Sports Briefs

Fulwiler takes over girls basketball program

Derek Fulwiler is the new girl's varsity basketball coach at Ballard High School, taking over for Karen Blair. Fulwiler has been an associate head coach for the boys team the last three years. Before coming to Ballard, he was an assistant at Nathan Hale, where he played basketball and competed in track as a student. The News-Tribune will be interviewing Fulwiler in the upcoming weeks.

Football camp run by new

Ballard Beaver's coach

The Ballard Youth Camp for young football players is coming to the Loyal Heights Field May 19 to 23 from 3:15 to 5 p.m. for grades four to eight.

New Ballard High School head coach John Bowers and his coaching staff will run the camp.

"We're getting the young men in the area excited about Ballard football and starting to build for the future," said Bowers, who brings his experience as a college football coach to the camp. He was formerly the recruiting coordinator and secondary coach for the Western Washington Vikings.

Beavers wrap up

baseball season

In baseball, a once promising season that began on a new home field has ended for the Ballard Beavers.

They finished the year in eighth place in KingCo with a 9-11 league and overall record.

The early season had great promise with a big 14-11 win over Eastlake, 6-0 win over Garfield and an 11-0 trouncing of Rainier Valley rival Franklin.

The Beavers had a similar situation at season's end with Ballard's softball team. All four city baseball teams were last in the KingCo league. Ballard was the best of the bunch for the city schools with Garfield, Roosevelt and Franklin taking up the rear of the standings.

Ballard varsity soccer

winds up year

Beaver soccer players Danny Guintoli and Jacob Byrne were named to the All-League boy's first team last week. Jack Allen and Victor Richarte made the Honorable Mention list.,

KingCo is a difficult league to find success in and the Ballard High School boy's soccer team found itself last in the Mountain Division with a 3 and 7 record good for nine team points as of late last week.

Ballard won two games in a row twice during the season. They beat Evergreen 6-0 in a non-league game on March 15, then defeated Franklin by a lopsided score of 11-0.

The next wins came on April 8 at Roosevelt 2-1 and Woodinville 7-0 on April 11.

The seniors graduating in June are: Allen; Kevin Baumler; Colin Colebrook; Tom Farr; Guintoli; James Neal; Byrne; and Richarte. The returning players are: Kentro Botzewski; Oliver Brossmann; Nick Christie; Scott Klepper; Balin Larson; Matthew Law-Phipps; Lizardo Lopez; Blaise McFarlane; Zach Murphy; Cornelius Norstrom; and Greg Testa.