Chaplins North Bend Chevrolet is partnering with the Snoqualmie Valley Youth Soccer Association in North Bend to help children get a better game experience.
Through the national Chevrolet Youth Soccer program, Chaplins provide new equipment, a money donation and an opportunity for community members to enter the Free Chevrolet vehicle sweepstakes.
Adult sports leagues are team-building activities for many local businesses, as well as for groups of friends and neighbors.
Si View Metro Parks’ co-ed softball league wrapped up busy 10-game season last week, with a repeat for last year’s champion.
Finaghty’s Irish Pub crushed the co-ed league with a 9-1 season record, beating Claffey’s Painting 17-12 in the championship game at Torguson Park, Thursday, Sept. 12.
Natalie Weidenbach had a heckuva birthday.
As a new player on the Wildcat squad, Weidenbach made her first varsity assist, firing a free kick to senior Leah Corra in the third minute to kick-start Mount Si’s 2-0 win over the Juanita Rebels last Thursday, Sept. 12.
Weidenbach is used to taking the free kicks on her national-champion Eastside FC club team. But this was a special one for the freshman, who turned 15 that day.
“I was so focused,” she said. “Once I drove it there, I trusted my teammate to finish.”
Cedarcrest High School’s cross country squad ran well on a hot day Wednesday, Sept. 11, at the Conference Preview meet at Lakewood.
Cedarcrest’s lead girls “M.O.D. squad” of Mia Anderson, Olivia Waterman and Diana Carr placed in the top six with Waterman at second, Carr at third and Anderson at fifth. The Red Wolves girls won the team competition in close battle with Lakewood, 41 to 45.
The Mount Si varsity volleyball squad handled Juanita in three matches on the road Wednesday, beating the Rebels 25-9, 25-10, 25-11 in their first game of the season.
It was a big night for junior outside hitter Anna McCreadie, who had seven kills, seven assists and four aces. Senior outside hitter Lindsay Carr had six kills and four digs. Haley Holmberg had three kills and seven aces. Courtney Carr had 14 assists and two aces.
Freshman Sophie Click had a kill, five aces, and a dig, Liz Larson had three kills, two aces, five digs and a block.
The DarkSide, a Valley-based men’s softball team, won the men’s recreational softball championship game on Thursday, Aug. 8, after securing the first two games in a three-way round robin series.
With a final score of 19-8, the DarkSide beat second place Scared Hitless and third place Alcoballics, securing the 2013 championship title for the Snoqualmie-based men’s recreational softball league.
For the next nine holes, Jake Archambeau just wants to hit in the high 30s.
After that, well, there’s league, and districts, and Archambeau will just have to see what happens from there. “If all goes well, maybe I can make it to state,” he says.
Archambeau, like fellow senior and Mount Si High School golf leader Tanner Simpson, has spent a lot of time around the greens this summer—Jake was busy shining carts at the Snoqualmie Falls Golf Course, while Tanner worked at Mount Si Golf.
“Finally, someone to run with!” says Bailey Scott.
This senior leader on the Mount Si cross country team is stoked about the young group of runners around her. Slowed by a health issue during track season last spring, she’s pushing for a major comeback this fall.
The wind is brisk but the water is warm as Mount Si High School’s first independent swim team takes to the waters under gray skies.
For some years, Mount Si has fielded a small team of swimmers who’ve practiced with Issaquah coaches and athletes at an Issaquah swimming pool.
But this fall, a more-than-doubled squad of swimmers are learning from their own coach, swimming at a Valley venue. It’s a new beginning, and the girls know it.
“Air Raid” is the name of Mount Si football team’s game this season, if the official posters that Wildcats are autographing for local kids is anything to go on.
That’s because, with long-armed quarterback Nick Mitchell back for a senior season, looking to connect with a two-dozen waiting hands from the likes of wide receivers Wyatt Baker-Jagla, Trevor Daniels, Parker Dumas, Jake Smith, Jack Nelson, tight end Beau Shain and back Bailey Takacs, Mount Si can be expected to deploy a potent flight attack.
Outside hitters Lindsay Carr and Anna McCreadie are bringing the power to the Mount Si volleyball court this fall.
Carr, in particular, is set for a strong senior season. Committed to Division-1 Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles on a scholarship, she has also committed to becoming one of the physically strongest players in the nation.
For Sophia Rouches, team co-captain, soccer is great for a reason.
It’s individual skill and team focus, together.
“You can work on your foot skills and make yourself a better player, and it’ll benefit the whole team. It makes them better players, by you playing hard,” she said.
“Tennis is my life!’ proclaims Drew Hadaller, with just a trace of humor, as he and doubles partner Logan Cochran grab water before their next match.
“I had to come back for Logan,” the senior added. Ditto for his partner: “Drew is my rock!”
All goofing aside, these two will compete for the top doubles spot on a reloaded Mount Si tennis team that brings a good bit of solid returning talent.
Cochrane and Hadaller hit the courts and the ball machines at Robinswood, Sammamish Club and Pine Lake this past summer, and are ready to play.
