Sequim Gazette sports photos of the decade, 2000-2009
Photos by: Michael Dashiell, Dan Ross, Jim Heintz, Jim Bryant, Evan McLean, Leif Nesheim, Wesley Remmer, Derek Anderson, Buzz Cutting, Ariel Hanson, Dennis Bragg, Lane Lambert and Arlen Reisau.
Photos by: Michael Dashiell, Dan Ross, Jim Heintz, Jim Bryant, Evan McLean, Leif Nesheim, Wesley Remmer, Derek Anderson, Buzz Cutting, Ariel Hanson, Dennis Bragg, Lane Lambert and Arlen Reisau.
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A decade of Sequim Sports: Top coaches
Reporter's Notebook, Michael DashiellCall it a renaissance of sports, if you will.
Sequim prep athletes made each prep season this decade something to watch.
And behind those athletes, some of the best coaches to don the purple and gold.
Below is a compilation of whom I consider the top Sequim High coaches of the decade, with some of their highlights included, from league titles and playoff appearances to some of the top athletes they helped mentor to athletic successes.
A couple of qualifiers to this list. One, the list is alphabetical, perhaps for the obvious reason that this isn’t meant to be a top 1-10 kind of list. The sports each of them coach are significantly (or vastly) different from the others and are hardly comparable.
Two, as a reader of mine pointed out when I wrote about SHS football coach Erik Wiker a few weeks back, we shouldn’t forget about the coaches, volunteers and parents at the youth, recreation and middle school levels, plus assistants at the high school level, for contributing to a coach’s success. Sequim has been blessed with a number of quality youth organizations past and present — Sequim Little League Sequim Junior Soccer, Sequim Youth Basketball, Wolfpups, Mat Rats, Team Turbo (volleyball), Olympic Peninsula Aquatics, etc. — that contributed to building these programs.
Finally, there are a few current coaches absent from the list. I’m not worried. They all promised me they’d stick around for the 2010-2019 decade, so they can be on the next list.
Dave Brasher
Boys soccer
Seasons: 10 (2000-2009)
Overall record: 96-56-13
Playoff appearances: 7 (2003-2007, 2008-2009)
State appearances: 2 (2004, 2009)
League titles: 2 (2002, 2009)
Notes: Helped Wolves to their first-ever league title in 2002 and first state playoff appearance in 2004 … thrice named league Coach of the Year (2004, 2007, 2009) … coached school’s all-time leading goal-scorer (Kai Antrim), all-time assists leader (Vann Brasher) and all-time shutouts leader (Kyle McKenzie) … coached 38 different all-league players, including one MVP (Luke Apple, 2004), a co-MVP (Vann Brasher, 2003) and 22 all-league first-team players … led Wolves to 13-0 league mark in 2004 …
Mark Fischer
Wrestling
Seasons: 6 (2000-2006)
Overall record: 43-18
Playoff appearances: 6
State appearances: 6 (2001-2006)
League titles: 2 (2002, 2005-tie)
Notes: Led Sequim to seventh-place finish at 2002 state 3A tournament … coached state champion Kyle Keith (215 pounds) in 2002 … helped Wolves to 21 state tournament berths and 10 medals (top-eight finishes) …
Doug Hastings and Mark Textor
Girls and boys tennis
Seasons: 10 (2000-2009)
Overall record: Boys 107-8, girls 87-13, 14-11 coed
Playoff appearances: 10 each (boys and girls, 2000-2009)
State appearances: 11 (boys 2006-2009; girls 2003-2009)
League titles: 10 (boys 2001-2003, 2005, 2008-2009; girls 2005-2007, 2009
Notes: Duo led Sequim teams to eight undefeated seasons, four each for boys and girls … Textor led girls to four consecutive district championships from 2004-2007, a 38-game winning streak and share of 2007 state 2A title, only team title in Sequim High School history. Girls placed in top five at state in three of past four seasons … Hastings helped boys to 43-game match winning streak … in decade, coached 18 different athletes — seven boys, 11 girls — to state tournaments …
Mel Hendrickson
Fastpitch softball
Seasons: 7 (2003-2009)
Overall record: 105-54 overall, 67-31 in league play
Playoff appearances: 6
State appearances: 4 (2004-2005, 2007, 2009)
League titles: 1 (2006)
District titles: 0
Notes: Coached Sequim to its first state tournament win in school history (2004) and their best finish at state ever (fifth place) in 2007 … Hendrickson has seen 21 different players earn all-league honors, including 10 first-teamers and one league Most Valuable Player (Jessica Rosencrants) …
