Sportswatch: For the week of June 17-23
Mon, 06/15/2015
By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR
Little League
Tournament of Champions
The District 7 Junior Little League Tournament of Champions is scheduled to take place Saturday at the Des Moines Fieldhouse.
West Seattle opens against Rainier District at 9 a.m. with the winner playing South Highline National at 3 p.m.
PacWest plays Renton at noon and the championship takes place at 6 p.m.
The championship would be pushed to noon Sunday if West Seattle or Rainier Beach are involved since the 6 p.m. Saturday game would be their third game of the day.
The T.O.C. is a single-elimination tournament for regular season in-house league champions.
Semipro
Highline Bears
The Highline Bears will be at home at Steve Cox Memorial Park in White Center playing the Everett Merchants at 7 p.m. Thursday before entertaining the U.S. Military All-Stars at the same time and place Friday.
Highline carried a 4-4 record into a 7 p.m. home game against the Seattle Studs on Tuesday, including an 8-7 victory over the North Thurston Senators on Sunday.
Only two Bears games have been decided by more than one run.
They opened with a 1-0 victory over Snohomish on a Colton Kelly walkoff home run in the 13th inning Saturday, May 30 and won, 4-3, in walkoff fashion Friday, June 5 on a two-out hit by Australia's Myles Wesener. They were 4-3 winners over the Northwest Honkers on Sunday, May 31.
Pros
Sounders
Seattle hosts the San Jose Earthquakes for a 1 p.m. match at CenturyLink Field on Saturday that can be seen on JOEtv and heard on 97.3 FM and 1360 AM radio.
Mariners
Seattle entertains the defending World Series Series champion San Francisco Giants for 7:10 p.m. games Wednesday and Thursday before getting a visit from the Houston Astros at 7:10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1:10 p.m. Sunday.
The defending American League champion Kansas City Royals then come in for 7:10 p.m. action Monday and Tuesday.
All Mariners games can be seen on ROOT Sports Northwest cable television and heard on 710 AM.
Rainiers
Tacoma is in Reno for 7:05 p.m. action Wednesday before moving on to Albuquerque for 6:05 p.m. games Thursday through Saturday and for a 5:05 p.m. game Sunday.
The Rainiers then come home to Cheney Stadium for a 6:05 p.m. game against Reno on Tuesday.
Tacoma games can be heard on 850 AM and seen on MiLB.com.
Storm
Seattle's women's basketball team hosts Phoenix for 6 p.m. action Sunday.
Reign
Seattle is in Boston for a 1 p.m. women's professional soccer match Sunday.