PREP SPORTS: Quilcene’s Rae voted SeaTac League softball MVP; other area reports

QUILCENE — Quilcene senior Sammy Rae has been voted SeaTac League MVP by the league’s softball coaches.

Rae’s selection leads a posse of Rangers honored by the league.

Megan Weller, Erin Macedo, Allison Jones, Katie Bailey and Alexis Gray garnered first-team honors for Quilcene and Alex Johnsen was selected to the second team.

The league-champion Rangers (15-1) continue the postseason Saturday with either the Bi-District championship game or third-place game at Quilcene at 1 p.m.

The Rangers will play either Wishkah Valley or Oakville.

Baseball

Forks’ Contreras on all-league team

FORKS — Forks senior Javier Contreras was voted to the Evergreen 1A/2A League first team by the league’s coaches.

Contreras, the Spartans’ top pitcher, made the first team as a utility player.

Monteano’s Riley Olsen was named MVP.

Girls Tennis

Chimacum duo take third at districts

TACOMA — Chimacum’s Ray Maki and Sarah Allen finished third in doubles play at the Class 1A West Central District girls tennis tournament at Charles Wright Academy.

The points Maki and Allen earned at Wednesday’s tournament gave Chimacum a fifth-place finish at districts.

Maki and Allen started strong in their first match, winning the first set against the Charles Wright’s top team. But they lost the second and third sets of the match to fall into the consolation bracket.

“There they defeated the other Charles Wright pair in two well-played sets,” Chimacum coach Laurie Olafson said.

Only the top doubles team and singles player advance to next week’s state tournament.

Maki and Allen are both seniors.

“This ends their strong four years of playing tennis for Chimacum,” Olafson said.

“They had lots of success, especially their last two years, in both regular season meets and in postseason tournaments.

“They put in extra effort and time on the courts, and worked their busy schedules so they could continue to improve the entire season.”

Track and Field

Port Townsend’s Seton honored at sub-districts

BREMERTON — Port Townsend senior Jeff Seton was picked as the Field Events Athlete of the meet at last week’s sub-district meet at Bremerton High School.

Seton, in his first year competing in track and field, won the javelin (140 feet, 9 inches), took third in the discus (108-07) and fourth in the shot put (33-05.50) at Saturday’s meet.

Seton will attempt to qualify for state in the three events as Port Townsend and Chimacum compete at the Class 1A West Central District championships today and Saturday at North Mason High School in Belfair.

Port Angeles and Sequim also will be at North Mason for the District 2/3 championships.

Forks competes at the District 4 championships at McKenzie Stadium in Vancouver, Wash., today.

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