The Mountain View baseball team broke through with seven runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to beat Hudson’s Bay 8-2 Friday in an elimination game in the Class 3A bi-district tournament game at Clark College.
Mountain View advances to the bi-district fifth-place semifinal against Kelso at 4 p.m. today at Heidelberg Park in Tacoma. The Thunder would need to win two games today to reach the 3A state tournament.
After both teams scored a run in the first inning, Hudson’s Bay took a 2-1 lead with a run in the top of the sixth.
But Ryan Johnson’s double scored PJ Jones with the tying run in the bottom of the sixth.
“After that, we just kept getting base hit after base hit,” Mountain View coach Aaron Coiteux said. “There wasn’t anything huge, just a lot of small contributions.”
Zach Torson, Justin Rinta, Ross Campbell, Cameron Westphal and Jones all added run-scoring hits after Johnson’s double.
J.T. Kaul gave up two earned runs over seven innings to pick up the win for Mountain View.
Emilio Alcantar was 1-1 with two stolen bases and Trevor Goforth had an RBI double for Hudson’s Bay.
Boys soccer
Ridgefield wins district — The Ridgefield boys soccer team won’t have to travel far for its first-round game in the Class 1A state tournament after beating Hoquiam 6-1 on Thursday in the 1A district championship game.
Miller Grening had two goals for the Spudders in the win, and Tanner Konkright had a goal and two assists. Travis Heim, Matt White, and Matt Newman also added goals for Ridgefield, which improved to 16-1 on the season. Tyson Wright had five saves in goal.
Ridgefield will open the 1A state tournament against King’s, Seattle Christian or Vashon Island at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Camas’ Doc Harris Stadium.
Track and field
Washougal’s Casey sets state-best in pole vault — Washougal’s Brendan Casey set a new state best in Class 2A in the pole vault with a leap of 15 feet, 6 inches in winning Friday at the 2A sub-district meet in Woodland.
Casey’s previous best had been 14-6. He won Friday’s competition by more than two feet. He also had a win in the javelin (166-7).
Mark Morris won the boys team title with 136 points, ahead of Washougal (126) and Woodland (84).
William Davis of Woodland won the 110 hurdles (15.1 seconds) and 300 hurdles (40.5). Washougal’s Dylan Croeni also was dual-winner in the 1,600 (4:29.5) and 3,200 (9:45.7). Also winning were Washougal’s Joe Harris in the discus (130-1), Woodland’s Tra Givens in the shot put (49-4½), and Jeremiah Arn in the high jump (5-4).
The Washougal girls won the team title with 156 points ahead of Hockinson (132) and Woodland (116).
Woodland’s Charity Arn won the long jump (16-½) and high jump (5-2), Woodland’s Brianne Koering won the triple jump (32-9¾) and discus (118-3) and Hockinson’s Chantell Blundell won the 1,600 (5:42.1) and 3,200 (11:59.1).
Also local winners included Michel Berry of Hockinson (200, 27.2), Kendell Utter of Washougal (800, 2:30.2), Morgan Melo of Hockinson (100, 12.9), Kelly Young of Washougal (100 hurdles, 15.4) and Kelly Nigro of Woodland (300 hurdles, 45.9).
The district meet is next Friday at Longview Memorial Stadium.
La Center girls win Trico title — Katrina Chamberlain won the shot put and the high jump and finished second in two other events, helping the La Center girls win the 1A Trico sub-district team title at Stevenson.
La Center led the way with 143.5 points. Kalama was second at 133.
Chamberlain won the shot put (37-10½) and the high jump (5-2). She finished second in the 100 hurdles and long jump.
Also winning Friday were Amanda Blankenship (3,200, 12:51.78) Annie Baker (discus, 114-4) and Natalia Harris of La Center (pole vault, 9-6), and Jen Rathgeber of Stevenson (long jump, 15-10).
Zach Olivera of La Center, who had the best mark in the state in the pole vault for 1A competitors at 14-0, was injured during warmups Friday and did not clear a height, ending his hopes of advancing to the state meet.
Kalama won the boys team title with 156 points with La Center second at 107.
Ridgefield’s James Oman swept the shot put (50-9½) and discus (145-1), easily winning both events.
Other local winners included Kyle Kosak (800, 2:00.02) and Colten Fox (1,600, 4:52.30) of La Center.
Tennis
Wallace out of 4A bi-district — Union’s Alex Wallace, last year’s state singles runner-up in Class 3A, has withdrawn from next week’s 4A bi-district tournament in Tacoma for personal reasons, his coach Dave Heitsch said.
Last October, Wallace won the 4A district singles title over Skyview’s Kent Andreasen, the 4A singles runner-up last season.
Wallace’s withdrawal ends hopes of an all-Clark County singles final at the 4A state tournament, which will be held at the Vancouver Tennis Center.
Andreasen becomes the 4A Greater St. Helens League No. 1 singles seed to the bi-district, which will be held Thursday and Friday at the Sprinker Recreation Center in Tacoma. Union’s Marcus Kwon moves up to take the other seed to the bi-district.
4A district tennis finals today — The semifinals have been set for today’s final day of the Class 4A girls tennis district tournament at the Vancouver Tennis Center.
Advancing in singles were Kylee Tyler-Breimon and Megan Giesbers Battle Ground, Sonya Hampton of Skyview and Jelena Vidovic of Union.
In doubles, Skyview’s teams of Brittany Ellingsen-Anna Romanovsky and Kristina Meta-Tara Currie moved on. Sasha Jungling and Rhiannon Morfin of Union and Kaitlyn Tuholski and Bethany Winfield of Heritage also reached the semifinals.
Semifinal matches will begin at 8 a.m. today with the finals set for noon.
