February 2015

By Tim Clinton

Saturday, Feb. 7

Wrestling
Metro League tournament
Chief Sealth took 10th place as a team at Saturday's tournament with 78 points and West Seattle finished 14th with 61.
Chief Sealth will host regional action starting at 8 a.m. Saturday.

Seamount League tournament
Highline came in a close second as a team in Saturday's 2A action, scoring 184.5 points behind the 221 score of Renton.
Lindbergh was next with 127 points, followed by Liberty with 121.5, Foster with 65, Evergeen with 58, Tyee with 51 and Sammamish with eight.
Seamount 3A teams including Kennedy went to Stanwood this past weekend and to Marysville-Pilchuck at 10 a.m. Saturday, as the 2A teams go to River Ridge at the same time.
The Seamount girls go to a sub-regional at Decatur on Wednesday, with regionals at Yelm on Saturday.

Boys swimming
Seamount League meet
Kennedy Catholic captured first place in the team competition at the combined 3A/2A meet held at Hazen High School on Saturday.
The Lancers scored 369 points ahead of the 326 of Hazen.

By Tim Clinton

Thursday, Feb. 5

Boys basketball
Seattle Luth. 86, Ev. Luth. 53
Seattle Lutheran of West Seattle outgunned Evergreen Lutheran in Thursday action.

Girls basketball
Ev. Luth. 42, Seatle Luth. 28
Evergreen Lutheran got the best of the Saints on the girls side Thursday.

Diving
West Central District
Mount Rainier placed three divers in the top 10 at the West Central District competition held at the Curtis Aquatic Center on Thursday.
Nathan DaDalto scored 244.15 points for a third-place finish, while Peyton Conrad took sixth with 238.45 and Daniel Russell ninth with 210.05.

Wednesday, Feb. 4

Boys basketball
Kennedy 62, Evergreen 35
Kennedy Catholic of Burien prevailed over Evergreen of White Center in Wednesday's Seamount League season finale.
The Lancers finished first in the Seamount with a 14-0 record and improved to 18-2 overall and the Wolverines wound up fifth at 6-8.

By Ed Shepherd
SPORTS CORRESPONDENT

Kennedy Catholic and Evergreen played just about even the first four minutes of the first quarter, 7-6, Lancers leading, but from there JFK went on a 10-0 run to end that frame en route to a 56-25 win in the Wolverines' gym Wednesday.

The Seamount first-place team, the Lancers (12-0, league, 15-4, overall) will host Columbia River or Kelso for a district game at 7 p.m. next Wednesday while the third-place Wolverines (9-3, 12-7) will entertain Sequim.

"They gave it a lot of heart," said Wolverines' coach Natasha Hicks McCray of her team, playing without its usual complement of players.

Kennedy led, 17-6, after the first quarter, and after that big 10-0 run to end the first continued that way of play with an outscoring of the Wolverines, 16-6, in the second quarter, to lead, 33-12, going into halftime. And, that score only worsened after that for the Wolverines.

Lancers' coach, Greg Caldwell liked his team's effort.

Kennedy Catholic High School Athletic Director, Bob Bourgette, has announced the appointment of Natalie Merrill as head coach of girls’ lacrosse and Jonathan Schwartz and Brett Bowker as head co-coaches for boys’ lacrosse.

Coach Merrill has been involved in competitive lacrosse in the Puget Sound area since 2003. She starred and captained on a number of select teams including the Queen Anne Youth, Seattle Rainz, Puget Sound Select and Washington State Regional. While in high school, she helped establish the team at Kennedy Catholic and was selected for the First Team All-State four times. At Washington State University, Merrill served as the president of the WSU Women’s Club Lacrosse team and she currently serves as an official for the Washington Women’s Lacrosse Umpire Association.

The 6th season of Seattle Pride Spring and Summer AAU basketball tryouts begins Feb. 21. Last season the they had 8 teams (4 girls & 4 boys) and they won 11 championships program wide.

The teams are mostly West Seattle residents who attend Holy Rosary, Madison, Denny, Hope Lutheran, Shorewood Christian, West Seattle, Sealth, & Seattle Lutheran High Schools. They play anywhere from 40-50 games over the Spring & Summer. They are a traveling AAU team and this year they will be making trips to Portland and going to Las Vegas with their elite high school teams to compete nationally.

