BBB 2009-11-28 - JV/Varsity scrimmage

The OHHS boys basketball team put the finishing touches on their preseason practices by holding a JV/Varsity scrimmage in the OHHS gym on Nov 28th.

The JV played the first quarter tight. The Varsity took the lead, but JV hung in there and kept it close. After the 1st period break, though, the varsity found their comfort zone and dominated the rest of the game, defeating the JV squad 64-35.

The season starts Tuesday, Dec 1st with a game at Sedro-Woolley, then the home opener is Friday the 4th, with JV at 5:40 and varsity at 7:30.

Just a few photos from the game (13 total) are posted HERE.

Catching up with MS Volleyball

NWMS hosted Cascade on November 18th and Anacortes on Nov 24th. For some reason the photo link for the Cascade match was never posted, so they can now be found below.

As for the Anacortes match, things didn't go so well for North Whidbey. in 7th grade action, the scores were 13-25, 9-25 and 16-25. While the Cougar girls didn't win, they are showing improvement, getting better with each match played.

The 8th grade girls played 3 close sets. In the first, Anacortes squeaked out a 25-22 win, but NW came back to take the 2nd set 25-21. The final set went back and forth, until the Cougars took a late lead and were looking at match point, 24-19. Anacortes wasn't done, fought back to tie the set at 26, then went on to win the match 2-1 by taking the final set 28-28.

7th grade NWMS vs Cascade photos are HERE

7th grade NWMS vs Anacortes photos are HERE

8th grade NWMS vs Cascade photos are HERE

8th grade NWMS vs Anacortes photos are HERE

Youth basketball 11-21-2009

Again, both the 7-8 grade and 5-6 grade girls AAU basketball teams were in action on Saturday.

The 7th/8th grade team was up first at LaVenture Middle School against a small and inexperienced team from Orcas Island. Even with the regular starters on the bench, the Cats jumped to a 12-0 first quarter lead, and continued to dominate, finishing the game with a 43-8 score.

The 5th/6th grade team was at Skagit Valley College playing the Lakers. The Cats only had 4 players for the entire game, but the Lakers were essentially an elementary school team, with most of the girls in the 4th or 5th grade.

Even with only 4 players, the Cats were able to lead 10-2 at halftime. The 2nd half was a repeat of the first as Oak Harbor went on to win 20-4.

Some video clips of the two games are posted HERE.

Photos from the 7/8 grade team are HERE

Photos from the 5/6 grade team are HERE.

Powder Puff Football 11-20-2009

Friday night, Wildcat Memorial Stadium was the site of the annual Junior-Senior Powder Puff flag football game. It was windy and cold, but at least it wasn't raining.

It wasn't a high-scoring contest, but it was an exciting game. Most plays were running plays and a significant number of plays lost yardage. There wasn't a lot of passing due to inexperience at QB and also because of the wind.

Even though both teams started moving the ball late in the game, regulation time ended in a 0-0 tie. Just before regulation ended, the seniors had the ball on the 27 with a 4th down and 5 seconds on the clock. Coach Josh Higbee was about to put Erin Neilon in to kick a field goal, but a penalty on the seniors moved the ball out of her range.

Overtime was a Kansas City tiebreaker, with each team getting 4 plays to score from the 10 yard line.

The juniors went first, and after some hard running my Millie Goebel, the team came up just over a yard short of the goal line.

Then it was the seniors turn. They were also turned away on the first 2 plays, and on 3rd down from the 3, tried a mass surge, but the team was flagged for aiding the runner at the 1 yard line. The Junior team elected to accept the penalty, making it 3rd and goal from the 6 instead of 4th and goal from the 1.

Lauren Rico got the handoff, ran around the left end, squeezed through two players who were unable to grab her flag, jumped over another tackler and rolled into the end zone for the score.

Final - Seniors 6, Juniors 0 in overtime.

166 photos from the game and more are posted HERE. These photos are free to download to your computer so you can photoshop, crop or post to Facebook. If you want to order prints, you can at Shutterfly's wholesale rates.

