Some news about the Snoqualmie Valley Sports Journal
We have some great news to share with you about the Snoqualmie Valley Sports Journal.
We are moving! Our new website address is:
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Starting now, head there to find all the latest news and information about local sports. We have made some changes on our new site which we hope will make it easier for you to find stories about your favorite sports teams at Mount Si and Cedarcrest High Schools and also the many graduates from those two Valley high schools playing in college this fall and throughout the upcoming school year.
This site you are looking at will remain active, as an archive site with all the posts we have put up here for the last three years, some 2,000 and counting, but all of our new content will be at the above website address starting Monday.
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We thank you for choosing us for your Valley sports news and we hope you will join us in our move to our new site.
Rhett Workman
Editor
Snoqualmie Valley Sports Journal
On the college pitch, 8-20-11
On the college front, one game of note last night involving a Valley athlete. Cedarcrest HS grad Evan Fassler and his CSU Bakersfield men’s soccer teammates scored a come-from-behind win over the Master’s College in a non-conference contest last night.
CSU rallied from a 3-2 hole midway through the second half to post a 4-3 win over their foes from the San Francisco area. Fassler, a senior this season for CSUB, started and took five of the team’s 16 total shots on goal in the contest. He, however, did not score any goals – those were scored by teammates David Velasquez, Richard Menjivar, Justin Finch and Jesus Sanchez. Finch’s goal in the 73rd minute followed by Sanchez’s tally just a minute later propelled the Bakersfield comeback.
Three more soccer games of note today, all on the women’s side. Eastern Washington, with North Bend junior Brittany Conway, is playing right now against Robert Morris of Pennsylvania in a Florida tournament; later, Fairfield’s women, with another North Bend product, junior Nikki Stanton, opens their season with a tilt against Boston College in Boston, then this afternoon, Ball State’s women, with North Bend freshman Alexis “Lexi” Pearlstein, takes on Western Kentucky in Kentucky
Snoqualmie Days road run results
The fourth annual Snoqualmie Days road race yesterday morning drew over 600 runners racing one of two courses, a 5k and 10k, and under stellar weather conditions, top racers from Washington state scored wins in the event.
In the men’s 10k, Teshome Kokebe overcame strong challenges from several other runners, including top Valley finisher Sean Sundwall, to post the victory, his first. Kokebe clocked a time of 31:15 on the course which ran on streets in and around Snoqualmie. Sundwall, the Snoqualmie resident and Mount Si assistant track coach who organizes a number of local running events including this one, finished just 31 seconds back in third place.
Olympia’s Claudia Copeland scored the win for the women in the 10k race, clocking a time of 34:31, beating her closest challenger, Lois Keller, by over a minute.
In the 5k run, Olympia’s Jesse Stevick took the win on the men’s side in a close one, timing out at 15:45 on a course which ran through streets around downtown Snoqualmie. Stevick finished just six seconds ahead of second place finisher Josiah Price. Ellensburg’s Amber Farthing came across the Cascades to take home the women’s title. She finished with a time of 18:40, nearly a minute ahead of her closest challenger, Jill Hasselbach.
Mount Si High School cross country followers will be pleased with this result. North Bend’s Richard Carmichael, set to lead the Wildcat boys’ XC team this fall as a senior, was the top Valley 5k finisher, scoring a time of 17:18, good for third overall on the men’s side. Carmichael was one of several Mount Si XC runners, who, along with their coach, Christine Kjenner, ran the 5k race, getting a good chance to get their legs ready to roll for another tough cross country season.
More information on yesterday’s race, and on other races which are coming up, can be found at www.runsnoqualmie.com.
Despite efforts of Valleyite, Hope International women’s volleyball still looking for its first win
Hope International’s women’s volleyball team continues to look for its first win. Two more losses yesterday at a tournament in Azusa, CA, despite the strong performance of a Valley product, left the California school at 0-4 to start the season.
