NWAC Sports: Lower Columbia College brings in another round of reinforcements
Letters of Intent V – Napavine's Purvis, Montesano's Gooding among latest crop of talent to join Red Devils athletics
By Rick McCorkle for Blast Zone Media / blastzonenews@gmail.com
NWAC Sports / College Signings
A two-time state champion softball player, along with talented women's soccer, volleyball and baseball players have inked letters of intent to bring their talents to Lower Columbia College beginning this fall.
Pitcher Grace Gooding of Montesano will be coming to Longview in an effort to help get the Red Devils back to the NWAC title game for a third (and maybe a fourth) straight season.
Midfielder Ashley Hermenegildo of Shelton will roster with the LCC women's soccer team in the fall.
Meanwhile, middle blockers Kennedy Purvis of Napavine and Lauretta Taylor of Ogden, Utah, are set to bring their size to the Lower Columbia volleyball team at Myklebust Gymnasium.
And catcher Joe Giles of Curtis High in University Place south of Tacoma, along with lefty pitcher Aiden Jones of Arlington, Wash., will compete with the NWAC champion Red Devils baseball team.
