OHHS Football

I was up at practice Friday morning to shoot a few photos, and posted the decent ones at http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/OakHarborSports/highschool/FB829practice

Don't forget the first game is at home against former league rival and always tought Cascade Bruins.

Come on out and lee how many times we are able to shout out "And it's another....Oak Harbor First Down!"

More Cross Country

A bunch of photos from the Cross Country time trials at Wildcat Memorial Stadium are now posted.

http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/OakHarborSports/highschool/XC829timetrials

Cross Country

The cross country team is the only coed team in the fall season. The teams are co-coached by Andy Wesley and Eric Peterson.

Coach Peterson is the business and marketing teacher at OHHS. He attended Mt. Vernon high school Skagit Valley College, and got his Bachelor's Degree from Central. He's been teaching at OHHS for 6 years and has been Cross Country Coach for 5 years.

Coach Wesley is an OHHS graduate, where he ran XC for 3 years. He has a degree from Florida Atlantic University, and has been teaching math and coaching at OHHS since 2000.

Last year's team was strong, sending 3 boys and 1 girl to state, but there were a lot of losses, especially on the boys side.

Key returners for the girls are team Captain Michelle Sandstrom, Alison Duvenez, Jessican Denmon, Kathryn Fisken and Adrianna Royal. Sophomore Abby Leete is a key part of the team, but may not see much competition due to a recurring injury. For the boys, the coaches expect a lot from Tyler King, Michael Reith, and Cody Klauer. A welcome addition to the boys team is freshman Matt Reith.

Although expectations are high, overuse injuries are common and can affect the makeup of the team as the season progresses. Both coaches say they are pleased with the chemistry the team has this year, and credits much of it to a team retreat to the mountains back in late July. When asked for a quote, Coach Peterson said his safest comment would be "No Comment".

Videos of OHXC runners can be found at flotrack
http://www.flotrack.org/teams/5177-oak-harbor-xc
and race results are posted at http://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/School.aspx?SchoolID=485

OHHS Volleyball

I was at volleyball practice today to get some photos and talk to the coaches.

The Wildcats are coached by Kerri Molitor, in her 8th year of coaching volleyball at OHHS. Previously she served as assistant and head coach at Skagit Valley College for 10 years. Coach Molitor graduated from OHHS where she played middle, and attended both UPS and Western, where she played a variety of positions, including some defensive work in the back row as well as front row.

Among the key returners are senior 6'2" middle blocker Jennifer Jansen and 6" middle blocker Jessica Muzzall. Setting for them will be Junior Melany Cone, in her second year as starting setter. Seniors Alexis Marquis and Kim Mowbray are also expected to be a force on the court.

The JV coach this year is Amanda Reed, formerly Amanda Flowers. She's originally from Moses Lake where she played volleyball for 4 years. After high school she attended Skagit Valley College (playing for coach Molitor), and completed her Bachelor's at Eastern. She has 4 years coaching experience at both the high school and club level in Burlington. Last year at OHHS she was a volunteer assistant. This is her first year as the JV coach.

Since the team is still in tryout phase, the team is not set, but Coach Reed is pleased with what she's seen so far. She's especially happy with the large number of girls that are returning from last year's Freshman team. Her main goals for the JV squad are to continue both player and team development, and to increase the team's comfort level on the court.

Returning at the Freshman coach is Kerri Bjork. She played high school volleyball in California as a defensive specialist and setter, and attended college at Baylor University in Texas. She has a total of 5 years coaching experience. Again, the freshman team is not set, but she is already seeing some team building between the girls and she is impressed by the quality of the serving she's seen so far from her freshmen.

35 photos are posted at the below link. Photos that have names on them only have them because I knew the girls name.

http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/OakHarborSports/highschool/Volleyball827

Girls Soccer

I spent some time with the OHHS girls soccer team and coaches today, and have this to report:

The soccer team is coached by Steve Barker, an English teacher at OHHS for 27 years. Originally from the Tacoma area, Coach Barker graduated from Bellarmine Prep and later the University of Washington. At that time, there was no interscholastic soccer competition, so Coach played when and where he could, totalling over 30 years of soccer experience.

As well as teaching at OHHS for all those years, he's also been involved with the OHHS soccer program. At various times he's been either the boys or girls head coach, head coach for both (as he is now), or an assistant. Coach Barker is truly in love with the game, and speaks of it with a passion. He likes to point out that soccer is a very fluid game, and is a sport not for really large or really fast people, but a game for athletic people.

Coach Barker is assisted by JV coach Brian Thompson, an OHHS PE teacher. Originally from Minnesota, where he attended both high school and college, Coach Thompson has been teaching for 20 years and has 17 years coaching experience, all in Oak Harbor.

Last year was a tough one for the team, with little showing on the scoreboard for their efforts. However, Coach Barker said there was more to playing soccer than just a win-loss record, and while winning is important to him, one of his highest goals as a coach is to have the players learn and enjoy the game while at the same time learning more about themselves.

Although losing 6 key seniors, Coach Barker is looking forward to outstanding play from key returners Carson McKole, Hope Thompson, Roni Tomlin, Kirsten Roof, Kathy Silveira and Claire Trepanier.

