January 2013

Tuesday, Jan. 8
Boys basketball
Mt. Rainier 74, Kentlake 31
The Rams took a 15-7 lead by the end of the first quarter this past Tuesday and kept rolling from there. They dominated the second quarter 15-5 and the third quarter 25-9 before outscoring the South Puget Sound League North Division Falcons 19-10 in the final period.
Rowland finished with a team-high 14 points as Bobby Lenaburg tallied 12 and Wilson-Jones 10.
Girls basketball
Mt. Rainier 59, Kentlake 29
Brittany McPhee scored 20 points and Jordan McPhee 14 as Mount Rainier pounded Kentlake by a 30-point margin. The Rams jumped out to a 20-6 advantage by the end of the first quarter.
Cascade Christian 52, SCS 44
Weber hit 16 points, Kaler 12 and Gleason 10 for the Warriors of Seattle Christian in Tuesday's loss.

Wednesday, Jan. 9
Boys basketball
Lindbergh 51, Foster 46
Horton and Suta scored 14 points apiece for Foster in Wednesday's loss.
Renton 63, Tyee 20
The Totems were held to 20 points by the Indians in Wednesday's defeat.
Hazen 63, Evergreen 59

SEATAC- Shorewood Christian girls basketball coach Nikiole Peterson knew that her team had to accomplish two things to be successful against the opponent of this night.

"Our team needs to run up and down the court and use our quickness," she said. "This is how our team plays with our fast players."

On Tuesday, Jan. 8, the home team Lady Lions succeeded at both to edge out visiting Evergreen Lutheran, 39-32, in an entertaining SeaTac 1B League hoop encounter.

Trailing 28-27 after a robust Eagle rally midway through the fourth quarter, Shorewood Christian grabbed a 29-28 lead before Nicole Jones nailed a 3-point scoring basket to enlarge the margin to 32-28. From this juncture, the Lady Lions chewed up the Eagles in a 7-1 stretch run to victory.

"I really thought this shot was the one that finally turned the game," added coach Peterson.

Shorewood Christian stands at 4-2 league and 6-4 overall. Evergreen Lutheran is now 0-3 and 1-4.

Playing in the former Glacier High School location on S. 142d St., Evergreen Lutheran opened up as cold as an iceberg with Shorewood Christian assuming a 7-0 first quarter lead.

SEATAC - Control of the caroms and face-to-face defense set up the transition offense in a 61-42 Shorewood Christian boys basketball defeat of visiting Evergreen Lutheran in Jan. 8 SeaTac 1B League action held at the former Glacier High School location on S. 142nd St. which is called the Lions Den by the home team.

"Hard work and team basketball is what we do," said Shorewood Christian head coach Alfonso Gonzales. "We play up tempo and push the ball. The team plays old school man-to-man defense. It was a slow start to the season, but we're coming around and want to finish strongly."

First half action featured close combat most of the way with the Lions (3-3, 5-6) taking an 11-8 lead after one quarter.

Ben Baker of the Eagles (1-3, 3-4) notched a free throw in front of an Andrew Goyins basket inside the lane to force an 11-11 standoff.

Shorewood Christian responded quickly on a reverse lay up from Darren Morris and a penetration bucket by Jordan King. Karl Leitzke converted a short range jump shot to draw the visitors within 15-13.

Suddenly, the familiar one and done nemesis returned to plague Evergreen Lutheran for the duration of play.

As the Seamount League girls basketball season hits the stretch run, the Foster Bulldogs are in strong synchronization for postseason action.

Displaying a dominating all-court presence on Fri., Jan. 11, Foster upended visiting Evergreen, 54-19, on the Coach Parker Court to hold a solid third place at 6-2 and close within one game of second place while remaining two games out of first place. The home team's overall record is 7-7 after winning its third consecutive game.

Evergreen's posted records are 1-7, 2-11, respectively.

