Sportswatch for the week of June 8-14
Wed, 06/08/2016
By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR
Semipro
Highline Bears
The Bears semiprofessional baseball team will be at home at Mel Olson Stadium at Steve Cox Memorial Park in White Center for a 7:05 p.m. game Friday, taking on the NWCL Emeralds of Lacey.
Highline visits the Emeralds at Saint Martin's College at a time to be announced Saturday before coming back home to face the South Sound Sox at 7:05 p.m. Sunday.
Pros
Mariners
Seattle hosts the Cleveland Indians for 7:10 p.m. action at Safeco Field on Wednesday and Thursday before the Texas Rangers come to town for an important series this coming weekend.
The action starts at 7:10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 1:10 p.m. Sunday.
Then the Mariners take Monday off to fly to Tampa Bay, playing the Rays at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday.
All Mariners games can be seen on ROOT Sports cable television.
Rainiers
Tacoma, the Mariners' Class AAA Pacific Coast League farm team, hosts the Reno Aces at 7:05 p.m. Thursday and Friday at Cheney Stadium, followed by a 5:05 p.m. game Saturday and 1:35 p.m. action Sunday.
The Rainiers visit Salt Lake City for 6:05 p.m. games Monday and Tuesday.
Storm
The Seattle Women's National Basketball Association team visits Connecticut for 4 p.m. action Friday before going to Indiana for a 3 p.m. contest Sunday.
Friday's game can be seen on JOEtv and Sunday's on the NBA network.
Reign
Seattle will be at home at Seattle Memorial Stadium playing Houston in a 4 p.m. women's professional soccer match Sunday.
Emerald Downs
The Auburn horse racing oval will open for 6:30 p.m. action Friday and for 2 p.m. competition Saturday and Sunday.
Sounders
Seattle's men's professional soccer team is off until June 19.