`Cats announce baseball awards
Mount Si baseball announced their season awards for all three teams.
For coach Jeremy Smith’s “C” team _ who had a record of four wins, four
losses and one tie — there were several awards. The Offensive Player
honor went to Steve Mauter with teammate Kyle Doty taking the Defensive
Player award. The Most Improved Player award went to Ryan Johnson.
Scott Buschen led the stat leaders in most innings played (66) while
Nick Kirschner led with hits (13), followed by Mauter with 12. Heath Jones
led in number of doubles (four), while Mauter had three. Kirschner led
with eight RBIs and teammate Nick Johnson had seven.
John Paul Likes led the batting average category as he went
8-for-17 with a .471 average. Second was Mauter at 12-for-26 with a .462
average and third was Nick Kirschner who went 13-for-31 with a .419
average. Doty led the stolen base category with seven.
For the pitching duties, Jonas Bekins went 22.1 innings
and Kirschner went 18.2 innings. Kirschner also led with wins
notching two with one loss. Heath Jones led in strikeouts with 18 while Bekins
had 17. Bekins recorded a 2.19 earned run average while Jones had a 2.88.
Team members for the 2000 season were Chad Charbonneau,
Doty, Nick Johnson, Likes, Kirschner, Mike Schwab, Bekins, Buschen,
Ryan Johnson, Jones and Mauter.
The Junior varsity team recorded nine wins and 11 losses and
was coached by Verne Newell. The teams Most Inspirational award went
to Brandon Bumpus while Most Improved went to Garret Parsons.
Scott Johnson received the Most Valuable Player award for the season.
For the stat leaders, Johnson led most innings played (132) while
teammate G.C. Hillburn had 130. Johnson also led the hit category at 21
while Hillburn had 16. Leading the doubles category was Johnson again with
five. Dan Baldwin led the RBIs with eight while Nick Harpel had seven.
Johnson led the batting averages category going 21-for-60 for a .350 average.
Bruce Opsal went 7-for-22 for a .318 average. Johnson also led in stolen
bases with 13.
For the pitching duties, Johnson led with 39 innings, Bumpus with
38 and Harpel with 34. Harpel also recorded the most wins at three, had
a 4.32 ERA and had 21 strikeouts. Bumpus had 30 strikeouts and a
4.05 ERA. The team consisted of Jeremy Bess, Harpel, Johnson, Dan
Baldwin, Hillburn, Bumpus, Opsal and Parsons.
The varsity team, coached by Gary McGregor and Charlie Cabe, had
eight wins and 15 losses, making it to the league tournament. The team’s
Defensive Player Award went to Joey Adams while Aaron Svarthumle received
the Offensive Player honor. The Coaches Award went to Nick Roeber and
the Most Valuable Player Award went to Marc Dahm.
Team captains were Adams and Matt Murphy. Sean Sattler made
the KingCo Second Team as a utility player while honorable mentions
went to Adams, Murphy and Svarthumle.
Leading the stat department was Marc Dahm with 22 hits, going
22-for-67 for a .328 average and recording 13 RBIs. Svarthumle had 19
hits, going 19-for-57 for a .333 batting average, recording 141 innings
played with six doubles and 14 RBIs. Adams had 67 at bats with 16 runs
scored. Sattler had 136 innings played while teammate Nick Roeber went
8-for-24 for a .333 batting average and recording seven stolen bases. Also
leading the stats were Murphy with five doubles and Tyler Osborn with
nine stolen bases.
Pitching was led by Bryce Kaestner who pitched 34 innings,
recording 24 strikeouts and one save. Sattler had 33 innings pitched,
22 strikeouts, four wins and two losses. Brent Clarke had one save and
Mike Dahm had a 2.96 earned run average.
Varsity letter winners for the 2000 season were Kaestner, Josh
Serrick, Steve Botulinski, Clarke, Mike and Marc Dahm, Dan Flood,
David LaBelle, Osborn, Matt Poth, Sattler, Svarthumle, Adam
VandeBrake, Adams, Murphy, Roeber and Michael Lawrence.
Mount Si to host tournament
Mount Si High School will host the first Men’s Alumni
Basketball Tournament on June 24 and 25
at Mount Si High. For more information, call Mount Si head coach
Garrick Phillips at (425) 831-8123.
Wildcats to hold hoop camp
Mount Si varsity basketball coach Garrick Phillips announced that
the Wildcats will hold a basketball camp for young athletes. The camps will
be held from June 21-23 and 26-30. The boys basketball camp will run from
9 a.m. to noon for grades three through five and from 1 to 4 p.m. for
grades six through eight.
For more information, call Phillips at (425) 831-8123.
Golf team takes third in state
The Mount Si men’s golf team took third in state recently led by
Junior Sean Fallows. Fallows finished with a combined two-day score of
151, good enough for 13th place. Sophomore Sean Armstrong finished
22nd with a combined two-day score of 154 while teammate Eric Larson, also
a sophomore, finished 37th with a score of 159.
“We are very excited about next season,” said coach Garrick
Phillips. “Twelve of the top golfers from
this year’s team are underclassmen and will be returning next year,” he added.
Mount Si was the only KingCo team in competition for the top
team in state and the only KingCo team with three golfers in the state finals.
