Snoqualmie Valley Sports Journal

We finish with soccer and it was a great night for Mount Si High School’s girls’ soccer program last night, as they put on a great show for the future of this program.

A good-sized number of local youth girls’ soccer players and their families came out to the game as part of the Snoqualmie Valley Youth Soccer Association’s Youth Soccer Night and the Wildcats dominated throughout the contest. Even though the final score over Juanita was a 1-0 Mount Si win with the lone goal coming midway through the second half by Sarah Creighton, it was a match that could have easily been a 3-0 or 4-0 result with all the quality chances Wildcat players had in the contest. Players such as Shelby Johnson and Mia Campo also had good looks at the goal, but could not close the door. Still, though, it was an all-around excellent performance, and it made life fairly easy for Wildcat goalie Lily Foster, who only had to withstand one late Rebel offensive flourish in the final couple of minutes of the contest to pick up her first “clean sheet” shutout as a varsity goalie.

“Our formation finally really clicked fully,” head coach Sophie Rockow said. “Everyone was moving where they needed to be, everyone was making the runs they needed to be making and we finally connected those passes inside and outside to get runs going.” She added, “I think it was the most well put together game we’ve had so far.”

Mount Si hosts Woodinville on Tuesday for a 7:30 pm kickoff at Mount Si High School in Snoqualmie, then plays the Valley Cup on Saturday up at Cedarcrest High School in Duvall against the Red Wolves. Game time for that one is 2:00 pm.

College: CHS grad’s hat trick paces SPU men to blowout win
Duvall’s Alden Massey exploded bigtime last night onto the college radar, popping a hat trick (three goals) all in the first half as Seattle Pacific’s men scored all five of their goals in the first 45 minutes to blast the Vulcans from Hawaii-Hilo 5-0 at home in Seattle. Massey got this one started in a hurry, finishing a feed from teammate Titus Grant in the second minute, then just about 90 seconds after his first tally, he finished a mid-range laser into the back of the Hilo goal putting SPU up 2-0. He finished off the night in the 43rd minute, with another mid-range blast into the back of the Vulcan net. The three goals are his first as a collegian.

The Falcons’ lower Valley trio all played in this one, with Massey and sophomore Nik Reierson starting and playing the first half, and senior Chris Cole working the second half. Massey, a June CHS grad, finished with five shots recorded, and the three goals all on his three shots on goal; neither Reierson, a 2017 Red Wolve alum, and Cole, a 2014 CHS’er, had any stats of note reported.

The scores:

Central Washington women 4, Montana State Billings 0: North Bend’s Michaela “K.K.” Wallace pitched in, assisting on Central’s second goal of the day – in the 40th minute – as they blanked the Yellowjackets in Billings, MT. Wallace, a senior and 2015 MSHS grad, came off the bench for CWU and worked 45 minutes, with that assist and one shot recorded; the shot did not get on goal and she scored no goals in the contest.

Sterling (KS) men 10, Manhattan Christian 0: Sterling rolled to a blowout at home in Sterling, KS, over visiting MCC. Senior Colton Oord, from North Bend, started and worked the full 90 on defense for the home side, with three shots, two on goal, recorded, and no goals scored. He’s a 2014 MSHS alum.

Hawaii Pacific women 3, Chaminade 2 (OT): HPU’s ladies needed a couple of extra minutes in the first overtime to take care of their in-state rivals at home in Waipahu, HI. Junior Camryn Buck, she of Ames Lake and a 2016 Mount Si HS grad, started and played defense for the full 93 minutes of this one for the Sharks, with no stats of note reported.

Concordia-PDX women 1, Western Washington women 0: With Western’s star senior Karli White, from North Bend, out for the season it appears with an injury, that left her fellow Valleyite Karlie Hurley with the local stage all to herself, and the North Bender took full advantage, starting and playing for the Cavs up front for 73 minutes, with no stats of note, as Concordia handed the visiting Vikings a big early-season conference loss at home down in Portland. Both players are 2015 Mount Si HS grads.

Whitworth women 1, Pacific Lutheran women 0: The Bucs blanked the Lutes in Tacoma; senior Mackenzie Popp, from Ames Lake and a 2015 MSHS’er, started for Whitworth and played 57 minutes of the game with no stats of note reported. Freshman goalie Calie Rose, from Snoqualmie and a June MSHS alum, did not play for PLU in the game.