Sports Briefs

Shorecrest’s Owen makes state tournament

Shorecrest ‘s Alena Owen upset Everett’s Julie Mills in the singles semifinals of the 3A District 1 tennis tournament May 18 to earn a trip to state.

Owen won the match 6-4, 6-1 before losing in the district championship 6-2, 6-2 to a player from Sedro-Woolley. Owen clinched a state berth by her previous victory over Mills.

Owen will play Molly Knox of Hanford in the first round of the state tournament May 25 in Tri-Cities.

The Shorecrest doubles team of Kelsey Monson and Lauren Olson was eliminated Saturday and singles player Theresa Leigh was eliminated Friday.

Shorecrest boys tennis represented at state

Three Shorecrest boys tennis players will be in Tri-Cities today, Friday, May 25 for the state 3A tournament.

Marco Dehmel, the 3A District champion in singles, takes on Alex VanDerschelden of Auburn-Riverside.

David Ehrlichman and Brian Sharkey, the 3A District 1 doubles champions, play Michael Schuster and David Schuster of North Thurston.

Shorecrest softball team falls game short of state tournament

The Shorecrest softball team fell one game short of the state tournament May 19.

The Scots defeated Sedro-Woolley to get a shot at the second state berth from 3A District 1.

But Wesco No. 1 seed Everett bounced back from a 2-1 winner-to-state loss against Northwest No. 1 seed Mount Vernon to defeat Shorecrest 5-2 at Janicki Fields and clinch their third straight trip to state.

“I told the team that we needed to forget about the loss and that if we win one more, we go back to state,” said Everett head coach Kyle Peacocke.

His team did just that.

Everett starting pitcher Cory Mattson pitched her second complete game of the day, struck out eight Shorecrest batters and allowed only two runs on six hits.

Everett’s Valerie Stahl hit a fourth-inning game run that cleared the left field fence by a good 30 feet to give Everett a comfortable 4-0 lead.

“It felt great,” said Stahl, who also had two hits and an RBI in the first game.

After Mattson and Shorecrest starting pitcher Emma Snow traded goose eggs for the first two innings, Everett’s Lauren Hope led off the bottom of the third with a single. After a wild pitch, Stahl sacrificed her to third and No. 2 hitter Ally Pappas drove her in and gave Everett a 1-0 lead.

No. 3 hitter Alexandra Hudson then singled to drive in Pappas and Mattson, batting cleanup, aided her cause with an RBI single, making the score 3-0.

Stahl’s fourth-inning home run and a fifth-inning RBI single by Elizabeth Reed put Everett in front 5-0.

On the day, Hudson had a single and a double; Pappas had a single, double and an RBI, and Jessica Carey added two singles and a double for Everett.

But in the seventh, following singles by Shorecrest’s Caroline Towles and Elisabeth Hoffman, freshman Annie Collins popped a one-out, two-run double that closed the gap to 5-2.

Mattson then retired the final two batters to ensure her team’s spot at state.

Crusaders qualify for state meet

Shoreline Christian’s Sarah Daigneault qualified for state in three events to lead the Crusaders contingent at the state 2B track meet May 25-26 in Cheney.

Daigneault won the long jump with a leap of 14 feet, 11 inches at the 2B tri-district meet May 19 at Edmonds Stadium. She also won the 400 meters with a time of 1 minute, 3.03 seconds and finished second in the 100 hurdles with a time of 16.72.

Also for the Shoreline Christian girls, Rachel Werkhoven placed third in the 3,200 with a time of 13:02.7 and fourth in the 1,600 with a time of 6:13.5 to earn berths to state.

Laura Kredit took second in the 800 in 2:36.21 to earn her first trip to state.

The Crusader girls 1,600 relay finished third in 4:30.93 to make state.

On the boys side, senior Jeremy Rasor finished second in the 3,200 (10:42.89) to earn a return trip to state. Derrin Thomas took second in the 200 with a time of 24.01 and Alex Dodd was second in the shot put with a throw of 42-3 to make state. The boys 1,600 relay finished third in 3:45.18 to qualify for Cheney.