This is my hero, and she plays horseshoes

Apparently Spokane is the horseshoes hotbed of Washington State, and we have the Lebron James of horseshoes sitting in our backyard.

On a sizzling summer evening, Kaiti Reeves demonstrated the form that made her a champion. She wrinkled her sunburned nose, drew her arm back, leaned to the right, and sent a horseshoe sailing through the air. With a clink, it hit the stake.

“That’s a ringer,” she said.

The 16-year-old Shadle Park High School student is the Washington state Girls Junior horseshoe champion. Quite an accomplishment since she’s only played for a little over a year.

“I took the state championship from a girl who’d been playing since she was 10,” Reeves said.

While league pitching is new to her, the backyard version of the game is one of her childhood memories. “We always played horseshoes when we went camping,” she said.

This definitely makes me want to go out and start plating horseshoes again. I was quite the ringer when I was a little child. Is there a professional horseshoes league somewhere?

High School Sports Feature: Lakes lives till another day

Sorry Brandon. The eastside looses again. This time to Lakes High School boys basketball team. In the 3A consolation winner still has a chance at 4th place, loosers season is done game, the Lakes Lancers squeaked by Shadle Park 72-64 in overtime.

Lakes moves on, Shadle Park had a good season.

The game was a hard fought battle between two teams that did not want to leave the Tacoma Dome just yet.

With just under a minute left in regulation, Lakes held a 66-62 lead, but the Highlanders refused to surrender. Instead they used the fact that one of the best Lancers, Andre Winston, Jr., could do nothing as he had fouled out with about 6 minutes left in the fourth quarter.

In overtime, Shadle Park fell apart though. Having fought so hard to tie the game up, Anthony Brown got frustrated and shoved Danny Martinez of Lakes. This caused Brown, who finished the game with 29 points, to foul out.

With Brown on the bench, the Lancers rolled to the easy win, making all eight of its freethrows in the final minute of OT.