Middle School Volleyball

Oak Harbor Middle and North Whidbey Middle school both saw a lot of action last week in volleyball.

In addition to Monday's added NW/OH match, on Tuesday the OHMS team traveled to Mt. Baker, on Wednesday Cascade MS was at NWMS, and On Thursday it was another OHMS/NWMS matchup.

Wednesday's NW/Cascade match was quite exciting. The 7th grade team was up first, and the Cougar girls kept it close for most of the match. There were 5 lead changes and the game was tied 5 other times. Late in the first game, though, with the game tied at 13, Cascade went on a service spree and won the first game 25-19.

In game 2 the 7th graders got an early 4-2 lead, but Cascade crawled back. Again, the game was tied at 13, but this time it was NWMS that got hot from the serving line, earning 5 straight points, and winning the game 25-22.

Now that they were loose, the Cougar 7th graders opened up game 3, dominating Cascade and winning the game 25-19 and the match 2-1.

In 8th grade action, the girls fell behind in game 1, at one point spotting Cascade a 4-point lead, but they fought back to tie the game at 14. NW then gave up 3 straight service aces to Cascade, but rallied and tied it again at 18. A kill followed up by a service ace by NW's Celine Gross put the Cougars up by 3, 21-18. Then, after a service error by Cascade, it was game point for NW, 24-21. Cascade wasn't giving up and tied the game at 24, and was able to get a service ace, then a NW error ended the game with Cascade winning 26-24.

In game 2, the girls sprinted to an early 7-3 lead then built it to 12-6 and later 15-9. Cascade still wasn't ready to give up and held on to win 25-21. A high point in game 2 was the 3 service aces served up by Tiffany Kepner.

Game 3 ended early as time ran out.

Two video clips from the 7th grade match and two from the 8th grade match have been posted, along with clips from the OHMS match against Burlington last week.

Video clips are posted HERE.

Middle School Volleyball 11-16-09

On Monday afternoon was the first of 4 meetings between the North Whidbey Middle School Cougar and the Oak Harbor Middle School Panther volleyball teams.

Unlike most matches where the 7th grade team goes first then the 8th grade team, both 7th and 8th graders played at the same time, with the object being to get in as much volleyball as possible in the time allotted.

Each team got in at least 6 full games before it all ended, and all the girls got substantial playing time.

Since there are already photos of the OHMS volleyball team in action, all of Monday's photos are of the NWMS teams.

26 NWMS 7th grade photos are posted HERE.

73 pictures of the 8th grade NWMS girls are HERE.

Girls AAU basketball 11-14-2009

Since there weren't enough girls to form separate teams, Oak Harbor is fielding only two girls AAU teams in the winter SWISH league in Mt. Vernon. One is a combined 5th and 6th grade team, the other a combined 7th and 8th grade team.

If anyone knows of any middle school girls who would like to play basketball, I'm sure either coach would be more than happy to add to the team's depth chart! The 5/6 grade team is especially short of players. Contact coach Gary Brundidge (sarjesgm@comcast.net) for more info.

The 5/6 grade team played two games early Saturday morning and scores aren't available.

The 7/8 team played just one game in the late afternoon against Coupeville, and it wasn't much of a contest. Oak Harbor jumped out to an early 14-0 lead and led 19-6 at the half. The 'Cats continued to build their lead, finishing on the top end of a 36-12 score. Individual stats aren't kept at this level.

41 images from the game are posted HERE.

Whidbey Wildcat Wrestling 11-14-2009 at Lynnwood

The Whidbey Wildcat Wrestling team competed in a Tournament at the new Lynnwood High School on Saturday, and on Sunday there was a Novice (1st and 2nd year wrestlers only) tournament at Arlington HS.

Complete results aren't yet available, but the Wildcat wrestlers fought hard and showed great sportsmanship.

Sorry, no photos from Sunday's novice tournament, but there are 47 images from Saturday's Lynnwood tournament posted HERE.