Harold Huff
Cross country
Seasons: 9 (2001-2009)
Overall record: 91-50 (girls 52-15, boys 39-35)
Playoff appearances: 9
State appearances, team: 10 (girls 2002-2008, boys 2006-2008)
League titles: 7 (girls 2001-2003, 2005-2007; boys 2005)
District titles: 5 (girls 2005-2008, boys 2006)
Notes: Coached two individuals (Stephanie Marcy in 2006, Allison Cutting in 2008) to individual state championships … helped SHS girls teams finish on the medal stand at the state meet (a top-eight finish) four times, including a school-best fourth place in 2006 and 2008. Helped boys to a school-best 10th-place finish in 2006 … Olympic League Coach of the Year in 2008 …
Linda Moats (Bingler) and Susan Craig
Girls swimming/diving
Seasons: 10 (2000-2009)
Overall record: 61-35
Playoff appearances: 9
State appearances: 9 (2001-2009)
League titles: 4 (2002-2005)
District titles: 1 (2006)
Notes: Coached Wolves to a third-place finish at 2006 state 2A meet, best finish in school history, and sixth place at state 3A meet in 2004 … Wolves earned five state titles in decade: three from Summer Jackson (50 free and 100 butterfly in 2004, 100 breaststroke in 2002) and one each from diver Stacia Bibler (2006) and breaststroker Justine Textor (2005) … SHS swimmers and divers have racked up 29 medals (top-eight finishes) at state meets … Moats was named state 2A Coach of the Year in 2006 …
Brad Moore
Track & field
Seasons: 10 (2000-2009)
Overall record: Girls 84-10, boys 81-13 since 2002
Playoff appearances: 10
State appearances: 10 (2000-2009)
League titles: 9 (girls 2003-2005, 2007, 2008; boys 2003-2006)
Notes: Moore and assistants coached five athletes to state titles including four in the past five years: Anna LaBeaume in shot put (2009), Kincaid Nichols in 100-meter dash (2008), Stephanie Marcy in 1600 (2007) and Brian Savage in javelin (2005), plus Mike Erickson in pole vault (2000) … Sequim athletes have earned 35 state medals (top-eight finishes) in decade … coached 42 different athletes to state competitions in individual events or relay competitions … Sequim boys track team eanred academic state championship in 2008 …
Brian Roper
Boys basketball
Seasons: 5.5 (2000-2005)
Overall record: 81-43 overall, 60-18 in league play
Playoff appearances: 4
State appearances: 1 (2001)
League titles: 1 (2004)
Notes: Coached 11 different all-league players, including eight first-teamers, a league MVP in 2004 (Brady Marunde) and league co-MVPs in 2001 (Chris Pendleton and James McCutcheon) … was named league Coach of the Year twice, in 2001 and 2004 … led Wolves to eighth-place finish at state 3A tournament, their best showing at state since 1989 and first time playing at the state 3A level …
Jennie Webber Heilman
Volleyball
Seasons: 10 (2000-2009)
Overall record: 117-52 overall, 104-19 in league play
Playoff appearances: 10
State appearances: 4 (2000, 2002, 2004, 2008)
League titles: 4 (2000-2002, 2004)
District titles: 1 (2000)
Notes: Won four league titles in five years at beginning of decade … her Wolves have 15 wins at district tourneys or district play-in games … league mark between 2000-2004 was 59-2 … never lost a match to Port Angeles in the decade … coached 21 all-league players in the last six seasons, including five first-teamers. Also coached two league MVPs in Alanna O’Hara and Megan Thompson … her Wolves were state 3A academic champions in 2002 …
Erik Wiker
Football
Seasons: 2004-2009 (6)
Overall record: 53-14 overall, 33-1 in league play
Playoff appearances: 6
State tourney appearances: 4 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
League titles: 5 (2004-2007, 2009)
Notes: By far, the program’s winningest coach in SHS history; passed Bill Schade for most wins by a Wolves coach in 2007 … coached team to first state-tournament win in 2009 and has more state playoff appearances (four) than all other SHS coaches combined (one) … has coached 55 all-league players — 38 of them first-teamers — and won league Coach of the Year honors in 2004 and 2006 … coached five different league Player of the Year award recipients (three on defense, two on offense) and two all-state players … has 4-2 mark against rival Port Angeles …
Reach Michael Dashiell at miked@sequimgazette.com.
