Interlake swept the boys and girls team titles last Saturday at the West Central 2A district meet at Mount Tahoma…
Fred Funk remembers his initial thought when he stepped on to the tee box for the first time at Sahalee.
Trees. Trees everywhere. There were lots and lots of unavoidable trees.
“I really don’t think any other golf course has the trees that Sahalee has,” Funk said last week. “You almost feel claustrophobic on some of the holes. It’s intimidating.”
Bellevue’s Brett Mennella has been named to the 2010 U.S. Lacrosse High School All-America team.
Mennella, a senior attacker, leads Bellevue with 43 goals and 16 assists. His 43 goals are fourth in the state.
BC women’s tennis earns sixth-straight NWAACC championship
The Bellevue College women’s tennis team earned their sixth consecutive NWAACC championship with a nine point victory over second-place Green River, the closest margin in any of BC’s titles.
Sophomore Vanessa Estes beat Mona Tefesh of Green River 6-3, 6-3 to earn the No.6 singles championship, while Kendra Maeser and Nicole Smith earned the No.2 doubles title.
Erica Leong’s third place finish in the No.1 singles gave Bellevue enough points to pass Green River in the team title hunt.
One of the spring’s most incredible stories came to a close Tuesday night.
In one of the most unlikely postseason runs in recent KingCo history, the Sammamish baseball team finally came back to earth with a 6-1 loss to O’Dea in a winner-to-state game in White Center.
The Totems simply ran into a team just a bit hotter than they were in the Irish. O’Dea had scored 54 runs in their previous three games.
The loss, however, didn’t overshadow what Sammamish had accomplished in the last week.
The Totems entered the KingCo tournament as the lowest seed with an overall record of just 3-16.
“It was as simple as we had nothing to lose,” said second-year Sammamish coach Tim Ahern. “Nobody expected anything from us. A lot of other teams press and they get uncomfortable – for our guys it was easy, we were supposed to lose the first game.”
Bellevue captured the the boys 3A KingCo title with 189 points as the KingCo league meet wrapped up Friday at Eastlake High School.
Bellevue topped Liberty, which scored 167 points. Mount Si won the girls title with 177 points.
Bellevue wrestling coach Tom Ovens announced Tuesday that Jin Hong Park and Erik Ovens will wrestle collegiately next season.
Hong Park will attend Johns Hopkins University and will wrestle for the Blue Jays, while Erik Ovens will wrestle for the Orediggers at the Colorado School of Mines.
The Golf Club at Redmond Ridge will host the third annual Golf Fore Red “healthy heart” women’s tournament on July 24.
The event – an all-volunteer endeavor to promote heart-healthy lifestyles – was the brainchild of Shelley French and Bellevue resident Mary Robinson, who both lost their mothers to heart disease.
2010 All-KingCo Teams Player of the Year: Ryan Herman, Mount Si Coach of the Year: Darren Brown, Mount Si Team…
Well, scratch that one off the bucket list.
Sunday morning I woke up bright and early and made my way down to Juanita Beach State Park, ready and eager to run the Kirkland Half-Marathon. As I’ve written here the last few months, it’s been a challenge to prepare for a 13.1 mile race around the city of Kirkland. Prior to training for this run, I’d never run over five miles before.
Before the KingCo 4A golf season began, the Newport girls team had one big goal – to snap the four-year long winning streak of the Redmond Mustangs.
Instead, the Knights lost a heartbreaker by just one stroke when they hosted Redmond late last month.
Wednesday, they got a taste of revenge.
Nicole Lomax shot a two-day score of 161 to finish first and help Newport capture the team title at the 4A District 2 Tournament, held at Snohomish Golf Course last night.
Darryl Gonyea was sure about one thing Wednesday night: his Sammamish Totems boys soccer team didn’t come ready to play on the most important night of the season.
The Totems fell behind Mercer Island early and couldn’t right the ship, falling to the Islanders 3-1 in the KingCo 3A Tournament championship game.
Sammamish’s Taylor Backous scored in the 85th minute to send the game to overtime where the Totems eventually beat Bellevue…
Several area golfers will move on to the district tournament after strong showings at the KingCo 3A/2A medalist tournament at Snohomish Golf Course.
When Brett Mennella broke his leg last year, he missed not only the entire 2009 lacrosse season, but also his…
It’d been a while since Ellen Cooksley had been down to Sin City.
Thirty three years had passed since the last time the nearly life-long Bellevue resident had traveled to Las Vegas to see Elvis Presley perform in what would be the final year of his life.
So when she finally made the trek again earlier this month, things were a bit different.
“Just a few things had changed,” Cooksley said with a laugh.
Instead of pining to see the King of Rock and Roll, this time she was aiming to be the queen of the lanes.
Cooksley, 51, was one of 108 national finalists to make it to Las Vegas for a four-division bowling tournament sponsored by AMF with a grand prize of $50,000.
On Monday night, Joshua Gray passed the time by watching highlight goals from Lionel Messi, the dynamic Argentine footballer who makes a living with his sizzling play for Barcelona.
Tuesday night, it was Gray who used inspiration from the 22-year-old dynamo to help his Sammamish soccer club to a stunning victory over KingCo 3A/2A’s No. 1 team.
The Toronto Blue Jays have called up left-handed pitcher Rommie Lewis, making Lewis the eighth Newport alum to reach the…
Blaine Lints is moving again.
It’s hard to put a stop to the Newport junior, an endurance athlete who has completely immersed himself in the sport.
Now he’s using his talents for a great cause.
Lints hopes to run for 24 hours straight during the University of Washington’s Relay for Life on May 22 and 23 – raising money for each mile he runs, which he hopes will reach 130.
The Sammamish and Interlake High School softball teams are welcoming all Bellevue East Little Leaguers and all other little leaguers to come out to Sammamish High on April 28 for Little League day at the ballpark.
Sammamish coach Jessica Cabales called the event, which begins at 4:30 p.m. for the game between the Totems and Saints, an attempt to “create a marriage” between the two high schools and Bellevue East Little League, which feeds into Sammamish and Interlake.
