The weather wasn’t the only thing scorching this week.
A combination of blazing hot bats, and arms, lifted the Lakeside Recovery Senior baseball team to four straight wins, and into tonight’s American Legion Senior State Championship against the Yakima Pepsi Pak.
Skyline quarterback and BYU recruit Jake Heaps was named MVP of the Elite 11 quarterback camp last week, placing him among recent winners Matthew Stafford and Aaron Murray.
Five members of the Issaquah Gliders running club qualified for the Junior Olympic National Championships held this weekend in Greensboro, N.C, and one will make the trip to represent the club.
The Bash Brothers, composed of Liberty, Issaquah and Hazen baseball players, won the Pony Colt Regional Tournament on July 19 and will represent Washington state in the Western Zone tournament, starting July 30 in San Jose, Calif. The winner of Zone tournament moves on to the World Series.
They were close, but an impressive run at the state title came to an abrupt end for the Eastlake 9-10 year-old Little League All Stars Friday evening.
The Lakeside Junior American Legion A team clinched a berth the state tournament on Sunday, placing second in the District 1/2 tournament in Mount Vernon.
Sammamish resident Shannon Holliway and her doctors still aren’t fully sure what caused her to go into sudden cardiac arrest in the early morning of March 1, 2009.
The Eastlake 9-10 year-old Little League All Stars began their state tournament run on Saturday in SeaTac. The District 9 champions dropped their first game 9-6 to Cascade, but battled back to beat Salmon Creek, 9-1, on Sunday, then Asotin County 15-6 on Monday, and Chehalis, 10-2 on Tuesday.
Matt Iwicki was worn out.
The 12-year-old Sammamish resident had just defeated six elite freestyle wrestlers at the USA Wrestling Western Regionals June 27 in Pocatello, Idaho — his highest finish ever. On top of fatigue, he was nursing a broken right middle finger.
A winning tradition stayed alive Sunday afternoon as the Lakeside Senior Legion baseball team held on for a 7-5 victory over Red Lion of Longview, clinching a trip to the this weekend’s 2009 Senior Legion State Tournament in Tacoma.
Hundreds of tandem and individual paragliders will swarm the Issaquah skies on Saturday for the seventh annual Tiger Mountain Fly-In.
The Eastlake 10-11 year-old Little League All Stars had the state tournament in their sights, but fell just short in Tuesday night’s District 9 championship at Issaquah’s Dodd Field.
Every sports fan is guilty of it at one point or another. Hurling forth the phrase “That doesn’t look so hard,” or “I can do that,” comes more natural to some than lifting a hoagie from a plate to their mouth.
Paul Rabil grew up not too far off what many considered the norm, playing soccer and basketball in his hometown just outside of Baltimore, Md. Then, one day, he decided branch out — give a new sport a shot.
Little League All-Star District 9 tournaments launched into action on the Fourth of July with the 9-10 year-old baseball tournament beginning at Redmond’s Hartman Park and the 10-11 year-old baseball tournament starting at Issaquah’s Dodd Field.
More than 50 lacrosse teams from British Columbia, Oregon and Washington converged on the Plateau last Friday, July 3, for the fourth annual Sammamish Shoot-Out.
The awards keep piling up for Seattle Pacific University distance runner and Eastlake alum, Jessica Pixler.
Year after year, Washington state gains national recognition as a producer of some of the country’s top high school football and basketball talent.
But, this week, a group of Issaquah and Sammamish area athletes will help the state gain more national exposure in another sport — volleyball.
A streaking hot Lakeside Senior Legion baseball team had its fire extinguished over the weekend, dropping four straight games.
The Washington State Baseball Coaches Association announced its all-state team selections earlier this week, recognizing seven area athletes.