"Now we're a family," Bulldog head coach Datri Elliot said. "The players are really playing together as a team and I love what I see. I'm already excited about the playoffs."

Foster began besting Evergreen in the turnover battle and conversion to points results right off the bat to the tune of 11 consecutive points to open the proceedings of the night before the Wolverines scored a basket in a 13-2 first quarter that set the tone for the duration of the face off.

The homestanding Foster Bulldogs converted nine out of 10 free throws in the final 1:38 to hold off a spirited Evergreen Wolverine comeback 52-42 and end their losing streak after five games to stay in the postseason picture on Fri., Jan. 11 at Coach Parker Court.

Foster improved to 4-4 league and 6-8 overall while Evergreen stood at 4-4 and 5-9.
"Those five games we lost were by a combined total of 20 points," said Bulldog head coach Isaac Tucker. "It was not a lack of effort, just mistakes. It took a lot of heart to lose a 12-point lead and still win. It would have been easy to to get down. After the 3-pointer No. 33 (Alex Campbell) made with the shot clock running down, it would have been easy to get down."

Trailing 41-29 early in the fourth quarter, the Wolverines refused to fold their tent, assembling a huge rally set up by turnover recoveries from the Bulldogs.

Campbell's pair of free throw conversions capped a Wolverine 10-0 surge based on turnovers that resulted in open short-range jump shots or lay ups.

Be mindful of your commute this week. We just received the following message from the Seattle Department of Transportation:

"Street paving crews from the Seattle Department of Transportation plan to repair street pavement on 15th Avenue Northwest just north of Northwest 65th Street from Wednesday, Jan. 16 to Friday Jan. 18, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. At least one lane in each direction will remain open. Drivers should expect congestion and allow extra time or use an alternate route."

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Thousands of people driving through White Center on 17th SW have seen the building which housed the News for many years. It is now quite colorful but unoccupied by the current owner.

When we bought the paper from Dean Phares in 1952 the newspaper office was in a building now occupied by the Velling brothers dental clinic on Roxbury Street, next to the Salvadorean bakery.

In 1953 a Chinese restaurant, on 16th across from The Ranch Market, caught fire when the cook tried to clean an oven with gasoline. Firemen saved the shell but the innards were gutted.
We bought the tiled exterior, burned out shell and had it moved to an empty lot on 17th S.W. We had a local contractor gut it and renew the interior. Not fancy but workable.

On our grand opening we celebrated like other new businesses and found that people were coming in for hay and oats. I guess we weren't different enough from feed store next door.

It's not the building that makes a business, it is the people and we had some wonderful souls who helped us through those early years.

It's odd to think about, but stick around another 40 years, and you might slowly say goodbye to both Golden Gardens and (to a lesser extent) Carkeek Park beaches.

Where will we pretend to be Californians during the summer?

It's the fate of Seattle that's pictured in a map released today depicting how climate change will affect the shorelines of Seattle. And the picture isn't pretty.

Developed by city planners, who used conservative scientific assumptions, climate change will flood parts of Seattle during high tides within the next 40 years.

Besides Golden Gardens and Carkeek, rising sea levels could also inundate West Seattle, Georgetown, South Park, Harbor Island and Interbay. City officials are using the study as a demonstration of why Seattle needs to reduce their contribution to climate change.

Light bulbs and useless paperwork
On Dec. 30, someone broke into a condominium storage shed on the 200 block of Harbor Ave S.W. and stole $600 dollars worth of light bulbs and boxes of condo association records. The records contained no personal information on tenants, nor were there any blank checks inside.

Layers of defense
An unknown burglar failed in his attempt to access a home on the 8400 block of 12th Ave S.W. on Dec. 30. Around 11 a.m., someone used a concrete block to break the window of a sun porch, gaining access and unlocking the outside door to the area. Once inside the sun porch, the burglar likely realized the next door – the one leading into the home – was secured with metal bars. Nothing was missing from the sun porch and the armored door was left alone.

Stealing beautification supplies