It was one of those moments everyone has. That moment when an idea clicks, the mental light globe goes on, and you hear yourself saying, “Now why didn’t I think of that before?”
For Kent’s Jerry Schmidt, it might not have been precisely that way back in 1983. But it sure was close.
Jeff Bernard put Kent into the unlimited hydroplane winner’s circle on Sunday.
Fresh off a 44-7 rout of the Kitsap County Bears in their season opener, the King County Jaguars will play host to the British Columbia Spartans in the annual Cornucopia Bowl minor league football on Saturday at French Field.
They started out 20 years ago playing basketball together in a Kent Parks Department league. And they’re still playing.
Then, they decided to form a softball team. And they’re still playing that in Kent, too.
And guys such as Glenn Watkins, Rich Marlow and brothers Steve and Mike Redmond don’t see the end in sight.
The Northwest Warriors, a Kent-based team that draws players from Kent, Auburn and Enumclaw, has earned a trip to the Continental Amateur Baseball Association World Series.
Campy Campolo doesn’t always have the best view of the football action. By design, someone’s often right in her way.
Campolo – who just finished a community college automotives degree and played softball and tennis at Jefferson High School in Auburn – is a fullback. And an outside linebacker.
And a woman.
Marcus Brooks scored two dramatic touchdowns – one on an interception return, the other on a kick return – and Tank Proctor also found the end zone twice as the King County Jaguars opened their minor league football season on Saturday with a 44-7 rout of the Kitsap County Bears at French Field.
There was a time about a year ago when Sarah Stockwell’s relationship with her lifelong love was … well, a bit on the rocks.
During Lorrie Jean Rarey’s early days as general manager of the King County Jaguars, the minor league football team had its home field in Kent. But not really a home.
The King County Jaguars are back home at French Field, and will kick off their 2008 minor league football season on Saturday night.
Rodney Stuckey, a 2004 Kentwood High graduate and first-round NBA draft selection — 15th overall — by the Detroit Pistons last June, recently was named to the 2007-08 T-Mobile NBA All-Rookie team.
Scott Simmons has lost a pair of uncles to cancer.
• WHAT: American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of Covington, Maple Valley and Black Diamond.
A listing of some of the top coaches in boys and girls high school sports for the 2007-08 school year.
A calendar of recreational events, announcements and updates from around Kent.
The Kentlake High baseball team spent pretty much the entire spring on an emotional high, winning game after game on the way to a state finals berth at Safeco Field.
On that same diamond, however, coach Jason Evans was in the midst of an emotional roller coaster ride, stemming from the loss of his father Dale, who passed away April 14 after a short bout with lung cancer.
He took a flight to Florida a couple Tuesdays ago.
But had Ryan Voelkel thought about it, he probably could’ve skipped the flight and flown south using nothing but his two arms.
That’s just how much of a high the former Kentlake High star was on.
And who could blame him?
The big fella, in a roundabout sort of way, had realized a lifelong dream less than a two days earlier and was busy packing his belongings – and dreams – in a suitcase and bracing for the next step in his baseball career.
That next step for Voelkel, a 6-foot-6 230-pound first baseman is playing for the Atlanta Braves rookie league affiliate in the Gulf Coast League.
