The Liberty and Mount Si football teams had already locked in playoff appearances, but it wasn’t apparent with the effort displayed by both squads Friday night when Liberty came out on top 25-20.
Trey Wheeler connected with Chandler Jenkins for a 50-yard touchdown with two minutes left to give Liberty a come-from-behind, 25-20…
The Renton High volleyball team’s goal in the preseason was to collect more wins than losses. That didn’t happen, but something even better did. In the wake of a second-half surge, Renton finds itself in the playoffs for the first time in 20 years.
Twelve months later, Lauren Kaufman gets a chance to change an outcome of less than a second.
The Hazen swimmer finished third in the 50-yard freestyle race at the 3A state swim last season as just a freshman. Impressed? Kaufman wasn’t.
Leonard Wolfork got something rare in football: a second chance. And this time he made sure no one caught him.
Tradition means different things to different people. For the Lindbergh boys cross-country team, it means a third undefeated dual meet season in the past four years. It means a fourth-consecutive league championship, and it likely means a sixth team appearance at state in the past seven seasons.
It’s one thing for players to take losses in stride because better times are ahead. It’s another thing for the small group of seniors on the Hazen volleyball team to take the losses now, because they won’t be around to see the reward.
Thomas Lowes got beat last year. In fact, opponents beat him nearly every time out on the court. So much so that Liberty tennis coach Mike Salokas worried about the freshman’s psyche.
It turns out pain is just a mindset for Chad Meis.
Nine seconds. That’s how much time shaved off the game clock when Lindbergh’s Frank Cange ran his pass route, collided with a defender, stopped, caught the ball as it popped up and sprinted to the end zone. Seventy-four yards total, nine seconds, with a collision in the middle.
What started with Timm Hines wanting to be prepared to lead an afterschool club soon became a whirlwind of Olympic trials, national teams and state records. Hines didn’t know he had an aptitude for archery; but just six months after starting, he found himself at the Olympic trials, shooting next to the world’s best archers.
As the Lindbergh football team completed a 4-6 season in 2007, Dawson Asuega was a world away. Well, not an entire world, just about 5,200 miles away in Samoa.
Entering Friday night’s game, Hazen and Renton were two different teams on two different tracks. The Highlanders were 3-0 and had outscored opponents 66-12. The Indians were 1-2 and had been outscored by opponents 78-72. It didn’t take Renton long to reverse its fortunes.
The Lindbergh Eagles never buckled. They got the ball with four minutes and 51 seconds, with good field position and down by six points. The fans looked confident. Lindbergh coach Dominic Yarrignton looked confident. Most importantly, the Lindbergh players looked confident that their senior quarterback Jake Allie could lead them to a score. And Allie did just that, completing seven passes and commanding his Eagles on a 52-yard drive that ended with a touchdown and 23 seconds left on the clock. But the Sept. 26 game wasn’t over yet. Juanita blocked the extra point and then beat Lindbergh in overtime 24-21.
The 24-21 victory comes on a 20-yard field goal.
How do you build a winning team with no seniors? That’s the question Lindbergh volleyball coach Bob Stewart has had to answer this season with his young Eagles team.
With no pool on campus and small numbers to start with, the Renton girls swim team didn’t need any more challenges. Yet another challenge is just what the team got this season.
It was all about offense when rivals Renton High and Lindbergh clashed for an early season Seamount game Friday night. Lindbergh was able to capitalize on a glut of Renton penalties and score a late touchdown to earn the 30-26 win at Renton Stadium.
There’s standing-room only at Hazen girls swim practice these days. Or maybe swimming-room only, because in her fourth season head coach Diane Dobson continues to bring in new members. The slew of Hazen swimmers and divers this season numbers at 63, with only two returners lost.
With a talented group returning and three freshmen starting, the Lindbergh girls soccer team is looking to maintain a spot near the top of the Seamount League.
