Olympic Sports Has Trouble Pushing Runners Across Plate

Hitting woes led to a quick exit by Spokane Olympic Sports from the American Legion Junior state tournament.

Spokane’s top seed in the tournament managed hits from just four players during 5-0 and 9-2 losses.

A stubborn sprinkler system delayed the start of the tournament and Olympic’s debut by nearly two hours.

It was a case of time lag from which the players never recovered. During the shutout loss to Kirkland, SOS’s best chance was a bases-loaded first inning. The team never seriously challenged again.

Next day was more of the same, although the University High School team had more scoring chances. In only one inning of 14 during the two games did the team manage more than a single hit.

Catcher Brett Haiar had four of Olympic’s 10 hits in the two games. David Powell had two singles in the opener. Haiar with three, Andy Dunham and Robert Bartlett with two apiece accounted for all the hits the next day.

Kirkland led 3-0 scoring runs by players who had walked. A four-hit sixth produced the other two.

Yelm got 13 hits off of four pitchers in Thursday’s game, scoring twice each in the first three innings and three times in the fourth.

Olympic Sports had its leadoff runner on in six of seven innings but produced solo runs in only the second and third innings.

The team ended its summer season with a 22-11 overall record.

Ladies golf

July’s winner of the Liberty Lake Ladies 18-Hole Golf Club Liberty Cup was Glenda Scott.

Scott shot a low-net 71 during the monthly competition and advances to the end-of-summer playoff.

During concurrent putting competition, Alice Shattuck needed 28 putts over 18 holes.

She was B flight leader. In A flight, Diane Hicks and Diane Joss took 31 putts. In C, Betty Blackburn to 30. In D, Phyllis Bunkowske took 31.

The club also concluded T-Shirt Tournament competition. Winning the T-shirts were Jackie Shea, Rauleen Grimes, Cathy Whitley and Carol Riggs with low round of 51.

Sharing second place with 54 were the teams of Carol Bettinger, Marie Nelson, Myrna Neubauer and Eleanor Seefried and Yvonne Splan, Donna Ogilvie, Barb Hafner and Kitty Duvall.

Golfer shoots career best

During last week’s ladies club outing, Painted Hills golfer Carol McLean shot a career best low score.

McLean shot 45 over nine holes to lead B flight competition. She wasn’t far away from the overall leaders.

No-handicap golfer Lesa Hambleton put some pressure on Danice Deckard when she shot the day’s best score of 41. Deckard, the A flight leader, shot 42.

In C flight, Patty Spencer had 53 and in D flight, Marion Decker had 61.

Net winners included Jan Viegas in A flight, Marion Pillsbury in B, Nancy Mullenix in C and Judy Thies in D, all with 32s.

Sherrel Roshdy recorded a birdie on the fourth hole and Bernice Roberts had a chip-in on five.

Ties abound at Valley View

There were a number of tie scores during last week’s Valley View Ladies Club golf gathering.

Min Arnold and Joyce Jacobs tied for low gross honors in A flight with 49s. Pat Lacroix and Nola Russel shared C flight honors with 57s.

Also in C flight, Anne DeLong and Patti McAtee tied with low net 31s.

In A flight, Dee Elder had low net of 31. Genevra Barrett led B flight with low gross 52 and Irene Spidle netted 29.

No-handicap leader was Marjie Haser with a 57.

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