The Enumclaw High baseball squad’s season came to a sudden end Saturday afternoon as the Hornets suffered a heartbreaking 2-1 setback to Auburn Mountainview in the West Central/Southwest bidistrict 3A tournament at Foss High’s picturesque diamond in Tacoma.
Taylor Franich drilled an inside-the-park home run to get the Enumclaw High fastpitch team off and running against Kennedy. The Hornets won 7-3.
There are a lot of elements of Jorge Espinosa’s job as an automobile detailer that he likes, but the bottom line and the objective that makes him most proud is the “before and after” picture in his mind’s eye.
Heading into its last scheduled game of the regular season Monday at Enumclaw’s Boise Creek facility, the White River fastpitch squad was sporting a 3-10 South Puget Sound League 3A mark and was on the threshold of being eliminated from any chance of a post-season appearance.
The Sumner Spartans lost the only game they played last week when they traveled to White River Friday for a make-up South Puget Sound League 3A game that had originally been slated for May 5, but was postponed due to weather.
Sumner High’s baseball season came to an abrupt close when it lost 7-6 to the Lindbergh Eagles in the battle of the Seamount and South Puget Sound League 3A’s No. 5 seeds held at the Russell Road Complex in Kent early Saturday in the subdistrict tournament.
Not much changed for the Enumclaw High fastpitch squad from last week, as it played only one game at Franklin Pierce and edged the Cardinals 6-4 to push its South Puget Sound League 3A record to 11-2.
When Enumclaw High’s baseball squad faced Highline at the Russell Road Complex in Kent on Saturday – in South Puget Sound League/Seamount League 3A subdistrict – they were facing a mirror image of themselves as far as style of play.
The Buckley City Council welcomed a new councilmember May 5, as Melissa Patson was appointed from a trio of potential candidates that included Marvin Sundstrom and Bryan R. Howard.
Enumclaw High’s fastpitch squad became firmly entrenched in second place last week after hosting and annihilating Lakes 13-0 in five innings and before that visiting Auburn Mountainview and working out a 9-5 victory over the Lions.
The White River fastpitch team played only one game last week, travelling to Bonney Lake Thursday and losing 9-1 after a late-inning collapse to make its South Puget Sound League record 2-10.
Playing Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week, the White River baseball bunch lost two of three games and very well could be getting squeezed out of the playoff scene as a consequence.
The 8-8 Sumner High baseball bunch found itself rooting against Lakes High earlier this week, as – at press time – the Lancers were playing a makeup doubleheader against Peninsula and Clover Park to ultimately decide Lakes’ fate, as well as the fate of Sumner and White River, both sitting at 8-8 in league.
