Friday, May 18, 2012
Jeff Fransen replaces Steve Bain who led Knights to two 1A state titles
King’s High School has hired Jeff Fransen to the position of head volleyball coach. Joining King’s, Fransen inherits one of the state’s most successful high school volleyball programs. King’s holds state championship titles for 2008 and 2009, with a second place finish in 2010, and a third place finish in 2011. Coach Fransen is well-known in King’s athletics and the King’s community, as both of his children are students at King’s and his daughter played a prominent role for the Knights volleyball team for four years. Fransen comes with years of experience coaching numerous select teams and through involvement with King’s feeder teams, has developed many of the program's top players from a young age. Prior to coming to King’s, Coach Fransen…
Thursday, May 17, 2012
T-birds to face Bainbridge at 12 p.m. Saturday at Shoreline Stadium
The Shorewood boys soccer team continued its postseason march with a 2-1 victory over Chief Sealth at Shoreline Stadium Wednesday night in a first round state 3A playoff game. The No. 1-ranked Thunderbirds improved to 20-0 and will play for a quarterfinal matchup against fifth-ranked Bainbridge Saturday at Shoreline Stadium. The Thunderbirds (20-0) will host fifth-ranked Bainbridge in the quarterfinals on at 12 p.m. Saturday, May 19 at Shoreline Stadium. After a scoreless first half, which the Seahawks (14-3-1) matched up well with the T-birds, Shorewood continued to chip away and gained an edge in the second half. Senior Hayk Avanesyan, the T-birds' most skilled player, broke the ice with a goal in the 49th minute. Eugene Holley added a …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Shorewood's No. 1 doubles team of Francesca O' Malley and Daniella Brengelmann earns second trip to state tournament
Shorewood's No. 1 doubles team of Francesca O' Malley and Daniella Brengelmann defeated the Mountlake Terrace team of Gillian Braden- Armstrong and Nicole Bouche for the 3A District 1 Doubles Championship. The win qualified O'Malley and Brengelmann for the 3A WIAA state tennis tournament for the second straight year. The match was very close with the T-Birds winning 4-6, 7-6 ( 10-8 ), 7-5. Braden- Armstrong and Bouche will play a loser out and winner to state match versus the winner from the consolation final. The WIAA state tennis tournament starts Friday morning May 25th and continues Saturday May 26th at Kamiakin High School and the Tri-City Court Club in Kennewick, Washington.
The public investment to help finance the project and be repaid via arena revenue would be $200 million if both an NBA and NHL team relocates, or $120 million if only an NBA team relocates.
Today, the effort to build an arena to lure an NBA and possibly an NHL team to Seattle became official. Chris Hansen, the Seattle native and San Francisco hedge fund manager, along with Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and King County Executive Dow Constantine, announced the parties had reached a memorandum of understanding regarding a new, $490 million arena in the city's SODO District. The MOU must be approved by both the King County Council and the Seattle City Council. The arena would be built mostly to convince the NBA to locate a professional basketball team back in Seattle, which lost its team four years ago when owner Clay Bennett moved the team to Oklahoma City. One of the agreement's most controversial components is the public financing…
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Francesca O'Malley and Daniella Brengelmann win twice to advance
The Shorewood doubles team of Francesca O' Malley and Daniella Brengelmann won two matches in the 3A District 1 tournament to advance to the district doubles final Wednesday at noon at Glacier Peak High School. The T-birds' due defeated a team from Lynnwood in the first match of the District 1 tournament 6-2, 6-0 and then defeated the number one seeded team from the Northwest Conference from Mount Vernon 6-4, 6-3 to advance to Wednesday's final. They will meet the team from Mountlake Terrace that they lost to last week in the Wesco 3A doubles final. The winner advances to the WIAA state 3A tournament in Kennewick, Washington May 25th and 26th. The loser must play the winner of the consolation bracket with the winner of that match …
