game win steak leading up to Saturday’s trip into the Twin Cities, the output was a disappointment.

“Our offense failed to show.  We just had a terrible night,” Stealth head coach Chris Hall said.

At one point after tying the game at 2-2 early in the second on a Mike Grimes goal, the Stealth went a full 32 minutes without scoring as Minnesota wracked-up six straight goals through the intermission and into the early minutes of the third to build an 8-2 lead.

From there the frustration only continued as not just Washington – but Minnesota faced brilliant goaltending.

“T-Rich stood on his head to keep us in it,” Hall said on his goaltender’s performance, which is becoming the norm night in and night out for the Stealth.

Richards, who faced 60 shots including 34 in the second half, only allowed seven goals through the third quarter.

His work included a double-stop on a breakaway by the Swarm’s David Earl mid-way through the fourth, that in any other game would have been a momentum changer.

With Earl grabbing the ball on transition and running most of the floor, Richards denied the shot from just a few feet out, then turned his attention to the Swarm’s trailer Jordan MacIntosh, who double pumped a shot on Richards that was also turned down.  MacIntosh finished the night with five assists and 11 loose balls.

“I thought T-Rich was spectacular,” Hall said.  “He kept us in it while we tried to get the offense unstuck.  But it never happened.”

Swarm goaltender Tyler Carlson turned away 48 of 53 shots.

In the first, Washington opened scoring on a Dean Hill goal at 8:16 to take the early lead. Taking seven shots, it was Hill’s only score of the night.

Minnesota responded with back-to-back Callum Crawford scores just over a minute later.

Following Grimes’ tying goal at 12:15 of the first, the Stealth struggled over the next half-hour of play.

Trailing by four-goals to start the second half, Washington began the third with a five-on-three advantage but were unable to find the back of the net, while giving up a shorthanded goal, the only score by either team in the quarter, to Jay Card coming off the bench.

After Card’s goal, the Stealth was never able to come any closer than five goals.

Offensively, the Stealth was led by Rhys Duch with two goals and two assists for four points increasing his season total to an NLL-best 33 goals this season.

The Stealth also received a fourth-quarter score from Lewis Ratcliff, who finished with two points on the night.

For the Swarm, Crawford led all scorers with four goals all of which came in the first half of play.

In the faceoff circle, the Stealth’s Bob Snider was 11 of 20 for 55 percent, while MacIntosh was just nine of 19 for 47 percent.

With the Stealth scrapping and clawing their way into contention for the post season, Saturday’s game marked a low-water mark in production since a 16-5 home loss to Edmonton last January and is just the fourth time in franchise history dating to stints in Albany and San Jose where the team have scored five or fewer goals.

Prior to the game, the Stealth activated its third round pick (21st overall) in this last year’s NLL Entry Draft, Mitch Jones.

Jones, who spent the winter completing the collegiate hockey season at Northern Michigan University, delivered a solid performance, finishing with an assist and took two shots.

“I thought he was fine,” Hall said of the 6-2, 185 pounder from Delta, British Columbia.  “He didn’t get a ton of shifts.  But he got his feet wet.  He looked like he fit just fine.”

The Stealth, who fell to 7-5 on the season, still retain a half-game lead in the West with Calgary sitting idle but lost ground to both Edmonton and Colorado, which won their games, enjoy a bye-week before taking-on the Roughnecks at home on March 30.

“It’s been a grind to get to here.  (Tonight’s game) was a disappointing loss going into the last games of the season,” Hall said.  “Our and goaltending and defense is rock solid, but our offense needs some work.  I’m certainly looking forward to that first practice before the Calgary game.”

The Stealth return home to Comcast Arena for a Saturday, March 30 contest with rival Calgary and the first leg of a home-and-home series with the Roughnecks.  Game time is 6:45 p.m. PT.