4/20/2021

5 broadcasts were on the air last night beginning with a crosstown baseball rivalry and capped off with 4 soccer matches. Our re-caps, pictures and video highlights are all below.

Baseball
Timberline 17, River Ridge 6

(Lacey, WA) The Blazers came in to this game just 1 behind league leader Olympia with a 7-2 record while the Hawks have been struggling but competitive in most of their games at 2-6.

RR got off to a fast start and threatened to blow the game open early. In the first inning the Hawks scored 2 on a 2 9ut, 2 run home run off the bat of Chanz Doughty. Then in the 2nd inning the Hawks added to their lead with a 1-out walk followed by a single from Ian Williams. A fly out to center was followed by another walk to fill the bases with 2 outs. Ke’Ane Naputi, the Hawks starting pitcher, then helped his own cause with a bases clearing double and after 2 it was 5-0 River Ridge.

Timberline’s offense woke up in the top of the 3rd where they scored 5 runs to tie the game. The Blazers took advantage of a pair of Hawk errors when Ben Barker connected with a line shot base hit knocking in 2 runs  but would be thrown out trying to reach 3rd. CJ Beard then walked and Kaleb McNeeley singled. Chris Rivera stepped to the plate and uncorked a massive shot over the left field fence for a 3 run blast tying the game at 5.

Timberline would put the game away in the top of the 5th inning where they ultimately sent 17 batters to the plate and got 8 hits, 4 walks, 2 hit by pitches and 12 runs. Gaven McCarthy would end up with 2 hits, a single and a double with 2 RBI, Tyler McLellan, Franco Segura both had base hits with RBI’s followed by an RBI hit by pitch and walk. Beard, who had come in to pitch in the 2nd inning, helped his own cause with a 2 RBI double.

The Blazers weren’t finished yet, another hit by pitch and a 2 RBI single from Rivera who finished he game 2-4 with 5 RBI. Brandon Larson then singled and McCarthy would finish the scoring knocking in the 12th run of the inning with a double and now had a commanding 17-5 lead, scoring 17 unanswered runs.

River Ridge had to score at least 3 to push the game to the 6th inning and after 2 quick fly outs, Doughty gave the Hawks a glimmer of hope with his 2nd blast over the fence for a solo shot home run and it was now 17-6. But Beard got the next batter to pop out to 1st to end the game.

The Blazers are now 8-2 in league and overall while the Hawks drop to 2-7. Timberline will next host Capital on Saturday while the Hawks are at North Thurston on Thursday. Our players of the game went to Timberline’s Chris Rivera and River Ridge’s Chanz Doughty. Combined they had 5 hits, 3 home runs and 8 RBI.

Photo Gallery

Video Highlights

River Ridge takes an early lead on a 2 run blast

River Ridge pushes their lead to 5-0 on a bases clearing double

Timberline's Chris Rivera evens up the score with one swing of the bat.

CJ Beard lines one into left for a 2 run double

The Blazers Gavin McCarthy drives in the 12th run of the 5th inning

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  River Ridge takes an early lead on a 2 run blast
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  River Ridge pushes their lead to 5-0 on a bases clearing double
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  Timberline's Chris Rivera evens up the score with one swing of the bat.
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  CJ Beard lines one into left for a 2 run double
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  The Blazers Gavin McCarthy drives in the 12th run of the 5th inning

Soccer
Tumwater 2, Centralia 0

(Centralia, WA) The Tumwater at Centralia boys soccer game on a picturesque evening was a testament on why games are not played on paper nor knee jerk reactions. The game felt like things were barely underway before we were talking about a goal for the Thunderbirds as a quick strike from Sambou Jadama put Tumwater up 1 to 0 just over three minutes into the game.

Things would settle down though as both teams would settle into a little bit of a back and forth groove. A good chunk of the first half was played around midfield but Tumwater had several opportunities and shots on goal thanks to a fair amount of corner kicks. The Tigers’ defense and Tiger keeper, Victor Rojas were up to the challenge though not surrendering a goal for the rest of the half.

The second half of this match was much like the first half. Both squads would spend a great deal of time jostling for field position in a quick paced game. The Thunderbirds would continue to see a handful of corner kicks and shots on goal. Just under the 72 minute game mark, Tumwater would find their target. The goal off Myles Leneker’s foot would push the Tumwater lead over Centralia to 2 to 0.  That 2 to 0 score would go on to be out final from Centralia tonight.

Our Pacific Sports Spa visiting player of the game for Tumwater was Zack Schmidt. He may have not made his way on to the stat sheet tonight with a goal, but he would have foot involved in the two goals tonight helping set up his teammates for their positioning. Schmidt was a jack of all trades for Tumwater tonight.

