ALLEN, Texas — Brett Johnson placed third and helped Washington State University win the National Collegiate Wrestling Association Division II Championship.
Johnson, a 2010 Port Townsend High School graduate, took third in the 165-pound weight class and was the Cougars’ highest scorer at last month’s championships.
Johnson, who helped found the Washington State club wrestling team, is now a two-time All-American, having finished sixth last year.
Softball
Frazier powers Rangers past Shoreline
BREMERTON — Former Port Angeles High School softball standout Mariah Frazier hit a grand slam as the Olympic College Rangers smacked the Shoreline Dolphins in a doubleheader at Lions Park.
Frazier’s grand slam came in the Rangers’ 18-2 win in Saturday’s first game. The sophomore shortstop finished with two hits in the opener.
She added another hit and another RBI in the second game, a 14-1 victory.
Frazier, who was voted to the NWAC All-Northern Region second team last year, is batting .400 with seven RBIs in 11 games for the Rangers (6-3).
On the other side, Forks graduate Jillian Raben had one hit in four at-bats in the two games
for Shoreline.
Madison Zbaraschuk’s home run derby
ST. LOUIS — Madison Zbaraschuk (Sequim, 2011) hit three home runs as University Missouri-St. Louis swept a pair of weekend doubleheaders against Quincy and Truman State.
Zbaraschuk twice hit back-to-back homers with teammate Brianna Butler in the third-ranked Tritons’ 5-2 win over Quincy in the opening game.
In the second game with Truman State on Sunday, Zbaraschuk hit a two-run homer in a 5-1 win.
Missouri-St. Louis leads NCAA Division II in home runs. Zbarschuk, a senior catcher, has seven of those homers.
Other softball highlights by former area athletes:
■ TACOMA — Lenora Hofer (Port Angeles, 2014) doubled and drove in one of South Puget Sound Community College’s three runs in a 29-3 loss to Grays Harbor on Friday.
Hofer also had a hit in the other game of the doubleheader.
■ WACO, Texas — Lea Hopson (Sequim, 2011) drove in two runs as Texas Tech took No. 15 Baylor to extra innings before falling 6-5 on Saturday.
Hopson brought in a run with a squeeze bunt to tie the game, then gave the Red Raiders their only lead of the game with an RBI single.
Baylor swept the three-game series.
In the second game Friday, Hopson reached base in all three plate appearances (hit by pitch and two walks) in Texas Tech’s 5-0 loss.
■ CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Demiree Briones (Sequim, 2012) had two hits, including a home run, and scored two runs in a 10-run fourth inning for North Carolina Central University on Wednesday.
The Eagles spotted Charlotte an 11-0 lead after three innings before mounting their significant fourth-run rally. The 49ers, however, held their lead to win 11-10.
Baseball
Cray helps Seattle sweep Hornets
SEATTLE — Landon Cray (Chimacum, 2012) doubled and scored two runs as the Seattle University baseball team moved into first place in the Western Athletic Conference with a win over Sacramento State.
Cray, a junior outfielder, led off the bottom of the first inning with a double and eventually came around to score the first run of the Redhawks’ 5-2 victory Friday.
Seattle swept the three-game series with the Hornets.
Against Oregon on Wednesday, Cray led off with a single that ended up as the Redhawks’ only hit of the game in a 4-0 loss.
Track and Field
Brocklesby wins Western meet
BELLINGHAM — Olympic College’s Jayson Brocklesby (Sequim, 2013) held on to win the decathlon at the Western Washington University Combined Events Track and Field meet.
Brocklesby, who left going into the second day Friday, finished with 5,661 points.
The sophomore ran the 110-meter high hurdles in 16.95 seconds and the 1,500-meter in 5:24.74.
He achieved a personal record in the discus with a distance of 112 feet, 6 inches.
He threw the javelin 131-05 and reached 11-08 on the pole vault.
“Very cold and windy conditions, so times were not great and pole vault was moved indoors,” Olympic coach Dan Dittmer said.
Millsap, Hudson take second
TACOMA — Jolene Millsap (Port Angeles, 2014) and Hannah Hudson (Sequim, 2014) helped Olympic College take second in the 4×100-meter relay at the Shotwell Invitational hosted by the University of Puget Sound.
Millsap and Hudson, along with teammates Kamina Flemming and Emily Mills, ran the relay in a personal-best 49.96 seconds.
Hudson and Millsap also ran with the Rangers’ fourth-place 4×400 relay, joining Mills and Marina Hartford to earn a personal-best 4:07.69.
Individually, Millsap placed seventh in both the women’s 100 (12.96 seconds) and 200 (26.25 seconds).
Women’s Basketball
Iowa-bound Stewart honored
MINOT, N.D. — Hannah Stewart, daughter of former Peninsula College women’s coach Julie Stewart and former Peninsula College men’s coach Peter Stewart, was named the North Dakota Gatorade Girls Basketball Player of the Year.
Stewart, who grew up playing in youth basketball and softball leagues in Port Angeles, has signed to play for the University of Iowa.
The 6-foot-2 guard/forward, along with mother and head coach Julie Stewart, led Bishop Lion Catholic to its third consecutive Class B state championship this season while averaging 19.6 points and 11.6 rebounds.
Stofferahn signs with Austin College
SEQUIM — Sequim High School senior Caitlin Stofferahn signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Austin College, a Division III school in Texas.
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Compiled by Sports Editor Lee Horton, with the help of emails and Google Alerts. Send updates of area athletes performing well elsewhere to lhorton@peninsuladailynews.com.
