A 27-game winning streak over two seasons and claim to the all-time girls state championship record are on the line Friday night as No. 1 Issaquah, the defending Washington state girls champion, takes on No. 2 Bainbridge, which is making a return to the title game for the first time since 2012, in the Washington Lacrosse Girls State Championship Game at the Eastside Catholic School in Sammamish.
It was another big win for Big Blue. And another demon exorcised for the Spartan girls lacrosse team.
SEATTLE – The Spartans broke open a 3-0 lead over Roosevelt in the first round of the Metro League softball tournament with a seven-run third inning to easily outgun the Rough Riders 12-0 Monday at Southwest Athletic Complex.
KIRKLAND – The Bainbridge High School track team sent its athletes to two different venues recently for the season’s final invitationals.
SEATTLE – An unexpected roadblock on the Spartans’ path to success quickly emerged in last Wednesday’s playoff match: Ballard High.
SEATTLE – Bainbridge was unable to unseat the O’Dea baseball dynasty Thursday night at Steve Cox Memorial Park, and the Spartans were defeated 5-2 in the final round of the Metro League playoffs by the defending champions.
The proof, as they say, is in the bus ride. Well, maybe “they” never say that, but the Spartans do.
Trent Schulte found himself in a tense spot on the mound when — in the bottom of the seventh, with two outs and the bases loaded — there quite suddenly existed the very real possibility that Bainbridge might lose the game they’d been so easily winning.
JOINT BASE LEWIS MCCHORD – The Gear Grinders, Bainbridge Island’s competitive mountain bike racing team for high school and middle school students, sent 20 riders to the third statewide competition of the season earlier this month at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
SEATTLE – Ballard escaped with a 4-2 win over Bainbridge in the second round of the Metro League fastpitch tournament Tuesday at Southwest Athletic Complex.
SEATTLE – Bainbridge High varsity coed tennis team powerhouse players Ben Devries and Eli Wagner won the Metro League Tournament Tuesday 6-4, 6-0.
SEATTLE – The Bainbridge High varsity boys soccer team secured the top spot in the Metro Sound Division last Wednesday when they shutout Seattle Preparatory 4-0 on the road.
BAINBRIDGE – The Bainbridge Spartans wrapped up the regular season in fastpitch softball with a lopsided 14-3 over Holy Names.