In the classroom, he’s a science teacher. But this fall, Kentridge High’s Ryan West also has become a master mathematician by crunching numbers.
And in early November at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco, the school’s boys cross country coach is hoping those numbers add up. Because if they do, the upstart Chargers will find themselves where no other Kentridge team before them has: Among the state’s top 10 teams.
They didn’t crown any individual champions.
And by the end of the South Puget Sound League boys tennis tournament last week at Kent-Meridian High, they were seeing double. But for the Kentridge High boys tennis team, it all perfectly added up in the end. Behind top-10 performances from three doubles tandems, the Chargers pulled away from the field, grabbing the team title with 36 points.
The Calgary Hitmen defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 3-2 in overtime Oct. 16 at Kent's ShoWare Center.
Burke Gallimore had two goals in regulation and one in the shootout Oct. 15 to help lead the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 4-3 shootout victory over the Vancouver Giants at Pacific Coliseum.
The win gave the T-Birds a four-game winning streak.
Quarterback David Jones did it all Friday night at French Field.
The Kent-Meridian senior rushed for 170 yards, and passed for 164 more. He ran for a pair of touchdowns, and added another through the air.
DALTON BLACKMORE, KW
Grade: Senior.
Sport: Football.
Accomplishment: Blackmore, a wide receiver and linebacker, pulled in a 40-yard touchdown, collected a sack and added two tackles for a loss, helping Kentwood beat Kentlake 30-28 Oct. 8 in a battle of unbeatens.
The Kentlake and Kentwood girls soccer teams came together last week for the second-annual Kicks for the Cure soccer showdown between the two friendly rivals. The game is in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The event benefits the MultiCare Mammogram Assistance Fund of Covington.
The SPSL tennis tournament concluded Tuesday at Kent Meridian High School. Here are the final results with the top 10 qualifying for West Central Districts in May.
They’ve produced some of the area’s best golfers during the last several years.
Chris Cho, a 2008 Kentridge High graduate and four-time state participant, is now competing at the University of Idaho. Sean McMullen, who graduated last spring and who made four strong runs at the state tournament, is now playing at Seattle University. Yet, Cho and McMullen never did accomplish what the Chargers managed last week.
Behind a huge performance from sophomore Nick Fisher at Lake Wilderness Golf Course, the Chargers turned back Tahoma 78-71 on Thursday, Oct. 7 to secure the South Puget Sound League North Division title.
Chilliwack, B.C.- Brendan Rouse had a hat trick Oct. 9 at Prospera Centre in Chilliwack to help lead the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 6-3 victory over the Chilliwack Bruins.
The line off Mitch Elliot, Colin Jacobs and Tyler Alos combined for seven points in the game. Jacobs had a goal and two assists, Elliot had a goal and an assist and Alos had two assists.
The T-Birds (4-2-0-0) have now won three games in a row.
For the second night in a row Marcel Noebels scored a shootout winning goal to help the Seattle Thunderbirds to a victory.
On Oct. 1, Noebels scored the shootout winner in a 3-2 T-Bird victory over the Lethbridge Hurricanes at ShoWare Center. Oct. 2 at the Rose Garden Noebels scored the shootout winner to give the T-Birds a 3-2 victory over the Portland Winterhawks.
Defenseman Travis Bobbee is the Thunderbirds Player of the Week. He is a 20-year-old defenseman entering his fifth season with the Western Hockey League. The T-Birds acquired him in September.
His feet have done most of the talking this season.
Friday night at a jam-packed French Field in front of an estimated 6,000 fans, however, it was the heady play of Kentwood High’s Mikell Everette that proved to be the difference against Kentlake in an edge-of-the-seat South Puget Sound League North Division football game.
Tied 21-21 to start the fourth quarter, Everette blocked the punt of Kentlake’s Ryan Archibald, deflecting the ball out of bounds for a two-point safety. On a night of multiple momentum shifts, Everette’s big play made the biggest difference, lifting the fifth-ranked Conquerors past the Falcons 30-28 in a game between the North’s final two unbeaten teams.
COURTNEY JOHNSON, KentwoodGrade: Senior.Sport: Soccer.Accomplishment: Johnson, a goalkeeper, worked her fourth straight shutout, helping the Conquerors turn back Auburn on Sept. 30, 2-0.Favorite class: Peer… Continue reading
The T-Birds game this Saturday against the Chilliwack Bruins at 7 p.m. can be heard on 1150 KKNW am and www.mynorthwest.com
The game was originally scheduled to be broadcast on 710 ESPN but was moved to 1150 KKNW.
The game against the Kamloops Blazers on Saturday, Oct. 30, originally scheduled to be heard on 1150 KKNW will now be heard on 710 ESPN.
A year ago, the Kent-Meridian High volleyball team was on the outside looking in.
The Royals finished the regular season in a three-way tie for the fourth-and-fifth postseason berths from the South Puget Sound League North Division, then were eliminated in mini-playoff that also involved Kentridge and Tahoma.
Talk about a lonely feeling.
Marcel Noebels scored the shootout winner Friday night at ShoWare Center to lead the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 3-2 shootout victory over the Lethbridge Hurricanes.
The game was tied 2-2 after 60 minutes to send the game to a shootout.
Burke Gallimore shot first for the T-Birds in the shootout. He broke into the zone on the right side and fired a snap shot from the slot that hit Anderson's glove and trickled into the back of the net.
Her body needed a break, but her mind wouldn’t listen.
Mind over matter?
For years, it had worked out exactly that way for former Kent-Meridian High multi-sport star Melanie Vertrees. From gymnastics to swimming, volleyball to basketball, cross country to track, Vertrees did it all growing up, and while attending the East Hill school.
The ball hasn’t bounced the way of the Kent-Meridian High football team for the last several years.
On Saturday, Oct. 2, however, the Royals finally had one go their way.
Defensive end Luke Barzie made the fourth-quarter strip of a Thomas Jefferson running back, and Brandon Harris swooped in for the recovery, helping the Royals secure a 38-34 victory over Thomas Jefferson in a South Puget Sound League North Division game.
MIKELL EVERETTE, Kentwood
Grade: Senior.
Sport: Football.
Accomplishment: Everette rushed for 211 yards and two touchdowns on 18 carries, leading the Conquerors past Puyallup 35-21 in a nonleague game.
Favorite class: English.
If you could invite anyone in the world to dinner, whom would you invite, and what would you serve: Wiz Khalifa (lobster and shrimp tails), Lauren London (funfetti cake), Michael Vick (ribs), (coach) Melvin Wells (seafood).
