The Federal Way High School cross country teams had a pair of impressive runs Saturday at the prestigious Curtis Invitational at Titlow Park.
Jasmine Johnson finished in first place on the girls’ side and Meron Simon won the boys’ race at the 16-team invitational meet.
Johnson’s run over the hilly, 5,000-meter course was a course record and broke the old record, which was previously set by Curtis’ Erika Martin. Johnson ran a time of 19:20.29, shattering Martin’s old record of 19:32.
Simon’s time of 15:44.13 was just one-second shy of breaking the meet record on the boys’ side. The record is still held by Central Kitsap’s Shane Moskowitz, who won the Class 4A state championship last year and is currently running at Oklahoma State University.
Simon helped the Eagles finish in third place overall in the team standings, behind Puyallup and Peninsula. Brandon Thornton finished 11th overall in a time of 17:24.13 and Nathan Brewster was 20th in 17:34.58.
The Federal Way girls ended up eighth overall. Peninsula finished first overall.
Girls Swimming
For the second year in a row, Beamer senior Rachel Kim earned “Ironwoman” status. Kim swam two more automatic state-qualifying times Thursday during the Titans’ 104-80 loss to Curtis. The state times in the 500-yard freestyle and 100 breaststroke Thursday gave her qualifying times in all eight individual events contested in high school swimming.
Kim won the 500 free in a time of 5:15.36 and broke her own school record in winning the 100 breaststroke against Curtis in 1:09.23.
Kim accomplished the same “Ironwoman” status last year as a junior and swam an automatic All-American time in finishing second in the 200 individual medley and finished third in the 100 backstroke. She also helped a pair of Beamer relay teams snare two third-place finishes.
The Titans also got first-place swims against Curtis from Taylor Wintler in the 50 free (27.05), Liz Wiley in diving (196.05) and Estelle Kim in the 100 butterfly (1:07.14).
The Thomas Jefferson Raiders rolled over Auburn Thursday afternoon, 140-46. The Raiders finished first place in every event during the meet.
Jefferson picked up a pair of individual wins from Amber Cratsenberg in the 100 butterfly (1:01.35) and 500 free (5:19.00) and Savannah Coe in the 200 individual medley (2:23.31) and 100 breaststroke (1:14.34).
Girls Soccer
The Todd Beamer Titans (6-0-2) remained in first place in the SPSL South with a 10-0 win over Spanaway Lake Saturday. The Titans got a hat trick from Jenna Floyd, two goals from Megan Anderson and Breanna Straus and single goals from Tiarra Fentress, Avery Salisbury and Denali Pavlich-Wheeler. Meghan Graf got the shutout in net for the Titans.
The Decatur Gators (1-2-0, 4-3-0) picked up their first SPSL 3A win of the season with a penalty-kick shootout win over Enumclaw Thursday at Federal Way Memorial Stadium, 3-2.
The two teams tied at the end of regulation, 2-2, thanks to goals Rachel Neira and Taylor Meadows. The Gators then got shootout goals from Meadows, Sierra Shugarts and Abby McFaul to beat Enumclaw.
Jefferson (3-3-2) dropped a pair of matches last week to the first- and second-place teams in the SPSL North. Unbeaten Tahoma downed the Raiders, 3-0, Thursday and Kentlake (6-1-1) beat TJ Saturday, 3-2. The Raiders got goals from Lindsey Dahl and Danielle Eagloski.
Boys Tennis
The Thomas Jefferson Raiders extended their unbeaten streak in the SPSL Central Division last week to 8-0 with a win over Federal Way Thursday afternoon, 4-1. But the Raiders (12-1 overall) did drop their first match of the season Saturday to Kentridge in a non-leaguer.
Kentridge, who is unbeaten in the SPSL North Division, downed Jefferson, 3-2, Saturday. The Chargers won both singles’ matches and picked up a huge three-set win at No. 3 doubles. Jefferson’s two wins came from Makoa and Kainoa Rosa at No. 1 doubles, 6-1, 6-1, and Brandyn Gomez and Alex Lee at No. 2, 6-3, 6-4.
The Raiders bounced back by defeating Olympia in another non-leaguer Saturday, 4-1. Jefferson’s wins came from the Rosa brothers at No. 1 doubles, 6-1, 6-1, James Lee and Tyler Hamashima at No. 2, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, Josh Pahang and Vivek Ramanugan at No. 3, 6-1, 2-6, 6-3. The Raiders other win came from Alex Lee at No. 2 singles, 6-2, 6-0.
Olympia also entered the match with an unbeaten record in the Narrows League.
Golf
The Thomas Jefferson boys got by Auburn Thursday, 67-51, at Riverbend Golf Course. Oakley Murphy earned medalist honors with a 39. The Raiders also got a pair of 42s from Tyler Mullen and Eugene Kim.
In other boys’ action, the Curtis Vikings blew by Federal Way Thursday at Meadow Park, 76-46. The Eagles’ best round came from Jordan Ferguson with a 38. The Enumclaw boys dominated Decatur Thursday at Enumclaw, 95-57.
The Federal Way girls cruised by Curtis Thursday, 46-27, thanks to a 45 from Emily Victor. The Eagles also got a solid 53 from Melissa Finlay.
Volleyball
Beamer and Federal Way remained winless in the SPSL South with losses Thursday night. The Titans (0-3, 4-4) were swept by Rogers, 25-16, 25-17, 25-14, and Federal Way (0-3, 3-6) lost in three games to Emerald Ridge, 27-25, 25-18, 26-24.
Beamer was led by eight kills from Sophie Miller, six kills from Lexie Jones, five kills from Allyssa Adams and 10 digs from Allya Ranis.
Auburn Riverside also swept Jefferson (0-3, 1-5) Thursday in SPSL North action, 25-14, 25-15, 25-18. Andrina Tanielu had eight kills, Beauty Jackson finished with seven kills and Allie Crowe dished out 15 assists for the Raiders.
