Middle School Basketball - NWMS @ OHMS Dec 17th

The first of 4 meetings of the Oak Harbor Middle School and North Whidbey Middle School basketball teams was on December 16th at OHMS.
The 7th grade teams kicked things off, and the game was all OHMS from the opening tip, and by the end of the first period it was 21-4 for Oak Harbor. NW got into the game in the 2nd period, tripling their score to 12, but OH scored 9 of their own to take a 30-12 lead into the locker room at the half. The Oak Harbor offensive onslaught continued in the 3rd, as the Panthers built a 55-15 lead. At the end of the 3rd, the scoreboard was reset, and in the 4th period each team scored 9 points to make the total score 64-24 for Oak Harbor. Leading the Panthers was Anthony Smith, who hit 7 in the final period to bring his total to 15. Also in double figures were Drew Washington with 14, Matt Zafra with 13 and an unidentified player, #15, with 10. Others scoring for the Panthers were Jay Angeles, Casiano Atienza and Andrae Gray. For the NW Cougars, Jahleel Vester lead the team with 15. Tom Horton added 5 and Antonio Unpingco had 4.
The result was reversed in the 8th grade game, with NW sprinting out to a 21-8 1st period lead behind the 15 points dropped in by Devon Loftin in the period. Things settled down in the 2nd as NW scored 11 to OH’s 9 and at halftime the score stood at 32-21 for NWMS. Oak Harbor Middle mounted a comeback in the 2nd half, but North Whidbey built too much of a lead in the first, and won the game 59-54. Loftin led all scoring with 30 points, 20 of them in the 1st half. Tyler Young was next with 8, then an unidentified player, #41, with 6. Allen Hills scored 5, Dayne Herron 4 and Jackson Knoll 2. For the Panthers it was Mark Fabro on top with 14, then Kiefer Hermann with 8, Conner Scott and Treton Cargill each had 5, Dallyn Schmidtlein 4 and #24 1.
This was the last game for both teams before breaking for Christmas.

53 photos from the 7th grade game are HERE
8th grade photos (58) are HERE.
Video highlights, one from each game, are posted HERE.