The Week in Sports
Published 8:28 pm Thursday, October 2, 2008
Tennis team suffers two losses
The Mount Si varsity tennis team suffered two losses recently in league action. The first was to Mercer Island 9-0 and the second was to Bellevue, 9-0. Against Bellevue in singles action, Matt Enkema (B) d. John Lockie, 6-2, 6-1; David Farber (B) d. Bryce Wilson, 6-1, 6-0; Seppi Hutter (B) d. Bruce Louviere, 6-0, 6-1; Lukas Holland (B) d. Greg Beckmann, 6-1, 6-0; Cameron Akita (B) d. Blake Kinghorn, 6-1, 6-2; Adam Brown (B) d. Kendall Brenneise, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3.
In doubles action, Chris Lumry-Wes Haydon (B) d. Beckmann-Kinghorn, 6-0, 6-0; Hutter-Akita (B) d. Tyler Emsky-Tim Lewis, 6-1, 6-0; Casey Wakkuri-Jonathan Wilcox (B) d. Tim Coleman-Dan Collard, 6-1, 6-0.
Against Mercer Island in singles action, Jeff Hammond (MI) d. John Lockie, 6-0, 6-0; Chris Trippel (MI) d. Bryce Wilson, 6-0, 6-0; Trevor Fulp (MI) d. Bruce Louvire, 6-0, 6-0; Stanely Gu (MI) d. Greg Beckman, 6-0, 6-1; Jason Culpepper (MI) d. Blake Kinghorn, 6-1, 6-0; Alex Knowles (MI) d. Kendall Brenneise, 6-1, 6-0. In doubles action, Chris Bailey/Chris Winterbauer (MI) d. John Lockie/Dan Collard, 6-0, 6-0; Fulp/Phil Konopa (MI) d. Beckman/Tyler Emsky, 6-0, 6-0; Nelish Vashee/Ben Chapman (MI) d. Tim Coleman/Tim Lewis, 6-0, 6-1.
JV tennis team takes on Bellevue
Despite a loss to Bellevue last week, the Mount Si JV tennis team had a bright spot. Joe Taklo won his third singles match in a row by tiebreaker.
Several winners against Islanders
The Mount Si JV boys’ tennis team had several winners last week against Mercer Island. In singles action, Derek Aldrich, Race Dillon and Joe Taklo. In doubles play, the teams of Garret Morck/Tom Perry and Mike Cruse/Josh Williams won.
JV boys win at Issaquah
Joe Taklo led the effort for Mount Si by winning his singles match 9-7 last week against Issaquah. In doubles matches, Nick Schwarzmiller/Adam Dalman, Justin Harley/Mike Cruse, Mike Posey/Josh Williams and Kevin Sandin/Race Dillon all won.
JV players showing improvement
Race Dillon won his singles match last week against Liberty 8-5. In doubles action, Kevin Walsh teamed with Ben Garding to win 9-7.
JV beats Newport
Avenging an earlier season loss, the Mount Si JV volleyball team defeated the Knights last week 26-24 and 25-15. The ‘Cats were led by freshman Rachel Brun with a season-high three kills and a block. Carly Nelson and Noel Walter had four kills each and Danielle Stewart had a block. Molly Stout had a key service run to give Mount Si the lead in the second game.
‘Cats blow out Sammamish
The Mount Si varsity golf team defeated Sammamish last week 195-211. Kevin Englund led the effort for Mount Si shooting a 35. Other scores for the Wildcats were a 38 for Kyle Clearman, Travis Dalke a 38, 39 for Remo Castagno, Beau Davis a 39, Zach Tachell a 39, 41 for Jon Larson, Blaine Sutton shot a 42, 43 for Tanner Ostby and 46 for Tom Wallick.
Mount Si squeaks past Interlake
In a close 194-195 golf match, the Mount Si Wildcats pulled out a win over the Saints. Leading the effort for Mount Si was Jon Larson shooting a 37. Kevin Englund and Tanner Ostby followed closely with 38 each. Remo Castagno and Travis Dalke each contributed a 40 and Blaine Sutton, Tom Wallick and Beau Davis each shot a 41. Kyle Clearman rounded out the team with a 45.
JV drops game to Bellevue
Even though the score shows a difference of 12 points, the Mount Si JV football team came close to disrupting the Bellevue Wolverines season last week 24-12 at Bellevue.
‘Cats keep up intensity
By Jessica Scalzo
Contributing Writer
SNOQUALMIE – The Mount Si High School Wildcats hosted a four-way meet with Mercer Island, Issaquah and Liberty last Thursday. This was a day for the record books as almost half of the Wildcats’ runners ran personal bests and almost everyone ran seasonal bests.
Mercer Island, the former boys’ league champions, dominated the meet on both the boys’ and girls’ side. The real race for both teams was with Liberty, Issaquah and Mount Si.
Unfortunately for the boys’ team, it lost to both by just one point. Once again running strong for the Wildcats was Rob Jepson. Jepson held his spot for most of the race, going back and forth with the mob of Islanders to finish eighth in an awesome time and huge personal best of 17:16.
Freshman Drake da Ponte also ran well and redeemed himself after a tough two weeks of practice and racing. He ran as hard as he could, coming in at a personal best of 17:34. Racing smart he started conservatively and then went after runners, picking them off one by one. Finishing third for Mount Si was Brad Allen.
Thomas Goble ran well behind Allen to break 18 minutes for the first time in his career with a 17:49. Colin Parsons had a tough day finishing fifth for the Wildcats in 18 minutes. Not far behind him was freshman Owen Strom, who dropped almost a minute from his previous best to finish in 18:18. Finishing it up for the Wildcats were Robby Pekara with 19:16, Kyle Stanton-Wyman with 19:37, David Piekarczyk with 20:13 and Brandi Cason with 21:03.
The first time freshman Katie Hogan raced a 5K, she clocked in at 23:18. Now, just one month later, Hogan lead her team with a 21:10. This placed her 10th overall against the other teams. Teammate, Devan Paulus, was not far behind, running hard to maintain her position and finishing in 21:39. Finishing third for the Wildcats was Meaghan Dunklee, who did a great job recovering herself after she slipped back a little on the second lap. Ariane Barr ran a personal best of 22:01. Eleisha Davis also had a personal best finishing fourth for the ‘Cats. A big surprise was Barb Holm’s race.
Something clicked as Holm and teammate Rebecca Coffey worked with each other well, pulling one along when the other would fall back. Holm took charge and kept gaining momentum as she passed runners.
Thanks to everyone who showed up to root for the runners. It was an awesome meet, and a really fun atmosphere with the mass amounts of runners and fans. The upcoming league meet is at Lake Sammamish on Thursday, Oct. 21, and districts are at Lower Woodland Park by Green Lake in Seattle on Oct. 28.
