October 2014

By Gerardo Bolong
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Foster recovered nicely from a first round loss to win a 2-0 consolation round volleyball match against Bremerton at the Second Annual Seattle Christian volleyball tournament on Sat., Oct. 4.

Meshing together nicely, the Bulldogs ought tooth an nail with the nights throughout the fist set. Neither team was able to shake off the pursuit of its opponent until Foster edge away slightly near the end to avoid the loss and take a 26-24 win.

By the second set, the Bulldogs had matters well in hand most of the way en route to a strong 25-18 victory.

Battling was much tougher against Chimacum. The Cowboys seized early leads and kept Foster behind them all the way.

In the first set, the Bulldogs stayed just within striking range, but were unable to mount a finishing rally.

Set No. 2 was even tougher with the Cowboys continually riding off to sizable leads en route to a 25-15 triumph that left Foster one win short of a chance at fourth place.

By Gerardo Bolong
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Timely serving by Seattle Christian led to a 25-15 Pool A finale win against Foster (Tukwila) at the Second Annual Seattle Christian volleyball tournament on Sat., Oct. 4.

Leading 13-12, the Warriors sealed the No. 2 seed for the afternoon tournament play an incredible 11 straight points behind the serving of sophomore Kelli Ronish. The Warrior hitters also benefited from Bulldog mistakes that prolonged the point positioning despite some long rallies at times.

With the score Seattle Christian 24, Foster 12, the Bulldogs notched three consecutive points before the Warriors closed out the match.
"I really appreciated the front line support," said Ronish who served three aces to complement four kills apiece from Abi Sauer and Erika Kaler.

Early action feature closer competition as the Bulldogs fell behind 12-5 before a big serve from Aolani Medrano mixed in with goo team play enable the Bulldogs to outscore the Warriors 7-1 ahead of the SC point power bombing.

By Gerardo Bolong
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Seattle Christian rebounded from a first match loss to steadily outscore Chimacum 25-17 in second round poll play at the Second Annual Seattle Christian volleyball tournament on Sat., Oct. 4.

Overcoming a 4-2 deficit, the Warriors outscored the Cowboys at the ratio of 3-2 to establish a lead of 18-10 behind the strong hitting of Madelyn Weber and Abi Sauer after nice sets from Aubri Gunersen.

The passing game went smoothly with some nice serve. Chimacum drew within 19-14, but Seattle Christian stayed steady to pull away to a 24-15 margin on th way to victory.

"I connected with my setter well and our passing was good," said Sauer who finished with eight kills.

Audri Gundersen collected three aces and seven kills.

The win placed the Warriors in good position for a high seed for the afternoon tournament with one more seeding match left.

Sports Roundup

Friday, Oct. 3
Football
Roosevelt 39, West Seattle 0
The Wildcats were shut out by the Roughriders in a Metro League football game on Friday.
Foster 31, Renton 10
The Bulldogs scored a big victory over the Indians this past Friday.
Boys tennis
Kennedy 7, Renton 0
The Lancers swept Renton aside in Friday afternoon Seamount League action.
Hazen 6, Foster 1
The Bulldogs salvaged one match against the Highlanders on Friday.

By Gerardo Bolong
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Second Annual Seattle Christian volleyball tournament in SeaTac provided the Foster High School (Tukwila) volleyball team a chance to retool while also smoothing out the kinks in a revamped starting line up in a 25-18 Pool A first round loss to Chimacum on Sat. morning, Oct. 4.
"This was the first day of our new lineup," said Foster head coach Brandi Travess. "We have a bigger presence in the front row and the rotation looks better. Once we smooth out the kinks we'll start winning."

Against the Cowboys, the Bulldogs stayed in range of victory throughout after leading 4-2. Back and forth, the teams exchanged volleying evenly on the Seattle Christian home courts.

Trailing only 11-9, Foster ran into a rut in which Chimacum bounced off six consecutive points to gain the lead at 17-9 in part due to strong serving. The Bulldogs nearly unhorsed the Cowboys with a 6-1 scoring spurt based on good outside hitting and a block by Tavaesina Maiava to trail only 18-15 by using good net blocking mixed with strong defense.

By Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

Effervescent Kennedy Catholic shined behind the brilliant running of rushers like senior Junior Ngauamo, sophomore Keannu Royster and freshman Treshaun Harrison in bettering the Lindbergh Eagles by a 48-21 score at Highline Memorial Field Friday.

