Girls Basketball Fall League, 9-20

The Oak Harbor girls basketball team kicked off their fall league in Skagit County with two doubleheaders at the Skagit Valley College gym.

First up was the JV team, consisting mostly of freshman girls. Their first game was against a good Burlington-Edison team, who won the low-scoring game 14-12. The coach said you could tell our girls were rusty, as most had not touched a basketball since the end of July.

Most of the kinks were worked out for the second game, which was against the Renegades from up in Canada. That game was all Wildcats, as they ran away for a 36-7 win.

The varsity team was also rusty and faced a very good and fresh Burlington team. The Tigers owned the first half, but the Wildcats got things sorted out in the 2nd half, but it was too little, too late, as the girls lost 48-30.

In the last game of the day, against Mt. Baker, Oak Harbor grabbed an early substantial lead, but fatigue started to affect their play in the 2nd half and Mt. Baker was able to crawl back and tie the game at 40 at the end of regulation play. In this league, in overtime, if one team gets 4 points ahead, the game is over. Halfway through the overtime period, Mt. Baker hit a 3-pointer. Later, with time running low, OH was forced to foul to stop the clock. The Mt. Baker girl went to the line to shoot a 1-and-1, and sank the ball to end the game with a final score of 44-40.

65 images from both the JV and varsity games are posted HERE.

One JV and two varsity video clips are HERE.