[12] October 19, 2012
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Saints top KingCo for second straight year
The women’s 3.0 tennis team from Bellevue earned a runner-up finish at Nationals and just missed a championship. Courtesy Photo
Bellevue women second at USTA 3.0 National tournament A group from Bellevue finished second recently at the United States Tennis Association 3.0 Adult National Championships. The team fell in the final match of the tournament, 3-2 to a team from Dallas, Tex. after taking down a squad from Connecticut to earn their spot in the finals. Michelle Snyder and Mari Moline are the co-captains for a team that also includes Cari Sapp, Angela Taylor, Elisabeth Beebe, Cindy Goetzman, Corinne Beardsley, Lisa Schilling, Tara Verburg, Heather Watts, Tobey Bryant, Carolyn Carlesimo, Audrey Scallon. The team plays out of Bellevue Tennis Club. More than 835,000 players nationwide take part in USTA leagues and the national championship tournament drew the top 17 women’s 3.0 teams from around the country.
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With the move back to Class 3A for the 2012-13 school year, some of the athletic programs around Interlake were unsure where they would stand in the postseason. The boys golf team can rest easy. Coach Scott Marcum’s Saints capped a second consecutive KingCo title during the regular season with a 35 stroke win over Juanita and remained perfect in the process. A week later, Interlake repeated as league champions at the 2A/3A KingCo meet with a 13 stroke win over secondplace Bellevue, paced by the 75 of senior Patrick Sato, who finished in tie for second individually with Bellevue’s Radleigh Ang. And that barely begins to describe the dominance. Only two teams, Bellevue and Mercer Island, came within 20 strokes of Interlake in the team scoring. The Wolverines, which fell by 15 at Tam O’Shanter in late September, were the closest competitor all season. “It’s been incredible,” Marcum said. “This is the best team I’ve ever coached, top to bottom.” School records for scoring in relation to par (seven under) and strokes (169) also fell in 2012 and six Saints are among the top ten scorers in 3A/2A KingCo. But it wasn’t just the top end of the team getting the job done. In Washington prep tennis, only the top five scores
from each team count in the team scoring total. In four of the seven matches this year, Interlake’s five non-counting scores would have still been good enough to win the match. “It’s not just these same five guys carrying us,” Marcum said. “It is the development of the entire team.” Parsons, a senior, was not among the top six last year but has made his mark in 2012, firing an even par in the waning moments of the match to help his team to its goal of a sub-170 score. Douglas, who Marcum said is the most improved player during the past two seasons, tied for medalist honors in a match this year two seasons after being cut from the team. Interlake will have a week to prepare itself for the KingCo Medalist Tournament next Tuesday at Willow’s Run (Eagle’s Talon) before returning to the SeaKing District Tournament for the first time in five years, again at Willow’s Run (Coyote Creek). Andrew Kennedy, senior; Patrick Sato, senior; Grant Cole, sophomore; Andy Liu, junior; Sam Fisher, sophomore; Colin Joy, junior; Leo Parsons, senior; Kyle Douglas, junior; Jonny Haag, senior; Josh Gibbs, sophomore; Jens Dolmseth, junior; Austin Strother, senior; Brandon Samphire, senior
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lot of people know much about us. With Landon (Carr) at Maryland playing in a couple national championships, that has helped put Washington on the map. Some of the club teams have started to make some noise. It’s starting to get there but it’s certainly not a brand name. Hopefully we will get there soon.
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REPORTER: What is the biggest change from prep lacrosse to D-1? NORDSTROM: Everyone is a Division I athletes. It isn’t like high school where I was maybe bigger,
faster and stronger. They all got recruited for the same reasons I did. There aren’t nearly as many weak links as there were when I was in high school. REPORTER: What is the perception of Seattle area lacrosse at Denver, or when you travel around the country? NORDSTROM: Not a
REPORTER: For people who are unsure of lacrosse or maybe haven’t given it a try, what do you say? NORDSTROM: It’s the fastest game on two feet. If you like playing sports, you will love lacrosse. There is always something going on- running, hitting, scoring. It’s a great game.
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Long time Mercer Island boys soccer coach and Newport High School alum Steve Newman died last week. Newman, 58, served as the coach of the Islanders boys team for the last 17 years. “Steve touched the lives of hundreds of boys who participated in the MIHS soccer program,” the school posted on its website. According to Colin Rigby, the assis-
tant coach for the Islanders, Newman returned home last Thursday after attending the Seattle Pacific University soccer game, went to sleep, suffering an apparent heart attack in his sleep. A celebration of life service has been planned for Steve Newman, the long time Mercer Island boys soccer coach and Eastside resident who died Oct. 12. A service will be held on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. at the Mercer Island Presbyterian Church.