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By Lillian O’Rorke

Some say the third time is the charm. For Katie Bucy, it was.

The Skyline High School junior had been to the U.S. Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament twice before, but when she and her team outscored a New Hamp-shire/Vermont regional squad, 9-6, to win the title May 26, it was a first.

“It’s cool coming back from that and finally real-izing what you’ve done,” Bucy said after returning

from the tournament in Philadelphia.

“It’s amazing. It’s actu-ally kind of shocking,” she added. “The East Coast is known for lacrosse, and we’re from Washington.”

After tryouts in March, Bucy was selected to join 21 other high school girls from the state to represent Washington at the National Tournament, where she led with three goals in the championship game. Dur-ing the two-day competi-tion, Washington swept through the Under 19

Mohawk Division to finish with a 4-0-1 record.

The girls got off to a good start May 25 with a 14-7 victory over Pitts-burgh. They would have two more games that day, including a 10-10 tie with Virginia and a 15-4 victory against Orange County/L.A.

“It was a very long day, and going from Washington

Skyline’s Katie Bucy helps Washington lacrosse win national championship

THIRD TIME’S A CHARMON THE WEB

Learn more about the local team at www.isdgirlslacrosse.com.

CONTRIBUTED

Katie Bucy, Skyline High School junior, races with the ball down the field with her Washington State team during one of the games at the U.S. Lacrosse Women’s National Tournament held May 25-26 in Philadelphia.

By Neil Piersonnpierson@sammamishreview.com

Jake Rosen had barely pitched since his Newport High School baseball team ended its season in late April, but that didn’t stop him from putting together a great outing June 6.

Rosen shut out Phiten Legion of Bellevue through five innings, but Phiten scored a run in the sixth off reliever Clayton Huber to top Lakeside Recovery, 1-0, in a Senior American Legion contest at Issaquah High School.

Lakeside Recovery coach Rob Reese said he liked what he saw from Rosen, who allowed three hits and two walks with three strikeouts.

“He hasn’t pitched much because Newport, they’ve been out of it for a while, so he’s only had, like, three innings in a month,” Reese said. “Five innings is about where he was good to go today, and then he gave us five shutout innings. You can’t ask for much more than that.”

Lakeside Recovery entered the game with five straight wins, and its offense had been red-hot during the streak, averag-ing more than eight runs per outing. The bats were silenced against Phiten, though, as they managed

only three hits and struck out eight times.

Lakeside Recovery’s best scoring chance came in the bottom of the first inning after Matt Sinatro dropped a leadoff double down the left-field line. How-ever, Sinatro was thrown out trying to steal third base, and Phiten ended the threat when Lakeside Recovery’s Justin Vernia grounded into a double play.

Reese credited Phiten’s pitcher with a solid outing, and said Lakeside Recov-ery didn’t accomplish the type of small-ball tasks that make a difference in a close game.

“We had our shot in the first inning,” Reese said. “We made a base-running error, and we had our three, four hitters up with a guy in scoring position, and we just didn’t get him in. That was the end of our offense today.

BY NEIL PIERSON

Lakeside Recovery’s Jake Rosen pitches during the June 6 Senior American Legion baseball game against Phiten Legion at Issaquah High School. Rosen allowed three hits and no runs in five innings, but Lakeside Recovery lost, 1-0.

UP NEXTThis week, Lakeside Recovery hosts Sedro-Woolley at Issaquah High (6 p.m. June 13), and travels to Sedro-Woolley for a June 15 doubleheader starting at noon. Next week, Lakeside Recovery has home games at Newport High against Phiten and Wollochet Baseball Club of Gig Harbor.

Lakeside Recovery falls late to PhitenJake Rosen tosses five hitless innings

in no decision

See BASEBALL, Page B5

Runners prowl Cougar Mountain

SLIDESHOW

Find more photos from the June 8 Cougar Mountain Trail

Run at www.issaquahpress.com.

PHOTOS BY GREG FARRAR

Runners start to spread out on the first turn of the Cougar Mountain Trail Run June 8. In all, 167 registered athletes took the 8.2-mile course and 82 ran the 14.1-mile course, laid out along various trails spread out over the King County regional wildland park.

Above, Aggie Hartkamp, of Seattle, reaches the finish line to win the female divi-sion of the 14.1 mile run in a time of 2 hours, 22 minutes, 2.3 seconds. At far left, Katie Bates, of Seattle, female win-ner of the 8.2 mile route with a time of 1 hour, 5 minutes, 29.7 seconds, pets her dog Gunnison while cooling down after the finish. At left, Daniel Kittaka, of Chicago, male winner of the 14.1 mile run, arrives on the final stretch for a finishing time of 1 hour, 49 minutes, 44.8 seconds.

Joseph Gray, of Renton, a nationally-recognized trail run-ner, slips through a gate at the junction of Cave Hole Trail and Old Man’s Trail, on the way to being male winner of the 8.2 mile run in a time of 48 min-utes, 57.2 seconds.

See LACROSSE, Page B5