“Run through, Run through! Bam!” Defensive Coordinator Wayne Lewis was emphatic about what he wanted in the tackling drill, and Connor Deutsch was only too happy to comply. The 175-pound running and defensive back stepped and charged with the rest of the Mount Si team, prepping for their first contest tonight.
“The team is looking good,” said Deutsch, who was hyped about preseason rating of second in Kingco.
The Snoqualmie Valley Cascade FC Green Team won the 2011 Blast Off soccer tournament, held August 5 to 7, in the girls’ U-11 division at Federal Way. They won 5-0 against Eastside FC following three shut-out games in the tournament, outscoring their opponents 16-0 over four games.
Gary Densham made a hole-in-one Tuesday, Aug. 9, at Mount Si Golf Course in Snoqualmie. Densham, 64, used a P-wedge on 116-yard hole four to make his first-ever hole in one.
On Friday, Aug. 19, Dana Nelson had a first-ever hole-in-one for a 121-yard shot on hole four.
The rest of his foursome rolls ahead in the carts, but Larry Mize preferred to walk. The Augusta-based professional player hadn’t seen the back nine of the TPC Snoqualmie Ridge this year, and wanted to get personally acquainted with the course prior to the start of the weekend’s marquee Boeing Classic tournament. “This is the way to play,” Mize said. “Besides being a pro-am, it’s another round on the course.”
Florida-based pro Mark Calcavecchia defeated Russ Cochran on the first playoff hole Sunday, Aug. 28, to get his first Champions Tour victory at the Boeing Classic. An estimated 30,000 fans watched Calcavecchia claim the title at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge.
The hard decision is made. Now Josh Mitchell can focus on the fun stuff: Seeing how far he can help push the Mount Si High School varsity football team toward greatness in his capstone season.
The 17-year-old North Bend teen, who will help lead the offensive charge as a lineman, signed last weekend with Oregon State.
His commitment to the Beavers—over Washington State, Montana, Eastern Washington and Wyoming—was made after Mitchell weighed the personal touches that Oregon State staff made for him. Handwritten letters, a family feel and the legacy of coach Mike Riley all played into the move to Corvalis.
A Wildcat reunion was already in progress by the time Coach Elliott Cribby arrived, carrying a large tray of palm-sized cardboard boxes.
“It’s been a long time coming,” Cribby explained. “These kids have been calling and texting me.”
But on Tuesday, Aug. 16, it was time: “You get your bling,” Cribby told the assembled 2011 Mount Si baseball team, handing out big, solid state championship rings, a final memento of the team’s nailbiter win at Tacoma last June.
Sarah Robbins of Fall City, riding Numero Uno, heads out on her victory lap in the Grand Prix Ring at the Evergreen Classic Thursday. Robbins and Numero Uno took third place in the Children’s/Adult Jumper Stake pictured here, plus first place in a Children’s Jumper event. The pair also earned a fourth, sixth and seventh place for competitions throughout the week.
Members of the Snoqualmie Tribe present a $10,000 check to the Wildcats Booster Club, Mount Si High School’s football program boosters. From left, Boosters vice-president Bob Chapman and Mount Si head football coach Charlie Kinnune, accept the donation from Tribal Administrator Matt Mattson, Damien Moses, Tribal Chairwoman Shelley Burch, executive assistant Jaime Martin, administrative assistant Raeann Wahsise, and secretary Nina Repin.
Bigger and better are the buzzwords for this year’s Railroad Days fun runs. Registration for the 5K, 10K and kids’ 1K race has increased about 15 percent over last year, race organizer Sean Sundwall of Run Snoqualmie told the Railroad Days committee. He’s expecting 1,100 to 1,200 racers, “plus 800 to 1,000 spectators” for the Saturday races, he said. “It’s going to be the biggest we’ve had so far.” The level of competition has also increased, especially in the 10K race.
The Boeing Classic PGA Champions Tour will be at the TPC Snoqualmie Ridge, August 22 to 28. More than 75 players will participate this year including last year’s champion Bernhard Langer, Nick Price, Tom Kite, Fred Couples, and many more.
This week marks a transition for Jimbo Davis. The state-qualifying Mount Si High School pole vaulter is now switching gears as a corner on the Wildcat football team. That’s just a few weeks after the incoming junior won first place in the Pole Vault Men’s Open division at the 16th Annual Alki Swashbuckler Beach Vault.
Davis nailed a height of 12 feet, three inches, just under his personal best of 12 feet, six inches.
“Holy cow!” That’s what 21-year-old Katie Forsell remembers thinking when she got the Perkins Glass hydroplane up to speed.
Bouncing across the waves on Lake Sammamish in a vehicle that’s almost as much aircraft as boat, Forsell, a third generation hydro enthusiast from North Bend, had to think fast.
“I can’t believe I’m doing this,” Forsell thought, as she used all her strength to put fellow local Brian Perkins’ boat through four laps at the Tastin’ n Racin’ event in June.