Friday, May 17, 2013
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Students tackle Gold Mountain Golf Course Student athletes competed Tuesday for the last few spots in the state tourney. By WES MORROW wmorrow@soundpublishing.com
High-school golfers from all over the West Central District gathered at Gold Mountain golf course to compete on Tuesday. For every golfer present, more than just a good score was at stake. Each golfer’s placing would determine whether they would go to state, or whether their season would end. The West Central District is made up of the Olympic League and the South Puget Sound League, as well as the much smaller Seamount League. For girls, the 2A district sends 21 golfers to state and sends 24 for boys. The majority of those positions had already been allocated to golfers through league tournaments, however. So 25 boys competed for eight spots and 21 girls competed for six at Gold
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Klahowya golfer McKenna Kendall tees off on the ninth hole at Gold Mountain for the district tournament on Tuesday. Kendall placed 11th out of 21 girls in the 2A division. Mountain on Tuesday. Bremerton High School junior Drake Baker was one of those golfers. His path to the district tournament
involved a playoff in the league tournament — not only that, the playoff was against his own brother. Baker and his brother, Derrick — who
also plays for Bremerton as a senior — tied during the league tournament. Derrick won that playoff, forcing his brother to the district tournament. Despite losing the civil war-esque playoff, Baker said he’ll be cheering his brother all the way at state. “There’s definitely no bad blood between us,” he said. In the past, Baker has shot a 79 at Gold Mountain but he couldn’t replicate that success Tuesday. Baker once again missed a spot at the tournament by the narrowest of margins. He shot an 88 at Gold Mountain — just three strokes short of qualifying for state. Baker said he was putting himself in a good position all day, but wasn’t putting the ball where it needed to be on his second shot. “I was crushing the ball off the tee box,” he said. “(but) I think that my approach shots needed to get on in regulation more.” Baker will be back next year, he said, and then it will be his brother cheering him on at state. The state tournament will take place Tuesday, May 21, at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place.
Olympic goes to state, Klahowya goes home
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Kipp Cartharius comes in to score against Klahowya Sat. By WES MORROW wmorrow@soundpublishing.com
It was a hot day in Tacoma on Saturday when two Olympic League teams met in the district tournament. But the real heat came from Trojan pitcher Kipp Cartharius who threw a full game no-hitter against Klahowya. Olympic and Klahowya played this weekend to decide who would continue on to the state tournament and whose season would end. The first few innings flew by as neither the Trojans nor the Eagles seemed capable of getting a hit. One half inning ended so quickly that a spectator going to the bathroom would have likely missed all three at-bats. Olympic broke the game
open in fourth due in part to miscues on the part of the Eagles defense. Olympic short stop Trevor Ward stole second base early in the inning. Klahowya catcher Matthew Page tried to make the throw to second base but it sailed past and Ward took advantage of the situation by advancing to third.
Cartharius got on base later in the inning when he was walked by Dylan Kieffer. Cartharius shuffled slowly toward second base in a confusing standoff and took it easily when Page never stood up or made a throw to cut him off. That set the stage for Noel Torres. With two runners in scoring position and two outs, the spotlight was firmly planted on the Trojan center fielder — and he didn’t disappoint. Torres blooped a hit over the second baseman’s head, bringing in both runners to score the first points of the game and give Olympic a 2-0 lead over the Eagles. Olympic tacked on three insurance runs in the top of the sixth. The first came with runners on the corners when the runner on first attempted to steal second. It didn’t look good for Olympic when Klahowya easily got him in a pickle,
but while the infield was distracted on the other side of the diamond the runner on third took off for home. The throw home was bobbled, the runner scored and Klahowya got no outs from the play. Olympic’s Kevin Beamish came up to plate later in
the sixth and hit a bomb to deep center field, taking the fielder back nearly to the fence. The center fielder had a good jump on the ball, and made it back in time, but couldn’t hang on as the final two runs scored. Heading into the bottom of the sixth Olympic was up
5-0. The Trojans just needed to make it through the last two innings without committing any major errors. Cartharius was relentless, coming out and shutting Klahowya down in the final two innings to close out the game — getting not only the shutout, but the no-hitter.
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