SHORELINE - The Shoreline Community College baseball program received a $3,000 donation from Fred Meyer as part of a state Lottery winning-ticket bonus program.

"We’re very excited to receive this grant," said SCC baseball coach Steve Seki, who applied for the grant this past fall. The money helped purchase a portable "Big Bubba Batting Cage" that the team uses at their home field at Lower Woodland Park in Seattle. "It’s just like the cage you see being used at Mariners games," Seki said. The cage, which rolls into position, also breaks down for easy storage.

The money was part of a $90,000 bonus from the Washington Lottery system to the Shoreline Fred Meyer store, where a winning $9 million ticket was sold in 2007 to a Shoreline man. Employees of the store selected 11 local organizations that support children and families to receive donations.

SHORELINE - The Shoreline Community College softball team qualified for the NWAACC(Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges) Softball Championships, May 16-18 in Portland, Oregon.

The Lady Dolphins defeated Skagit Valley Community College 15-0 on Tuesday in the first game of a doubleheader to clinch the playoff spot. The Dolphins pounded 6 homeruns in the contest. SCC is currently in fourth place in the NWAACC Northern Region one half game behind Everett Community College for third place in the division. Shoreline plays Everett CC at Everett on Friday to battle for the third place position.

SHORELINE - Shoreline Community College Centerfielder Erik Church has been named All NWAACC Northern Region Second Team in baseball.  Erik batted .312 for the season with 41 hits, four doubles, one triple, one homerun and 18 RBIs in 40 games this season.

SHORELINE - Butch Estes has been hired as the men’s basketball coach.  Estes has more than 30 years coaching experience at the college/university level; most recently as assistant coach at Seattle University.

Estes graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he played freshman basketball and was a student assistant coach under the legendary coach, Dean Smith.  He was a graduate assistant coach while he earned his master’s degree in administrative education at The Citadel.   After co

mpleting his degree in 1973, Estes took assistant coaching positions at East Carolina and Rice universities and moved into head coaching positions at Presbyterian College (92-63 record) and Furman University (135-122 record).

In the mid 1990s, Estes left the court for five years to work for Fox Sport Net as a basketball analyst, eventually taking head coaching jobs at Guilford College and Miami-Dade South Community College.  He did a brief tenure at the University of Miami as assistant coach in 2006, and in 2007, he moved to the Seattle area to support his wife’s career (she is an executive producer at a local TV station) and accepted an assistant coach position at Seattle University.

Estes holds a 338-267 record as a head coach and is an eight-time Coach of the Year nominee.

“Butch Estes is an established professional with a long and successful coaching record,” says Doug Palmer, athletic director at Shoreline Community College.  “We are very fortunate to have him lead our basketball team.” 

For more information about sports programs at Shoreline Community College, check out the web site at http://www.shoreline.edu/athletics/.