Track 2011-05-28 - State Meet

The 2011 state track and field meet was held 26-28 May 2011 at Mt. Tahoma High School in Tacoma, WA.

Of the 44 girls 3A teams present, Oak Harbor finished in 28th place with two OH athletes in the top 8. Addy Royal ran a 2:17.01 800m race, setting a PR by a second. She finished in 6th place overall, moving up from 8th in the prelims. She also ran a 5:11.87 PR in the 1600 by did not place. The other medal winner was senior Allison Duvenez who also set a PR of 46.15 in the 300m hurdles, finishing in 5th place.

Other Wildcat female competitors were Sarah Young, Christina Alexander, Jalani Bobo and Janessa Ramos in the 4x200m relay (14th in prelims); Alexander, Duvenez, Maura McKole and Christina Wicker in the 4x400 relay (11th in prelims); Janelle Yoshimoto in the Javelin (16th) and Janessa Ramos in the long jump (17th).

Holy Names Academy in Seattle won the team title for the girls.

For the boys it was junior Josiah Miller on the stand with a 5th place finish in the 200m dash and a 6th place in the triple jump. His jump of 43-2.5 was a new PR for him. Miller also ran in the 100m dash but did not reach the finals.

The only other OH boys were in the 4x400 relay which ran to a 10th place finish at the state meet. Carlton Johnson, Chris Opdyke, Connor Meyer and Miller.

The boys finished 26th out of 43 teams with North Central HS in Spokane taking home the team title.

Little League Baseball 2011-05-27

After a long season, we finally got photos of the last Major team. The photos linked below are of the Athletics vs Rockies game Friday afternoon at Windjammer Park. The game ended after 5 innings with the A's in the lead 13-0.

Click HERE to go to 66 photos of the game, most of the A's.

Little League Baseball & Softball 2011-05-26

With the 2011 spring season starting to wind down, and after a lot of rescheduled games due to this very wet spring, here are some photos from a T-ball game and a Major softball game.

The T-ball game is the Red Wings vs the Hot Rods. Most of the photos are of the Red Wings. 69 photos are posted HERE.

The softball game was the Major Marlins vs the Angels. Click HERE for 84 photos of this game.

Middle School Track 2011-05-18 @ OHHS

Wednesday last week Anacortes, Mt. Vernon Christian School, Wildcat United (OHMS + NWMS) and Mt. Vernon (LaVenture + Mt. Baker) all came to Oak Harbor for the West Preliminary track meet.

Names are as supplied with the results. If any names are incorrect or misspelled, send an email and it will be corrected.

In the 7th grade girls meet, Oak Harbor won 9 of the 13 events and captured 2nd place in two more on their way to a win. The girls scored 147 points to 2nd place Anacortes' 134. Placers were:

Hurdles - 1 Watts (18.28)
100m dash - 2 Bunch, 4 Mosuko
200m dash - 1 Watts (27.69), 3 Mosuko
400m dash - 1 Kaltenbach (1:08.73), 3 Dodge
800m run - 1 Kaltenbach (3:05)
1600m run - 1 Empinado (6:02)
4x100m relay - 1 WU 57.66
4x200m relay - 1 WU 2:12.50
Shot put - 5 Alamo, 6 Ferrell
Discus - 3 Alamo, 6 Ferrell
Javelin - 2 Clair, 6 Dodge
Long Jump - 1 Mooki (12-7)
High Jump - 1 Anderson (4-8)

The 7th grade boys were even more dominant, winning every running event and scoring 189 points. Anacortes was 2nd with 101. Individual placers were:

Hurdles - 1 Dixon (18.32), 2 Deleon
100m dash - 1 Hollins-Passmore (13.10), 2 McKinney, 4 Jackson
200m dash - 1 McKinney (27.37), 2 Jackson, 3 Hollins-Passmore
400m dash - 1 Dix (1:08.87), 3 Venditti
800m run - 1 Clark (2:32.83), 6 Caraig, 7 Molitor
1600m run - 1 Clark (5:16.48), 2 Dix, 5 Mutchler, 8 Altman
4x100 relay - 1 WU 53.97
4x200m relay - 1 WU 2:07
Shot Put - 3 Molitor, 4 Caraig, 5 Gorman, 6 Miller, 7, Quijano
Discus - 2 Dickson, 5 Miller, 6 Thornton, 7 Molitor
Javelin - 3 Tanner, 5 Miller, 6 Thornton
Long Jump - 1 Walker (14-4), 2 Deleon, 4 Buie, 5 Altman, 6 Jarvis
High Jump - 2 Brandon

In the 8th grade girl portion of the meet, Anacortes was first with 145 points. Wildcat United was second with 126 and the WU girls won half of the events.

