November 2016

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Thursday, Oct. 27

Football
Eastside Catholic 56, West Seattle 14
The Wildcats took a loss against Eastside Catholic in playoff action at Seattle Memorial Stadium on Thursday.

Cross country
Sea-King District meet
Gabrielle Rackner of West Seattle was the only area athlete to place at Thursday's meet held at Lower Woodland Park, taking 41st in the girls race with a time of 20:01.90.

Volleyball
Chief Sealth 3, Cleveland 0
The Seahawks scored a victory in their Metro League regular season finale on Thursday and will now advance to the league tournament they are hosting Saturday, playing Nathan Hale in a 9 a.m. match.
West Seattle 3, Rainier Beach 0
West Seattle will also be coming off a win going into the Metro League tournament after beating Rainier Beach on Thursday.
The Wildcats play Ingraham at 9 a.m. in the tournament to be played at Chief Sealth High School.
White River 3, Evergreen 0

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Geving inducted into Hall at Highline

Tyler Geving of the Highline High School class of 1991 was inducted into the Pirates' Athletic Hall of Fame at their homecoming assembly held Thursday.
Geving still holds school records for boys basketball in points in a game with 48, points in a season with 529 and career points with 1,362.
Geving has been the head coach at Portland State University for seven seasons after serving as assistant coach for five.
Geving became the head coach when he was only 35 years old.

Playoffs end early for Kela, Barnette

The American League Divisional playoffs ended with a three-game sweep for the Texas Rangers by the Toronto Blue Jays despite the efforts of Chief Sealth graduate Keone Kela and Thomas Jefferson graduate Tony Barnette.
Barnette appeared in all three games against the Blue Jays, throwing a total of four scoreless innings. He struck out one and allowed three hits.
Kela threw 1.2 innings in his one appearance, also striking out one and allowing no hits.

To the editor:

I propose that students at high school or junior high school level be issued DVDs of the best lectures of required subjects, e.g., US History, etc. which would give each student time to study at their leisure those required subjects. Such an education policy would free many teachers to tutor those students with problems related to achievement and free much classroom space for other useful purposes. Please print this opinion in your letters to the editor spacing.

Jerry Thorson
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By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, Oct. 29

Volleyball
Chief Sealth 3, Nathan Hale 0
Chief Sealth opened Metro League tournament action held in its own gymnasium by defeating Nathan Hale in a 9 a.m. Saturday match.
Ingraham 3, West Seattle 0
The Wildcats also opened the Metro League tournament with a 9 a.m. Saturday match but was eliminated with a loss to Ingraham.
Ingraham 3, Chief Sealth 0
Chief Sealth also succumbed to Ingraham in a match played Saturday afternoon.
Kennedy 3, Enumclaw 0
The Lancers scored a victory over the Hornets as they opened the North Puget Sound League tournament Saturday.
Kennedy 3, Kentridge 1
Kennedy Catholic also won a second match Saturday to secure the NPSL's No. 5 seed into the West Central District tournament.

Girls soccer
Highline 2, Lindbergh 0
The Pirates prevailed in a playoff played at Franklin Pierce High School on Saturday.
Holy Names 5, West Seattle 0
Holy Names dealt the Wildcats a decisive blow at the Southwest Athletic Complex Saturday night.

Friday, Oct. 28

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

High schools

Football
Seattle Lutheran travels to Orcas Island for a 3 p.m. non-playoff game Thursday, then Friday's schedule includes a 7 p.m. non-playoff between Highline and Evergreen at Highline Memorial Stadium.
West Seattle is facing a 7 p.m. playoff at Lincoln High School in Tacoma Friday and Mount Rainier journeys to Skyline for a playoff at the same time.
Renton is at Foster for a 7 p.m. non-playoff game that night.
Kennedy Catholic will play Mariner in a playoff at 5 p.m. Saturday at Highline Memorial Stadium.

Girls soccer
Highline visits Olympic in Silverdale for a 5:30 p.m. playoff on Tuesday and Kennedy Catholic will go to Sparks Stadium in Puyallup to play Olympia at the same time Thursday.

