September 2015

By Tim Clifford

Ballard's Beavers battered Chief Sealth by a 46-0 score in a Metro League football battle Friday.

Antione Patton scored four touchdowns to pave the way for the victorious Beavers, with the senior running back scoring the first on a 66-yard pass connection from senior quarterback Davine Tullis with 3:58 to play in the first quarter.

Patton caught the pass across the middle and veered to the left and down the sideline for the score.

Senior placekicker Jack Dineen slipped the ball through the uprights for a 7-0 lead -- and Ballard took off from there.

Tullis ended the first quarter with an 18-yard left-side keeper for a touchdown and Dineen made it 14-0, then the Beavers scored two points on a safety on a bad snap caught over the back line of the end zone on a punt attempt to make it 16-0 at the 9:15 mark of the second quarter.

Senior Elijah Davis struck from 66 yards out to make what turned out to be the halftime score 22-0, with Dineen just missing the extra point as the ball bounced off the left upright and back out.

Dineen also tried a 50-yard field goal with one second left before halftime only to have it blocked.

Police piece together convoluted night of crime activity linked to one suspect

By Amanda Knox

I’m not ready.

Sure, I’ve trained. I did a pretty good job too, the first four of eight weeks. I ran three days a week, two short days and one long day, each week adding another half mile to the short days and a mile to the long day. But halfway through my resolve was contaminated. Excuses became more and more obscure. Dance class counts as running. Biking to work counts as running. Moving my belongings to a new house counts as running.
I know this from years of training for soccer. Shooting practice, strength training, even scrimmaging was negotiable, but the running that came at the beginning and end of the practice session was not. That’s because oftentimes, with all due respect to the game, it all comes down to which team can outrun the other.

Nothing gets you ready to run 13.1 miles like running 13.1 miles. So far in my training, in one go I’ve only managed nine.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, Sept. 26
Football
Seattle Lutheran 65, Tulalip 34
The Saints journeyed to Marysville-Pilchuck High School to take on the Tulalip Heritage school Saturday and came away with a high-scoring Class B-8 victory.
Todd Beamer 42, Mt. Rainier 14
Todd Beamer topped the Rams in South Puget Sound League Northwest Division-opening action.

Girls soccer
Eastside Catholic 4, Kennedy 0
Kennedy Catholic was blanked by its Catholic rivals in a non-league match Saturday.

Friday, Sept. 25
Football
Kennedy 60, Highline 0
The Lancers of Kennedy Catholic came out and shut out the Pirates while scoring big Friday.
Kennedy improved its overall season record to 4-0 with the victory and stands at 2-0 in Seamount League action.
Foster 29, Hazen 26
The Bulldogs edged out the Highlanders in a Seamount League battle in Tukwila.
West Seattle 22, Rainier Beach 20
West Seattle went on the road to Rainier Beach and left as close winners Friday.
Renton 52, Evergreen 0

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools
Football
The 4-0 Kennedy Catholic Lancers visit 3-0 Lindbergh for a 7 p.m. Seamount League showdown at Renton Stadium on Thursday.
Highline Memorial will host a double-header Friday, with Evergreen playing Highline at 5 p.m. ahead of an 8 p.m. game between Mount Rainier and Thomas Jefferson.
West Seattle is at home at the Southwest Athletic Complex playing Roosevelt at 7 p.m. Friday as Foster travels to Renton.
Saturday's schedule has Evergreen Lutheran at Seattle Lutheran at 1:30 p.m. at West Seattle Stadium and Chief Sealth going to Seattle Memorial to play Franklin at 7 p.m.

Volleyball
West Seattle hosts Rainier Beach for a 7 p.m. match Wednesday as Chief Sealth travels to Nathan Hale.
Seattle Christian goes to Cascade Christian at 5:45 p.m., Seattle Lutheran hosts Northwest Yeshiva at 6 p.m. and Mount Rainier hosts Thomas Jefferson at 7:15 p.m.
Scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday are Northwest Yeshiva at Shorewood Christian and the Muckleshoot Tribal School at Seattle Lutheran.

Mark Powell, Washington Environmental Council’s Puget Sound Program Director, will bring his five-month-long quest to swim the entire length of the Green-Duwamish River to its conclusion on Wednesday Sept. 30 when he emerges from the water at Seacrest Park on Harbor Ave. SW.

On Sept. 30 at 11 a.m., Powell will swim up to the beach near the mouth of the Duwamish River at Seacrest Park, 1660 Harbor Ave SW in Seattle, and he will have completed his goal of swimming virtually the entire 85 miles of the Green-Duwamish River – from its headwaters at the crest of the Cascade Range, down to the tidewater in West Seattle.

After the swim, Powell will offer his remarks about what he’s seen during his Swim Duwamish project. The goal of his effort has been helping people understand the connection between the health of the Duwamish and the health of Puget Sound – and that neither the Duwamish nor Puget Sound will be cleaned up until we halt the flow of polluted stormwater runoff.

Photo by Patrick Robinson on Alki Beach.

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By Tim Clifford

Stolen and found
A strange series of questions now follows a home robbery and car prowl that occurred on the 5400 block of 36 Ave. S.W. during the night of Sept. 19. The victims, a married couple with children, appear to have contacted police twice, once to report the initial incident and again to explain the circumstances of retrieving some of their property later on.

During the night of Sept. 19 the victims left their car parked on the street in front of their home. At some point in the night the suspect(s) broke into the car and stole diapers, a case of water, sunglasses and a garage door opener. The suspect(s) then used the garage opener to get inside the house and raided the dressers in the bedroom. Somehow the victims did not hear their garage door open nor were they roused awake as the burglar(s) ransacked their bedroom.

note: This is a re-post of a column by our former publisher Jerry Robinson who passed away in 2014.

by Jerry Robinson

Sometimes my wife, who is only the world’s greatest cook, gets full up to here with stuffing the stomachs of the six males in her life and announces over the public address system we have in our house: “Now hear this, now hear this!, if anybody in this house expects to eat tonight you’ll have to depend on old Charley and his corduroy spaghetti.”

Then she disappears into the bathroom, dabs extract of vanilla behind her ears, emerges floating in the ethereal splendor, flounces to the door, hops into her sports car and roars away into the night.

So we are left to our own devices. 
This is not too disturbing, however, because it gives me a chance to make my famous spaghetti. 

When I announce this I am usually greeted with remarks from the clan such as, “wonderful, maybe you can sell your formula to Dupont as a new synthetic for tires.” Or, “Don’t let Wrigley know or you will have a lawsuit on your hands.”