Sportswatch: Sports events worth keeping an eye on Week of 4-30-18
Mon, 04/30/2018
By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR
High schools
Boys soccer
Ballard hosts Lakeside for a 4 p.m. Monday match and Chief Sealth visits Blanchet at 7 p.m.
West Seattle gets a 4 p.m. visit from Franklin at Walt Hundley on Wednesday with Chief Sealth entertaining O’Dea at 4:30 p.m. at the Southwest Athletic Complex. Ballard is at home playing Blanchet at 4 p.m.
Mount Rainier, meanwhile, gets a 7:30 p.m. visit from Tahoma at Highline Memorial on Tuesday as Kennedy goes to Renton Memorial to take on Hazen.
Highline entertains Renton at 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tyee travels to River Ridge at 7 p.m. as Foster hosts Fife and Evergreen goes on the road to White River.
Seattle Christian wraps up its regular season with a 6 p.m. road match against Cascade Christian on Tuesday.
Baseball
West Seattle meets Ingraham for a 7 p.m. playoff Monday at Steve Cox, fresh off a 4-1 win over Chief Sealth in its opener Saturday.
Ballard, meanwhile, gets a first round bye before playing a 4 p.m. game at Steve Cox on Wednesday.
The Metro League tournament concludes Friday.
Tyee takes on Kent-Meridian at 4 p.m. Monday at Hogan Park as Seattle Christian hosts Bellevue Christian and Mount Rainier travels to Auburn.
Seattle Lutheran entertains Crosspoint at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Fastpitch
West Seattle plays a 4 p.m. home game against Ballard at the Southwest Athletic Complex on Monday as Chief Sealth travels to Franklin.
Chief Sealth visits Blanchet at 4 p.m. Tuesday and drops in on Seattle Prep at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Kennedy Catholic travels to Kentlake and Mount Rainier to Kentridge at 4 p.m. Tuesday with Mount Rainier hosting Kentlake and Kennedy entertaining Hazen at the same time Thursday.
Highline gets a visit from Steilacoom at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and Tyee travels to Eatonville at 4 p.m. Thursday Tyee is at home playing River Ridge at 3:30 p.m. with Highline going to Renton at 4 p.m.
Foster hosts Franklin Pierce at 4 p.m. Tuesday, meanwhile, with Evergreen going to Fife at the same time. Evergreen turns around to entertain White River at 4 p.m. Thursday with Foster going to Fife.
Evergreen hosts Sammamish for a 4 p.m. non-league game Friday.
Seattle Christian visits Vashon Island at 4 p.m. Wednesday as Bellevue Christian drops in on Ballard.
Track and field
Chief Sealth entertains Eastside Catholic and Roosevelt for a 2:45 p.m. meet Thursday as Ballard travels to Nathan Hale with Blanchet and West Seattle going to Ingraham with Seattle Prep.
The all-Highline schools meet is at 3:30 p.m. Friday involving Evergreen, Highline, Tyee and Mount Rainier with Kennedy Catholic getting the week off.
Foster goes to White River for a 3:30 p.m. meet Thursday that also involves Fife and Seattle Lutheran is in the SeaTac League championship meet that starts at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Franklin Pierce.
Seattle Christian is involved in a multi-league meet at 3:30 p.m. Friday at West Seattle Stadium.
Girls tennis
Kennedy Catholic hosts Kentlake for a 3:30 p.m. match Tuesday as Mount Rainier goes on the road to Kentridge. Both enter North Puget Sound League tournament play at 9 a.m. Saturday at Auburn High School.
Foster is at home playing Franklin Pierce at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday as Evergreen goes to Fife and at the same time Thursday Evergreen hosts White River with Foster going to Fife.
Highline hosts Steilacoom at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday with Tyee going to Eatonville and Thursday Tyee entertains River Ridge as Highline travels to Renton.
Girls golf
Seattle Christian is at Riverbend playing Charles Wright at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday before visiting Cascade Christian at the same time Thursday.
Boys golf
Seattle Christian travels to Charles Wright for a 3:30 p.m. Tuesday match before hosting Cascade Christian at the same time Thursday at Riverbend.
Boys lacrosse
Ballard visits Seattle Prep at 7 p.m. Tuesday and entertains Eastside Catholic at the same time Friday.
Girls lacrosse
Ballard drops in on Holy Names at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and entertains Seattle Prep at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Pros
Mariners
Seattle comes home to Safeco Field to play the Oakland A’s at 7:10 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday before the Los Angeles Angels come to town for action at 7:10 p.m. Friday, 6:10 p.m. Saturday and 1:10 p.m. Sunday.
All Mariners games can be seen on the ROOT Sports cable television network.
Sounders
Seattle’s Major League Soccer team hosts Columbus for a 1 p.m. match at CenturyLink Field this Saturday that can be seen on JOEtv.
Reign
The Seattle professional women’s soccer squad visits Portland for a 12:30 p.m. Saturday match that can be seen on the Lifetime network.
Seawolves
Seattle’s new pro rugby team will pay a 10 a.m. visit to New Orleans in its next match Saturday, May 12.
Storm
Mount Rainier graduate Brittany McPhee and the Seattle Storm host Phoenix for a 12 p.m. Women’s National Basketball Association exhibition game at the Key Arena on Tuesday, May 8.
They opened practice Sunday.
Rainiers
Tacoma plays host to the Albuquerque Isotopes for a 6:05 p.m. Pacific Coast League baseball game Tuesday ahead of 7:05 p.m. games Wednesday and Thursday.
The Rainiers head off to Reno to play the Aces at 6:35 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 1:05 p.m. Sunday.
Emerald Downs
The Auburn horse racing oval is open for action at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Colleges
Husky baseball
The University of Washington goes on the road to play the Arizona State University Sun Devils at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
Husky fastpitch
Washington goes to Corvallis, Ore. to play the Oregon State University Beavers at a time to be announced Friday and Saturday and at 12 p.m. Sunday.
Cougar baseball
Washington State University is at home in Pullman playing Oregon State at 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 1 p.m. Sunday.