Bears take regional soccer championship

Trevor Delmedico was in the right place at the right time – twice.

Central Valley’s sophomore midfielder, left alone on the outside, tallied both goals in the Bears’ 2-1 victory over visiting Pasco Friday. It gave the Bears (11-4) the regional championship and top eastern seed into the State 4A soccer tournament.

It wasn’t an aesthete’s delight. All three scores came nearly uncontested off balls that passed through sieve-like defenses.

“A win’s a win. They don’t ask how, they just ask how many,” said Bears goalkeeper Nick Piger, who was victimized early in the second half and experienced near-disaster when he bobbled a ball at the goal mouth later on,

Both Delmedico goals came on throw-ins from Stephen Grinalds. The first, at 18 minutes, went untouched through the box. Delmedico kneed it down and chased it to the goal where he was all alone.

The second score was almost a repeat and came 3 minutes into the second half. Grinalds tossed the ball into an open space where it found Delmedico alone on the right side. He booted it home.

“I think their guy was in front of the keeper who came out to get it and I just kicked it in,” said Delmedico of his second goal.

Turnabout became fair play 3 minutes later when Pasco scored in similar fashion.

“We’re definitely going to take the win,” said CV coach Andres Monrroy. “But it wasn’t the prettiest game. I don’t think it was our best match per se.”

Mead 5, Wenatchee 4 (SO): Tuesday, the Bears will host Mead in the first round of state. The Panthers (12-2) blew a 4-1 lead but outscored their hosts in the shootout.

Scores came quickly. In the first half, Mead led 2-1 with just 11 minutes elapsed as Cameron Bushey and Ross Nevdahl assisted each other on goals. Ten minutes into the second period the score was 4-1, but Wenatchee staged a furious comeback against Mead’s prevent defense, tying at the 80th minute.

Mead freshman Jordan Etten scored what proved to the winner in the penalty kick shootout.

Baseball

The GSL’s top two teams, University (19-2) and Mead (17-4), will face off at 1:30 p.m. today at Gonzaga Prep following District 8 4A victories.

U-Hi 11, CV 1 (5): Billy Moon received early run support and helped himself at the plate, leading 6-0 after two innings. Moon pitched a one-hit, nine-strikeout victory. He drove in the game’s first run as host U-Hi took a 2-0 lead after one inning and finished 3 for 4 with three RBIs.

Michael Holmes also drove in a first-inning run and had three for the day with two hits. Tyler Olson had two hits with a two-run home run in the fourth, his fifth round trip blow of the year.

Mead 10, Ferris 9 (8): Kyle Courtney hit a sacrifice fly that scored Tyler Benson and capped a big comeback by the host Panthers. The Saxons led 6-2 after four innings before Mead put back-to-back three-run innings together in the fifth and sixth.

Grant Fink was 3 for 4 and drove in two runs. Seth Peteron also had three hits. The Saxons’ Beau Brett hit a two-run homer in the first. The Saxons (15-7) play CV (12-10) in an 11 a.m. loser-out game today at G-Prep.

Softball

Alexa Morales hit a walk-off grand slam home run in the bottom of Central Valley’s five-run seventh inning sending the Bears to an 8-4 victory over rival University and into the District 8 4A finals. CV (17-5) will play Shadle Park (21-0), an earlier winner 5-2 over Mead, for the district championship at Whitworth on Tuesday.

CV 8, U-Hi 4: Most of the fireworks during the nightcap at Marks Field came in the final inning. The Titans (16-7) scored three times to take a 4-3 lead with three hits, including Riki Schiermeister’s run-scoring double. Undeterred, CV erupted. Morales’ lone hit of the night was the crusher.

The Bears had scored in the first inning after Gen Aman doubled. U-Hi tied the game in the sixth when Ali Warren tripled home Alyssa Hawley for the tie. CV came back in its half of the inning with two runs.

Shadle Park 5, Mead 2: The Highlanders scratched out three runs in the fourth inning and added two more to advance to the title game. Two walks and an error, followed by Tressa Predisik’s double, put Shadle ahead for good. A bunt single, sacrifice and groundout plated a fourth run and Sam Skillingstad brought home a run following a hit batter.

Skillingstad threw a two-hitter and struck out 14. Mead (14-8) had led in the fourth on Katie Kine’s double and a bunt.

Tuesday, Shadle and CV play at 5 p.m. following the U-Hi-Mead regional seeding game at 3.