Knight Line

Spring Sports End With Much Success

2009-06-29T05:45:00.000-07:00

Knights Fast Pitch started out hot on Friday with two big wins, sixteen to two over South Puget Sound and ten to one against Shoreline.

Bri Compton pitched both wins for the Knights, the Knights collected thirty hits in the two games. Miranda Rosebrook, Amanda TreVelde, Emma Winckler and Robin James all had home runs in the first game. On day two, the Knights had two close games to be eliminated from the tournament, losing to Walla Walla zero to one and Olympic zero to two in game two.
It was a great season for our Knight Fastpitch players who took 5th at the NWAACC tournament. They overcame a season of numerous injuries and other issues to finish first in the East Region for the fourth time in a row. The team carry's an overall GPA of 3.3. Several of our Sophomore players are going on to continue their education and playing careers at four year institutions. You, we have a lot to be proud of for what you've accomplished this year, congratulations. You had a great run and there are a lot of other players, coaches, parents and institutions who wish they could have been as successful as you have been

Baseballs season also ended at the Regional playoffs. The Knights lost their first game to Treasure Valley one to two, won their second game against Blue Mountain six to one and lost on Saturday to Treasure Valley again seven tow zero to end their chances for a return to the NWAACC championships. Our Knights Baseball team also had a great season. For a team that was dominated by freshmen they were very competitive, finishing second in the East Region and having another winning season as well.

Fastpitch All Stars Announced

2009-06-29T05:42:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to our 2009 Fastpitch All-Stars. The Knights had seven players selected as either First or Second Team East Region All-Stars.

Emma Winckler, a freshman was selected as a First Team Infield All-Star. Sophomore Miranda Rosebrook was selected as an Outfield First Team All-Star. Freshman Chelsea Allsbrook as a First Team Designated Hitter All-Star and sophomore Bri Compton as a First Team All-Star Pitcher. Second team all-star selections were freshman Katrina Peterson at infield and sophomore Katy Lafferty and freshman Amanda TeVelde at outfield.

Head Coach Shelly Pflugrath was selected as the East Region Coach of the Year.

Congratulations to all of our all-stars, players and coaches on a great season of Knights Fastpitch.

Fast Pitch Summer Camp 2009

2009-06-22T06:28:00.001-07:00

Come learn from the 2009 NWAACC Eastern Region Champions. The WVC Knights Fast Pitch team offers three days of instruction and summer fun. Come join us to improve your offensive and defensive skills. Coach Pflugrath, her staff, and players will emphasizing situational play and position specific drills. Come Learn From the Champs!

For more information, click here!

For the enrollment form, click here!

Knight Men's Soccer Well Represented

2009-02-13T06:16:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Men's Soccer Junior Garcia (2005) and Al Valencia (2005). In the recent Sounder's Super-Search, Seattle's Professional MLS team, both players placed in the top ten out of over 600 participants with Junior Garcia placing second in a toughly fought competition for the open spot on the team.

Tribute to Frank Mataya

2008-12-31T05:04:00.000-08:00

Please join us January 24th in the WVC Smith Gymnasium, 1300 5th Street, for a tribute to Coach Frank Mataya right after the end of the WVC women’s basketball game about 3:30 p.m. The women will begin play against Walla Walla C.C. at 2 p.m. The men will begin play at 4 p.m.

Game Admission
Adults $6
Seniors $3
Students w/out I.D. $5
Children 11 and under FREE
WVC Staff and family are FREE

Bob Rust, Athletic Director, will assist Stan Hages with MC’ing the tribute. There will be an “open mic” for all to do personal tributes. Please pass the word, we would like a strong turnout.

