Panther cheer staff hosts summer camp

Coach Tiana Nelson and the Bonney Lake High cheerleaders will host a summer cheer camp Aug. 25, 26 and 27 in the Bonney Lake High gymnasium.

The camp is from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The cost is $35 for kindergarten through second-grade students and $65 for students in grades 3 through 8.

For the past five years, Nelson has coached the BLHS cheerleaders. She has attended the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) and Universal Cheerleaders of America (UCA) camps and clinics. She is also an NCA certified coach and is stunt certified by the Washington State Cheer Coaches Association.

Participants will learn cheers, chants, a dance routine, kicks, jumps, voice techniques and basic movements of cheerleading. All participants will perform during halftime at a scheduled BLHS football game and will receive a camp T-shirt.

To register, go to the Sumner/Bonney Lake Recreation Department, 1202 Wood Ave. in Sumner. For more information, call 253-891-6500.

Parks department opens fall softball

The Sumner/Bonney Lake Recreation Department is offering two divisions for men’s and coed softball in the fall.

The men will play Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday and are officiated by United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) officials beginning the week of Sept. 7. Teams will play 10 league games plus playoffs for qualifying teams on local fields. The coed league will play six games beginning Sept. 18 with a 12-team maximun.

Players must be at least 18 years old and out of high school. The registration deadline for both league fees and team rosters is 5 p.m. Aug. 19.

A $50 refundable deposit will keep a spot until the registration deadline. Registration received after the deadline will be assessed a $25 late fee and teams will be subject to space available. Team league fees are $525, for a roster with 80 percent or more Bonney Lake/Sumner residents, and $550,, with a roster less than 80 percent Bonney Lake/Sumner residents.

Coed team league fees are $295, 80 percent players living within Sumner/Bonney Lake, and $335, for teams outside Sumner/Bonney Lake.

Local wrestlers take turn at nationals

Nick Bendon, a senior at Bonney Lake High, won six consecutive matches to take the state championship belt at 145 pounds at the Washington State Wrestling Associa-tion’s Cadet, Junior, Junior Women and Senior Freestyle Championships May 16 at Auburn Mountainview High School. As a result, he advanced to the ASICS/Vaughan Junior and Cadet National Championships, presented by the U.S. Marines, in Fargo, N.D., July 17-25, where he finished in the top third in a packed, freestyle weight division that featured 99 contestants.

Bendon was a fourth-place finisher in the 135-pound classification at the state Class 3A wrestling tournament in February.

His older brother Patrick, who graduated from BLHS in 2009, plans to wrestle for West Valley College in Saratoga, Calif.

Also at the WASA championships in Auburn, Bonney Lake’s Josh Peart finished fourth in the junior 140-pound division. Enumclaw High graduates, and two-time state champions, Sam Bauer and Jason Gray also competed. Bauer won the 125-pound junior division, while Gray took top honors at 160 pounds. Fellow Hornet teammate and graduate Casey Park finished second in the open senior division at 185 pounds.

Gray finished eighth in the 145-pound division at the ASICS/Vaughan Junior and Cadet National Championships in Fargo. He plans to wrestle at Highline Community College this fall. He lost, by fall, to Nick Tourville of Minnesota for eighth.

At Highline, Gray will be teamed with White River’s Justin Purves, a 2009 NJCAA All-American at 125 pounds and academic All-American and another White River graduate, Caleb Padgett, who was a NJCAA National qualifier last season.

Park and Sumner’s Tyler Wooding, a state runner up, also plan to wrestle at Highline.

A 3-under par score wins Lee match

In Lee golf action Thursday night at the Enumclaw Golf Course, Shawn Wetton’s team went 3-under par for first place again behind the strong two birdie-putt performance of Al Beauchamp. Mary Kell and Betty French rounded out the winning team.

Frank Mihelich’s team with Carl Smith, Debbie Fornalski and Theresa McBride took second with a team effort that brought it to 2-under par.

There was a three-way tie for third at 1-under.