GAELIC SPORTS WORLD Issue 23 – April 10, 2015 | Page 28

TACOMA, WASHINGTON STATE
APRIL 7, 2015

EVERYONE’S A WINNER
IN THE NORTHWEST
HUDD WILKINS REPORTING

The Cascade Northwest GAA
League got underway last weekend
in Tacoma, Washington, and in
breaking from traditional norms,
it wasn’t about who won what as
every team got something out of
the tournament.
The Tacoma Rangers, a new club
formed two years ago, were the
hosts of the opening round of the
Cascade League in both Hurling
and Gaelic Football at Fort Steilacoom Park in Lakewood, in the

Hurling action in the Cascade League at Tacoma, Washington State. (Photo: Tacoma Rangers GAA Club.)

suburbs of Tacoma. The young club hosted their first Hurling tournament last August and a Football tournament two
weeks later. This time around both codes were on the ticket
with 6 hurling teams and 3 football sides making it the biggest GAA event to date in the Tacoma region.
On Saturday March 28th, two fields were set up, one an
almost full sized pitch for 13 a side and a smaller field for
junior’s matches involving newer players from the participating clubs.

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The Montana Grizzlies in their first appearance in the
competition last year took two of the tournaments that they
entered in and later went on to glory in the 2015 colleges
NCGAA National Hurling Championship. This season the
Grizzlies look even stronger. But the crew in Montana are
keen also to develop hurling at their college, the University
of Montana in Missoula, and formed a junior side to compete in the Tacoma tournament.
The teams involved in the Hurling section at Tacoma were