HIU fell to Oklahoma Baptist 25-18, 25-23, 24-26, 25-16, then fell again in their nightcap to Kirkland’s Northwest University 25-21, 25-18, 25-19. Royals senior Sine Schirmer did her best to keep her team in both contests. The 2008 Mount Si grad dropped team highs in kills in both matches – 18 against OK Baptist and eight more against Northwest. In addition, she had an ace and seven digs against OKB, and she added an ace, assist, and four more digs against the team from Kirkland.
HIU looks for its first win today, we’ll keep you posted.
Valley athletes on the college pitch, 8-19-11
On the college pitch yesterday, Valley athletes and their teams had mixed results.
Eastern Washington women fall in opener
Eastern Washington University’s women’s soccer team fell 4-1 to host Florida Gulf Coast in the Eagles’ season opener at FLGC’s tournament down in Fort Myers, FL. Brittney Conway, a junior who graduated from Mount Si HS in 2009 and transferred this year to EWU after two years playing for Bellevue College, played about 29 minutes coming off the bench in the contest, her first action with the Eagles this season. Conway recorded no stats of note.
Evergreen men shut out in home debut
The Evergreen State College men’s team was blanked 2-0 in their season opener on home soil down in Olympia yesterday by Everett’s Trinity Lutheran. Sophomore Dyson Fowler, a North Bend product who graduated in 2010 from Mount Si, started and played 79 minutes without recording any significant stats. Teammate – and fellow sophomore – Sam Joselyn, also a 2010 Mount Si grad, did not see any action in the contest. Joselyn also hails from North Bend.
Ball State women start out on the right foot
Ball State’s women’s team blanked Kentucky’s Murray State University 3-0 in the Cardinals’ opener at a tournament in Kentucky. BSU, out of Muncie, IN, has on its roster this fall freshman Alexis “Lexi” Pearlstein, a 2011 Mount Si grad from North Bend. She did not play in yesterday’s contest.
Tonight, one game, and it’s our first look at a Cedarcrest grad in action. Senior Evan Fassler, from Duvall, leads his CSU Bakersfield team into a battle against the Master’s College in a nonleague contest.
Galloway makes her college choice
Fall practice is right around the corner, and another incoming Mount Si senior has announced her college intentions.
Volleyball player Krista Galloway has announced her commitment to OIT, better known as Oregon Tech, to play volleyball for them starting next year, according to Mount Si coach Bonnie Foote. Oregon Tech is a member of the Cascade Collegiate Conference, which includes Kirkland’s Northwest University.
Several Wildcat grads compete in sports at CCC schools, including Northwest women’s soccer players Jordyn Wilson and Jessica Oliver, Evergreen men’s soccer players Dyson Fowler and Sam Joselyn, and Southern Oregon women’s cross country and track athlete Alex Rudd.
Galloway played club ball this spring with Island Thunder 18s, a Mercer Island-based team which was among the top teams in the Puget Sound area throughout the season. Her college commitment is now the fourth from the Class of 2012; football player Josh Mitchell (Oregon State), softball player Maura Murphy (George Washington) and boys’ soccer player Davis Karaica (Seattle Pacific) have already made their decisions.
Hope International volleyball opens season with two losses despite strong showing from Mount Si grad
Hope International University opened its women’s volleyball season yesterday, and a Mount Si grad had a big hand in their efforts. However, the performance of this former Wildcat turned out not to be enough as HIU fell twice.
The Royals started things off in their season-opening tournament at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA, taking on Concordia University of Portland. HIU senior Sine Schirmer, a 2008 grad of MSHS, had a team-high 12 kills in the match, but the Royals fell 25-17, 25-10 and 25-21. Schirmer also had eight digs to pace the HIU efforts in that category.