Scheffler replaces the retiring Marv Morris
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Tuesday, May 15
Ben Scheffler is the new varsity boy’s basketball coach at Shorewood High School, according to the Shoreline School District. Scheffler replaces Marv Morris who retired in February. While at Shorewood for four years, Morris was able to restore the basketball program to a competitive level in WESCO. Morris retires, achieving 300 wins in his career. This will be Scheffler’s first high school head coaching position, but he comes to the Thunderbirds with an experienced coaching resume. His coaching experience includes head coaching with top level local AAU programs and assistant coaching experience at three college programs, including Seattle Pacific University. Scheffler also had a successful collegiate playing career at Seattle Pacific, …
Monday, May 14, 2012
Girls tennis and golf players still alive as well as Shorecrest softball
Boys Soccer: Shorewood, undefeated (19-0) and ranked No. 1 in the state, defeated Glacier Peak 1-0 Thursday night at Shoreline Stadium to win the 3A District 1 championship and advance to the State 3A tournament that begins May 16. Dawda Dibba scored the game's only goal in the 59th minute for Shorewood. The T-Birds will host a State 3A first-round game vs. Chief Sealth of Seattle at 7:30 p.m. on May 16 at Shoreline Stadium. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors. Read more about the game on Shoreline/Lake Forest Park Patch Girls Tennis: Shorecrest's Meera Limaye won the Wesco 3A sub-district singles title on Wednesday, while Francesca O"Malley and Daniella Brengelmann of Shorewood were second in doubles. Shorecrest won the…
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Shorewood places third, Glacier Peak takes title; Scots led by double-winner Nicole Harris
Glacier Peak dominated the Wesco 3A League girls track and field meet at Shoreline Stadium that concluded Friday, but Shorecrest placed second and Shorewood third. Shorecrest won six events, led by Nicole Harris' wins in the 300-meter hurdles (44.73 seconds) and long jump (16-feet, 11-inches). Other Shorecrest winners were Aiko Mizumori-Canfield in the javelin (130 feet, 1 inch), Amanda Banks in the 200-meter dash (26.69 seconds), Kathryn Andria-Habermann in the 400-meter dash (59.64 seconds) and the 4x200-relay team (1:46.69) Shorewood's winners were Charity Ijiomah in the 100-meter dash (12.65 seconds) and Alaina Olson in the high jump (5-feet). Team Scores: Glacier Peak, 204; Shorecrest, 143; Shorewood 121; Everett, 105; Oake Harbor, 99…
Oak Harbor takes boys team title, Shorewood fourth
Shorecrest placed third in the Wesco 3A League boys track meet at Shoreline Stadium Friday. The Scots scored 115 points, one behind second place Glacier Peak. Oak Harbor won the meet with 135 points. Shorewood was fourth with 113 points. David Fan of Shorewood won the 100-meter dash in a time of 10.78 seconds. John Odion of Shorecrest won the triple jump with a leap of 42 feet. Shorecrest won the boys 4x100-meter relay with a time of 44.08 seconds. Team scores: Oak Harbor, 135; Glacier Peak, 116; Shorecrest 115; Shorewood, 113; Lynnwood, 104; Mountlake Terrace, 94; Marysville-Getchell, 50, Everett 42, Meadowdale, 12. Wesco 3A Conference Track and Field Meet - 5/9/2012 to 5/11/2012 Shoreline Stadium Boys 100 Meter Dash Finals 1, David Fan, …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Dawda Dibba scores the game's only goal as the T-birds claim a 3A state tournament berth and No. 1 seed
SHORELINE— After a night of near misses, a Shorewood player finally got the magic touch in front of the goal on Thursday night at Shoreline Stadium. After a pass from Danny Han, the T-birds’ adept dribbler Dawda Dibba used some fancy footwork to break free in front of the goal escaping a Glacier Peak defender who went for the ball. And in that 59th minute, Dibba didn’t miss—he took a shot from about eight yards out and put it in the back of the net for the game’s only goal. “We wanted to keep a perfect record, like all the way to state, and this night was the greatest night of our season,” Dibba said. “Our goal was to win district and go to state and we did it.” Shorewood coach Nathan Davis attributed his team’s early struggles during the …