Our Thorbeckes home player of the game for Centralia was Kilmer Alverto-Gabarrette. Listed as a forward on the Tiger roster in hand, he would be all of the field for Centralia. Applying pressure on the Tumwater defense to rally to the ball to stop a Tiger drive, as well as having a foot involved on stalling Tumwater possessions and drives.

Tumwater improved to 6-0 in EVCO 2A league play and Centralia dropped to 0-6. The T-Birds will next play at Shelton on Friday while Centralia will host Rochester.

Video Highlights (Tony Davila & Josh Kaiser)

Tumwater scores quickly for an early lead that would stand up

Tumwater's Miles Whitaker with a late goal to ice the match

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  Tumwater scores quickly for an early lead that would stand up
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  Tumwater's Miles Whitaker with a late goal to ice the match

Soccer
Stadium 7, Lakes 0

(Lakewood, WA) The Tigers solidified their 2nd place position in the PCL standings with the win at Lakes. Stadium simply overwhelmed the Lancers with a consistent offensive pressure. The Tigers jumped out to a 1-0 lead as they penetrated deep in Lakes territory and as the Lancer keeper came out to stop an attack but over slid the ball and got behind him. Ethan Blair was positioned behind and easily knocked the ball into the net for a 1-0 lead.

Stadium kept up the offensive attacks and they next struck with a nifty combination from the Tigers Martin Leffel laid up a perfect assist to Alex Cobb who finished off the run with the 2nd goal and were now up 2-0.

Lakes was trying to hang in and going into half down 2-0 would keep their hopes alive but a late penalty in the box that set up a penalty kick would be quite a deflator as Stadium finished the first 40 minutes with a 3-0 lead.

The hits kept coming in the 2nd half as the Tigers roared punching in 4 more goals to cruise to the easy 7-0 win. Stadium remains undefeated now 5-0-1 but do trail 1st place Wilson at 7-0-1 with the only blemish for each team is a 0-0 tie against each other. Stadium will host Lincoln on Thursday and wrap up their season next Tuesday against Mt Tahoma.

Lakes is now 2-3-2 and plays their cross town rival Clover Park in a non-conference match on Thursday and then will finish league play next Tuesday at Mount Tahoma.

Video Highlights (John Wittig)

Stadium strikes first Ethan Blair follows the ball deep in the box

Stadium adds to their 1st half lead on a goal from Alex Cobb

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  Stadium strikes first Ethan Blair follows the ball deep in the box
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  Stadium adds to their 1st half lead on a goal from Alex Cobb

Soccer
River Ridge 6, North Thurston 1

(Lacey, WA) The River Ridge Hawks have been on a roll this season and they came into their final match up against a 2-4-1 North Thurston squad at South Sound Stadium. The Rams and Hawks of course are cross town rivals which added to the anticipation to this match. The underdog Rams came out immediately to show they meant business as Alonzo Ogaldez broke free and got behind the Hawks defenders for the easy tap in score.

The quick strike score seemed to ignite the Hawks defense and they shut down the Rams for the rest of the match. Meantime, it took a little bit for the offense to get revved up but once they did it was an avalanche. It began in the 19th minute with Gabriel scoring the goal off a corner kick to tie it 1-1. The Hawks then took the lead with about 6 minutes to play in the half taking a 2-1 lead on a goal from Patrick Chapman and that’s how they would go into the break.

As the 2nd half began the Hawks wanted to smother the Rams defensively and pressure them on offense which led to goals in the 47th minute from Trevor Thompson. Just 4 minutes later Karl Awah found the back of the net and the route was on with a 4-2 lead. Chapman would then finish off the scoring with a goal in the 60th and then got the hat trick in the 66th minute for the final 6-1 score.

Our Players of the Game went to the Hawks Patrick Chapman and the Rams Alonzo Ogaldez.

Video Highlights (Chad Ohelo)

The Rams waste little time in jumping to a quick lead

The Hawks tie it up on a set piece from a corner kick.

River Ridge's Patrick Chapman finishes off the scoring with a hat trick

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  The Rams waste little time in jumping to a quick lead
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  The Hawks tie it up on a set piece from a corner kick.
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  River Ridge's Patrick Chapman finishes off the scoring with a hat trick

Soccer
Peninsula 3, Sumner 2 

(Sumner, WA) On senior nigh at Sunset Chevrolet Stadium, one of the best matches of the season unfolded between the Sumner Spartans and Peninsula Seahawks. 

Video Highlights (Brandon Brown)

Sumner strikes first to take a 1-0 lead

Peninsula ties up the match with about 20 min to play.

Peninsula scores on the final possession of the night for the win.

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  Sumner strikes first to take a 1-0 lead
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  Peninsula ties up the match with about 20 min to play.
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  Peninsula scores on the final possession of the night for the win.

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