Ladies Golf club hosts tournament
The Enumclaw Ladies Golf Club will host a mixed scramble at the Enumclaw Golf Course July 18. This two-person, shotgun tournament is open to men’s and ladies club members as well as nonmembers. All golfers are encouraged to participate.
Play will begin at l p.m. with dinner and a raffle following. One of the highlighted prizes is an expenses-paid trip to the Quinault Resort and Casino in Ocean Shores, Wash.
The tournament format allows all golfers to have a fun time and enables the Ladies Club to raise scholarship money for the high school girls golf team and support the Enumclaw Golf Course.
It is also a longstanding tradition that members bake pies for dessert.
For information or to register, contact chairwomen Judi Puttman at 253-797-2906 or Jeannie Lyman at 360-825-5036. Registration forms are also available at the Enumclaw Golf Course.
Salsbury fourth in amateur tourney
Enumclaw High’s Tyler Salsbury finished fourth in the Tacoma City Amateur Sunday. The youngest golfer in the 60-man field, Salsbury closed out the tournament with a 216-stroke performance after his final-round of 71 at Olympia Golf and Country Club. Earlier, June 19 and 20, he shot 73 at Capitol City Golf Course and 72 at Lake Spanaway Golf Course. Salsbury, who finished second in state for the Hornets in May, was allowed to play the Tacoma City Amateur this year after the Tacoma Golf Association lowered the minimum-age requirement to 16.
Van Dam races off to good start
Henry Van Dam earned the Travis Rutz Hard Charger title June 13 at the second annual American Sprint Car Series Big Sky Country Showdown against the Big Sky Sprint Tour. Thirty-six competitors from five states and Canada competed at Electric City Speedway in Great Falls, Mont.
Van Dam finished seventh in the 30-lap A Main.
The 29-year-old Enumclaw driver, early in the season, started with a pole and A feature victory May 8 at Grays Harbor Raceway.
VanDam is currently ninth in ASCS Northwest drivers points standings.
Plateau vans can catch Van Dam at the ASCS Northwest and Nationals, Fred Brownfield Memorial, July 16 and 17 at Elma, Wash. He and the 33v team will then make a quick run to Cottage Grove, Ore., and return to Burlington, Wash., for the 360 Nationals at Skagit Speedway July 30 and 31.
Hornets place third in Classic
The traditionally-tough White River High girls basketball program has continued its winning ways this summer.
The Hornets placed third among 24 teams in their own Lady Hornet Classic, staged June 18-20 on the White River campus. The host Hornets lost in the semifinals to Issaquah, a team that later defeated Auburn Mountainview for the tourney title.
Playing June 11-13, the Hornets went 7-0 to capture the championship in the Bonney Lake-Sumner Summer Slam.
A week earlier, White River went 5-2 and placed third in a field of 20 teams at the South Sound Summer Classic, contested at both Tumwater and Black Hills high schools.
Keeping a busy schedule, coach Chris Gibson and his troops are participating in a summer league at Bethel High School, playing twice a week. Gibson has one varsity team and three junior varsity clubs in the league.
Varsity performers are Cassidy France, Brooke Paulson, Sabra Sproul, Kennedy Hobert, Charleen Pleasance, Sierra Gulla, Kelly O’Brien, Sutton Mills, Erin Worley, Amy Brons and Emily Peloli. Sproul suffered a knee injury during a game and, following successful surgery, is expected to be ready for the winter season. Pleasance will be new to Hornet followers; the 6-foot post player has transferred from Emerald Ridge for her senior season.
Engine failure snags Kahne lead
Sunday went from great to unbearable for Kasey Kahne. The Enumclaw NASCAR Sprint Cup driver started on the outside pole in Loudon, N.H., Sunday, led the most laps on the one-mile track and was running near the front when the engine on his No. 9 Ford failed. He finished 36th and dropped two points in the drivers’ standings.
“We had a fast Budweiser Ford,” Kahne said. “It was nice to drive, but we just had another mechanical failure. It’s tough. We’ve been doing pretty good points-wise and that hurts again, but we can keep going for it.”
Kahne and crew head to Daytona, Fla., Saturday night.
for the Coke Zero 400.