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Reporter's Notebook, Michael Dashiell
Hard to believe I’ve been here nearly 10 years.
When I first came to the Sequim Gazette, I never had any intention of taking over the sports beat. After all, then-editor Jim Manders had that part covered and I was covering the ins and outs of the Sequim City Council.
But, as it happened, Jim left the paper, we hired an editor who, by his own admission, knew little more about sports than the paper we printed on, and I unwittingly volunteered to help out.
What a ride it’s been. (Boy, this sounds like a retirement speech, doesn’t it? It’s not.)
I’ve seen a bunch of fantastic Sequim High School games since I’ve been here, and even though I missed the first year-and-a-half of the 2000-2009 decade, I figure I can give a pretty good account of some of the best Sequim sports games in those 10 years.
I wrote about these in one of my first entries on my Sports Blog. If you read that version, this has a couple of changes.
Originally, I kept out individual-based meets and tournaments, figuring that it’d be too tough to compare those to team-based games. But that would leave out too many sports — and since this list is completely subjective anyway, I figured, why not?
The list is a little football-heavy but it’s hard to find bigger drama than these 25 entries. Got a game that should make the list? Drop me an e-mail (see below).
And keep rooting for those Wolves.
1. Oct. 22, 2004 (football) — Sequim 36, Port Townsend 29
A playoff game-style atmosphere for a regular season game, this was perhaps a turning point for Sequim football. On their way to an undefeated season, the Wolves had to knock off previously unconquered Port Townsend (ranked No. 7 in the state) in a homecoming game to be remembered. Quarterback Tim Dosey threw for two touchdowns and Ryan Rutherford caught five passes for 240 yards and three scores as the 10th-ranked Wolves came back from an early deficit to topple the state 2A sixth-ranked team.
2. Sept. 8, 2006 (football) — Port Angeles 34, Sequim 31
Hard to beat this one. A back-and-forth duel, the Wolves and Roughriders left it all on the field in Port Angeles this night. Sequim’s Erik Zangara made four rushing touchdowns to help Sequim overcome a 27-6 halftime deficit and take a 31-27 lead. Not to be outdone, P.A. quarterback Stephan Walker led a heroic, 80-yard touchdown drive, capped by a 40-yard catch-and-run to Levi Fahrenholtz with 26 seconds left. Zangara finished with 228 yards. This game is the one when Sequim fans may remember Adrien Gault being carted off the field after a big hit. The youth had to have brain surgery later that season.
3. Nov. 14, 2009 (football) — Sequim 34, Burlington-Edison 32 (class 2A state playoffs)
Think Sequim could get away with a blowout in these state playoffs, the scene of so many heartbreakers? Hardly. The Wolves built a 34-2 lead in the fourth quarter behind the powerful running of Travis Decker (146 yards, three touchdowns) and sharp passing of Drew Rickerson (19-of-24, 214 yards). But the Tigers mounted an improbable comeback. Down eight points with mere seconds left, Tiger quarterback Dylan Boe threw a 13-yard touchdown pass on fourth down. Needing a two-point conversion tie, however, Sequim’s defensive line stuffed Tiger back Damon Acoba just short of the goal line, preserving the Wolves’ first-ever state tournament victory. “For every Sequim High Wolf is hard to beat”? They sure were on this night.
4. Nov. 9, 2007 (football) — Tumwater 22, Sequim 20 (class 2A state playoffs)
A wild one in the class 2A state playoffs. Vastly favored in the opening round of the state playoffs, host Tumwater sought to crush the Wolves and give coach Sid Otton his 300th career win. It nearly didn’t happen. Sequim’s Kincaid Nichols, who earlier had an 87-yard touchdown run, took a fourth-down-and-4 reverse handoff for 57 yards for a touchdown and a 20-19 Sequim lead. But Tumwater came back to boot a 27-yard field goal with 35 seconds left for the victory, keeping Sequim from its first state playoff win.
