The fastpitch team earned the Metro League’s No. 3 seed with a white-knuckle 9-8 win over Holy Names on Friday, the team’s 15th in its last 17 games.
The girls lacrosse team claimed the state championship by defeating Overlake 11-10 on Friday evening.
The girls took control of the game with a three-goal spurt in less than a minute midway through the first half and went into the break holding what appeared to be a comfortable 9-4 lead.
The water polo team opened the State Tournament with a 10-8 win over Rogers on Friday afternoon, but dropped the next four games – the last three by a single goal each time – to finish eighth overall and 10-13 for the season.
The boys lacrosse A team completed a five-day devastation of its three closest pursuers by scoring three goals in the game’s first two minutes and maintaining unrelenting defensive pressure in a 14-2 romp over Maple Valley in Wednesday’s final regular season game.
The scoreboard malfunctioned at the start of Tuesday’s girls lacrosse state tournament semi-final game. So did the Bainbridge defense, giving up four quick goals to an energized Panthers team.
“We didn’t drown and we didn’t get frostbite,” said soccer coach Alex von Reis Crooks after Monday afternoon’s 3-1 win over Nathan Hale in the first round of the Metro League Soccer Tournament at Seattle’s Memorial Stadium.
With both the Nathan Hale and Bainbridge baseball teams needing to win Friday’s game to advance to post-season play, there was no lack of excitement from either dugout.
The soccer team came up just short in its bid to capture the Metro League title, falling 2-1 to Blanchet on Thursday. The loss dropped the Spartans to third and set up a first-round playoff game on Monday at 3:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium against Hale.
A win against Hale would set up a Wednesday afternoon game with Metro runner-up Seattle Prep. A loss would end the team’s season, which featured an undefeated April following an undistinguished 2-2-2 mark in March.
The boys 4×400 relay team set a new school record to highlight Saturday’s South Kitsap Invitational – but it’s not likely to last long.
With Luke Speidel running 50 seconds flat in the first leg, the team began the race with a huge lead and clocked 3:27.1 to break the previous Spartan standard by more than two seconds.
Like many other islanders, Josh Anderson enjoyed watching the women’s downhill ski race during the recent Winter Olympics.
But Anderson, who turned 18 last month, had a special interest in the competition: he’d raced virtually the same course during the Utah Winter Games in December.
“It was cool watching it during the Olympics,” he said. “It’s an awesome course and I said to myself, ‘I did that.’
What soccer coach Alex von Reis Crooks termed “a far-too-physical ‘friendly’” (a non-league game) ended in a 2-2 tie at Eastlake on Thursday.
Bainbridge jumped out to a 2-0 lead, scoring in the 20th minute on Adam Brenneman’s direct kick after a penalty and in the 43rd minute on Kaj Hauschulz’s goal, assisted by Mitka von Reis Crooks.
Eastlake, one of the leading teams in the 4A Kingco League, tied the score on a pair of penalty kicks, though von Reis Crooks was critical of both calls.
The Spartan baseball team rode a six-run fifth inning to defeat Ballard 8-4 on Thursday, but fell victim to a five-run Blanchet outburst on Tuesday and dropped a 6-3 decision.
“The toughest part of our schedule should be over,” said coach Jayson Gore, as many observers feel that Ballard and Blanchet, along with Seattle Prep – to whom the Spartans lost on Monday – are Bainbridge’s chief Metro rivals.
The fastpitch team swung to extremes on successive days, losing 12-2 at West Seattle on Tuesday before annihilating Cleveland 17-2 at home on Wednesday for the team’s first Metro League win. Both games were called after five innings due to the 10-run rule.
“What happened today should have happened yesterday,” said coach Steve Nelson after Wednesday’s game. “West Seattle is almost the same as Cleveland. They just had better pitching, and we played that game on Astroturf. Our infielders had a hard time fielding the ball, and they became tentative.”