Coach Frank Mataya
25 years of coaching and teaching at
Wenatchee Valley College

1960-1985

Hospitality Hour
From 6-8 p.m., after the men’s basketball game.
Wenatchee Eagles #204
1208 N. Wenatchee Avenue
(across the street from the Red Lion Hotel), call 509.662.6700 for directions
Cost: $10 per person (if paid by January 10)
$12 per person at the door
Includes appetizers and beer by the keg
No host bar featuring wine, mixed drinks, and beer by the can or bottle
Must be over 21 to attend

Send pre-payment to Jeff Kinzel, P. O. Box 457, Dryden, WA 98821 (509.630.3078)
For information, contact Bob Rust, WVC Athletic Director, 1300 Fifth Street, Wenatchee, WA 98801 (509.670.4544)

Black & Silver Volleyball Clinic

2008-06-14T06:26:00.000-07:00

Come Join Us!

For 4 days of instruction with Coach Ketcham and the 2008 Knights Volleyball Team.

Topics covered will include fundamentals of attacking, serving, individual defense, passing, blocking, and setting. Each day will end in live scrimmage with coaching feedback for
improvement. Clinic will be held at Smith Gym on the Wenatchee Valley College campus.

Silver (entering grades 7-8) 9am - noon
Black (entering grades 9-12)1pm - 5pm

Questions? Call Kelly Ketcham, Head Coach, 682-6865

Click Here for a Sign Up Form

WVC Fastpitch

2008-05-18T20:36:00.000-07:00

NWAACC Softball Tournament - Crazy opening day for WVC

Eric Gordon
World sports writer
Posted May 17, 2008

PORTLAND — Friday’s opening round of the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges softball championships was a mixed bag of luck for the Knights of Wenatchee Valley College — some good, some bad.

The Knights beat Chemeketa 5-4 in thrilling fashion in the first round, then lost a nail-biter to Olympic 3-2 in the second round after a very controversial no-call in the field.
WVC trailed 4-1 heading into the bottom of the seventh and final inning of Game 1, and a rally didn’t appear likely at first.

After Katy Lafferty and Katrina Plucker both flied out to lead off the inning, the Knights needed a miracle — and they got it.
Leadoff hitter Kalena Keffler hit a hard shot to short that was bobbled briefly, and she outran the throw to first. Slugging pitcher Ranzy York followed with a deep fly to centerfield that was overrun and misplayed at the fence, and she ended up on second base after scoring Keffler. Miranda Rosebrook, the team’s leading hitter, then ripped an RBI single to cut the deficit to 4-3.
Meanwhile, cleanup hitter Rachael Glaspie anxiously awaited her turn.
“We had two outs, but I just knew she was going to get on,” Glaspie said of Rosebrook.
After falling behind in the count with two strikes, Glaspie sent a high flyball to center.
“When I got up, I was thinking, ‘Just a line drive in the gap, and she’s gonna score — hands up, and drive through,’ “ Glaspie said. “As soon as I hit it, I knew I hit it hard enough, but I hit it high.”
But it cleared the fence. Game over. And WVC coach Shelly Pflugrath wasn’t surprised.
“There’s no quit in them,” Pflugrath said. “It’s not the first time they’ve done it. That’s the product of hard work and confidence.”
Rosebrook finished 3-for-4, and Glaspie 2-for-3. They and York had WVC’s only hits in the game.
The Knights may have used up their ration of mojo for the day in the opener, as the breaks went the wrong way late in the game against Olympic, one of few teams in the tournament the Knights hadn’t seen yet this season.
WVC took a 2-0 lead in the fourth inning after Ashley Gustin hit and RBI single and Laurel Wyatt later scored on a wild pitch by Olympic pitcher Erika Quint. But that was one of very few mistakes by Quint, who was otherwise dominant in an 11-strikeout effort. She had no walks, and hit just one batter.
Still, Knights’ starter Bri Compton was having a nice game of her own. Compton took a shutout into the seventh inning, having allowed just four baserunners to that point.
Then things began to unravel.
Olympic’s Natalie PaePae led off the seventh with a double. The next batter, Keri Leaverton, laid down a bunt that was fielded by WVC third baseman Jocelyn Slack, who properly looked PaePae back to second but never went back for the out at first base.
“We made a wrong choice on the bunt and didn’t get the out at one, then they got a double and it changed the inning,” Pflugrath said.
Controversy reared its ugly head three batters later, the score tied at 2-2 with two outs.
Olympic’s Carolyn Ebendo hit a routine grounder to Wyatt — a National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-American — at short, but baserunner Megan Kreifels never diverged from her course between second and third. The ball appeared to nick Kreifels’ foot, and Kreifels appeared to make contact with Wyatt as she bent down to scoop up the ball. Instead, the ball squirted under Wyatt’s glove and into the shallow outfield. The go-ahead run scored.
“She hit me — that’s all I have to say,” Wyatt said.
Pflugrath argued the play for several minutes to no avail — on both counts.
“Either way, that’s a dead-ball (out) and the run doesn’t score,” Pflugrath said.
Neither umpire would comment after running off the field immediately following the game.
Despite the loss, the East Region champion Knights can still win the NWAACC title in the double-elimination tournament, but they have a lot of ground to make up in the consolation bracket on Saturday, when they could play as many as three games, all in loser-out status.
Pflugrath said she’s confident her team can do it. She added that the bizarre loss won’t have any lingering effects on her or her team.
“It won’t change how we come to the ballpark tomorrow,” she said.