5. Feb. 21, 2004 (boys basketball) — Sequim 75, Lakes 63 in overtime
The Wolves, 17-4 at the time and needing a win to stay alive in the West Central District tournament, survived in a tough road game at Lakes High. Sequim guard Chris Mobley scored 16 of his 18 points after halftime, including what most onlookers thought were two clutch, game-winning free throws with 1.3 seconds remaining, but he was called for a foul with no time left on the clock. Lakes’ Raheem Reggler, however, missed the second of two free throws to send the game into overtime. Sequim jumped all over the Lancers, blasting their hosts 15-3 in the extra frame for a trip to the double-elimination bracket at districts.
6. Feb. 9, 2007 (girls basketball) — Sequim 52, North Mason 43 in overtime
On their way to the Olympic League’s 2A title, Sequim needed — and got — a huge win against their rivals from Belfair. Justine Textor scored five of her game-high 18 points in overtime as the Wolves won their final regular season home game. For 32 minutes, it was a classic battle of rivals and the top two 2A teams in the league, but when Bulldog Stephanie Hicks hit a desperation bank shot to send the game into overtime, something clicked for Sequim. Something to the tune of a 9-0 whitewashing. The Wolves went on to make the state tourney for the first time in 20 years.
7. Nov. 14, 2008 (football) — Centralia 21, Sequim 14 (class 2A state playoffs)
Another heartbreaker on the gridiron. Finding themselves an underdog in the state playoffs once again — in Tumwater stadium, again — Sequim battled back from a 14-7 deficit to tie the game at 14 apiece. But Centralia stuffed a
Sequim fourth-down try with less than a minute left, and Tiger QB Forrest Ahrens found Dominick Courcy from 26 yards out in the end zone with less than seven seconds left, a stunning toss that got between three diving Sequim defenders. Sequim running back Travis Decker had 177 yards and two scores for the Wolves, who lost their starting quarterback and best linebacker a week before the game.
8. May 22, 2004 (fastpitch) — Sequim 1, Washington 0
This West Central District game meant a ticket to state — Sequim fastpitch’s first in school history. The Wolves managed to scrape across three hits, but Alanna O’Hara hit a single in the bottom of the fifth and came around to score for the game’s only run. Star pitcher Jessica Rosencrants, who earlier in the tourney lost a 1-0 decision to Division I-bound Tiffany McDonald’s North Mason team, was lights out against Washington, striking out 11 and allowing just three hits.
9. Nov. 12-13, 2004 (girls swimming) — Jackson All-American, Wolves seventh (class 3A state meet)
By far the most impressive performance by a Sequim swimmer in school history, Summer Jackson’s efforts were magnified by the talent around her. Jackson swam to automatic All-American times in her winning 50-free and 100-butterfly swims and helped the Wolves’ 200-medley relay squad finish second. For her efforts, Jackson was named state 3A Swimmer of the Year. The rest of the Sequim swim squad — Staci Stratton, Justine Textor, Kori Winnop, Sarah Moores, plus divers Stacia Bibler and Caitlin McNulty — helped the team to a seventh-place finish, best in school history. Jackson went on to earn a swimming scholarship at the University of Arkansas.
10. March 6, 2009 (boys basketball) — Sequim 39, Steilacoom 36
Call it the last great game “off the clock.” In their final season sans shot clock, the Wolves’ boys team made it a memorable one. After an up-and-down regular season that saw an injury-wracked Sequim team barely qualify for the district tourney, the Wolves edged Eatonville by a single point to avoid elimination in round one. Then, after a loss to Fife, Sequim faced a bigger, more athletic Steilacoom squad that was favored heavily in a winner-to-state, loser-goes-home game. Behind Ary Webb, the Wolves built an eight-point first-half lead and drained the clock, hitting eight of nine free throws down the stretch for the state tourney berth.
11. May 23, 2009 (fastpitch) — Sequim 1, Klahowya 0 in 8 innings
Sequim freshman Demiree Briones and Klahowya senior Kazandra Holliday dueled to a scoreless tie in this, a West Central District elimination game.
Sequim already had survived an elimination game earlier in the tourney, beating Fife 2-1 in the first round. A one-run loss to North Mason in the semifinals set up this winner-to-state, loser-goes-home contest.
In the bottom of the eighth, Maddy Zbaraschuk drilled a Holliday pitch into center to score Chelsie Winfield for the win.
The Wolves went on to place fifth at the state 2A tourney.
