May 2015

Saturday, May 2

Boys soccer
Mt. Rainier 3, Todd Beamer 1
Mount Rainier ran its South Puget Sound League Northwest Division-leading record to 8-4-1 with Saturday's win ahead of the 6-2-4 mark of Thomas Jefferson.

Baseball
Tyee 14, Evergreen 3
Tyee's Totems trounced the Wolverines in Seamount League action Saturday.

Friday, May 1

Baseball
Kentwood 5, Mt. Rainier 4
The Rams came up short in SPSL Northwest action Friday.
Kennedy 12, Tyee 2
Kennedy remains in a Tyee with Hazen for first in the Seamount after Friday's win.
Lindbergh 10, Foster 6
Foster fell short against the Eagles on Friday.
SCS 13, Bellevue Christian 7
Seattle Christian School outslugged Bellevue Christian in Nisqually League action Friday.

Fastpitch
Highline 15, Evergreen 0
Highline had a big day against the Wolverines on Friday at the plate and on the mound.
Lindbergh 17, Foster 2
The Bulldogs were buried by Lindbergh on Friday.
West Seattle 12, Blanchet 0
Blanchet became the latest victim of the Wildcats this past Friday.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools

Fastpitch
Chief Sealth will end its regular season Wednesday, hosting Garfield for a 4 p.m. game at the Southwest Athletic Complex.
The Seamount League season will also conclude that day with four 3:30 p.m. games.
Highline will pay a visit to Foster as Tyee entertains Lindbergh and Kennedy hosts Hazen. Evergreen will be at Renton.
Seattle Christian is at home playing Cascade Christian at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Mount Rainier entertains Kentridge at 4 p.m. Thursday and SCS is home against Orting at the same time Friday.
The Metro League tournament starts at the SWAC on Monday and Tuesday and will conclude with the championship game the following Friday.
Seattle Christian goes to Cascade Christian at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Baseball

Seattle Christian entertains University Prep at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday and the Metro League tournament opens Thursday with West Seattle playing Franklin at 3:45 p.m. at Hiawatha.

Boys soccer

By Ed Shepherd
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Highline batted consistently for hits and runs each inning of the game, and, pitching did its part, in a game the Pirates beat the host, Evergreen, 21-0, stopping the action after five innings of play, via the mercy rule, on the Wolverines' campus, Friday.

There was pretty much no doubt who was going to finish with a win between the Pirates and Wolverines in that game.

After the first inning, the Pirates owned a 4-0 lead. And, if that wasn't enough to convince one who would win, then, it was, then, 7-0, after the second, and, 11-0, after the third. So, though, the Wolverines made some good plays in that game, it was the inordinate amount of hitting--16 knocks--and the continuous strong pitching that drowned out any hopes for the home team.

So, there, probably, wasn't a whole lot of things the captains for the Pirates', seniors, Danny Perkins and Viktor Brose, could say about the Wolverines' game, afterward.

Saturday May 9th from 12-5pm, the Seattle Flower truck will available in Olde Burien so that you can get some special flowers for Mom. There will also be a plant sale benefiting C.A.R.E.S. So come and get your spring on!

Courtesy Article by Gerardo Bolong

After going AWOL on timely hits last Friday, Nisqually 1A league leading Seattle Christian teed off early en route to 17 hits and a 15-1 non league softball victory at fourth-place Seamount League 2A Lindbergh (Renton) on Mon., May 4, to improve its overall record to 11-2.

Led by senior right fielder Taelor Willhoite's 3-for-3 game batting, including three RBI and two runs scored, the Warriors launched balls all over the field to post a six-run strike in the first inning.

Very little let up ensued as Seattle Christian punched home two additional runs in the second as a prelude to four more runs in the third inning as SCS stormed to a 12-0 dominance.

For the home standing Eagles, Chelsey Guhlke scored their only run in the fourth inning to make the score 15-1 after the Warriors had sent more hits into orbit in a top of the fourth outburst of three runs.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

West Seattle overcame a slow start to overwhelm Holy Names, 10-2, Monday and run its overall girls fastpitch softball season record to 16-3.

The win at the Southwest Athletic Complex upper field was the seventh in a row for the Wildcats, who improved to 11-2 in Metro League divisional play and remain in a three-way tie for first place with Ballard and Bainbridge.

If the tie holds up through the final game of the season -- a 3:30 p.m. home game at the SWAC against Eastside Catholic on Tuesday for West Seattle -- the Wildcats will play both Ballard and Bainbridge in four-inning tiebreaker games starting at 4 p.m. Thursday at Rainier Beach.

The actual Metro League tournament runs next Monday, Tuesday and Friday at the SWAC lower field.

information from WSDOT

Crews will coordinate staggered lane closures to complete important work on State Route 99/Aurora Avenue North starting Friday, May 8, in part to help Mariners fans get to and from Safeco Field this weekend.

The Washington State Department of Transportation will close all southbound lanes of SR 99/Aurora Avenue North between the Battery Street Tunnel and Valley Street from 10 p.m. Friday, May 8, until 5 a.m. Sunday, May 10. To help with traffic flow following the Mariners game that night, the northbound lanes will not close until 11 p.m.

On Saturday, May 9, crews will temporarily reopen the southbound lanes between the Battery Street Tunnel and Valley Street at 3 p.m. and the northbound lanes at 8:30 p.m. Crews will close all lanes again at either 10:30 p.m. or two hours after the end of the Mariners game, whichever is later.

information from King County

King County and City of Seattle will host a "Meet the Contractor" open house to share information about installing rain gardens and cisterns through the RainWise Program.

The event is set for Saturday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Highland Park Improvement Club, 1116 SW Holden St., Seattle. It is the last RainWise contractor fair for this spring.

RainWise is a joint effort by King County and the City of Seattle to fight water pollution by offering rebates to eligible Seattle property owners that could cover up to 100 percent of the cost to install a rain garden and/or cistern.

Rain gardens are more than just beautiful, they help solve one of the largest sources of pollution for Puget Sound by naturally cleaning and controlling stormwater. Cisterns are large rain barrels that collect runoff from rooftops, which homeowners can use for watering yards and landscaping.

This morning, during a fundraiser breakfast for the non-profit Clean Solutions, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced that the Port of Seattle will need to seek a new land-use permit before Foss Maritime can use Terminal 5 as a staging area for oil rigs this summer.

In a transcript released to the media the Mayor said “To prevent the full force of climate change, it’s time to turn the page on things like coal trains, oil trains and oil drilling rigs. It’s time to focus on the economy of the future: electric cars and transit, green homes and environmentally progressive businesses. I expect the Port to obtain all required city permits before any moorage or work begins at T5 on off-shore drilling equipment. While requiring a new permit may not stop the port’s plans, it does give the port the opportunity to pause and rethink this issue”.

The controversial plans by Foss Maritime to use Pier 5 as a staging area for Shell Oil drilling rigs headed to Alaska has garnered a firestorm of negative reactions from environmental groups and citizens alike.