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SAMMAMISH REVIEW
Hundreds come to the YMCA’s annual egg hunt
Duke Swenson, 2, of Sammamish, wearing purple reindeer headgear, grabs a plastic egg as his mom Allie, looks on during his hunt for toys and prizes.
Sanaya Tripathi, 2, of Sammamish, picks up two plastic eggs next to an Easter bunny garden decoration as she scrambles with other toddlers to win toys and candy March 30 during the annual Spring Fun Eggstravaganza held at the Sammamish YMCA.
Ryan Larsen holds his daughter Brooklyn, nine-months old, as she puts a yellow egg in her basket during her first Easter egg hunt.
The 3- to 6-year-olds dash onto the field at the starting horn to gather hundreds of plastic Easter eggs filled with toys and candy. Emmett Roughgarden, 2, of Issaquah (far left), holds three eggs as he looks for more. Sanjana Sriram, 6, of Bellevue, in her finest purple Easter bonnet and dress, finds a wrapped package of candy in one of her plastic eggs after the wild scramble for toys and prizes.
Kids scoop up eggs by the handful on the YMCA lawn during the mad dash March 30 at the Spring Fun Eggstravaganza.
Photos by Greg Farrar
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Skyline softball victorious
SAMMAMISH REVIEW
Eastside has undefeated start to year
After winning the Metro League Championship and taking second in state last year, the Eastside Catholic baseball team is at it again this season, already boasting a 6-0 record as of March 31. “This is an amazing group of young men, both on and off the field,” said coach Kyle Larsen in an email. “These boys have an incredible work ethic and great team chemistry.” Much of the team is still intact from last season with several returning varsity players, including third baseman Hayden Meier of Sammamish. Meier was busy last week in the team’s backto-back victories over Lakeside March 26 and 27. Those two games combined, Meier went 4 for 7, earned three runs, two doubles and two RBI’s.
By Christina Corrales-Toy
The Issaquah High School softball field was host to an explosion of offense when rivals Issaquah and Skyline squared off March 25. It was the Spartans’ bats that proved to pack the most punch, though, defeating the Eagles, 9-6. The schools combined to produce 25 hits, but the game remained scoreless through two innings, before Skyline pushed six runs across the plate in the third. Skyline’s Madisen CampChimenti put the Spartans on the board first, driving in two runs with a double laced to the
Photo by Rhonda Bunker
Hayden Meier of Sammamish sprints for home plate.
See SOFTBALL, Page 9
Eastlake’s first ever badminton season kicks off with a tie By Lillian O’Rorke
on this side. I should hit over there,’ and if she is in the back No ribbons were cut, nor did a you do a drop shot and if she’s in bunch of balloons billow down on the front, you do a clear. It’s just the Eastlake gym March 26 when thinking really fast of where you the high school had its first ever want to hit it compared to where badminton league match. But she is.” there were a lot of smiles. The Lake Washington School One of those smiles belonged District announced last summer to Cassidy Hemphill. The that it was adding badminton to 15-year-old sophomore had the spring line-up of girls’ sports. played on Inglewood Junior High The district was already offerSchool’s badminton team in seving it at all seven of its junior enth through ninth grade, but highs, where 280 girls came out didn’t think for the racquet she would get “I think the whole game sport last year. to play once The decision depends on strategy. she moved up to extend it to to Eastlake. high school That’s what makes a “It’s cool play was made good player.” because to ensure Title everyone was IX compliance. – Sahana Melkris, asking ‘when Leading Badminton player – are you going Eastlake’s inauto get a badgural 31-memminton team ber badminton at Eastlake’ because all the girls team is Gene Dales, who coached from Inglewood wanted to move the school’s football team for a on and still play,” Hemphill said. little over seven years and guided “In the past, they haven’t been the Eastlake Wolves to the 2011 able to, so it’s cool that they have 4A state quarterfinals. it.” During that time, Dales also The sophomore added that helped coach girls basketball in the sport is a lot more than just a the winter and girls golf in the game played at family reunions. spring. “It’s not just all about hitting “This has kind of been that the birdie,” Hemphill said. “You second sport for me that I always actually have to think ‘oh, she’s just really enjoyed because this is
a totally different setting than the Friday nights, you know, with the thousands of people watching the ball game,” he said adding that it’s not as big of a time commitment either. “We don’t breakdown much film,” Dales joked. “It’s just fun to watch something in its baby stages, because this will end up being a big deal, I think, down the road. I think badminton is a fun sport that everybody kind of enjoys and anybody can play.” For its first ever league match, the badminton team hosted Bellevue and after playing six single and four double matches, best two-out-three, the two teams ended the afternoon in a 5-5 tie. One of Eastlake’s wins was thanks to Sahana Melkris. As a junior this year, she said she is happy to be back playing the sport that she first started to enjoy in junior high. Not leaving any doubt on the court March 26, she won her No. 4 singles match 21-9, 21-1. “I think the whole game depends on strategy. That’s what makes a good player,” Melkris said. “I made sure to hit it where she couldn’t get it.” As the final match finished up, Bellevue was leading 5-4. See BADMINTON, Page 9
Photo by Lillian O’Rorke
Cassidy Hemphill prepares to return a yellow birdie shot during her No. 2 singles match.