12. Dec. 7, 2004 (boys basketball) — Port Angeles 53, Sequim 49 in overtime
In a seesaw basketball game that saw the Wolves hold leads late into the fourth quarter and overtime, Port Angeles edged their peninsula rivals. P.A.’s Brian Hoch had 14 straight points in the fourth quarter and Roughrider Chris Stone sealed the win with a three-point play with less than a minute to go in overtime. Sequim’s Ryan Rutherford scored 13 of his team-high 19 points in the first half as his 3A Wolves stayed with their 4A opponent on P.A.’s home court, down just 27-23 at the midway break. The Wolves held a 33-32 lead after three quarters and had a four-point lead late, but Sequim missed the front end of two one-and-one free-throw situations, allowing P.A. to even the game at 46-46 with 34 seconds in regulation. The Wolves could manage only three points in overtime.
13. Nov. 8, 2005 (football) — Lindbergh 7, Sequim 6 (class 3A state play-in game)
With less than a minute to play in the game, the Sequim Wolves had their first state playoff appearance since 1978 in their collective grasp. A screen pass and 66 yards later, Lindbergh dashed those hopes, shocking a defense that had held the Eagles in check all night. Though Lindbergh’s high-powered offense stalled for nearly 48 minutes, junior receiver John Desmarais caught a short screen pass on fourth-down-and-4, then out-raced Wolves defenders for the winning score in the winner-to-state, loser-out playoff game. “Craziest call in the world,” Sequim coach Wiker said. “He can get tackled anywhere. They know they got lucky.” The Wolves finished the year 9-2 but, for the second consecutive year, failed to make the state tourney.
14. May 4, 2006 (boys soccer) — Sequim 1, Steilacoom 0 in shootout
The Wolves shrugged off losing a chance at the Nisqually League title by edging Steilacoom in a shootout, bringing hometown fans to their feet and their own team to a No. 6 seed in the district playoffs. Down 1-0 at the half, Sequim twice came back to force ties. Tyler Linderoth scored on a free kick from 30 yards to tie the game at 1-1. Steilacoom answered soon after and the Wolves looked destined to lose their second-straight game, until Greg Dunbar deflected a shot into the Steilacoom goal, his first score of the season. After two scoreless overtimes, Sequim went up 4-3 in a shootout and Kai Antrim finished the deal.
15. Nov. 9, 2004 (football) — Franklin Pierce 36, Sequim 35 (class 3A state play-in game)
One kick sailed wide left. One kick hit the crossbar and bounced through. Sequim High School’s undefeated football season — and the season as a whole — ended abruptly, with missed and made fourth-quarter extra points being the scoring difference. A bad snap on Sequim’s last attempt caused Sequim’s point-after try to line drive off to the left, leaving Sequim in the lead, 35-29. Franklin Pierce countered with a touchdown three minutes later, with their kicker’s extra point pinging off the right upright and through the goalpost for a 36-35 lead. Sequim running back Brian Savage carried the ball 26 times for 144 yards and two rushing touchdowns on the night and threw for a score. So began
Sequim football’s playoff “curse.”
16. Feb. 15-16, 2002 (wrestling) — Sequim grapplers earn four medals (state 2A tournament)
The stars truly aligned for
Sequim wrestlers in the 3A ranks of MatClassic, the state tournament, in the Tacoma Dome. All four of their top wrestlers — Travis Martin (103-pound weight class), Graeme Johnson (160), David Waters (171) and Kyle Keith (215) — earned spots on the medal stand. It was Keith who shone brightest, battling his way to a state title to join Brian Gilliam as the only Wolves to win wrestling individual championships. Martin lost a heartbreaker in the finals and finished second; Johnson and Water finished fifth. The team took seventh-place overall after an undefeated (8-0) regular season.
17. Nov. 4, 2006 (cross country) — Marcy, SHS girls finish fourth (state 2A meet)
This was a measure of closure for Stephanie Marcy, who as a junior in 2005 held a lead at the state cross country final only to see it slip away in the home stretch. No such fate awaited her this time. She destroyed the field in the race, taking the lead six minutes in and cruising to a 27-second victory. The girls team — Laura Moser, Hannah Ohnstad, Zoei Zbaraschuk, Christina Bruce, Breck Barnes and Jen Bruce — helped
Sequim place fourth overall while the boys took 10th as a team. Marcy went on to earn a scholarship to run for the Stanford Cardinal cross country team, then a three-time defending NCAA champion.
