Valley golfer makes cut at state championships
Snoqualmie golfer Bradley Harrelson was the only one of four Valley golfers to make the cut at the Washington Junior Golf Association (WJGA) State Championships last week in Wenatchee. His scores of 79 and 74, for a total of 153 last Wednesday and Thursday, were enough to qualify for the finals in the 12-13 boys age group. Harrelson, on Friday shot a 97 in the finals, which gave him a total score of 250 to finish in last place among the finalists. He finished 13th overall in the state for his age group.
According to the WJGA Web site, three other local golfers missed chances at the finals. Jonathan Larson of Snoqualmie shot rounds of 82 and 77 for a total of 159 over the two days last week and failed to qualify in the 14-15 boys age bracket. Larson missed the cut by four strokes. Fall City’s Michael Rutledge shot rounds of 83 and 78 and missed the cut in the 12-13 boys event by eight strokes, and North Bend’s Katie Somers shot rounds of 95 and 84 for a total of 179 and was eliminated from the 14-15 girls bracket. Somers missed the cut by six strokes.
Somers’ father, Russ, mentioned that the two courses his daughter and her fellow competitors played on were quite different. At the Wenatchee Golf Club on Wednesday, the golfers “[had] to hit the fairways or [they got] in trouble because of trees and bunkers, ” said Russ.
The Highlander Golf Course, the Thursday course, “is a Links type course where you can just bomb your drives off the tee box and if you miss your fairway or two you can always find your way back out without [too] much trouble,” Russ added.
Russ said that while the weather was quite hot, 103 degrees to be exact, golfers were not affected by smoke coming from the big forest fire that burned near Wenatchee most of last week.
Club softball team planning tryouts
The Bellevue Blast club girls softball program will be holding tryouts for all of its teams this month. The Blast fields teams in the U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 age groups. Three players who played for Mount Si softball in the spring were on this season’s U16 squad, which finished their season 26-16.
* For more information, e-mail Todd Shaw at tshaw@talongp.com.
Hole-in-one
Kevin O’Keefe had a hole-in-one at the Snoqualmie Ridge TPC recently. The shot came on the 17th hole at a distance of 176 yards using a six iron.
Hole-in-one
Mike Kennee of Kirkland made a hole-in-one recently at Mount Si Golf Course. The shot came on the 11th hole at a distance of 184 yards using a five iron.
Summer league finishes strong
By Rhett Workman
Contributing Writer
SNOQUALMIE – The Mount Si Wildcats summer fastpitch team finished strong this season. On July 12, the Wildcats dominated Bainbridge Island in all facets of the game and scored a 5-0 win over the Metro League team. Mount Si was aided by seven Spartan errors.
“I think we just have a solid team and I was confident the bats would come through. Defense was just to perfection, couple of bobbles by younger gals but all in all I was very proud of the girls today,” said Wildcat summer league coach Lauren Davis.
Katie Shaw led Mount Si offensively with two hits and two runs scored, and Amy Trenkamp added three hits and a run. Due to the low numbers (only nine players suited up), Trenkamp was able to play despite having graduated already from Mount Si.
Summer ‘Cats tame the Spice
The Wildcats continued their dominating efforts on July 14 as they advanced to the championship semifinals with a 10-1 thumping of the Seattle Spice ASA team. The Spice are one of three non high-school teams competing in the Seattle Summer Fastpitch league, which Mount Si is competing in this summer.
Where the veterans showed up against Bainbridge Island, it was the future – in this case, the distant future – that stepped up big against the Seattle team. Jessica Bladow, a seventh grader, got the big hit in the game, blasting a double into left center against the hapless Spice pitcher.
Tyee edges out summer Wildcats
Last Monday, the Wildcats fell into the loser’s bracket in heartbreaking fashion, losing to Tyee 6-5 on a bases-loaded walk with one out in the bottom of the fifth; the game was called immediately after due to the 90-minute time limit on the contest.
Mount Si opened the scoring with a Bladow single in the second that scored Danae Englund from second base. Traci Barclay pitched a strong first couple of innings, filling in for the unavailable Kandis Clesson. The Totems then teed off on Barclay in the third, scoring four runs on six hits, all of the damage coming with two outs. Tyee scored again in the fourth to take a 5-1 lead. The top of the fifth was all Wildcats as they went to work against the quickly tiring Totems pitcher. Mount Si blasted five straight hits, all except one being extra-base hits, and tied the game 5-5. The key blasts in the sequence were Shaw’s triple that scored Barclay, and Katie Brett’s seeing-eye single that scored Shaw with the tying run.
Brett came in to relieve Barclay on the mound in the bottom of the fifth and loaded the bases on two singles and a error by the shortstop. She struck out the next hitter, then walked the fifth hitter to come up in the inning, scoring the game-winning run.
Barclay pitched well. Outside of the third-inning debacle, she gave up just three hits and an unearned run, and overall struck out eight hitters in four innings.
‘Cats finish fourth
Mount Si came back last Tuesday and swamped Kennedy, 8-2, then fell 3-1 to Newport at the Universtiy of Washington last Wednesday, ending their run with a fourth place finish in the league.
