Sports

This time, it all goes right for Li

There were no scorecard glitches this time.

  • Aug 5, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Jeff Bernard of Kent hoists the trophy after winning the Governor’s Cup regatta last month in Madison

Jeff Bernard, Brian Perkins churn up-and-coming hydro wakes

Jeff Bernard will be happy to take any spot in the finals – as long as it’s not fifth place. Brian Perkins will be happy to take any spot in the finals – as long as his boat is running. Different perspectives, but the same goal for the two local drivers who gradually are making more waves on the unlimited hydroplane circuit.

  • Aug 1, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Jeff Bernard of Kent hoists the trophy after winning the Governor’s Cup regatta last month in Madison

Li shares early lead in state junior golf play

Rui Li, who’ll be a junior at Kentwood High in the fall, shot a 5-over-par 76 on Wednesday, giving her a share of the lead in the girls 16-17 age division at the Washington Junior Golf Association tournament in Spokane.

  • Aug 1, 2008
  • BY Wire Service

RECREATION CALENDAR

SBI REBELS TRYOUTS

  • Aug 1, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Toby Mollett

Trying the other side of triathlon training

Name a city in the U.S. or abroad and, chances are, Toby Mollett probably has been there at some point.

  • Jul 30, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Toby Mollett

Blackshirts roll past the Jaguars, 26-7

The East County Blackshirts put the first 26 points of the game on the board on the way to a 26-7 victory against the King County Jaguars in a North American Football League game last Saturday at French Field.

  • Jul 29, 2008
  • BY Wire Service

Dosveedanya splits two, Fury twice at National Cup soccer

The Dosveedanya 93 Red girls team from the Kent Youth Soccer Association gained a split of its first two games this past weekend at the U.S. Club Soccer National Cup tournament in Virginia Beach, Va.

  • Jul 29, 2008
  • BY Wire Service

Four from area win district golf titles

Tom Zavada of Kent won the boys 14-15 age division, Kentridge High star Lauren Sewell took the 16-17 girls title, Kentwood’s Kent Hagen won the 16-17 boys, and Kent’s Catherina Li dominated the 12-13 girls in last week’s Washington Junior Golf Association district championship at The Classic Golf Club in Spanaway.

  • Jul 29, 2008
  • BY Wire Service

King County Jags helping former teammate tonight | Football

When the King County Jaguars return to French Field tonight to host the East County Blackshirts in a minor league football game, they’ll playing for more than just their third victory of the season.

  • Jul 24, 2008
  • BY Wire Service

Kent Recreation Calendar | July 26

This 12U team will conduct tryouts on Saturday, Aug. 9, at Service Club Field No. 1 in Kent at 6 p.m., and on Saturday, Aug. 16, at Russell Road Park Field No. 1 in Kent at 6 p.m.

  • Jul 24, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Jordan Kiga

Kent Youth Soccer teams compete in U.S. Soccer Club’s National Cup

Malia Arrant was in Colorado with her Dosveedanya girls soccer team when the phone call came: Would her squad like to fill a suddenly open spot in the U.S. Club Soccer regional tournament?

  • Jul 24, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Jordan Kiga
For the third straight summer and the fourth time in the past five years

Schumacher wins at Schuck’s Auto Supply Nationals — again

Boeing, Microsoft, Starbuck’s, grunge rock, and the Space Needle got some fast company this past weekend. National Hot Rod Association headliner Tony Schumacher painted himself into the Puget Sound mural along with those local icons.

  • Jul 23, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
For the third straight summer and the fourth time in the past five years
Lindsey Henderson of Enumclaw competes at Highland Dancing during last year’s Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games and Clan Gathering. This year’s event – which features bagpiping

A wee bit o’ dancing OUT & ABOUT

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  • Jul 23, 2008
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Lindsey Henderson of Enumclaw competes at Highland Dancing during last year’s Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games and Clan Gathering. This year’s event – which features bagpiping

Jaguars roll past Mustangs, 42-0

Vernon Word scored two touchdowns, the first of which snapped a scoreless tie in the second quarter, and Nathan Proctor notched a pair of second-half TDs as the King County Jaguars rolled to a 42-0 victory against the Valley Mustangs a North American Football League game at Auburn Memorial Stadium.

  • Jul 22, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Parker will play hoops at North Idaho College

Parker will play hoops at North Idaho College

After erasing portions of the Kentridge High School record book and earning Class 4A State Player of the Year honors, Renado Parker is taking his basketball talent to North Idaho College.

  • Jul 22, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Parker will play hoops at North Idaho College

Kent Sports Roundup | July 19

Rui Li, who stars for the Kentwood High golf team, won the girls 16-17 age division with a 1-under-par 71 in the final Washington Junior Golf Association District Six sub-district tournament last Monday at Lipoma Firs Golf Course in Puyallup.

  • Jul 21, 2008
  • BY Wire Service

Kent Recreation Calendar | July 19

A list of recreational events happening in Kent.

  • Jul 21, 2008
  • BY Wire Service

Carly Stowell Foundation aims to make sports and music affordable in Kent

They dreamed big. But Chuck and Elena Stowell never imagined things would snowball quite like they have. Or in such magical fashion. The Kent couple lost their only daughter, Carly, on April 12, 2007 of an acute cardiac arrhythmia. Just days away from her 15th birthday, Carly collapsed in a North Carolina hotel room while at a tournament with her select AAU basketball team, the Emerald City Legends.

  • Jul 21, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Kentwood product Alison Fairchild lost more than a year of playing time after sustaining a major knee injury in May 2007. Though she’s not quite 100 percent and missed her entire senior season

Kentwood volleyball phenom Fairchild is back for one night only

A biting sense of humor pulled her through. Because during even the most difficult of times in what was supposed to be the finest volleyball season of her already strong prep career, Alison Fairchild always had that on which to fall back. Even when she couldn’t fall back on the one thing she once unknowingly counted on the most: her left knee.

  • Jul 18, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Kentwood product Alison Fairchild lost more than a year of playing time after sustaining a major knee injury in May 2007. Though she’s not quite 100 percent and missed her entire senior season

NHRA Northwest Nationals details revealed

• EVENT: 21st Annual Schuck’s Auto Supply NHRA Nationals, the 14th of 23 events on the NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series.

  • Jul 17, 2008
  • BY Wire Service