Volleyball
Seattle Christian goes to Klahowya for a 6 p.m. loser-out playoff Thursday with the winner going to Coupeville for 1:30 p.m. action Saturday.

By Tim Clinton
SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday, Oct. 30

Girls swimming
2A South Puget Sound League meet
Highline won four events at the 2A South Puget Sound League girls swimming meet.
The Pirates started off by winning the 200-yard medley relay in a time of 2 minutes, 1.10 seconds. The team consisted of Naomi Williams, Emily Zacharias, Stella Fosberg and Araceli Felix.
Zacharias then won the 200 individual medley in 2:19.73.
Highline also took first in the 200 free relay in 1:49.66 with Felix, Hanna Lai, Fosberg and Zacharias.
Zacharias also won the 100 breaststroke in 1:11.12.

4A West Central District
Mount Rainier placed seventh as a team in Saturday's meet with 159 points, just ahead of the 137 score of Kennedy Catholic.
Neither team had any individual winners.

Girls cross country
1A West Central District
Seattle Christian qualified three individual athletes into this coming Saturday's state meet to be held at the Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco.

The Burien Arts Gallery just might have the cure for your fall rainy-day blues.

This Friday night, Nov. 4, you can step out to meet artist Lolly Shera and experience the “Rhythms of Nature” through her delightful paintings showcased at the Gallery in November.

The Artist’s Reception runs 5-8 p.m. at the Gallery, 826 S.W. 152nd St. in Olde Burien.

Also meet Marta Creswell and Janet Price who will be exhibiting in the Artists United room at the Gallery.
Marta, a versatile artist adept at many mediums, will be showing her pastel work. Janet exhibits her art nationally and will be featuring her portraits and figurative work.

Discussing her oil on linen painting of Mt. Si in the Snoqualmie Valley, Lolly Shea reveals her artistic process. She titles the piece, “Last Warm Rays.”

“I remember the day I started this painting ‘en plein air’ and it was a fall day, really cold and windy!” Lolly notes. “ I could hardly keep the easel standing upright and I had to use the car as a wind block.

U.S. Senator Patty Murray paid a visit to Chief Sealth International High School on Nov. 1 to take a look at the work being done by students in the TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in School) Software Engineering program at the school.

The TEALS program is helping provide high-quality computer science education to students in public schools in Seattle and the state. The program itself isn't new, but Murray's interest is in the newly-passed Every Student Succeeds Act that she wrote with her Republican counterpart (the nation's new K-12 law) which provides new support for TEALS. Murray said, "it's quite impressive", as she took time to look at a series of student developed programs.

Over that last two weeks, the Metropolitan King County Council’s Budget and Fiscal Management Committee has heard from people throughout King County on their budget priorities at three meetings on the proposed 2017-2018 King County Biennial Budget. From Seattle to Redmond to Kent, testimony was presented to the Budget Committee, which all 9 members of the County Council serve on during budget deliberations.

“Every year, the budget town halls are an important way for citizens to share what is important to them about living in King County and this year was no exception,” said Councilmember Dave Upthegrove, Chair of the Council’s Budget and Fiscal Management Committee. “I want to thank everyone who testified and encourage anyone to continue to offer comments as the Council continues its deliberations.

Highline High School homecoming awards were celebrated Thursday, October 27 at the Highline Performing Arts center in Burien.

Three inductees to the Athletic Hall of Fame were honored for their contributions to Highline sports.

Tyler Geving, 1991 grad, currently the head men's basketball coach at Portland State University, set Pirate scoring records for points in a single game (48) single season (529) and career (1,362) that still stand today.

Also receiving an award was Alejandra Roncancio, who excelled at girls volleyball, basketball and softball at Highline. She starred at Fresno State in softball.

The final inductee was Tim Crawley, Pirate soccer coach and teacher at Highline for 34 years who will be retiring. Crawley led the boys soccer team to a state championship in 1995.