Mount Si High School’s soccer team had plenty of honors on the Kingco 3A/2A all-league list.
Senior Alex Censullo is conference most valuable player. Censullo, who made 13 goals and 11 assists in the season, was a powerhouse for the Wildcats with fellow first-team member Kody Clearman. A senior, Clearman racked up 12 goals and 13 assists.
Also on first team was junior Aaron Baumgardner, who had five goals and four assists.
When Bellevue College student Kyle Whitney and his basketball team take the court this week in a tournament featuring top teams from around the country in Louisville, Ky., he will realize a lifelong dream.
An athlete for most of his life, including his prep days at Mount Si High School, Whitney always saw himself on the biggest stages competitive athletics had to offer.
But he never could have imagined how he would get there, or what it would look like when he did.
It all came down to a single hit.
With the score tied, two-all, two outs and two strikes in the bottom of the second, Nick Adams was in the hot seat, hoping to stave off an overtime battle with a dangerous North Thurston team.
Adams nailed it, hitting a fielder’s choice grounder to second, and runner Evan Johnson made it safely to second, allowing Joey Cotto to cruise home for his second run.
Valley track teams competed at districts last week, and have advanced their best to state.
At the Sea-King District meet, held Wednesday and Friday at Seattle’s Southwest Complex, Mount Si’s girls squad took second as a team, while the boys took fourth.
Senior Bradly Stevens dominated the javelin event with a 187-foot throw, while Andrea Suttle won in discus, with 94 feet. Suttle, a senior, took third in shot with a 33-foot put.
Mount Si’s 4-by-200 girls relay team of Karlie Hurley, Mackenzie Hutchison, Hannah Richmond and Jesse Guyer placed second with a time of 1:45.82.
Seven dancers from North Bend’s IGNITE Dance and Yoga studio won class scholarships at a national dance convention, JUMP.
JUMP tours North America with a group of master dance instructors. Studios register their top level dancers in this three-day dance workshop, with almost six hours of dance each day.
Sammy Wargi, Kylea Bachelder, Aowyn Leiper, Sarah Carter, Eva Sten, and Halle Bratton of IGNITE won class scholarships, awarded to dancers who stand out with technique, strong performance ability, or great attitude.
With two season races under their tires, the Mount Si Mountain Bike team is preparing for a third challenge.
Despite grueling weather conditions, the team had a strong start to the season in its first race at Fort Steilacoom, Wash., on Sunday, April 7. The team placed fourth of 13. Strong individual performances earning a place on the podium were Forrest Golic, who took second place for junior varsity, and Jake Cleven, who took third place for the beginner’s category.
Hank Van Liew, a five-foot-11, 205-pound linebacker from Mount Si High School, will be a Concordia College Cobber.
He’s the sole Washington player to commit to Concordia in Moorhead, Minn., as part of the 2013 recruiting class.
Hank Van Liew, a five-foot-11, 205-pound linebacker from Mount Si High School, will be a Concordia College Cobber.
He’s the sole Washington player to commit to Concordia in Moorhead, Minn., as part of the 2013 recruiting class.
It is time for Mount Si’s spring football camp for next season’s sophomores, juniors and seniors. The camp includes several practices and scrimmages, a 7-on-7 event, and two team dinners. The varsity team will participate in one additional 7 on 7 tournament at UW on June 23
Runners of every age hit the streets of Snoqualmie and surroundings on May 4, stretching their legs in the Cinco de Mayo half marathon, 8K race and Kids Mile, hosted by Run Snoqualmie.
Just above 500 runners took part in the half-marathon, going 13.1 miles. More women than men ran the race, 312 women to 195 men.
Top men’s finishers were Spencer Walsh, with a time of 1:10:44, followed by Thoma Khalsa and Pete Hanson.
They kept calling it a gem: Chase Kairis’s pitching last Thursday night, in the playoff run-up to the Kingco Championship Friday, halted the opposing Mercer Island Islanders, 5-0, with help from the Mount Si defense’s fast hands.
Running off the physical effects of firing 93 pitches, 63 of them strikes, after the game, the humble Kairis stops to explain how he focused on getting the job done, and trying to stay cool in an exciting place: Bannerwood Park in the postseason.
It felt great to be at Bannerwood, in Bellevue, one again, with the top calibre, the senior said.
“You just get a great feeling and start going.”
Mount Si senior shortstop Tamarra Crowe is the first Wildcat softballer of 2013 to sign for college play.
She’s headed to Merrimack Liberal Arts College in North Andover, Mass., to join the Warriors.
She expects to play second base with a chance to beat out the shortstop.
A staffer saw her when Crowe, as a Ladyhawks club member, went to an exposure tournament in Texas last year. The coach liked how she played, and things steamrolled from there. She visited in December, and met most of the players. It felt like home.
Between breaths, Dom Canady sipped water and received the congratulations of his Bellevue opponents after his win in the two-mile race.
Cheered as he made eight laps of the Mount Si track, he pulled ahead of Bellevue’s boys in the second and third spots on his second lap, then passed the Wolverine leader in lap three.
“It felt like I needed to pick it up,” Canady said. “That’s what I tried to do, the rest of the race. Just keep the pace.”
Mount Si girls golf has had the best season in years. Going into the league tournament, the team holds a 6-1 record. Freshman Caitlyn Maralack and senior Danielle Burns and the number-two and three-ranked players in the league. Junior Tabitha Dorn is the number-six player in league.
Burns has overcome injury to bring her scores down into the high 30s this season and nurture her hunger for delayed state glory.
Maralack, the experienced young player, has consistently shot in the low 40s or upper 30s all season, and Dorn is busting into the lower 40s.
