Sports
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MAY 4, 2012
Liberty lacrosse club gets win against South Kitsap By Christina Lords Sophomore Colin Ross scored four goals and had one assist to lead Liberty boys high school lacrosse to a 10-5 win against South Kitsap April 21 at Veteran’s Memorial Park in Port Orchard. The win was the third of the season for Liberty, which sits in last place of the Division II Evergreen Conference, trailing conference leader Overlake by four games. Overlake remains undefeated in the season. Ross’ four goals gave the sophomore attackman a total of 13 in the season. South Kitsap led the first quarter, 2-1, but Liberty maintained a steady scoring pace throughout the game with three, two and four points scored in the following three quarters, respectively. South Kitsap scored an additional three goals in the third quarter. Kellen Kennedy had three goals for South Kitsap, which sits in fourth place of the Division II Olympic Conference, three and a half games behind conference leader
Gig Harbor. On April 17, Liberty dropped a close game against Edmonds after Jordan Tindall scored his only goal of the night just 25 seconds into sudden-death overtime, giving Edmonds a 7-6 win against Liberty at Maywood Middle School in Renton. The win was the sixth of the year for the first-year Edmonds program. Tindall’s goal came after Liberty’s Ross evened the game at 6-6 with 53 seconds remaining in overtime. The goal was the 12th of the season for the Meadowdale High School sophomore. Edmonds opened scoring, taking a 3-0 lead in the first and then matched Liberty’s solo goal in the second for a 4-1 half-time lead. In the third, Liberty added three goals, but Edmonds’ two goals kept the margin at 6-4 in favor of Edmonds. Ross’ fourth-quarter goal was the second for Liberty in the final stanza. The Liberty team, in its third season as a club, is home to four Newcastle residents — junior goalkeeper Roland Deex,
sophomore Peter Disney, freshman Ash Herrild and sophomore Shane Maio. Deex, along with sophomore Sam Dodt and senior Jeff Arnevick, are the team’s cocaptains. Amy Deex, Roland Deex’s mother and treasurer of the club, said the team is looking to expand, including encouraging student athletes from Hazen High School to participate. “We really want to see more boys come out from that part of the area,” she said. “Many of them play Five Star sports, such as the youth football program, together. We really want a club that feeds from Hazen and Liberty teams.” With more students, the club aims to field varsity and junior varsity teams every year in the future, she said. She also hopes to increase membership with the Liberty-associated lacrosse teams geared toward elementary and middle school-aged children. Learn more about how to get involved with the Liberty Lacrosse Club at www.libertylacrosseclub.com.
Trail run series returns to Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park A Pacific Northwest tradition returns this month to King County’s Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park: The 10th-annual SCOTT Cougar Mountain Trail Running Series. The series gets under way May 12 with a 5-mile run – the first of five races on various stretches of Cougar Mountain’s scenic, 36-mile trail network. Runs of eight, 10, 13.1 and a final race of 31 miles (with an option to run a 20-mile race instead) are scheduled in the following months. Produced by Northwest Trail Runs and the Seattle Running Club, the race series not only introduces hundreds of people to Cougar Mountain’s 36 miles of fantastic trails, but it also benefits King County Parks. Volunteer work groups from the trail-running community spend an average of 150 hours each year doing trail restoration work, including improving trail surface conditions, invasive weed removal and picking up trash.
Such work has contributed to Cougar Mountain’s status as one of the nation’s best trailrunning locations, according to Runners World magazine. “Our longstanding partnership creates a fantastic race series for the running community, and greatly benefits all parks visitors with a cleaner and more enjoyable environment,” said King County Parks Director Kevin Brown. “Cougar Mountain is practically synonymous with trail running,” said Eric Bone, the trail running series director and SRC member. “The park’s large size, proximity to the metropolitan area, variety of terrain and extensive trail network make it an unparalleled recreation venue.” In addition to volunteer labor performed by SRC members, $15 from each racer’s individual event fee goes toward King County Parks maintenance and improvements. This support has exceeded $80,000 since the race series’ inception.
2012 races q Race 1 – 5 miles: Saturday, May 12 – $35 preregistered, $45 at race q Race 2 – 8 miles: Saturday, June 16 – $35 preregistered, $45 at race q Race 3 – 10 miles: Saturday, July 7 – $35 preregistered, $45 at race q Race 4 – 13.1 miles: Saturday, Aug. 11 – $40 preregistered, $50 at race q Race 5 - 50 kilometers or 20 miles: Sunday, Oct. 28 – 50k $62 preregistered, $75 at race; 20-mile $47 preregistered, $60 at race q Series package for races 1-4 (no 50K): $120 Register in advance at any of three North Face stores: Downtown Seattle, University Village or Bellevue Square. Day-of-race registration and start will be at the Sky Country trailhead off 166th Way Southeast. Learn more or pre-register online at http://nwtrailruns.com/.
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Connor Noblat (21), Liberty High School freshman, intercepts Mount Si High School senior defender Chace Carlson during the first period of their April 13 match.
Patriots blank Mount Si, 3-0 By Sebastian Moraga Darren Tremblay had plenty of reason to be happy. “It was a total team effort,” the Liberty boys soccer head coach said of the Patriots’ 3-0 win over Mount Si. “Every guy played well.” The Patriots populated their back lines, playing the Wildcats with a 4-5-1, stifling the creativity of the Mount Si squad at three-fourths of the field. The Wildcats had one shot on goal. “It’s the only time we do this, when we play Mount Si,” Tremblay said of the tactical formation that puts four defenders, a crowded midfield of five and a lone forward on the pitch. “They play 4-3-3, so there’s nobody out wide and we can match up man-to-man in the middle.” Quick counterattacks put the Patriots on the board and in a prime position at the start of the second half of the season. “It’s a big win for us,” Tremblay said. “If we were going to try to win this thing, we had to have this one. We would have been two games back if we had not beat Mount Si.” The opposite happened to Mount Si, which dropped from first in the league to third with
the loss. Head Coach Darren Brown said his team suffered from a lack of leadership. “We didn’t show up to play tonight,” he said. “I think it’s our lack of focus, lack of being ready before a game. We did the same thing over and over again, just really poor play. It was embarrassing.” The Wildcats had a five-game winning streak to start conference play. Since then, they’ve lost to Bellevue, tied Mercer Island and then lost to Liberty. The Patriots’ scoring began in the 50th minute, when freshman Connor Noblat scored off a pass from Jared Bales. Ten minutes later, Josh Johnson scored off an assist from Eric Warlick. With two minutes left, senior Zach Lentini sealed the win with a rocket off the crossbar. Liberty is undefeated in its last six games, playing some stingy defense. The Patriots have given up more than one goal in conference play just once this season in their season-opening loss against the Wildcats, 3-2. “The key is probably they all play together in a club team,” Tremblay said of his defense. “All those guys play club, so the chemistry is really good and they work well together.”