Barker expects this years team to be competitive, and is planning for the team to participate in post-season play. Win or lose, Barker was to make sure that the other teams work hard when they play us, and hopes that our opponents go home unhappy they tangled with the Wildcats.

The JV team is not yet formed. It's only the 3rd day of tryouts and Coach Thompson hasn't really been able to see all the girls together. While he says that all the younger players he's been working with so far are a great bunch of girls, he is concerned about being able to field a complete team. A full soccer team has 11 players, but of 3 days practice, Coach Thompson has yet had 11 players at any one practice.

I took a few photos, but some of the upperclassmen and freshman were not at practice due to Freshman orientation and Link Crew participation. Some of the photos have names, some only numbers. The only reason some have names is those are the girls I know. I'll be posting photos again as the season progresses.

http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/OakHarborSports/highschool/GSoccer827tryouts

Lynx win opener

The OHYFL Lynx team faced off against Sedro-Woolley at Cascade Middle School at 1pm last Saturday the 23rd.

The Lynx started things off by kicking off to Sedro, but a fumble by the receiver allowed the Lynx to recover and start off the game on offense. The Lynx were able to move the ball at times, but throughout the game were plagued by center to quarterback fumbles. The Lynx were able to retain most of the fumbles, but seemed to lose possesion just when things seemed to be looking up. As a result, they were not able to score during regulation.

Although the offense was misfiring a bit, the defense stepped up and kept the Sedro team from moving the ball much at all. There were many key tackles for a loss and good penetration by the line to break up plays.

At the end of regulation, it was all tied up, 0-0, so into overtime it went. Youth football overtimes are somewhat like high school, in that each team gets a chance to score, but unlike high school, the ball is placed on the 10, and each team gets just one series of downs. If the first team doesn't score, the second team gets to try.

The Lynx won the toss and elected to get the ball second. Sedro worked hard, but a key illegal procedure penalty moved them back 5 yards, leaving a 4th and 8 or so. The next play went for 6 yards, leaving Woolley just short of the goal.

The Lynx now had the ball at the 10, and on the first play the ball was run around the right end and into the end zone, runner untouched, giving the Lynx a 6-0 win.

Photos are posted of both the players and the cheerleaders.
http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/OakHarborSports/YouthSports/OHYFLLynx823

I don't have results of any other OHYFL games, so if someone out there has them, please send them to oakharborsportsreport@comcast.net

A LOT of youth football

The Oak Harbor Youth Football League (OHYFL) went to a Jamboree at Burlington-Edison high school this past Saturday, August 16th.

The jamboree consisted of 20-minute 'games', with each team spending 10 minutes on offense then switching to defense for another 10 minutes. No score was kept

The Junior and Senior teams played in the morning, finishing up at 12:30. I was not there early, so only got photos of the last scrimmage of the senior team.

The afternoon session was for the Peewee and Midget teams. They followed the same format, at each team got at least 3 scrimmages. From the scrimmages I saw, our teams did well, and only once or twice were dominated by their opponents. Usually the OH teams were dominant or at least equal of their opponent.

Also on a football subject, I saw Jack O'Neil, and had a nice chat with him. For those of you who don't know, Jack broke his foot rather badly, and is in a flourescent pink cast. While he will get his cast off in time for wrestling season, he is going to wait until spring to get back into sports, and get himself healthy for soccer.

I was able to get photos of all 4 teams, Lynx, Bobcats, Panthers, and Cougars, and have them posted.

Lynx photos

Bobcat photos

Panther photos

Cougar photos

Senior photos

National Night Out

This wasn't really sports, but there were some Oak Harbor athletes involved. As part of the Night Out, the Oak Harbor Fire Dept staged a mock auto accident to show the techniques they use to extract victims.

Standing in as victims were OHHS athletes Haylee Little, Devin Tanner, Greg Ennis and Justin Everett. Everett was not only a victim, he was the instigator, and was led away by OHPD in handcuffs to the applause of those watching.

Several dozen photos have been posted of the actors and OHFD & NAS firefighters and Whidbey General paramedics.

http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/OakHarborSports/highschool/NationalNightOut

Boys Tennis schedule

All home matches start at 4pm. Varsity plays at listed site, while JV travels to the other school, same date and time

9/8 at Monroe - 3:45pm
9/10 Lake Stevens
9/12 Arlington
9/15 at Stanwood - 3:45pm
9/17 Everett
9/19 Marysville - 4pm
9/24 at Cascade - 3:45pm
9/26 Snohomish
9/29 Monroe
10/1 at Lake Stevens
10/3 at Arlington - 3:45pm
10/6 Stanwood
10/8 at Everett - 3:45pm
10/10 Marysville
10/15 Cascade
10/17 at Snohomish - time TBD
10/22-25 Division tournament @ Stanwood
10/29-11/1 District tournament @ Stanwood HS
5/29-30 State Tournament at Kamiakin HS

Yes, the state tournament for Boys Tennis is in May.

2008 Cross Country schedule

All weekday meets start at 3:45. Meets are not necessarily at the hosting high school. Check with a coach or athlete for specific meet location.

