NW Briefs | Bainbridge Island's Emily Silver among nominees for Golden Goggles

Olympian Emily Silver of Bainbridge Island is among the swimmers nominated for a Golden Goggle Award. The 2008 U.S. Olympic team is expected to attend the black-tie awards gala Nov. 17 at the New York Hilton. Other nominees include gold medalists Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin, Jason Lezak, Rebecca Soni and Dara Torres.

Fans can vote at www.goldengoggles.com through Nov. 7.

Silver is nominated for the Perseverance Award, given to an athlete who overcame adversity, illness or injury, or returned from retirement, to have an outstanding performance at the Beijing Games. Silver had broken her hand in the weeks before the Games and earned a silver in the 400 free relay, for which she swam in a prelim.

Margaret Hoelzer, who trained at the King County Aquatic Center before the Olympics, is nominated for female athlete of the year.

The gold-medal-winning men's 400 free relay — for which Nathan Adrian of Bremerton swam in the prelims — is nominated for relay performance of the year.

Majestics tryout

Women interested in playing competitive football can try out for the Seattle Majestics at 11 a.m. Saturday at French Field, 10200 S.E. 256th St., in Kent.

Preregister for $40 online at www.theseattlemajestics.com, or pay $50 at the tryout. Each woman will be tested on speed, agility, strength and football skills.

The Majestics begin their season in April in the Independent Women's Football League. Last season, the Majestics won the Pacific Northwest Division, which also fielded teams in Corvallis, Ore., Portland, Sacramento, Redding, Calif., and Santa Rosa, Calif.

For more information, contact Kasey Rivas at krivas @theseattlemajestics.com.

Soccer

Shannon Oakes scored twice for 11th-ranked Seattle Pacific to lead the Falcons women to a 4-0 victory over Western Oregon in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's game in Monmouth, Ore. The Falcons (10-1-1, 4-1 GNAC) earned their fourth consecutive win.

• Ryan Brand scored his first two goals of the season — both inside the 6-yard box — as the SPU men took over first place in the GNAC standings with a 3-1 victory over Western Washington (5-5-2, 1-1 GNAC) in Seattle. The Falcons improve to 4-4-3, 3-1.

Tennis

Washington's run at the D'Novo ITA All-American Championships came to a close as the doubles team of Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Patrik Fischer fell one win short of reaching the main draw. They were defeated 8-4 by a Pepperdine team.

Golf

The Washington women finished third at the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish. The Huskies posted the field's second-best score Wednesday and finished with 922 (310, 310, 302). UW's Karinn Dickinson finished tied for third at 10-over 226.

Stanford took top honors in the team and individual standings.

The Washington State women finished ninth. Amy Eneroth finished in a tie for seventh place.

The Eastern Washington women placed 13th.

Notes

Kent agreed to the terms of a naming-rights deal for the city's events center, home of the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League. The partnership with ShoWare by VisionOne is for 10 years and is valued at $3.175 million.

ShoWare, a box-office sales service, will be the exclusive ticketing service for the center.

Kent council members will review contract terms before approval later this month. The facility's name, logo, color scheme and more will be unveiled within the coming weeks.

• Olympic gold-medal rowers Mary Whipple and Anna Mickelson Cummins will be keynote speakers at the Bellevue Chamber Business lunch Wednesday at noon at the Hyatt Regency. Reservations are required; visit www.bellevuechamber.org or call 425-213-1205.

Compiled from sports-information reports and other sources.