18. May 18, 2005 (fastpitch) — Sequim 1, South Whidbey 0 in 11 innings
Not a playoff game, this match-up was less a warm-up and more of a barnburner. And that’s a good thing. The Wolves proved tough as nails in a 1-0, extra-inning win against previously undefeated South Whidbey. Ashley Pearson delivered the game-winning hit in the top of the 11th inning and pitcher Jessica Rosencrants got even better with the game on the line, striking out the final three batters. Rosencrants was nearly unhittable, mowing down Falcon players left and right. Of the 33 outs the Lady Wolves recorded, 16 were by a Rosencrants’ strikeout. She gave up just two hits and allowed no walks.
19. Nov. 8, 2008 (cross country) — Cutting takes title, SHS girls near the top (state 2A meet)
This was supposed to be another jewel in Kingston running ace Ruby Roberts’ crown. But after finishing behind Roberts four times during the season — at the Capital City Invite, in a regular dual meet, at the Olympic League meet and at districts — Sequim’s Allison Cutting kept with Roberts and the lead pack, then blew by the fellow junior to win her first state title by nine seconds. Sequim — with runners Audrey Lichten, Laura Moser, Christina Bruce, Zoei Zbaraschuk, Alyssa Stratton and Taylor Roads — finished in a virtual tie for third place as a team, the best cross country team finish in school history.
20. May 13, 2004 (boys soccer) — Sequim 2, Kennedy 1
Kennedy took an early 1-0 lead, and Sequim was having trouble controlling the offensive side of the ball. It looked as if Kennedy would end Sequim’s season for the second consecutive season. Mario Servin broke free in the second half and made the most of his penalty kick opportunity by crushing the ball to the back of the net to tie the game. Joe Quan added the winning goal off a header with just five minutes left as Sequim goalkeeper Kyle McKenzie had 11 saves. Two days later, Sequim went on to beat Highline 1-0 for the Wolves’ first state playoff berth.
21. May 25, 2007 (fastpitch) — Sequim 4, Archbishop Murphy 0 in 9 innings (state 2A tournament)
By the end of the class 2A state tournament’s first day, opposing teams were asking how a mere third seed was beating some of the state’s top teams. Sequim beat the top-seeded Archbishop team with four runs in the top of the ninth inning. Pitcher Carly Swingle allowed just three hits and zero walks over all nine innings as Sequim took down the top-seeded foe. Sequim went on to beat WF West later in the day and finished fifth overall.
22. Jan. 4, 2008 (boys basketball) — Sequim 56, Port Townsend 46
This win got more impressive over time. Sequim dumped the favored Redskins on their home court, and it wound up as Port Townsend’s only loss on the season until the state tourney, where they placed sixth. Ary Webb scored 19 points while Nic Thacker added 17 points and 12 rebounds. Aaron Gifford, P.T.’s scoring whiz, managed 17 points but many of them came through double- and triple-team defensive efforts. It was a spectacular win in an otherwise disappointing season.
23. May 25-26, 2007 (girls tennis) — Wolves earn first team title (state 2A tournament)
A true group effort, Sequim’s tennis squad hadn’t lost a match in three regular seasons heading into the state tournament. With singles player Justine Textor (third-place finish) and doubles teams Stacia Bibler/Staci Stratton (third) and Laine Briggs/Anna Slater (fourth), the Wolves essentially shared the team title with Lynden with 23 points each. Coupled with the boys top doubles team of Cody Hanson and Michael Richards taking second place, this is the pinnacle of SHS tennis during the decade.
24. May 29, 2009 (fastpitch) — Sequim 5, Pullman 4 in eight innings (state 2A tournament)
On the biggest stage, Sequim got some big hits to get to the medal stand.
Needing a win to advance to the second day of the class 2A state tournament, Sequim edged Pullman 5-4. With the score tied 4-4 in the eighth inning, Lea Hopson smacked her second home run in as many games, taking an outside pitch and driving it over the right-center field fence.
25. May 16, 2009 (baseball) — Sequim 12, Fife 5
Needing a big game from their big-time pitcher, 5-foot 8-inch Alex Gillis provided it, throwing a complete game four-hitter to give
Sequim’s Wolves their first state berth in a dozen years.
Despite losing a bit of his control to the Trojans, Gillis struck out eight batters on the mound and started the game-clinching five-run rally in the fifth inning.
Reach Michael Dashiell at miked@sequimgazette.com