Talented athlete: Brittany Cragin won the Junior Olympics,
Level four state championship in the nine-year-old category
recently with a combined score of 34.925 in the vault, bar, beam
and floor. She also took first in the sectionals to launch her to
the state competition by wracking up three nines in the beam,
bars and floor. She has been participating in gymnastics for five
years as part of the Issaquah Rocketeers and this year will transition
to Level five at Gymnastics East in the Eastgate area. Cragin lives
in North Bend.
NORTH BEND — What has one wheel and is filled with pride? A
Panther Pride Demo Team unicycle rider, of course.
Panther Pride National record holders from this years team.
A list of Panther Pride members who attended.
Students turning out for all athletics should plan quickly to
complete the necessary forms so that participation will not be delayed.
Nick Harpel, playing for the Redmond-based Dow 16
baseball club, recently returned from the USSSA 16-year-old World
Series hardball tournament in Oklahoma City.
A look at Valley athletes and athletics.
Around the end: Snoqualmie Valley Viking Junior Varsity
player, Adam Rothgeb, runs around the end during last weeks
jamboree at Howard Miller field in Carnation. Teams from Bellevue
and Issaquah participated with the local teams. The program has
seen a tremendous increase in participation with two teams
necessary at many levels. League play begins Sept. 9.
In a pattern that is reminiscent of last year’s Cedarcrest High
School football season, Michael Smith has glided past his defenders and is
about to leap high in the air to grab some significant playing time as a
member of the University of Washington’s Huskies.
The Seattle Sounders Select Women defeated the Puget Sound
All-Stars 5-1 to complete their first season with a record 8-0-3.
Tryouts for the Valley Baseball Association, an East King
County Sandy Koufax team, will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Sept. 10, at King
County’s Mariner field in Carnation.
The feeling of a Friday night football game on natural grass,
with Mount Si towering in the background invokes many emotions in local
fans and players.
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