Southwest Washington tennis players have at least six chances to become state champions Saturday after the first day of the WIAA state tennis tournaments on Friday.
At the 4A tournament in Kennewick, Camas freshman Tommy James reached the singles semifinals with a pair of straight-set wins. He opened with a victory over Union’s Rohan Thawani, 7-5, 6-1.
Union’s Jacob Flentke and James Bertheau are in the doubles semifinals. They lost just four games in their two matches.
Hailey Kerker of Camas is into the 4A girls semifinal after three sets of 6-0. She won her opener 0-0 and then beat Grace Tan of Redmond 7-5, 6-0 in the quarterfinals.
In the 2A girls singles at the University of Washington, Columbia River’s Emma Lungwitz reached the semifinals after wins of 6-2, 6-0 and 6-3, 6-1. And River’s doubles team of Grace Rudi and Lauren Dreves won both their matches in straight sets to get into the semifinals.
Molly Remchuck of Hockinson will play for fifth place in singles. She won two consolation matches by identical 6-2, 6-2 scores.
In 2A boys singles, Columbia River’s Matt Rudi will play for fourth place after a 2-1 day.
At the 2B/1B girls tournament in Yakima, Stevenson’s doubles team of Isabella and Sofia Spencer will play for the state title on Saturday after a pair of straight-set wins on Friday.
3A state softball
TIMBERLINE 6, PRAIRIE 3, 8 INNINGS — The Falcons season came to an end with the loss in the play-in game at Lacey.
Jade Hayslip struck out nine batters with one walk for Prairie and also hit a two-run home run in the first inning.
Timberline took a 3-2 with a home run in the top of the sixth inning. Prairie got the run back in the bottom of the inning when Abbey Bishop drove in Hayslip to make it 3-3.
A three-run homer with two outs in the top of the eighth proved to be the winner for Timberline.
MONROE 9, HERITAGE 2 — The Timberwolves were held to five hits and were eliminated with the loss in the play-in game.
Monroe jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning and added four more runs in the fifth.
Heritage made it 3-1 after three innings when Makenzie Misner hit a run-scoring double. Taylor Frost, who was 2 for 3 with a double, had opened the inning with a single and scored on Misner’s hit.
In the sixth inning, Kylie Stroup scored on a passed ball to make it 8-2.
1A/2B/1B state track
La Center’s Shaela Bradley finished second in the 1A long jump with a leap of 17 feet, 11.5 inches at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.
The winning long jump was 18-7.5 by Braelyn Baker of Bear Creek.
In the 1A girls shot put, Jessica Polkinghorn of Columbia-White Salmon placed second with a throw of 36-2.75. Tyara Straka of Hoquiam had the winning throw of 42-8.5.
Kalama’s Alena Ross was second in the 2B pole vault. She cleared 9-9. Sydney Kinch of Lind-Ritzville won by clearing 10-0.
