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May 9, 2012

SAMMAMISH REVIEW

Skyline comes out on top in plateau softball battle

By Lillian Tucker

The Eastlake softball team lost 5-2 last week to Skyline in a game that remained close until the second-to-last inning.

For the first three innings of the May 2 game, it looked like the Eastlake Wolves and Skyline Spartans could be headed for a stalemate. Then the curse of the zeros was broken in the top of the fourth inning when Madison Camp-Chimenti hit a single for the Spartans. Natalie De La Garrigue and Riley Davidson followed with an RBI each.

The teams went 0-0 for the next two innings. Then sophomore utility-player for the Wolves, Elizabeth Tracy, stepped up to home plate and smacked one straight into the fence at the back of the outfield. As fellow sophomore at Eastlake Abby Goux capitalized on the hit and

rounded home, Tracy’s ball bounced off the top of the fence and landed in the outfield. The umpire called it a home run.

Tying the game at 2-2, Tracy made her way back to the dugout smiling.

“It was a start,” she said later.

“It should have been a spark instead of something to end on.”

Refusing to let go of its lead, Skyline came back at the top of the sixth ready to go.

“As soon as they hit that tworun home run I told them ‘don’t give up hope’,” said Spartans coach Alison Mitchell.

The girls heeded. Megan Burris, a junior at Skyline and team captain, hit a single. She advanced to second base when De La Garrigue hit a single of her own. Eastlake’s pitcher, Alanna Martinez, who totaled two walks and three strike-outs, walked Davidson. With the bases loaded

Photo by Lillian Tucker

Winter Ridgeway, a freshman at Skyline, pitches to an Eastlake batter during the fifth inning when the score was tird 2-2. sophomore Erika Wolfe hit a single and scored two RBIs for the Spartans. She then took advantage of Eastlake’s over throw and

landed safely on second base. It was then Winter Ridgeway’s turn to bat. The freshman pitcher for Skyline, who struck out two and

walked four batters that day, hit the ball to the Wolves’ shortstop, See SOFTBALL, Page 13

Skyline boys soccer scores its way to KingCo title

By Lillian Tucker

The Skyline boys soccer team made school history last week by becoming the 4A KingCo regular season champs, for the first time.

In a shutout match against the Woodinville Falcons May 1, the Skyline Spartans won 3-0. That victory, along with the team’s two-week long winning steak brought its conference record to 8-2.

“It feels good to win finally,” said mid-fielder Pedro Miola, a senior at Skyline. Both in 2010 and 2011 the Spartans came in second in the regular season.

They then lost the KingCo tournament title to Garfield in 2010 and to Eastlake in 2011. Skyline did finish first in 2001, but the school was in the 3A division.

But there is another reason why the win means so much to the Spartans.

“You guys are going to the state tournament because you won here,” Coach Don Braman told the boys after the match.

“Yeah!” A crescendo erupted from the post game huddle that surrounded Braman.

“What I want you to recognize,” said the coach, “is that it took a lot of work to win tonight.”

Photo by Lillian Tucker

Skyline’s mid-fielder Daniel Richardson tussles with Woodinville player during the May 1 shutout. Richardson scored his first goal of the season in the 30th minute of the game, bringing the half time score to 2-0.

Twenty minutes into the game Skyline kicked off the score sheet. The team covered 70 yards of the field in six passes before

senior midfielder Austin Dodd landed the ball in the back of the net. Sophomore forward Jason Twaddle made the assist. With

the crowd still reeling from the first goal, the Spartans quickly closed in on Falcon’s goal again.

There Miola and Dodd made a

clever one-two pass between each other. Miola then crossed it from the corner of the net where Daniel Richardson got a head on it to make his first goal of the season.

“It feels amazing,” said Richardson, a junior midfielder.

“He (Miola) played a beautiful ball and I just tucked it in.”

“It was great seeing Danny score…he worked really hard to put himself in that position,” said Braman.

The May 1 game was the last of the regular season and “senior night” for the team’s five seniors: Dodd, Evan Botsch, Cole Calabro, Miola and Tim Chui. “We got some excellent contributions from the seniors,” said the coach.

“It’s also a great opportunity for younger guys to step up.”

After the game Dodd said soccer has been his favorite and he is going to miss it.

“It’s weird coming to an end.

But as long as long as we keep wining I’ll keep playing so I’ll be happy,” he said. Next year the Skyline graduate plans to attend Cal Poly where he hopes to try out for the soccer team.

In the second half junior See SOCCER, Page 13