Learn more at http://seattlepridebasketball.com and those interested can pre register for tryouts at http://seattlepridebasketball.com/registration/

Seattle Pride 2015 Spring & Summer Team Tryouts:

Location: Seattle Lutheran High School

4100 41st Ave SW Seattle, Wa. 98116

BOYS

Grades 4th-6th -

Saturday Feb. 21st - 5-6:30pm

Sunday Feb. 22nd - 3-5pm

Grades 6th-8th -

Saturday Feb. 28th - 5-7pm

Sunday March 1st - 3-5pm

Grades 9th-12th -

Sunday March 1st - 5-7pm

by Paul Moseley

For us west side sports fans, parents and athletes, Basketball tournament season is exciting. Actually, it's exciting and exhausting if you want to figure out who's playing in what tournament and how it all ties together on March 7th in the Tacoma Dome for the State Championship.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the way it's done here in Washington but as a former physics major drop-out turned management major, I am under-qualified to grasp all of the tournament details. Welcome to the Metro/Sea King District 2/WIAA basketball tournament.

by Greg McCorkle

After starting slow in the beginning the Seahawks cranked it up and lead by seven, 20-13 at the end of the first quarter.

Chief Sealth never looked back and cruised to an impressive 74-49 win over the Rams of Ingraham.

LJ Burns finished the game with a team high 17 points followed by Evan Moes 14 points.

Khaleef Griffin had 12 and Hafid Yassan shot 11 points. other scorers were Chad Wollgast and Richard Stevens,

by Paul Moseley

The Seattle Metro League announced their full list of All Metro honors for Basketball today and both West Seattle and Chief Sealth are well represented on the list. The West Seattle Girls took the most honors among all West Seattle teams with Five All-Metro players. Here’s the rundown of west side boys and girls All-Metro basketball players:

MVP – Metro League:
Lydia Giomi, West Seattle High School

2nd Team All-Metro:
Lexi Ioane, West Seattle High School
Nate Pryor, West Seattle High School

3rd Team All Metro:
Emily Fiso, West Seattle High School
O’shea Walker, Chief Sealth High School

Honorable Mention:
Allison Hadaway, Chief Sealth High School
Labrea Denson, Chief Sealth High School
Charli Elliott, West Seattle High School
Gabby Sarver, West Seattle High School
Khaleef Griffin, Chief Sealth High School
LJ Burns, Chief Sealth High School
Andre Moore, West Seattle High School
Carter Golgart, West Seattle High School

The former Lifecare at 4700 Admiral Way SW will be torn down and replaced by Aegis Living scheduled to open in the fall of 2017. The new 3 story building will contain 81 apartments, comprising 82,000 square feet. It will have 33 Memory Care units.

The company provided a Fact Sheet on the project set to start construction in the summer of 2016 and a Q & A with Michael Derr, Vice President of Development at Aegis Senior Communities, LLC

Project Fact Sheet
 81 Apartments (48 Independent & Assisted Living, 33 Memory Care)
 Residential community with approximately 82,000 gross square feet
 Three blocks from the center of the Admiral neighborhood shopping district with views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains

Additional Project Amenities
 Two-story formal lobby and reception area for family and guests
 Seminar and concert salon
 Mediterranean-inspired design
 Private family dining room and wine-tasting lounge
 Wellness and fitness center with personal care options (massage, acupuncture)
 Activity and Workshop rooms; Sports Den and Barbershop

UPDATE Feb. 10
With fans looking on Duke Moscrip unfurled the 13th Man flag Feb. 10 at Duke's on Alki in support of Pete Carroll and all the Seahawks coaches.
Moscrip said, "After the game, I couldn't stop thinking about it. People I talked to couldn't stop thinking about it so I thought there has to be something I can do that's positive to help the fans and the coaches too."

Original Post
The owner of Duke's on Alki Duke Moscrip, is a Seahawk fan, and their loss in Superbowl 49 was a blow to his hopes and those of millions of others. He came up with a plan to lift the spirits of Coach Pete Carroll and other coaches by celebrating not the now famous 12th man but instead the 13th Man. He wrote Pete and his coaches an open letter and then decided to place the letter in local media outlets from Seattle to Tacoma to inspire a fun and positive way for fans to cope with their loss.

On Tuesday Feb. 10 at 1pm he will unveil a large 13th Man flag at the Alki Beach location.

Here's his letter:

Open Letter to Pete Carroll and all Seahawks Coaches

Dear Pete,