WVC Baseball - All on the line

2008-05-18T20:19:00.000-07:00

Knights beat Walla Walla on walk-off slam, then fall to CBC
NWAACC baseball tournament: All on the line

By Brent Stecker
World sports writer
Posted May 17, 2008

Columbia Basin's Brady Farrington runs back to his dugout after tagging Wenatchee Valley College's Zane Bator to end the third inning of their regional playoff game Friday night at Paul Thomas Sr. Field in Wenatchee. Wenatchee lost after giving up five runs in the first inning. They continue the double elimination tourney Saturday. (World photo/Don Seabrook)

WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley College Knights breezed through the regular season. Now they're trying to catch their breath in the playoffs.

Edward Rodriguez

Three errors and pitching woes cost the top-seeded Knights in an 11-7 loss to Columbia Basin in the second round of Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges East Region tournament play Friday at Paul Thomas Stadium. WVC opened the tournament with a dramatic 8-5 win over Walla Walla that was capped off by a mammoth walk-off grand slam by Edward Rodriguez, but the loss to the Hawks leaves them in a must-win situation to keep their season alive.

"We weren't ready to play the second game," Wenatchee Valley coach Rusty Keith said. "(Columbia Basin) flat outplayed us."

The Knights must beat Treasure Valley in a noon contest Saturday to clinch a spot in next week's NWAACC tournament in Longview. The winner of that game will play Columbia Basin at 3 p.m. to determine the two seeds from the region. If Columbia Basin loses, the two teams will meet again at noon Sunday.

After defeating Treasure Valley earlier in the day, Columbia Basin came out firing on all cylinders against the Knights. Thanks to four hits, one walk and a Wenatchee Valley error, the Hawks pushed across five runs in the first inning.

The WVC pitching staff couldn't cool off the Columbia Basin hitters, and the Hawks ended up scoring at least one run in five different innings.

"We just walked too many guys and weren't able to throw first-pitch strikes," Keith said. "It just seems like every time we make a mistake there are runners on (base). They took advantage of that and that's a credit to them." On the bright side, the Knights did some damage on offense themselves and pounded out 13 hits in the game.

Center fielder Curran Redal went 4-for-4 with two doubles, two runs scored and an RBI to lead WVC. Seth Anderson was 3-for-4 and Rodriguez was 2-for-5 with two RBIs.

The main source of trouble for the Knights was Tyler Reeves, Columbia Basin's leadoff man. The pesky second baseman went 2-for-3, drew a walk, was hit by a pitch, scored four runs and drove in another.

WVC 8, Walla Walla 5

With the Knights trailing 5-4 in the bottom of the ninth with one out and the bases loaded, Rodriguez proved how clutch he is by walloping a walk-off grand slam to keep Wenatchee Valley in the winner's bracket.

