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SPORTS
by Neil
MacDonald
Blaine
hosts final track meet
Blaine
boys tallied 81 points to finish second behind South Whidbey,
who collected 90, in the Borderites final track meet of
the regular NCC season at Blaine on May 3. Lynden Christian
accumulated 48 and Meridian registered 42 points in the
quad encounter.
 Andrew
Martin won the javelin with a 167’ 4” toss and
the high jump with a 5’ 10” aerial exertion. Nick
McGee took the shot with a 49’ 6 3/4” throw. Steve
Burden, 23.87 in the 200m, and Nate Haslip, 43.4 in the
300m hurdles, added two more wins for the Border boys.
Blaine’s
Lady B’s finished fourth with 33.5 points in the girls
part of the meet, trailing South Whidbey’s 112, LC’s
63.5 and Meridian’s 51 totals.
The Lady B’s got a pair of wins. Grace Coulter, back
but still recovering from the oxygen affecting aspects of
a bout of mono, won the 1600m in 5:38.14. Becky Riddle took
the shot with a 30’ 9” put. Riddle added a second
in the discus (108’ 4”).
The
Borderites competed in NCC prelims on May 8 at Lynden Christian
while The Northern Light was at press.
The
top eight competitors at prelims in 100m through 800m and
all NCC distance and field competitors meet in the conference
finals at Lynden on May 11. Bi-district follows at Silverdale
on May 19 and state goes May 24-27 at Cheney..
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Baseball
season still alive
By
Brendan Shriane
Laird Dickie kept Blaine’s season alive as he
threw a two-hitter to lead Blaine to a 10 – 0 win over
Lakewood in a loser-out North Cascade Conference playoff
game on May 7. “The real big key was Laird Dickie’s
pitching. He’s been struggling and he really put together
a real good game,” Blaine coach Gary Clausen said.
“It was important for him to pitch well for us and
he did.” Bob Francis had two of Blaine’s 13 hits
and three runs batted in to pace the Borderites.
Blaine
will now play Granite Falls, the team it lost to at the
beginning of the tourney, on May 9 at Anderson Field. The
winner of that game gets a chance to move on to the state
tournament with a win over the West Central District’s
number 3 team at Sumner on Saturday.
Blaine
dropped the first game of the tourney 3 –1 to Granite
Falls May 5 to send it to the loser-out game against Lakewood.
The Borderites were only able to muster one hit against
Lakewood’s Greg Marcantonio. Dickie knocked in the
only run for Blaine.
Earlier
in the week, Blaine closed out the regular season by splitting
a doubleheader with Lynden Christian.
Craig
Anderson hit a clutch bases-loaded double with two outs
in the seven-run sixth to give the Borderites the lead in
a 13-11 win over Lynden Christian in the second game April
30. Mitchell Sherman, who went 4-for-5, singled Anderson
home for the final score to lead the Borderites in a 14-hit
attack. Grant Sanders picked up the win and Anderson got
the save..
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Soccer
season ends with a tie
Blaine (5-11) ended their North Cascades Conference boys
soccer season in a three-way tie with Nooksack Valley and
Lakewood for 5th, 6th and 7th place, losing 5-0 to Mt. Baker
at Kendall on May 1 and 2-0 to Lakewood in Cougar country
on May 3.
Blaine’s
overall win-loss was 3-5 at the Pipe and 2-6 on the road.
The Double B’s at-home preference was most evident
in their goals for and against records – 21-25 at home,
10-20 away..
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Golf
girls fourth
Jeni
Armstrong shot a 104 as the Blaine girls golf team finished
fourth in the final NCC tournament of the year May 3 at
Semiahmoo. Beth Stockton of Meridian had the best score
overall and took the overall title for the year. Blaine’s
other scores: Haily Braumberger shot a 106, Tamara Allen
121, Erica Johnson 133 and Erin Flores 155.
Kevin
Farmer shot a six-over 81 as the Blaine boys finished fifth
in a seven-team North Cascades Conference boys’ golf
tourney May 2 at Kayak. Lynden Christian’s Andrew Bostom
won the overall title. Adam Dolan shot 88, Brendan Mulholland
89, Matt Wiens 93, Ben Washburn 98 and Kyle Goddard 100.
The
boys finished fourth out of seven teams in a NCC tourney
at Homestead on April 31. Farmer shot an 87, Mulholland
91, Dolan 93, Wiens 93, Goddard 94 and Travis Black 105..
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Lady
Bs in playoffs
Blaine sandwiched a 13-0 North Cascades Conference fastpitch
win over Sultan in Turk territory on May 3 between a 9-0
loss to Lynden Christian on May 2 at home and a 10-0 loss
to Mt. Baker on May 4 at Deming.
That
lone win in three tires kept the Lady B’s in the neck-and-nape
race with Granite Falls and Meridian for the sixth and final
spot in Bi-district playoffs with the Nisqually League.
Blaine
played first-place Nooksack on May 8 (while The Northern
Light was at press) and face fifth-place South Whidbey at
SW on May 10 in the B’s final regular season game.
NCC
playoffs begin May 15. Bi-district follows on May 17 and
19 at Sedro Woolley and state goes May 25-26 in Yakima..
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