The Kent\/Chinook Little League All-Stars picked up last week where the group left off a year ago.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
That is, the local stars continued their winning ways.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Behind a huge offensive performance by Jared Mackie, the Kent\/Chinook All-Stars took a pair of games from Federal Way National\/Steel Lake to win the District 10 title on July 2-3 at Auburn’s Brannan Park.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“(Jared) had a great tournament,” said coach Kirk Davis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Indeed the Kentlake junior-to-be did have a fantastic tournament, going 8-for-9 with six RBIs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kent\/Chinook, which is comprised of players between the ages of 14 and 16 who live in Kent, Covington, Bonney Lake and Enumclaw, knocked off Federal Way National\/Steel Lake 11-0 in the opener and 13-6 in the championship game of the two-team District 10 tournament. The two wins lift Kent\/Chinook into the state tournament, which will run from July 16-22 at Brannan Park. Kent\/Chinook opens the tournament against Redmond at noon on July 16. Kent\/Chinook beat Redmond 9-4 for last year’s state title, which helped the local stars earn a berth to the Western Regional tournament in Ontario, Calif.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This year’s team is comprised primarily of the same players who won the state title last year, Davis noted.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“They play great defense and score a ton of runs,” Davis said. “It’s the hitting and defense that is better than last year.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Mackey went 4-for-4 with two doubles, two RBIs and two runs scored in the 11-0 victory. He continued the torrid pace in the championship game, going 4-for-5 with a double, triple and four RBIs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Mackey, however, was far from alone among the local standouts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Garrett Robertson added a pair of hits, including a double and an RBI, in the opening win while Ricky Davis chipped in two runs scored and an RBI double. Mike Mazzitelli delivered a two-run triple while David Prince served up a complete-game gem on the mound, going the distance and striking out four.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The beat continued for the Kent\/Chinook stars in the championship game. Along with another big offensive performance by Mackie, Colby Thompson went 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored; Riley Baker went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI while Prince added a pair of hits and four runs scored. John Benson picked up the win on the mound with six strong innings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kent\/Chinook will enter the state tournament among the favorites to win it all.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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After a first-round loss, the Kent\/Auburn Senior All-Star fastpitch team bounced back in a big way during the District 10 tournament at Brannan Park, which was held from July 2-6.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Kent\/Auburn stars lost its opening game 20-18 to Federal Way National, but responded by picking up three straight wins to secure the title. Kent\/Auburn lost the opener on July 2, then responded with a 12-5 win over Federal Way\/Soundview on July 4. Kent\/Auburn continued the pace July 5-6, upending Federal Way National 3-1 in the semifinals, then again in the championship game, 10-8. The team is comprised of 11-12-year-old girls in the Kent and Auburn area.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The three wins helped the local stars earn a berth in this weekend’s state tournament, which will be played in Woodinville.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Kent\/Chinook Little League All-Stars picked up last week where the group left off a year ago.<\/p>\n
That is, the local stars continued their winning ways.<\/p>\n
Behind a huge offensive performance by Jared Mackie, the Kent\/Chinook All-Stars took a pair of games from Federal Way National\/Steel Lake to win the District 10 title on July 2-3 at Auburn’s Brannan Park.
\n“(Jared) had a great tournament,” said coach Kirk Davis.
\nIndeed the Kentlake junior-to-be did have a fantastic tournament, going 8-for-9 with six RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}