Despite ending the season with a 55-35 loss to Kennedy Catholic on Saturday morning at the Washington State 3A Hardwood Classic girls basketball tournament at the Tacoma Dome, the Auburn Mountainview girls have a lot to shout about.
The Lions’ sixth-place finish at the tourney delivers the school’s girls basketball program’s highest ever state placing. The team’s previous best finish was an eighth-place trophy at the 2007 tournament.
The Auburn Mountainview girls thrive on pressure.
With their backs against the wall in a loser-out consolation game at the state 3A girls basketball tournament, the Lions once again pulled out a victory by beating Lakeside of Seattle, 54-33.
Auburn’s Alexi Morton knew she had a good shot at picking up Boise State’s first ever indoor pentathlon title at the recent Western Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Jackson Indoor Track in Nampa, Idaho.
It might not have been the game-winning shot, but it was definitely a nail in the coffin.
Just minutes after her record-setting championship win in the 140-pound girls division at Mat Classic XXIII, Katrynia Todd was abuzz with excitement.
Auburn Mountainview senior Lucas Huyber must have seen his entire wrestling career flash before his eyes in a second.
Friends of shooting victim Josh Deraitus will host a benefit dinner and raffle at 5 p.m. Sunday at Jay Berry’s Cafe, 16341 SE Renton Issaquah Road, Renton.
Zach “The Faz” Hudson doesn’t refer to his radio show “The Crunk Report” on Green River Community College’s KGRG 89.9 FM as a show. He calls it a movement.
The Auburn Mountainview gymnastics team punched its ticket to the state 3A championships with a second-place finish at the West Central District III meet last weekend at Auburn Mountainview High School.
The Auburn boys wrestling squad completed its march to Mat Classic XXIII, qualifying five grapplers for the state meet out of the Region III tournament at Shelton High School last weekend.
Wrestling was not Katrynia Todd’s first choice.
When she was a sixth grader looking for a varsity sport to spark her interest, Todd first turned out for the basketball team at Meeker Middle School in northeast Tacoma.
The No. 4 ranked Auburn Riverside girls basketball team delivered No. 1 Federal Way their second loss of the season…
They say ignorance is bliss.
Behind the strength of three class champions, Auburn grappled its way to a second-place finish at the South Puget Sound League North 4A subregional wrestling tournament last Saturday.
It’s the news no parent wants to hear.
For Auburn’s Amber Snider, it came a little more than a week before Christmas, when she took her 4-year-old daughter, Iley Puloka, to a hospital to find out why she was having so much trouble getting over what they thought was a cold.
Local birders and commuters got a rare treat on Monday, when a flock of about 25 trumpeter swans paid a visit to the area, nestling down for a bite in a harvested field off of 277th Street Southeast near the Valley 6 Drive-In theater.
Alexis Moore likely will be one tired lass after this whirlwind weekend.
The final play didn’t go down the way it was drawn up.
With just a handful of seconds left on the clock and No. 2 Kentridge leading No. 6 Auburn 70-68, Kevin Henderson was supposed to drive to the basket and either draw a foul, score or dump it off to an open teammate to give the Trojans a chance to send the game into overtime.
Caitlin Carr’s career-high 27 points proved the difference Tuesday as the Auburn Mountainview girls swept by No. 9 Lakes, 58-50, in South Puget Sound League 3A basketball action at Auburn Mountainview High School.
Erik Petravicius has been a fighter his entire life.
