Sports Briefs
Published 9:37 pm Thursday, October 2, 2008
Duo wins at Baja
North Bend residents Andrew Hassard and Greg Roark won the
Baja Challenge off-road car race last week.
This race featured eight identical cars pitted against each other.
Hassard and Roark finished in first place over other teams that included
professional racers such as Roberto Guerrero and Mike Groff.
They placed 86th overall out of more than 270 entries in the
Baja 2000, the largest off-road race ever, which runs nearly 1,700 miles
from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas.
Mount Si gymnastics clinic
Children will have a chance to see what those bars and beams are
about at the fundraising clinic for the gymnastics team at Mount Si High
School on Saturday, Dec. 9. There will be two sessions, one at 9 a.m. and one at
10:30 a.m.
Students between the ages of 3 and 12 will be individually paired with
a gymnastics team member and will be able to try all the gymnastics
events: bars, beam, floor and vault. There will also be exhibitions by the Mount
Si gymnastics team. Cost is $10 per session.
Local runners excel
Three members of the Issaquah Gliders cross-country team placed
in the top 20 at the regional cross-country championships on Nov. 18,
at Seattle’s Woodland Park.
A top 20 finish qualifies the runners for the Youth Jr Olympics
Cross-Country Meet, to be held in Reno, Nev. on Dec. 9.
In the 9- to 10-year-old boy’s division, Drake da Ponte placed first
for the approximately 2.2 mile course with a time of 11:32. The
second-place finisher ran the course in 12:04. Da Ponte will be joined at the
national cross-country meet by teammates Eric Walsh, who placed fourth with a
time of 12:20, and Justin Englund, placing seventh with a time of 12:35.
Other Gliders in the 9- to 10-year-old boy’s division were Matthew Molina,
coming in 44th with a time of 14:49, and Shawn Paskey, who came in 45th
with a time of15:01.
In the 9- to 10-year-old girl’s division, Katie Luna placed 44th with
a time of 15:59, and Lauren Englund was 50th with a time of 16:58.
In the 13- to 14-year-old boy’s division, Lorenzo Molina placed
38th with a time of 15:28 for 2.5 miles.
SVLL gearing up
Snoqualmie Valley Little League is gearing up for the 2001 season
and needs your help. The board meets at 7:30 on the first and third Tuesdays
of every month, at the North Bend depot.
If you are interested in attending a meeting or obtaining more
information, contact the league at (425) 888-1518.
Registration is tentatively scheduled for January and February,
with tryouts starting in mid-March. All youth between the ages 5_17 are
welcome to join.