The Lancers improved to 3-0 in the Seamount and 5-0 overall while Lindbergh experienced its first loss in league, dropping to 2-1.
Kennedy is good, but its 20-year coaching veteran Bob Bourgette says, in so many words, that's not good enough.

"We are a good football team," said Bourgette. "But we can be a much better football team. The effort is there, the athletes are there, but it's up to me, and, my staff, to work on things in practice to help them get better."

The Lancers won this game fairly easily, so says the final score, but until the Lancers scored their fifth touchdown of the game with 10:45 left in the fourth quarter, making it 35-14, any tilt of momentum could have seen this game go in an entirely different direction.

By Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

Evergreen scored late in the second quarter to take the lead, made three crucial stops on Highline possessions on fourth down in the fourth quarter, and experienced success on two key two-point conversion plays, adding up to an exciting 22-21 win over the Pirates for the Wolverines' homecoming game at Highline Memorial Field Friday.

"Hats off to Highine, they did a great job," said Wolverines coach Jim Wright. "That was a playoff atmosphere, a lot of fun."

Both teams played with a lot of competitive fire on offense and defense, making the Wolverines' and Pirates' fans with plenty of occasions to cheer on their teams in this game.

Evergreen struck first in the game in the first quarter, for a touchdown.

But it wasn't easy getting past the Pirates' defense as linebackers Sam Houghtby and AJ Sailiai, defensive back Montae Rainwater and defensive line guys like Isaac Faletogo made the Wolverines' players -- mostly running the ball -- earn every yard they gained.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Thomas Jefferson got the best of the Mount Rainier, 43-0, in a battle of previously winless football teams at Federal Way Memorial Field Thursday.

The Raiders ran their record to an even 1-1 in South Puget Sound League Northwest Division action with the win and to 1-4 overall while knocking the Rams to 0-2, 0-5.

TJ wasted little time in getting on the scoreboard.

Zach Grayson scored from the 20-yard line on a left end run with only 1 minute, 40 seconds elapsed in the first quarter and teammate Kenneth Turner ran for the two point conversion to already make it an 8-0 game.
The lead remained that way until the first play of the second quarter.
This time it was Nathen English running around the right side for a touchdown from 21 yards out.

Grayson passed to Lonyae Jones for the two-point conversion to up the margin to 16-0 with seven seconds off the clock.

The Raiders ran roughshod the rest of the half to break the game open.
Mason DeLaCruz fired off a 13-yard pass to Grayson on the right side for a 13-yard score.

The 6th Annual Salty Half Marathon race will be held on Oct. 18. The course is out and back from the Don Armeni Boat Lanch along Alki’s boardwalk and into Lincoln Park. Runners will be running on the Alki boardwalk and on the sidewalk.. Runners must be able to complete the 13.1 miles in less than 3 hours. Support will be closed based on an 13 minute mile pace.

Awards for the top 5 male and top 5 female finishers overall. Everyone participating will receive a custom finishers' memento from Bedrock Glass.

Post-race food will be available.

• $22 for registration plus tax and online payment fee
• No Day-of-Race registration.
• Entry fee is non-refundable and non-exchangeable.
• Pick up your race number on Race Day between 7:45am-8:15am.
• Raffle Drawing at 8:15 must be present to win.
• Race start 8:30 Don Armeni Boat Lanch 1222 Harbor Ave SW, 98116

For more information please contact Tamara Mackey at tmackey@q.com. 206-355-2040

Raffle Prizes provided by WEST SEATTLE RUNNER

CycleU Team Members will be cycling the course and handing out water.

The Seattle Department of Planning and Development announced that there are some new land use applications in the works in Ballard. There are applications for three new subdivisions and also two decisions for previous applications. Comments may be submitted through 10/19/2014 here http://web1.seattle.gov/dpd/luib/CommentEmail.aspx?BID=958&NID=18130&P=…

6413 26TH AVE NW:
Land Use Application to subdivide one development site into two unit lots. The construction of residential units are under #6396113. This subdivision of property is only for the purpose of allowing sale or lease of the unit lots. Development standards will be applied to the original parcel and not to each of the new unit lots.

2227 NW 60TH ST:
Land Use Application to subdivide one parcel into two parcels of land. Proposed parcel sizes are: A) 2,397 sq. ft. and B) 2,601 sq. ft.

6419 26TH AVE NW: