“The high hurdles, the opening event of Friday’s three-way track meet with visiting Central Kitsap and Port Angeles, set the tone for what would follow. CK swept the boys hurdles en route to scoring 68 points to Port Angeles’ 61 and Bainbridge’s 52.Melissa Borgen ran 17.0 into a headwind to win the event for Bainbridge, but Port Angeles’ superior depth – the Roughriders took third and fourth – foreshadowed the team outcome. Both the Spartans and Roughriders won nine events, but Port Angeles scored more of the crucial seconds, thirds and fourths to top the Spartans 98.5 to 71. The Cougars were far in arrears with 19.5. The exception was the 400 and 800. Becca Ivey won both races (60.5 and 2:33.2) with her sister Veronica third in the 400 (62.5) and Kari Jensen fourth (65.4). In the 800, Veronica moved from fifth at 500 meters to finish second (2:35.1). Becca Ivey also anchored the winning 4×400 relay (4:28.7).Other Spartan highlights:* Borgen also won the 300 hurdles (50.20) to highlight her 18th birthday.* Laura Bartunek won the high jump (5-0) and long jump (15-1) and placed second in the triple jump (31-5).* Sarah Grue won the 1600 (5:41.3). * Alice Russell won the discus (95-9) and was second in the shotput (33-9 3/4).* Luke Preble won the 200 (23.0), 400 (51.8), anchored the winning 4×400 relay team (3:34.9) and nearly pulled out the 4×100 with a strong finish (45.7).* Joey Mankes won the triple jump (41-7) but bruised his heel and was held out of the high jump and long jump. * Seth Jacobson (5-8) led a Spartan sweep in the high jump.* Aaron Blumenthal won the pole vault (11-6).The team travels to Bremerton tomorrow for a three-way meet with North Kitsap and the host Knights.Fairbank, Smith pace lacrossersJesse Fairbank needed just 12 seconds to score the opening goal of Saturday’s boys’ lacrosse game against visiting Overlake.When teammate Adam Smith tallied 35 seconds later the game was over for all practical purposes as Bainbridge rolled to a 17-1 triumph.With Bainbridge leading 4-0 after the first quarter and 9-0 at the half, the only issue was whether they would record a shutout, a rarity in lacrosse. Overlake finally got on the board with less than six minutes left in the game to avert a whitewashing.Smith finished with four goals, while Fairbank and Jacob Hayashi each tallied three. Ross Maloney, Matt Steffen, Joe Picha, Jesse Savage, Erik Steinecker, and Andy Kelly all scored one. Perhaps the most-appreciated goal of the evening occurred when starting goalkeeper Charlie Delius – playing attacker in the second half – slammed home the evening’s final goal with 2:24 remaining.Smith had four assists, Fairbank had two, and Savage, Steinecker and Scott Burkland all had one for Bainbridge, 7-0 in league play entering last night’s game with Nathan Hale.Girls lacrossers rout LakesideThe girls’ lacrosse team defeated highly regarded Lakeside 15-5 on Monday, though coach Tami Tommila felt the score was deceptive because Lakeside’s starting center didn’t play. She’s usually good for five or six goals, Tommila said.Bainbridge got off to a quick start as Rebecca Williamson put a loose ball into the net just 21 seconds into the game. Just over a minute later Ashley Pedersen followed with a goal right in front of the net.But the Bainbridge offense bogged down after that and Lakeside scored their first goal on a rebound with 16:13 to go. Neither team could score until Jessie Phillips picked up a loose ball about 10 yards out from the goal with 2:27 left, circled to her right and launched a five-yard arrow into the back of the net. Moments later, the Lakeside goalkeeper lunged toward the ball, missed it and Pedersen was in the right position to push it into the empty net for a 4-1 halftime lead.The second half started as a virtual carbon copy of the first as Rebecca Williamson fed Jaron Santelli, the team’s leading scorer, for an easy goal just 33 seconds after the beginning of play.A minute and a half later Santelli gave Lauren Hume a short feed in front of the net for a 6-1 Bainbridge lead.Lakeside tallied 40 seconds later, but at 20:52 Lindsay Newlon fed Santelli for her second goal. Fifteen seconds later, Williamson picked up a loose ball near midfield, ran through the Lakeside defense and scored for an 8-2 lead.Santelli made a nice spin move between two defenders at 13:47 to make the score 9-2 and twelve seconds later Adrienne Moon picked up Williamson’s missed shot to extend the Bainbridge lead to eight. Two minutes later she scored again, on a free shot play.Lakeside tallied twice in just over a minute to make the score 11-4, but Newlon scored on another free shot at 7:44, Williamson had another long run and goal at 6:33, and at 4:18 Pedersen juked two defenders to make the score 14-4. Lakeside scored at 2:57, and Phillips’ pass to Williamson led to the final score of the evening with just under two minutes left.Williamson had four goals, Santelli and Petersen three each, Moon two, and Hume, Phillips and Newlon one apiece. Goalkeeper Ali O’Connor had nine saves.We weren’t in the game mentally in the first half, Tommila said. Even the defense was lazy. Their feet just weren’t moving. But we picked it up in the second half. Our passes were right on the money.She summarized the game as having some brilliant moments and some not-so-pretty things. But it was a good game for us to play.The team hosts Overlake on Friday. Fastpitchers down Olympic, 4-2Today was the kind of game we’ve been trying to play all year: good pitching, solid defense and timely hitting, said fastpitch coach Steve Nelson of Monday’s 4-2 win over visiting Olympic.Though for a while he noted that it was like deja vu all over again, as his team loaded the bases in the first two innings and failed to score both times, a reminder of the Spartans’ previous game in which they outhit Sequim 12-3 but stranded 15 baserunners and lost 3-2.The third inning nearly turned out the same way. Ashley Anderson led off with a double, was sacrificed to third, and scored on a single by Brooke Hilton. Chelsea Magraw forced Hilton, Alexis Hujar was hit by a pitch and Sarah Camiel singled to load the bases with two outs.But Angie Rapada ripped a double to left center to clear the bases and her coach’s mind.Angie had a big night, Nelson said. She played good defense and ripped the cover off the ball, with another double and a single to go 3-for-4.Hilton struck out five and scattered three hits to earn the win, as Olympic scored both runs in the fifth inning.The Spartans travel to Klahowya today for a doubleheader.Golfers sink Sequim, 151-114The boys’ golf team remained undefeated with a 151-114 victory over Sequim in an 18-hole match at Wing Point on Friday.Coach Doug Cook termed the match our biggest hurdle in the Olympic League, as Sequim had scored 161 points in its last match. The weather and course conditions were conducive to good play, except for an unreliable north breeze, Cook said.Joe Lanza was medalist with a two-under-par 70 for 37 points. Other scorers: Kevin Kramer 77 (30), Matt Reynvaan 78 (29), James Toepel 79 (28), Matt Kuchin 80 (27) and Jarett Jorgensen 87 (20).Sailors earn draw with NKThe sailing team tied with North Kitsap with nine wins each during last weekend’s Team Racing Tuneup Regatta on Liberty Bay to climax a busy week.Pat Taylor helped account for six of the wins, while David Grace had a hand in three.This was a great regatta for BHS, said coach John DeMeyer. There were five schools sailing a double round-robin tournament in two fleets of boats-Laser 2 and Lido 14. I was happy with our improved boat speed in the Lidos and our sharpened team racing skills overall. The coup of the weekend was in Race 10 when Matt Upton and Brittain Mason passed two North Kitsap boats back at a mark rounding to bring BHS from a 2,5,6 to a winning 2-3-4. That race ended with a 1-3-5 Bainbridge win.While sailing is normally a coed sport, Emily Bruns and Mason won Saturday’s female-only eight-boat fleet race and were second Sunday in the same event.Though Saturday’s winds were light and shifty, DeMeyer said Sunday was very windy with planing conditions for the Laser 2s which made for some spectacular wipeouts. One of the best was Matt Upton and Brittain Mason ‘death-rolling’ at the jybe mark while involved in a ‘mark-rounding conflict’ with an NK boat, he said. Brittain got the boat back up, grabbed the helm and got back into the race with Matt still scrambling over the transom. Great fun. Two days earlier, the team traveled to Anacortes. We were mainly trying to figure out how to sail fast in the Lido 14 sailboats which most of our kids are unaccustomed to, said DeMeyer, as Bainbridge won two of the six regatta-style races. Taylor and Kellen Bailey, and Upton and Mason accounted for the two triumphs.The previous day, Bainbridge won six of 11 team-style races with North Kitsap in Eagle Harbor.Taylor and Mason each contributed to two of Bainbridge’s first-place finishes, while Taylor had a hand in four second-place boats.Both schools had a priority of total team participation, but still the competition was very close in every race, said DeMeyer. It was our first chance to really test our team racing skills.Hardballers drop double-headerThe baseball team scored very early and very late, but Bremerton dominated scoring in between as they swept a doubleheader from the Spartans on Friday, 6-3 in eight innings and 5-2. Bainbridge pushed across three runs in the third inning in the opener for a 3-1 lead, but Bremerton scored single tallies in the fifth and sixth to even the score before adding three three unearned runs in the top of the eighth. The Knights aided their own cause by turning three double plays.In the nightcap, the Spartans had their opportunities but stranded 11 runners as they didn’t score until the final inning.Chris Shaffer pitched seven innings in the opener, while Ross McKinstry threw 4-2/3 strong innings of relief in the nightcap, allowing just one run. Kevin Hebner was three for six in the two games.The team hosted Port Angeles yesterday and travels to Central Kitsap on Friday.Poloists march toward stateThe girls’ water polo team virtually guaranteed themselves a slot in the state playoffs as they defeated Wilson, their chief league rival, 6-5 on Saturday. They also defeated Foss 13-3 on Saturday and Peninsula 7-1 the following day to run their season record to 5-6.Against Wilson, Helen Silver scored three goals and had three steals. Sarah Weigle had a goal, three steals and two assists, while Allison Stover scored twice, had four steals and two assists. Goalie Jasmine DuPont had five saves.It was our best game of the season, said coach Jeff Clark.Scoring was evenly divided in the Foss game, as Alex DuPont had three goals and Meghan Lockwood and Emily Silver each tallied twice.Stover had three goals, two steals and an assist against Peninsula. Helen Silver added two goals and three steals, while Natalie Berry had a goal and six steals. Weigle also had six steals. The team hosts Curtis this evening at the Ray Williamson pool at 6 p.m. “