Select baseball, two fastpitch teams come home with trophies.
Jason Taylor will climb Mt. Rainier to help people breathe. The snow capped peak of Mount Rainier is always in sight for Bainbridge resident Jason Taylor.
It’s visible from his home on Murden Cove where he lives with his wife Penny and two young children, it’s in the background when he goes for his daily run and it’s in sight when he drives to his job in Gig Harbor where he works for the Threshold Group as a investment advisor for foundations and wealthy families.
The mountain can even be seen from his office, as the building is located right next to the water and has a dock where he can get an even closer look if he so desires. “You just walk on that dock and it’s right there,” he said. “It beckons you.
“You can’t escape it. It’s everywhere you look. It dominates.”
Island sports briefs.
Baseball all-star teams still alive for a chance to go to state.
Popular all-comers track meet starts Monday at Bainbridge High.
Sam Kuhn earns $2,000 in scholarships from A to Z Sports.
Several baseball all-star teams are still alive as play heats up.
Team earns spots on All-Metro team as well. With a new coach in tow in George Vukic, the Bainbridge boys soccer team finished with a winning record and finished the season one game short of state against their arch-rival in Mercer Island.
For their efforts this season, five Spartans made the All-Metro Mountain Division team.
Zach Connor was a second-team selection while Will O’Donnell was an honorable mention.
Three Spartans also made the All-Kitsap News Group team, as voted on by the sports writers of the Bainbridge Review, the North Kitsap Herald, the Central Kitsap Reporter, the Bremerton Patriot and the Port Orchard Independent:
Team moves on to the state tournament in Moses Lake.
Others earn All-Metro nods for their top-notch play this year.
Several more make the All-Metro team for their success. The Bainbridge fastpitch team had one of their most successful seasons in years. They got big wins over Central Kitsap, Holy Names and West Seattle en route to a tie for second place in the Metro League Mountain Division. From there, the Spartans overcame a heartbreaking defeat to Holy Names to take third at the Metro tournament, then defeated Ingraham and Issaquah on the first day of the district tournament to make their first trip to state since 2002.
Bainbridge also won a game at state, the first since 1989 when slowpitch softball was still played.
They make a Cinderella run through the playoffs to win it all. A Cinderella run through the playoffs led to a Little League Championship for the Tigers.
Unlike their prior playoff games in which they rallied from deficits to win, the survivors of the American League playoffs jumped out to an early lead in the championship game.
They never let their National League counterparts in the Diamondbacks, back in the hunt, winning the Bainbridge Island Little League baseball title game 8-3 last Friday.
After spending 23 years at BHS, Neal White is closing the book on a fine career. It’s the end of another year at Bainbridge High School.
As students play pickup games on the football field and sit and chat with one another in the courtyard, Neal White, along with all the other teachers and administrators, wraps up his end of the year duties, just like any other year.
But this year, White is doing them for the last time – all with a smile on his face, as evidenced by the PowerPoint presentation showing various pictures and moments of his life that was put together for his retirement party a few weeks ago.
“I look back and I think ‘Those were some great times,’” he said. “Those pictures brought back a lot of memories.”
