Missed opportunities proved to be the name of the game for the Kentlake High fastpitch team on Saturday a rain-shortened Class 4A state tournament at South End Recreation Area in Tacoma.
Everything was against the Kentwood Astronomical Society's efforts to launch a rocket on April 2.
The club's advisor, math teacher Summer Cambridge, said they had planned to launch at Pacific Raceways in order to qualify for Team Americas Rocketry Challenge May 15 in Virginia.
Kentwood High’s cheer squads continued their success both at the state and national levels recently.
A handful of local swimmers earned spots with their performance this past weekend at the West Central District Championship meet at Rogers High.
In the team race, Kentridge finished ninth and Kentlake finished 10th, while Gig Harbor ran away with the district title with 211.5 points.
Tanner Keeling-Garcia and Erik Fulmer from Kentlake placed individually while the Falcons 400 yard relay team of Keeling-Garcia, Fulmer, David Dougherty and Kyle Koon, earned a spot at state by posting a time of 3:28.57 in the consolation final, bumping out Decatur, which had finished sixth in the championship final with a time of 3:31.17.
It wasn’t the result Kentlake wanted, a fifth place finish at the South Puget Sound League boys swim and dive championship on Saturday, but the Falcons didn’t have an answer for the sheer depth of Curtis, Beamer and Kentridge, which finished one-two-three.
Domination.
That’s how the Kentlake High boys swim team began the season, and it’s how it finished it, too.
