It’s a big weekend for Tri-Cities spring sports tournaments. How to catch the games

As high school spring sports continue with the playoffs, here’s a quick synopsis of some of the team sports for squads in the Mid-Columbia Conference:

4A baseball

Richland visits Kamiakin at 1 p.m., Saturday at LaPierre Field. Both teams have qualified for the state tournament, but this is for the district 8 title.

Hanford visits Chiawana at 4 p.m., Friday, in a loser-out game. Winner moves to Gonzaga Prep on Saturday and will battle for the district’s remaining state berth with either Central Valley or Gonzaga Prep.

3A baseball

Walla Walla will play Kennewick for the district title Saturday. This game will be at 1 p.m. at Pasco High School, since Roy Johnson Field still cannot host games until the right field light standard gets repaired. Both MCC teams have already qualified for the 3A state tournament.

Meanwhile, Southridge is still alive for the third and final state berth, and the Suns visit top-seeded University at noon Saturday in a loser-out game. If Southridge can win that, it has to beat either Mead or Mt. Spokane at 2 p.m. for the state berth.”

4A boys soccer

Pasco has already qualified for the state tournament, and was to play Lewis & Clark (also qualified for state) for the district title on Thursday.

Meanwhile, one of four teams — Central Valley, Chiawana, Gonzaga Prep or Richland — have a shot of the remaining available state berth.

3A boys soccer

North Central and Mead have already garnered two of the district’s three available state berths.

Kennewick and Southridge are still alive for the final state berth.

4A softball

District play begins this weekend — although there is a Hanford vs. Lewis & Clark, loser-out, play-in game Thursday. On Saturday at Richland High, Kamiakin plays Central Valley at noon. The winner of that plays Richland at 2 p.m.

The Hanford/LC winner takes on Chiawana at noon Saturday at Gonzaga Prep. The winner of that plays G-Prep. The tournament continues next weekend. Three berths to state are up for grabs.

3A softball

The tournament begins with the first round on Saturday: Mead is at Hermiston, Kennewick visits Mt. Spokane, and Cheney is at Walla Walla. All games are 1 p.m. start times. The tournament resumes Wednesday, and the top three placers qualify for state.

3A-4A track and field

Everyone meets at Hermiston Friday and Saturday for the MCC Championships. The following weekend, everyone heads to Spokane for the regionals meet.

Notes

• In a 22-11 baseball loss to St. Martin’s on April 22, Montana State University Billings infielder Carson Green (Kamiakin, WWCC) had two solo home runs and scored four times for MSUB.

• Grandview’s Matthew Sauve has been named the 2A Central Washington Athletic Conference baseball Most Valuable Player this spring by the conference coaches.

Sauve, a senior, was also named to the first team all-conference squad.

Othello senior Andre Garza was also named to the first team.

• Whitworth’s Levi Garza (Othello) won his No. 5 men’s singles match over Willamette’s Trey Allen by a 6-1, 7-5 score on April 15. Whitworth won the team match 9-0.

• Weber State University’s softball team finished the regular season with a 35-10 record. That include a 13-1 Big Sky Conference record.

The Wildcats, who host the conference tournament this week, were led by senior Faith Hoe (Walla Walla), who had the team’s top batting average of .371. She also led the team in RBIs (35) and runs scored (40). She had one home run this season.

Her twin sister, Lauren Hoe, finished the regular season with 4 homers, 19 RBIs, and a .239 batting average.

• Kamryn Coleman (Walla Walla) had three hits, including a solo homer, in a 3-1 Seattle University softball loss to Cal Baptist on April 23.

• Lance Spaniel, Southridge’s outstanding punter and kicker these past few years, is going to try to walk-on for the University of Oregon football team this fall.

• Right winger Kyle Olson, a former Tri-City American, scored 12 goals and had 9 assists for 21 points in 69 games this season for the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Penguins in the American Hockey League. The Penguins have a 35-31-4-4 record.

• Sophomore Clare Eubanks (Chiawana) averaged 5.8 points and 3.5 rebounds this past season for the Northwest Nazarene University women’s basketball team, which finished with an 18-10 record.

• Eastern Washington University sprinter Katie Petsch (Kamiakin) was the big local standout at the CWU track and field invite on April 23.

Petsch won the women’s 100 meters in 12.03 seconds, and then won the 200 in 25.05 seconds.

Other standouts included EWU’s Joe Gauthier (Hanford), won the men’s 100 meters at 10.69 seconds, and placed second in the 200 at 21.99 seconds; EWU’s Madelyn Knight (Walla Walla) placed second in the women’s 100 hurdles with a time of 14.59 seconds, and finished fourth in the women’s 400 hurdles at 1:06.97; CWU’s Austin Albertin (Kennewick) won the men’s 400 hurdles event in 54.62 seconds; EWU’s Madi Carr (Richland) finished first in the women’s 800 meters in 2:19.02; EWU’s Breydan Freitag (Kamiakin) placed second in the men’s pole vault at 15-9.76; Spokane Community College’s Madeline Gebers (Kennewick) placed second in the women’s javelin event with a toss of 124 feet, 6 inches; EWU’s Hally Ruff (Walla Walla) cleared 12 feet, 5 inches to place second in the women’s pole vault; EWU Alax Grimes (Southridge) finished fifth in the men’s hammer throw with 164 feet, 1 inch, and then placed seventh in the men’s discus throw with a throw of 143-6; and EWU’s Amanda Nygard (Hermiston) finished fifth in the women’s 800 meters with a time of 2:25.38.

• In an 8-6 BYU softball victory over Dixie State on April 26, BYU pinch hitter Emma Andrewjeski (Connell) had an RBI single in the seventh inning.

• Maddy Thomas (DeSales) hit a solo home run for Whitworth softball in a 10-4 loss to George Fox University on April 16.