9/18 Everett & Stanwood @ OHHS (Wirth Farm)
9/18-20 Oregon Invite - Seaside Oregon
9/25 Edmonds-Woodway, Jackson @ Kamiak
10/2 Monroe, Lynnwood @ Marysville
10/4 Mt. Baker Invite - Silver Lake Park - 10am
10/9 Cascade, Arlington @ Meadowdale
10/25 WESCO North championships @ Lakewood HS
11/1 District meet @ S. Whidbey HS
11/8 State meet @ Pasco

2008 Girls Swim Schedule

All home meet (Vanderzicht Pool) start times are 3:00pm.

9/9 Jamboree @ Marysville - 3:30pm
9/11 at Burlington-Edison - time TBA
9/18 Kamiak
9/23 vs Meadowdale @ Lynnwood Pool - 2:45pm
9/25 Lake Stevens
9/30 Stanwood
10/2 at Marysville - 3:30pm
10/7 Snohomish & Glacier Peak
10/9 vs Jackson @ Mill Creek or Forest Park Pool 2:30pm
10/17 vs Everett @ Forest Park Pool 2:30pm
10/18 District 1 Dive meet @ Anacortes - time TBA
10/21 Bellingham
10/23 vs Cascade @ Forest Park Pool 2:30pm
10/25 District 1 Dive meet @ Marysville - 10am
10/30 WESCO North JV Championships @ Marysville - 3:30pm
11/6-8 District meet @ Kamiak
11/14-15 State meet @ King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way

2008 Girls Soccer schedule

All home games start at 5:30 for JV and 7:30 for varsity, except for a single Saturday match that starts at 11am/1pm.

9/9 Monroe
9/11 at Lake Stevens
9/16 at Arlington - 5pm/7pm
9/18 Stanwood
9/23 vs Everett @ Lincoln Field
9/30 Cascade
10/2 at Snohomish
10/7 at Monroe
10/9 Lake Stevens
10/11 Arlington - 11am/1pm
10/14 at Stanwood - 4:30pm/6:30pm
10/16 Everett
10/21 at Marysville - 5pm/7pm
10/28 vs Cascade - JV @ Cascade HS, Varsity @ Everett Stad. - 4pm/5:30pm
10/30 Snohomish
11/1 Tiebreaker game if needed
11/3-6 District tournament games
11/8 District tournament games @ OHHS - 11am and 1pm
11/11-12 State tournament round 1
11/14-15 State Quarterfinals
11/21-22 State semifinals and finals at Lakewood Stadium

2008 Volleyball schedules

All weekday matches start at the following times:
Freshman - 5:15pm
JV - 5:15pm
Varsity 7pm

JV and Freshman play 3 games, no matter the results of the first two games. Varsity plays a best-of-5 series.

As of now, there is an OHHS volleyball jamboree listed for OHHS, but date and time have not been set.

9/9 at Cascade
9/11 Snohomish
9/13 SunDome Volleyball Festival in Yakima, WA
9/16 at Shorewood
9/18 Kamiak
9/23 Jackson
9/25 at Meadowdale
10/2 Monroe
10/7 at Lake Stevens
10/9 at Arlington
10/11 Mt. Vernon Tournament - 9am
10/13 Stanwood
10/15 at Everett
10/21 Marysville
10/25 WESCO North JV Tournament at Mountlake Terrace - 9am
10/27 Caascade
10/29 at Snohomish
10/30 tiebreaker match if needed
11/-8 District tournament at Marysville

2008 Football schedules

I've listed below the schedules for the 3 football teams - Varsity, JV and Freshman.

Varsity - All games at 7pm on Fridays

9/5 Home vs Cascade (non-league)
9/12 At Monroe
9/19 vs Everett at Everett Memorial Stadium
9/26 Home vs Mt. Vernon
10/3 - Home vs Snohomish
10/17 - Home vs Arlington (Homecoming)
10/24 - At Lake Stevens
10/31 - Home vs Marysville-Pilchuck
11/1 - Division tiebreaker, if needed
11/2 - North/South crossover for teams not in playoffs
11/8 - District playoffs
11/15 - State playoff 1st round
11-21/22 - State quarterfinals
11-28/29 - State semifinals
12-5/6 - State championships

JV Football - All home games at 5:30pm

9/8 vs Cascade at Everett Stadium - 5pm
9/15 home vs Monroe
9/22 home vs Everett
9/29 at Mt Vernon - 5pm
10/6 at Snohomish - 4pm
10/13 home vs Stanwood
10/20 at Arlington - 4pm
10/27 home vs Lake Stevens
11/3 at Marysville - 4pm

Freshman football - all home games at 5:30pm

9/10 home vs Cascade
9/18 at Monroe - 5pm
9/24 vs Everett at Everett Stadium - 5pm
10/1 home vs Archbishop Murphy
10/8 home vs Snohomish
10/15 at Stanwood - 4pm
10/22 home vs Arlington
10/29 vs Lake Stevens at Cavalero Mid-High - 3:30pm
11/5 home vs Marysville