White River High’s unified Special Olympic team carried home a chest full of medals from the Southwest Special Olympic Regional Bowling Tournament Oct. 23 at Tacoma’s Pacific Lanes.
Approximately 348 athletes participated in the event.
The Hornets’ No. 2 and No. 4 teams won gold medals.
Making up the No. 2 team are sophomore athletes Gabby LaMarsh and Gloria Rodriguez and senior partners Kamariah Padgett and Bethany Hominger.
Senior athlete Joe Forsberg and sophomore athlete Tristen Hopkins paired with senior partners Megan King and Justin Elzig for the No. 4 team gold.
Hornet teams earned three silver medals.
A silver medal went to the No. 1 team of alumni athlete James Congdon, senior athlete Jessica Mills, senior partner Daniel Murphy and alumni partner Samantha Leighton.
Team No. 3 earned its silver with transition athlete Shardonea Walker, sophomore athlete Maddie Wate, senior partner Whitney Rodrigues and junior partner Samantha Mitchell.
Sophomore athletes Zeth Grover and Alex Temple paired with alumni partner Courtney Matthews and senior partner Sabrina Fuller for Team No. 5’s silver medal.
The Hornets’ Team No. 6 turned in a bronze-medal performance with freshman athletes Ian Hines and Matthew Ireland, senior partner Kendal Mangan and alumni partner Shawna Koon.
White River High’s postseason soccer experience lasted two games, a Nov. 2 victory over Kingston followed by a Saturday afternoon loss to Interlake.
The split allowed the Hornets to wrap up the season with an overall record of 9-7-1.
Saturday’s district tournament loss to Interlake, played at Highline Stadium in Burien, was a loser-out affair. The winner was one of 16 teams advancing to the state Class 2A tournament.
The Saints scored one goal early in the first half and another early in the second to end White River’s season.
The Hornets had survived a West Central District contest against Kingston at Sunset Chev in Sumner. The game’s only goal came in the sixth minute and was delivered by Ashley Powell, thanks to an assist by Cassidy France. Kylie Englebert earned the shutout in goal.
Enumclaw High saw its soccer season come to a close Saturday when it fell 3-0 in Camas.
The host Papermakers jumped on top in the 17th minute, added an insurance goal at the 64-minute mark and polished things off with a final tally at 71 minutes.
The loss, in the West Central/Southwest bidistrict tournament, left the Hornets with a season record of 8-9-1.
Enumclaw had entered postseason play on a brighter note, defeating Bremerton in a 2-1 shootout Nov. 2. The subdistrict game, played at Franklin Pierce High, was a loser-out affair.
The Hornets’ regulation goal was scored by Hannah Dahlquist in the 57th minute, just four minutes after Bremerton had grabbed a 1-0 lead.
Bonney Lake High competed in the West Central District 3A championships Nov. 4 and 5 at Hazen High. Top Panther finishers were:
200 yard medley relay – Jesse Johnson, Ashley Yandt, Emily Romano and Janae Charbonneau, ninth.
200 individual medley – Ashley Yandt, 12th
400 freestyle relay – Jesse Johnson, Sarah Suchower, Emily Romano and Janae Charbonneau, 12th
The 400 freestyle relay shaved nearly five seconds off its preliminary time in the consolation finals.
Senior Sarah Suchower earned district scholar athlete honors for her 4.0 grade-point average. Scholar Athletes are seniors participating on the team with an accumulative gpa of 3.75 or higher.
White River High’s unified Special Olympic team carried home a chest full of medals from the Southwest Special Olympic Regional Bowling Tournament Oct. 23 at Tacoma’s Pacific Lanes.
The Enumclaw High boys water polo team went two-and-out at the state tournament Thursday evening at Rogers High in Puyallup.
The No. 8-ranked Hornets (the No. 10 seed into the tournament) had the toughest draw in pool play, facing defending state champion and No. 1-ranked Curtis for its opener. The Vikings rolled over Enumclaw 19-2. EHS’s goals coming from Will Cooper and Quinn Warner.
In Game 2, the Hornets faced Roosevelt, which beat Bainbridge Monday night for its berth.
Hornet Bennon VanHoof scored early for a lead and the Hornets trailed by four entering the fourth quarter, but the Roughriders took the game 17-8 to advance to Friday’s competition at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.
The Hornets finished the season 14-23 overall and lose just one senior off this year’s team.
The curtain closed on the Sumner Spartans’ football season Friday night, putting an end to a disappointing season.
With the regular soccer season now just a memory, the Bonney Lake Panthers turn their attention to postseason play.
The second season gets under way tonight, Wednesday, with a series of subdistrict games. Taking part are squads from the South Puget Sound League 2A, Seamount League and Bremerton High.
The Spartan swimmers came in second place at the SPSL 2A League Championships at Henry Foss High School Friday. In all, SHS earned 308 points. Fife High School won the championship with 407 points.
After an opening match loss to Lakes, Bonney Lake Tennis ran the table, picking up nine straight league wins to finish as co-champions of the SPSL 3A League finishing 9-1 league and 13-2 overall.
During this streak, Bonney Lake defeated last year’s champion Lakes who were unbeaten in the prior three seasons.
At the state-qualifying cross country meet Saturday, Sumner High’s contingent proved cross country is indeed a team sport.
Saturday’s meet covered a 3.1-mile course at American Lake Golf Course in Lakewood.
A young and ambitious Sumner volleyball squad split in sub-district action at Washington High School last Saturday and will be moving on to district play this weekend again at Washington High, where its initial match up in the West Central District III tourney will come against the Patriots of WHS commencing 5 p.m. this Friday evening.