The Prep Beat

Central Kitsap’s Cynthia Proby was named All-Narrows League position player MVP.

All-Narrows League
MVP Pitcher—Courtney Schwan, so., Bellarmine Prep.
MVP Position—Cynthia Proby, sr., CK, sr.; Jordanne Krumpols, sr., Shelton
Coach of the year—Craig Coovert, Bellarmine Prep
First Team
Pitcher—Caylee Coulter, jr., CK; Erika Henderson, sr., SK
Catcher—Ashley Gidican, so., SK: Bailee Larson, jr., MT
Infield—Haley Dusek, sr., BP; Aubrey Lindberg, sr., Stad; Brittany Lott, sr., Stad; Alex DeStephano, jr., BP; Gabby Braniff, jr., Oly; Maddy Foster, sr., GH
Outfield—Kelly McLaughlin, sr., BP; Taylor Sunkel, sr., SK: Marie Beagle, sr., Oly; Kelsey Albaugh, so., Sh; Lexi Sanderlin, sr., Oly
Utility—Erika Hobson, sr., SK; Nikki Schroeder, jr. Oly
Second Team
C—Tristine Vandeman, so., CK. Infield—Hannah Spahn, so., SK; Sam Williams, so., CK. Outfield—Keri Fetters, sr., CK; Ashley Lockhart, sr., SK; Tiffany Ferrell, so., CK.
Honorable Mention
SK—Ashley Chamberlin, jr., P; Maddie Watson, so., utility; Maile Keanu, sr., OF.
CK—Melia Stonhill, jr., infield.

You can find them all here.
But if you’re interested in the 4A bracket to see who Central Kitsap and South Kitsap play, that’s here.
If you want to see who Bainbridge plays in the 3A tournament, click here.
And if you want to see who Sequim plays in the 2A, you can find that here.

BASEBALL

Kingston’s nine-game winning streak came to an end at Yelm on Saturday. Lynden beat the Bucs 4-3 in the first-round of the Class 2A state tournament. It was the fifth straight year Kingston has advanced to state.

North Kitsap lost to Burlington-Edison by the same score in Bellingham.

Chimacum beat Ridgefield 7-4 and will play Kalama or Cedar Park Christian later for a berth to the 1A state tournament.

SOCCER

Bainbridge 3, Shorewood 2 (Spartans advance to 3A semifinals)

Central Kitsap 1, Issaquah 0 (CK advances to 4A semifinals)

LACROSSE

Bainbridge’s girls are playing for a state lacrosse title today against Lake Sammamish at Eastside Catholic near Bellevue.

SOFTBALL

4A: South Kitsap and Central Kitsap both won to clinnch state berths. They will play each other at 4 p.m. in a seeding game.

2A: North Mason was eliminated; Kingston won its first game but needs to win two more to make it to state.

South Kitsap just hired former assistant coach Eric Canton as its new football coach.
Canton was a longtime assistant of former coach D.J. Sigurdson.
Keep reading for the press release:

Update: Here’s the story.

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Four South Kitsap Wolves were named to the All-Narrows League 4A baseball team. The Sablan twins, Alex and Vince, along with Michael Nelson and Michael Wood.

All-Narrows League 4A
MVP—Cabe Reiten, sr., Olympia
Pitcher of the year—Nick Gagliardi, jr., Gig Harbor
Coach of the year—Chuck Peterson, Stadium.
First team
Pitchers—Trever Hauser, sr., Olympia; Michael Wood, jr., South Kitsap.
Catcher—Alex Sablan, sr., South Kitsap.
Infield—Conner Jensen, sr., Bellarmine Prep; Gabe Padukiewicz, jr., Olympia; Vince Sablan, sr., South Kitsap; Jacob Veith, so., Stadium; Michael Nelson, sr., South Kitsap.
Outfield—Jake Ayers, sr., Gig Harbor; Jon Devine, sr., Mount Tahoma; Cameron Frost, jr., Olympia; Michael Fairchild, jr., Olympia.
Utility—Leif Hansen, so., Olympia.
Second team
Pitchers—Kellen Traxel, jr., South Kitsap; Mark Lane, jr., Bellarmine.
Catcher—Daniel Curran, sr., Mount Tahoma.
Infield—Garrett Gallinger, jr., Gig Harbor; Jesse Moore, jr., South Kitsap; Tyler Stumph, sr., Stadium; Kevin Whatley, jr., South Kitsap; Leo Valenti, jr., Olympia.
Outfield—Brandon Thompson, so., Bellarmine; Austin Brand, sr., Stadium; Mike Van Orden, so., Stadium; Joey Knight, jr., Olympia.
DH—Darian Hunter, jr., Stadium.
Utility—George Foley, jr., Bellarmine.
Honorable mention
Central Kitsap—Nick Barbero, so., P; Riley Paschal, so., C; Cody Apilado, sr., OF; Brion Anduze, fr., Utl.
South Kitsap—Josh Johnston, jr., P; Tom Simpson, jr., P; Tyler Pinkerton, so., OF/Utl.

Here’s the schedule for our local teams playing in district tournaments this week.

Class 3A

At Lower Woodland, Seattle

Wednesday: Bainbridge vs. Ingraham/Mount Si winner, 4 p.m.

