I’m headed for Yelm tomorrow morning. Wish me luck.

Sequim baseball takes on River Ridge in the first round of the class 2A state playoffs at Yelm High School tomorrow morning. Your intrepid Gazette editor plans to be there with bells on. Well, no bells. Maybe a camera slung around my neck.

River Ridges is 15-7 and surprised a bunch of folks by winning the District IV championship. It’s a title most figured would got to higher-seeded Centralia or Chehalis.

Figure that Sequim goes with Alex Gillis, the lefty who shut down Fife last weekend to get Sequim here.

Game time 10 a.m., so I figure the loooooong trip around Hood Canal means I’m leaving by 7 a.m. at the latest. Ugh.

Tennis is in Auburn for the district tournament. The Wolves have 18 athletes in action, equally divided among boys and girls. The girls have four doubles pairs and a singles player; the boys, three singles players and three doubles teams. Play started today and finishes Saturday afternoon.

Fastpitch goes tonight in Tacoma at the district tourney. The Wolves need to beat Fife to keep their season going. If they win tonight (6 p.m.) they play North Mason in the semifinals and need to either beat the Bulldogs or, if the lose, beat the other semifinal loser for a ticket to state.

Track and field athletes are at North Mason High School in Belfair Saturday to finish off the district meet they started Wednesday (don’t ask me why they split it up so).

Eight Wolves already have their tickets to the class 2A state meet after a strong showing on Wednesday.

Junior Anna LaBeaume broke her own school record with a throw of 42 feet, 1 inch in the shot put, the top mark in the state 2A rankings according athletic.net.

Fellow junior Samantha Whiteside broke her school record in the pole vault, clearing the 11-foot mark for second place.

Sophomore Audrey Lichten took second in the metric mile with a 5:26.75 mark, 11 seconds behind district champion Ruby Roberts of Kingston.

Josh Fodge also punched his ticket to state last Wednesday by winning the high jump event, clearing 5 feet, 8 inches.
Sequim’s boys 4x400 relay team earned a state berth with a 45.57-second finish.

Hopefully I’ll be able to catch some solid finishes as I make my way back from the baseball Saturday. The track meet goes from noon to about 3 p.m.

As for golf, the Wolves play May 27 and 28 in Yakima. Sequim has two girls (district champ Zoei Zbaraschuk, Kim Duce) and three boys (district champ Ryan O’Mera, Colby Rude, Chad Quinet) slated to play while senior Taylor Thorson makes it four boys on the trip after he earned third alternate status this week.

And by May 30, spring sports are done. Whew!