Prep Roundup: West Seattle escapes, 1-0

Travis Gilmore's run-scoring double in the bottom of the seventh inning broke up Lakeside pitcher Forrest Snow's no-hitter as West Seattle escaped with a 1-0 win Monday in a Metro League baseball tournament opener.

The dramatic finish put the Wildcats (20-1), ranked sixth in the state in Class 3A, in the Metro semifinals Wednesday against Nathan Hale, which surprised Bishop Blanchet 2-1 in eight innings.

Seattle Prep and defending state champion O'Dea also advanced with victories Monday.

In Wednesday's winner-to-state semifinals, Seattle Prep (17-4) plays O'Dea (13-8) at 4 p.m. and West Seattle meets Hale (10-13) at 7. In loser-out games, Ingraham (10-12) plays Chief Sealth at 10 a.m. and Lakeside (13-8) faces Bishop Blanchet (15-6) at 1 p.m.

Wednesday's games are all at Chief Sealth High School.

Lakeside's Snow and West Seattle's Jay Taylor were locked in a scoreless duel until Gilmore's double — the only hit for the Sound Division champion Wildcats — scored Kevin Toal from first base.

Taylor (7-1), a senior right-hander, threw a four-hitter and eight strikeouts. Snow struck out five.

Ninth-ranked Seattle Prep, the Mountain Division champion, beat Ingraham 8-0 as C.J. Cullen got seventh-inning relief help from Dan Lockett in a combined four-hitter.

O'Dea rallied for the tying run in the seventh and scored two in the eighth to edge Chief Sealth 6-4. Ehrett Ramey and Mike Weber each had three hits for the Irish.

Jared Littlefield tossed a four-hitter as Nathan Hale edged Bishop Blanchet 2-1 in eight innings. Littlefield struck out five and walked one.

Cascade, M-P survive loser-out soccer games

Cameron Wheeler's goal in the 55th minute was the difference as Cascade survived a late-game comeback by Mariner for a 3-2 victory in a loser-out opener of the Northwest 4A District boys soccer tournament.

In another game, Jordan Salcedo got the deciding goal as Marysville-Pilchuck outscored Edmonds-Woodway 5-4 in a shootout for a 2-1 victory to eliminate the Warriors.

In 7 p.m. loser-out games today, Cascade (9-5-3) of Everett plays at Lake Stevens and Marysville-Pilchuck (12-5) meets Meadowdale at Edmonds Stadium.

Cascade's Jeff Gosslee scored three minutes into the match, and Reid Jones took a pass from Wheeler for another Bruins goal in the 30th minute against Mariner. Wheeler's goal put the Bruins ahead 3-0 before Mariner (8-5-2) rallied.

Marysville-Pilchuck almost beat Edmonds-Woodway (6-10-1) in regulation time, but the Warriors tied it 1-1 on a goal by Kooroush Mansourzaven in the 77th minute.

Blanchet, E. Catholic advance in boys soccer

Bishop Blanchet edged Seattle Prep 1-0 and Eastside Catholic topped Ingraham 2-0 in loser-out, first-round games of the Metro League boys soccer tournament.

In winner-to-state semifinals Wednesday at Interbay Stadium, Blanchet (13-2-2) plays Sound Division champ Nathan Hale at 3:30 p.m. and Eastside Catholic (10-4-2) faces Mountain champ Lakeside at 5:30.

Bishop Blanchet's Ian Fewing scored with a pass from Drew Bendzak in the 69th minute to break up a 0-0 tie against Seattle Prep (6-8-2).

Andy Hampson and Chris Mataja scored in the first half, and goalkeeper Tyler Stromberg and the Eastside Catholic defense made the lead stand up against Ingraham (7-4-2).

Mount Si soph wins KingCo 3A golf title

KENT — Mount Si sophomore Katie Somers, last year's state runner-up, defeated Interlake junior Jordan Allyne in a playoff at Riverbend Golf Complex to win the KingCo 3A girls golf championship.

Somers and Allyne both shot 77, one stroke better than Bellevue's Danielle Post and Newport's Jane Koh, who tied for third.

Issaquah sophomore Brittany Tallman, the defending KingCo 3A and state champion, tied for fifth with Liberty's Kelsey Kofmehl at 79. Tallman edged Somers by two strokes for the Class 3A state title last spring. Allyne placed sixth at state in 2005.

Issaquah won the team championship by 13 strokes over Interlake. The top 24 golfers qualified for next week's district tournament.

Boys soccer

• Daniel Macedo, Blake Hayashi and Mark Lee scored for Puyallup as the Vikings outshot Emerald Ridge 3-1 in a shootout for a 2-1 victory in a loser-out tiebreaker for the South Puget Sound League's fourth and final playoff spot from the South Division.

Puyallup (9-4-4) faces Sumner, the North's No. 4 team, at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Art Crate Stadium in a loser-out game for the SPSL's seventh and final berth in the bi-district tournament. Emerald Ridge finished 9-5-3.

Baseball

• Granite Falls beat Mount Baker and Blaine beat Lakewood in the completion of suspended games, and Granite Falls then beat Blaine 3-2 to advance in the Northwest 2A District tournament in Mount Vernon. The ninth-ranked Tigers (16-6) play No. 8 Meridian at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Fastpitch softball

• Shorecrest blanked Meadowdale 5-0 in the WesCo South on Emma Snow's five-hitter.

• Eastside Catholic freshman Kelly Lloid, in her first game in five weeks since a line drive fractured her wrist, struck out 16 in a three-hitter as the Crusaders beat Chief Sealth 7-1 in a Metro League tournament play-in game. The tournament starts Wednesday.

• Camille Floyd struck out 15 and Amelia Savage homered and had five RBI in Seattle Prep's 16-5, five-inning rout of Cleveland in a Metro tournament play-in game.

• Junior pitcher Ashley Millican of Granite Falls broke up a scoreless duel with an RBI double in the bottom of the seventh, giving the Tigers a 1-0 Cascade Conference win over Cedarcrest. Millican tossed a six-hitter.

• Kristin Ehlebracht and Jaimee Greenup each went 3 for 3 and Kaitlyn Kennedy struck out 12 in a five-hitter as unbeaten Archbishop Murphy won its 17th straight, 6-1 over Lakewood in the Cascade Conference.

Tennis

• Lakeside's Davis Mangham, the Class 3A state runner-up last year, advanced to the boys singles title match with a pair of straight-set victories in the Metro League tournament at Upper and Lower Woodland Park. The finals are today.

Also advancing to the finals were Jerry Ellison of O'Dea in boys singles, and Nicole Fleckenstein of Seattle Prep and Molly Donohue of Bainbridge in girls singles.

• Bellevue teammates Julie Phillips and Nikole Novikova will play for the KingCo 3A girls singles championship after semifinal victories. Phillips beat Mercer Island's Amelia Carpenter 6-2, 6-4 and Novikova topped Van Duong of Sammamish 6-1, 6-4. The finals are today at Issaquah High.