Warrior closer Jacob Hiatt took the ball in the last inning, but he appeared to be off his game from the start and issued a walk to Bracken Howerton.

Tyler Slesk bunted him over to second, and Redal legged out a dribbler along the third base line to put runners on the corners.

Joe Intermill drew a walk to load the bases, and Rodriguez worked the count to 2-2 by fouling off a few pitches before depositing a Hiatt offering over the wall in left-center field.

"I was just trying to clear my hands and he made a mistake," Rodriguez said.

"I don't think he could have got (that pitch) any more than he got it," Keith said.

The hard-hitting catcher said the Knights fed off each other in the last inning.

"It seemed like the momentum was up real high," he said. "You have the support of each other and people are counting you. When you get up you just have to do your job and get a hit."

Wenatchee Valley trailed 2-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning, but Redal and Intermill each singled and Rodriguez walked with two outs. Zane Bator then ripped a double down the line to score two runs.

Howerton added an RBI single in the sixth to give WVC a 4-2 lead, but an error on a sacrifice bunt play in the eighth brought in two runs for the Warriors, and Michael Tompkins brought in a third with a groundout to put them back in the lead.

Redal and Intermill were each 2-for-5, while Howerton was 2-for-4. Intermill scored two runs while Redal, who will play for the Wenatchee AppleSox this summer, scored once.

Southpaw Zach Swart was solid on the mound, striking our four and allowing five runs (four earned) in seven innings.

Jeff Denton allowed one hit in two scoreless innings of relief to get the win for Wenatchee Valley.

WVC Softball — York powers Knights to key sweep

2008-05-04T13:26:00.000-07:00

PENDLETON, Ore. — If it's possible, Ranzy York just keeps getting better.

By Eric Gordon
World sports writer
Posted May 03, 2008

The Wenatchee Valley College softball team's ace hurler was on target in the circle and productive at the plate in a 6-3, 2-0 sweep of a tough Blue Mountain squad Friday in a Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges doubleheader.

"She plays with a lot of confidence," WVC coach Shelly Pflugrath said. "And whatever you ask her to do, she does."

York pitched all 14 innings of the two games, with a combined 15 strikeouts and just two walks.

She blew away the first three Blue Mountain batters of the first game swinging, then set down six more on strikes over the next six innings.

She helped her own cause with a 3-for-4 effort at the plate, driving in a run.

Also in the opener, Miranda Rosebrook went 2-for-3 with two RBIs.

Rachael Glaspie added two hits, and Jocelyn Slack scored and drove in a run.

Surprisingly, Blue Mountain coach Tom Bequette saved ace pitcher Ashley Densmore for the nightcap, and she was tough. Densmore allowed WVC just three hits.

"I think he was kind of thinking he'd get a split, that he would get somebody else (for an opposing pitcher) and not knowing he was going to get York again," Pflugrath said.

But the three hits proved to be enough.

York supplied two of them, including a two-run homer in the fourth inning that accounted for all the game's scoring.

Laurel Wyatt had the other WVC hit.

The second win of the day for York was also her 20th of the season, just three off her own school-record set last year.

She has pitched WVC's last 28 innings of play, also including a huge doubleheader sweep of Walla Walla last weekend that put the Knights in first place in the NWAACC East.

Despite York's increased workload of late, Pflugrath said she's not concerned.

"She threw the final 12 games of the year for us last year and still won three games at the (NWAACC) tournament," Pflugrath said.

Even after WVC's impressive wins Friday afternoon, good news for the team just kept pouring in throughout the evening.

First, the Knights learned that Walla Walla and Spokane, tied for second in the East, split their double dip on Friday.

That puts WVC (21-4 division, 36-9 overall) a full two games ahead of both in the standings with four to play. (By the way, WVC is possibly just four games away from setting a school record for wins for a third-straight season with 40).

Then, the NWAACC polls were released, announcing the Knights are ranked No. 2 in the entire 27-team conference.