Where are they now?

There will be a nice article by sports editor Jim Waller in Saturday's Whidbey News-Times (Nov 14th) about former OH and Coupeville players competing at the college level.

The article covers just fall sports, and he will cover winter and spring sports once those seasons begin.

You can read the entire article online by clicking HERE.

Middle School Volleyball 11-10-09

The middle school volleyball season kicked off with both Oak Harbor and North Whidbey Middle Schools in action. The 7th grade team plays for 60 minutes, getting in at least 3 games and usually 4. 8th grade girls play for an hour and 15 minutes, usually good for 4 games as well.

North Whidbey traveled to LaVenture MS in Mt. Vernon. There, the 7th grade girls lost the first game, won the 2nd, but fell in the 3rd. The 8th grade team won 2 games to 1, and according to Coach Brockett "The girls played great!". She was really happy with their performance.

The OHMS Panthers were at home against Burlington.

The 7th grade team won game easily behind some great serving, 25-9, but after that Burlington got their serving in gear and won the next two game 25-6, 25-7. Coach Pullen saw some good things from the girls but also saw some things they need to work on in practice.

Before the 8th grade game some of the girls looked over at Burlington and commented in a worried way about how good they looked. Coach Molitor brought the girls together and addressed that feeling, and whatever she said worked, as the 8th grade team won the match 2-1. The first game was very close, but the Panthers pulled out a 26-24 win. Game 2 was all Panthers as they won 25-15. Game 3 went to the Tigers 15-25. Since there was still time left, they played a 4th game, which OHMS won 25-21.


59 photos, including team photos, have been posted HERE.

There are 74 photos of the 8th grade match here.

Cross Country complete state results

At mentioned in an earlier post, Tyler King, Oak Harbor's lone boys entry finished 5th with a time of 15:33. "TK" is a junior and will be back next year for a shot at state champ.

Addy Royal was the first Wildcat across the line for the girls, finishing in 36th place with a time of 19:47. Next was Allison Duvenez, then Jessica Denmon, Abby Leete, Taylor Von Grey, Ariel McCarter and Christina Wicker.

As a team the girls finished 15th in the state. On the plus side is only one of the girls on the state team is a senior, so the future is looking good for OHXC.

Youth football playoffs

Back on Halloween, all 7 OHYFL football teams were in playoff games. By the end of the night there were only two - The PeeWee Bobcats and the Midget Cougars.

Both teams were in action on Sunday the 8th at Wildcat Memorial Stadium.

First up at 10am were the Bobcats, facing off against Burlington-Edison. Burlington scored first, but in the 2nd quarter the Bobcats responded with two TDs of their own. Burlington scored once more before the half to tie the game 14-14.

The Bobcats scored first in the 2nd half but missed the PAT. They scored again, and attempted a kick PAT (worth two points in youth football to encourage kicking). The kick was good and the Bobcats were ahead 28-14. The Tigers closed to within a TD as the 3rd quarter ended, the score 28-21.

The 4th quarter was wild, with a total of 5 touchdowns. Burlington was first, knotting the game at 28, then it was Bobcats 34-28, then 34-34, then Burlington went ahead 40-34 with just 14 seconds left in the game.

Oak Harbor was able to get the ball down to around the 40 yard line with 1.6 seconds left. The Bobcat runner dodged several tackles, the clock went to 0:00, and the runner crossed the goal line with the ball in his hands. 40-40 was the score now, and the PAT could win the game.

The Bobcats lined up and with a second effort got the ball across the line and into the end zone to win the game 41-40.

The very last game of the day was the Cougars with a scheduled start time of 4:45. When the dust settled, the Cougars were also advancing, winning 20-14.

49 images from the Bobcat game are posted HERE.

Youth Wrestling - 11/07 @ NWMS

The youth wrestling season kicked off Saturday with the annual Salute to the Veteran tournament hosted by the Whidbey Wildcat Wrestling Club at North Whidbey Middle School.