Class 4A

At Sprinker Rec Center Tacoma

Friday: Kentridge vs. Central Kitsap, 10 a.m.; Kentlake vs. South Kitsap, 10 a.m.

Class 2A

At Sprinker

Friday: North Mason vs. Sumner, Fife vs. Port Angeles, noon; Fife/PA winner vs. Kingston, (winner-to-state),  Washington/WR winner vs. Sequim (winner-to-state), 6 p.m.

Sumner beats North Kitsap 2-0 in a Class 2A West Central District baseball game on Wednesday at Franklin Pierce. Vikings must win three straight to get to state. North plays Foster at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Franklin Pierce.

More 2A baseball: Kingston plays White River at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Fairgrounds. The Bucs Richie Sander threw no-hitter in 1-0 win over Franklin Pierce on Tuesday. Bucs could clinch state berth with a win. If they lose, they, too, will have to win three in a row to get to state. If Kingston loses, it will play Olympic at 2 p.m. Saturday at Foss HS in Tacoma. Olympic lost 4-3 to Fife on Tuesday.

Update: Kingston up 4-0 heading into bottom of three.

UPDATE: Kingston wins 4-0. That’s five straight state berths for the Bucs, one for ever year the school has been opened. Bucs will play Port Angeles-Interlake winner on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Fairgrounds.

In District 4A baseball, South Kitsap plays Kentridge Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Heritage Park in Puyallup. It’s a loser-out, winner-to-state game.

Update: Kentridge scored 3 runs in top of the first to put Wolves in an early hole.

Update II: Kentridge leads SK 4-0 in top of third

Update III: South down 6-1 with an inning to play.

South Kitsap eliminated Central Kitsap 8-5 in the Narrows League baseball tournament Wednesday.
Because the tournament was rained out two days in a row (three if you count Saturday, which was a tentative beginning date), and rain is in the forecast tomorrow, this will be the only day of the tournament.
South Kitsap, based on its third-place finish during the regular season, takes the third seed into next week’s Class 4A West Central District tournament (bracket). Olympia is No. 1 and Gig Harbor is No. 2. Stadium beat Bellarmine 6-4 and took the fourth and final spot.

In what has become a typical spring around these parts, the constant rainy weather has clouded the playoff picture for area softball teams.

I will, in this post, do my best to sort out what we do know for sure.

Let’s start with the 3A Metro League, and the Bainbridge Spartans, last year’s state runner-up. The Spartans earned two forfeits from Lakeside and improved to 16-0 on the season, including its 7-0 win over West Seattle Monday.

Bainbridge is the No. 1 seed out of the Mountain Division and will host a playoff game Wednesday, May 9 at 4 p.m. The opponent is TBD. A win in that game and Bainbridge will move on to play at Lower Woodland Thursday, May 10 at 3:30 p.m.

It’s slightly more jumbled in the 4A Narrows League.

Both Central Kitsap and South Kitsap are in the hunt for playoff berths. The top six teams move on to the NL tournament, May 10-11 at South End Recreation Area in Tacoma. The top two teams receive first-round byes and an automatic berth into the bi-district tourney, May 18-19. Currently, Bellarmine Prep is the No. 1 seed (9-2) followed by Gig Harbor (7-4), Central Kitsap (6-4), Stadium (4-4), South Kitsap (7-5) and Olympia (6-6).

The No. 3 seed plays No. 6 and No. 4 plays No. 5 in loser-out games Thursday, May 10 at 12:30 p.m. Winners of those games play the 1 and 2 seed Friday, May 11, at 3 p.m. for seeding. If games are rained out, they will play Monday, May 14.

And finally a look at the 2A/3A Olympic League, which could sort itself out this week or become a shootout for the playoffs. The top five 2A teams earn a spot in the sub-district tournament next week.

Right now, Kingston (11-1) holds a half-game lead over Sequim (10-1) but those two teams play Tuesday (weather permitting) and then again on Friday. PA (10-2) sits in third, followed by North Mason (6-6), North Kitsap (5-7) and Olympic (3-8).

There are the potential for so many scenarios in the OL, that it would be pointless for me to go into it right now. Needless to say, Kingston can control its own destiny with wins against Sequim this week, while NM, NK and Olympic will be fighting it out for the fourth and fifth spots.

For 3A Bremerton (5-6), the Knights are looking to secure a spot into the district tourney and are going toe-to-toe with Hazen(4-6) of Renton from the Seamount League. If Bremerton finished with a better record, then it would get the No. 3 seed.

If the weather allows us to have some softball this week, it should be a good one!

Not only did Kitsap’s six members of the equestrian drill team win the district title and qualify for state, the riders from Klahowya and South Kitsap also qualified for state in individual and team events.

Here’s how they did:

Brielle Stevens and Austyn Kent of Klahowya, won a district title in the working pairs category and earned a gold medal. Stevens also won a district gold in saddle seat and a bronze in hunt seat. She is also a state qualifier in dressage.

Klahowya’s Austyn Kent earned a silver medal at district in dressage and saddle seat. She also qualified for state in barrel racing.

Sara Hyatt of South Kitsap qualified for state, and won a district title, in the keyhole race category. South Kitsap’s Kendra Petasek and Autumn Hyatt won silver in birangle.