HIU in their nightcap yesterday in the tournament took on Rocky Mountain College out of Billings, MT. The Royals started out well, with a first set win, but RMC had the last laugh, winning the next three sets to take the match. Scores in favor of the ladies from Montana were 20-25, 25-10, 25-12, 25-15. Schirmer had another nice effort, with eight kills and nine digs.
HIU has two more games today. In game one this morning, they meet Oklahoma Baptist, then this afternoon, the Royals meet Kirkland’s Northwest University.
Another Division I scholarship for a member of Mount Si’s Class of 2011
Mount Si Class of 2011 grad Dustin Breshears, seen here from a Wildcat baseball game this spring against Juanita, Tuesday night signed with Gonzaga University to play baseball next spring for the Division I Bulldogs. (Photo courtesy Calder Productions)
Another key piece of the 2011 Mount Si baseball state champion team has signed a Division I college scholarship.
Wildcat class of 2011 grad Dustin Breshears, who was the team’s second baseman this past spring and helped lead Mount Si to its first baseball state title, Tuesday night inked on the dotted line with Spokane’s Gonzaga University. Breshears, who hit .301 this spring with two homers and 18 RBI’s, joins fellow recent grad Tim Proudfoot in signing a baseball Division I scholarship. Proudfoot, as we reported to you several weeks ago, signed with Texas Tech.
Breshears’ signing with the Zags, members of the West Coast Conference, makes him the ninth of nearly 30 Mount Si Class of 2011 grads to sign a Division I college sports scholarship, which is by far a school record.
Mitchell makes his college choice official
Mount Si football lineman Josh Mitchell (left) is seen here with Oregon State football coach Mike Riley (right). Mitchell has announced his verbal commitment to play football for OSU starting in 2012. (Courtesy photo)
It’s not even the start of fall sports yet but we have learned of another high-profile verbal college commitment from a Mount Si Class of 2012 athlete.
The SVSJ was informed by Mount Si’s football booster club that tackle Josh Mitchell, seen as a likely D-I college prospect by a number of the major recruiting services, has verbally committed to Oregon State. Mitchell had been on the radar apparently of several other schools, but as we told you here back in June, OSU had made a scholarship offer to the Wildcat lineman. At that time, we were told that Mitchell was going to explore his options further before making a decision, which it appears he now has.
Mitchell is also a top high school wrestler; it is not known if he will be continuing in that sport as well in college. We’ll be working to get an interview with him and we’ll ask him about that.
Mitchell’s commitment follows earlier verbal commitments this summer from boys’ soccer star Davis Karaica (SPU) and girls’ softball player Maura Murphy (George Washington University).
Valley women take on large field in major triathlon event
A decent-sized number of Valley women braved the elements yesterday, racing in the Danskin Triathlon in Seattle. Participants competed in swimming, biking and running events during the course of the triathlon, and over 2,000 women from all over the country competed in the event.
Of that large field, over 20 of them came from the Valley, and the local group was led by the solid efforts of Duvall’s Malya Howada. Howada, one of two Duvall residents who competed in the race, clocked a time of 1 hour, 28 minutes, earning her a 97th place finish overall in the race. North Bend’s Robby Moore came in in a time of 1:34:48, second-best among all Valleyites in the race and tops among the six North Bend residents in the event. The finish earned Moore 258th overall in the race.
Six Snoqualmie women also participated, and that group was led by a strong showing from Jocelyn Reed, who finished the event in 1:40:30 (436th). Fall City’s Heidi McDade finished the race just seconds ahead of Reed, clocking a time of 1:40:14 (426th) to lead the threesome from there. Carnation’s top finisher was Sanya Jenkins, who finished in a time of 1:44:06 (578th).
Many of the Valley competitors had good performances, with most finishing the race in under two hours. Carnation also had a team in the event in addition to the individual competitors – the “Team Farm” clocked a time of 1:44:20, which was just a few seconds behind Jenkins’ time.
The triathlon was one of several that Danskin will be putting on during the course of the year – the next one is this weekend in Wisconsin.