19 clubs from as far away as Yakima and Ellensburg traveled to Oak Harbor for the tournament. The Wildcat club finished in 2nd place overall with 14 points, just 1 point shy of winner Team Scorpion.

The Wildcats entered 34 wrestlers and 6 won first place in their division, 5 were in 2nd place and 6 in 3rd place.

A good job for the first tournament of the season.

Complete details can be found at the Whidbey Wildcat Wrestling site

109 photos of wrestlers in action are posted HERE.

Winter sports schedules

The OHHS Winter sports schedules are now posted below. The competitive cheer schedule isn't posted to the school website yet.

All dates and times are subject to change with little notice.

Again, the girls basketball team will be hosting their annual Santa Slam tournament during Christmas Break, so make sure you come cheer on the girls.

Also, the boys basketball team is continuing their series of games against Coupeville. This years' game will be held at Coupeville HS.

Middle school 2nd season schedules are posted below

Volleyball - 7th grade starts at 3:45pm, 8th grade at 5pm. All games are free for spectators.

Nov 10 - B-E at OHMS, NWMS @ LaVenture
Nov 12 - Cascade at NWMS, OHMS @ LaVenture
Nov 17 - OHMS at Mt. Baker, NWMS - bye
Nov 19 - NWMS @ OHMS
Nov 24 - Anacortes @ NWMS, OHMS @ Cascade
Dec 1 - Anacortes @ OHMS, B-E @ NWMS
Dec 3 - OHMS @ BE, LaVenture @ NWMS
Dec 8 - NWMS @ Mt. Baker, OHMS - bye
Dec 9 - NWMS @ Cascade, OHMS - bye

Boys basketball - 7th grade starts at 3:45pm, 8th grade at 5pm. All games are free for spectators.

Dec 3 - Mt. Baker @ OHMS, NWMS @ LaVenture
Dec 7 - OHMS @ Anacortes, B-E @ OHMS
Dec 9 - NWMS @ OHMS
Dec 14 - Anacortes @ NWMS, OHMS @ LaVenture
Dec 16 - B-E @ OHMS, NWMS @ Mt. Baker
Jan 7 - OHMS @ Mt. Baker, NWMS - bye
Jan 12 - Mt. Baker @ NWMS, OHMS - bye
Jan 14 - LaVenture @ OHMS, NWMS @ Cascade
Jan 19 - NWMS @ Anacortes, OHMS vs B-E @ Allen Elementary School.

OHHS wrestling schedule 2009-2010

All home wrestling matches are held in the OHHS gym. JV matches start at 5:45pm, varsity at 7pm. The one excecption is the first meet, a double dual, which will have a JV start time of 5:30pm.

Dec. 4 Kamiak/Mariner/Snohomish/OH (Double Dual) at Snohomish
Dec. 09 @ Mountlake Terrace
Dec. 15 Snohomish
Dec. 17 Everett
Jan. 6 @ Arlington
Jan. 8 @ Stanwood
Jan. 12 @ Marysville
Jan. 19 Cascade HS
Jan. 21 Monroe
Jan. 28 @ Lake Stevens

The below events are all tournaments. Varsity tournaments all start at 10am and conclude some time after 6pm in most instances.

Dec. 12 Varsity Spud Wally Invite @ Sedro Woolley HS 10:00
Dec. 12 JV Panther Classic @ Snohomish HS 10:00
Dec. 19 Graham Morin Memorial Tournament @ Squalicum HS 10:00
Dec. 19 JV Everett Gold Metal Tournament @ Everett 9:30
Jan. 2 Lynden Duals Wrestling Tournament @ Lynden HS 10:00
Jan. 2 Arlington JV Wrestling Tournament @ Arlington HS 9:00
Jan. 9 Everett Classic @ Everett HS 9:30
Jan. 16 Kelso Invitational @ Kelso HS 10:00
Jan. 23 Tahoma Mat Classic @Tahoma HS 10:00
Jan. 23 Cavelero Colts Classic JV Championship @ Cavelero Mid-High 9:00