Olympic College volleyball will be providing summer volleyball camps in the Kitsap area for interested youth between the ages of 9 and 18.
About the only thing hotter than the action on the arena floor was the sun that accompanied it.
The sun was shining brightly on the Thunderbird Pro Rodeo, a benefit event for Corey’s Day on the Farm and the Northwest Burn Foundation, kicking off the summer Kitsap rodeo season at Thunderbird Arena last weekend with temperatures reaching into the low 90s.
On the state baseball map, Silverdale is proving the middle ground between Bremerton’s Olympic College and Auburn’s Green River Community College.
Kitsap BlueJackets head coach Matt Acker, also the coach at Green River, and OC’s Ryan Parker, a first-year Jackets assistant, have gone from facing each other in opposing dugouts, to literally facing each other on opposite baselines, as the collegiate competitors have now teamed up with one goal in mind: Winning.
“Streaky” probably would be the best word to describe the Kitsap BlueJackets play in the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League season.
These are offered by Stillwaters Environmental Education Center in Kingston, at 26059 Barber Cut Off Road. Contact them to and for more information at (360) 297-2876, info@stillwatersenvironmentalcenter.org, or www.stillwatersenvironmentalcenter.org.
Game one: On Saturday the Post defeated Olympia’s Riptide, 6-5.
Andy Smith, Eric Eley and Kurtis Pitcher pitched and Jamaal Smith caught. From the plate: Kramer Uvila, two hits, a homer and three RBI; Jamaal Smith, two hits including a double; Eli Olson, two hits; and Andy Smith, two RBI.
What began as a small, unstructured program some 25 years ago is now the thriving lifeline for 25 Special Olympic swimmers.
Judy Chase, a Special Olympics swim coach for more than 25 years, said when she first began working with the program there were only about 10 participants and it was never intended to be competitive.
In fact, the team didn’t even attend the state competition for at least seven years.
Multiple lives changed later, the North Kitsap Special Olympics Viking swim team has attended state for the last 15 years.
The Kitsap BlueJackets appeared to mirror the Seattle Mariners through the early part of the 2008 West Coast Collegiate Baseball League season.
The Kingston Puget Sound Anglers chapter meeting holds monthly meetings at 7 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month at the Kingston Cove Yacht Club, 25915 Washington Boulevard NE. Social hour begins at 6 p.m. This month, Bill Dever from Puget Sound Salmon Charter will speak about the summer Chinook fishing in Puget Sound.
Puget Sound recreational crabbing areas will open at 7 a.m. July 2 for Marine Areas 6 (eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca), 7 South (San Juan Islands), 8-1 (Deception Pass to East Point), 8-2 (East Point to Possession Point), 9 (Admiralty Inlet), 10 (Seattle/Bremerton), 11 (Tacoma/Vashon), and 12 (Hood Canal) will open Wednesdays through Saturdays only, plus the entire Labor Day weekend. There will be closure Sept. 1 for a catch assessment. These areas will reopen if recreational harvest quotas have not been met.
Volunteers are needed to help maintain trails in Kingston, specifically the Public Utility District-Great Peninsula Conservancy trails.
Work parties take place 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays, June 28 and Aug. 16.
Even though the beginning of our summer break isn’t top notch yet, the end of our school year was. Sports-wise, pretty much everyone came out on top. Boys’ soccer made it to quarterfinals in state. With seven athletes competing in state, the track team had three of them place in the top five and even one, Ruby Roberts, won a state title. Girls’ tennis sent a double team to state to compete as well. Boys’ baseball wasn’t far behind the mayhem either.
The HotFoot 5-kilometer run is billed as an event for runners of all ages and that was the case Saturday at South Kitsap Community Park.
Seth Kimball, who competed in the 19 to 29-year-old classification, was first overall at 19 minutes, 2 seconds. Port Orchard’s Dolores Montgomery, who runs in the 40 to 49 bracket, was the female champion and fifth overall at 21:50.
Thunderbird volunteers make event happen.
Joe Weaver isn’t a cowboy.
But for a weekend, the longtime Wrangler gets to be.
Weaver is one of dozens of volunteers who make the Thunderbird Pro Benefit Rodeo happen.
PORT ORCHARD — Detlef Schrempf never envisioned a scenario where this discussion would occur.
North Kitsap Explosion soccer team wins big
Tommy Walters is fueled by lemonade and the need for speed.
At the ripe ‘ol age of 10, and just 15 months after he first sat behind the wheel, the Silverdale native earned a ticket to compete in the 71st annual All-American Soap Box Derby World Championships at the Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio, July 21-26.
