While Varsity softball and tennis got cancelled yesterday, the Ballard boys lacrosse team faced former club partners from Roosevelt.

In previous years Ballard and Roosevelt players had played together for the Roughriders Lacrosse Club.  Due to the fast growing popularity of Lacrosse the Ballard players split off this season and created their own club. 

Roosevelt turned out to be too strong for the Beavers, defeating them 7 to 6.

Roosevelt jumped out to a 3 to 0 lead early in the game but Ballard had manage to even the score to 3 against 3 by the end of the first period.

The score was tied 5 to 5 at half time.  Ballard defenseman Joe Kirkendall scored a quick goal to start the 3rd period but Roosevelt’s Eli Harmon and Eli Hall retaliated with two additional third period scores in what turned out to be the final scores of the game. 
 
Girls:

Ballard's Kelsey Barta netted a hat trick to lead Ballard to a 16 to 4 win over Evergreen on Thursday at Vancouver’s McKenzie Stadium.

The win evened the third-place Beavers’ record to four wins, four loses, no ties.

Evergreen’s defense kept Ballard scoreless for the first six and a half minutes of the opening half but by second half, Ballard had a 9 to 0 lead and netted another seven goals.in.

Hayley Jackson, Jordan Westerman and Dayan Flynn-Walsh each contributed 2 goals. Hannah Breton had three saves.

Baseball:

The Ballard varsity baseball team knocked off the number 5 ranked team in the State on Wednesday, beating Newport 4 to 3.

Joe Jacobson and Caleb Jaeger were on the mount for the Beavers. Nelson Cooper was two for two at bat with two doubles and two RBI.
Ryan Kangas was two for three with two RBI.

Softball:

Meanwhile Varsity softball triumphed over Inglemoor at Lower Woodland Park on Wednesday evening.
The Beavers got ahead two to one in the first inning but didn't score again until the fourth after Inglemoor scored two runs to get ahead. Ballard's Brittney Blocker homerun evened the score. Things got exciting in the seventh inning when Inglemoor scored a run in the first half, challenging Ballard to score on the second half. Ballard did and the game went into an extra inning. Inglemoor was unable to score and the Beavers won the game at bat in the second half of the eighth inning with a game winning basehit by Blokker to bring Morgan Bailess across the plate.

The Beavers won 5 to 4.

Both teams had 12 hits and Ballard's Brittney Blokker led the Ballard team at bat with four hits, one homerun, and two RBI.

Bernie Cardon was three for four with a double and one RBI.

Andrea Jewett was on the mount for all eight innings and struck out six batters.

The win puts Ballard at a 3-0 record, putting them in first place.

"This is a huge win for our program and really shows this program is continuing to grow," said coach Kyle Gray.

"These girls really believe in each other and the system and have really changed the culture of Ballard Softball.  Ballard has never beaten Inglemoor in softball until yesterday. We do know its still early and we have a lot of work still to do but that was certainly a big one for us."

Track:

Ballard had their sixth meet of the season yesterday against Newport and Bellevue at the SouthWest Athletic Complex in West Seattle. Despite what must have been the worst conditions in several years, a few Ballard athletes managed to have good results.

The top boys Ballard finishers were:

Alex Anguiano 1st place 100 M
Brad Baker 1st place 200 M, 2nd place 800 M
Alex Bowns 1st place 800 M, 1st place 1600 M
Bryan Quandt 1st place 3200 M
Victor Bailly 2nd place 3200 M
Alex Weatbrook 1st place Discus

The top girls finishers were:

Emma Onstad-Hawes 2nd place 200 M
Tikycia Young 2nd place 400 M
Rachel Livengood 2nd place 1600 M
Natalie White 1st place 3200 M
Anna Mirenzi 2nd place 3200 M
4x200 relay team 1st place
Takeko Horiuchi 2nd place 300 M Hurdles
Maria Volk placed 1st in the pole vault

Visit this link to the full results.