COVINGTON - Seattle Christian concluded its action at the West Central Tri-District Class 1A girls fastpitch softball tournament with a chaotic 20-10 six inning win against Mount Baker at the Kent Service Club fields on Saturday, May 18, and will head to Richland as the No. 3 seed. The Mountaineers will go as the No. 4 seed.

After waiting for more than 30 minutes for their opponents to be determined, the Warriors began this game sluggishly.

Mount Baker ascended to a 4-0 lead after two innings before Seattle Christian started to click.

Molli Ronish, Kellie Kumasaka, Lisa Kumasaka and Makenna Wallingford drove home one run apiece with a wild pitch accounting for another run as the Warriors earned a 5-4 lead in the top of the third inning.
Mount Baker slammed away for four runs in the bottom of the inning to claim an 8-5 advantage.

The top of the fourth featured a Seattle Christian hitting and run bombardment that netted six runs and an 11-8 edge. Extra base hits included a Baucom home run blast plus doubles by Lisa Kumasaka, Wallingford, Benita Beale and Lindsy Ronish.

For the Mountaineers, it was one run in the fifth before SCS singed the scoreboard for a lights out, five run fifth and a feverish four run sixth. Leading 20-9, the Seattle Christian Warriors survived a Mountaineer home run to finally close out the stirring slugfest in six innings on the 10-run mercy rule.

"This has been a culmination of three months of practice everyday," he said. "It was one year of focusing on a goal. This time, we're going to state with a different mind set. We have momentum and we're going there to win."