Hurdles - 5 Berner
100m dash - 1 Hollins (12.18), 2 Seabolt, 4 Lollar
200m dash - 1 Hollins (27.82), 5 Berner
400m dash - 6 Plush
800m run - 1 Lundstrom (2:48.86), 5 Pabona, 7 Plush
1600m run - 1 Sligh (6:18.00), 2 Horn
4x100 relay - 1 WU 54.55
2x200 relay - 2 WU
Shot Put - no Wildcat United athletes earned points in this event
Discus - 6 Nagal
Javelin - 1 Gabbert (90-1), 2 Ericksen, 7 Sligh
High Jump - 4 Seabolt
Long Jump - 1 Gabbert (14-1), 3 Lollar

Finally the boys 8th grade team, while winning only 5 events, used depth to win the meet with 168 points to Anacortes' 144.

Hurdles - 2 Vester, 5 Powers
100m dash - 2 Devroe, 5 Nolton
200m dash - 1 Nolton (24.53), 3 Welsh
400m dash - 1 Devroe (54.9), 3 Wardle, 4 Coleston, 5 Dieter
800m run - 2 Ceaser, 4 Erikson
1600m run - 2 Rodeheffer, 3 Powers, 4 Erikson
4x100 relay - 2 WU
4x200 relay - 1 WU 1:55.27
Shot Put - 1 Constant (43-2), 3 Sapanza
Discus - 2 Constant, 4 Sapanza, 5 Wardle
Javelin - 4 Ceaser
High Jump - 3 Welch, 4 Cortez, 5 Norton, 6 Powers
Long Jump - 1 Devroe (19-4), 4 Dieter

161 combined photos are posted HERE.

Little League softball 2011-05-23 Heat vs S. Whidbey

Monday afternoon the Oak Harbor Little League Junior Softball team, the Heat, took on South Whidbey at Volunteer Park in Oak Harbor.

After getting down 5-2 early, the Heat used effective base running, including several steals of home after bad pitches, to tie the game 5-5. The OH pitcher then struck out 3 in a row and at their next at-bat the Heat started knocking the ball all over the field, scoring another 6 runs.

While the final result isn't available, Oak Harbor appeared to be on their way to a victory.

76 photos from the game are posted HERE.

Track 2011-05-21 - WIRC @ Seattle

The Whidbey Island Running Club traveled to Seattle last Saturday for the first full track & field meet of the year, the Fred Dean Invitational at West Seattle Stadium. While the numbers were small - less than 20 athletes from Whidbey attended the meet, they gathered in 6 first-place finishes.

The Whidbey News Times has a nice article HERE.

43 photos from the early portions of the meet are HERE.

Track 2011-05-20 - District Championships at Shoreline Stadium

On the second day of the District 1 3A track championships, Oak Harbor athletes did well.

The boys team accumulated 60 point, enough for 5th place while the girls had 96 points which earned them a 4th place finish.

The girls team produced 2 event champions. Allison Duvenez won the 300m hurdles and Janessa Ramos won the long jump. The girls 4x200 relay team was first in the prelims, and although they cut .8 seconds off of Wednesday's time, they finished in 2nd place in the finals.

Other girls finishing in the top 3 and going to state are:

Adrianna Royal - 2nd in the 1600m and 3rd in the 800m run
4x400 relay - Alexander, Duvenez, McKole, Wicker
Janelle Yoshimoto - 3rd in Javelin

For the boys, the only champions were the 4x400 relay team of Carlton Johnson, Chris Opdyke, Connor Meyer and Josiah Miller. They finished first in both the prelims and finals. Josh Schrum was first in the 800m prelims, but after cutting nearly 10 seconds off Wednesday's time, he finished 4th in the finals.

The other boys state qualifier is Josiah Miller, who finished 2nd in the 100 and 200m dash and 3rd in the triple jump.

The 3A state track meet will be at Mt. Tahoma HS in Tacoma on May 26-28.

Little League baseball 2011-05-19

Thursday night we were able to get to the 2nd of the two Junior baseball teams. The Mariners took on the Red Sox from South Whidbey at Ft. Nugent field.

Unfortunately Junior baseball scores are not posted on the NWLL site and the photographer could not stay for the entire game, so the final score isn't available.

However, 81 photos have been posted. You can get to them by clicking HERE.

Little League baseball 2011-05-17

After a number of rain delays and other commitments, baseball is back on the photo schedule.

Tuesday night two T-ball games were played at Hillcrest Elementary School. The Hot Rods played the Mud Cats on one field while the Ironbirds vs Knights game was on the other field.

If you've never watched a T-ball game, it's actually quite exciting. There is a lot of hitting and fielding - the game is full of action unlike some other forms of baseball.

Here are 80 photos from the Hot Rods/Mud Cats game.

Click HERE to see 61 photos from the Ironbirds/Knights game.

Girls Golf 2011-05-09 - League Championships at Whidbey Golf & Country Club

This year the WESCO 3A League Championships was held at the Whidbey Golf & Country Club in Oak Harbor.

Glacier Peak won the event with 407 total points. Oak Harbor was 4th with 360.

The top individual golfer was from Shorewood, earning 133 points. Oak Harbor's Annie Leete tied for 4th place with 101 points.

Also competing for the Wildcats were Millie Goebel (88), Mara Cortez (71), Sasha Olson (52), Bre Roderos (42) and Alyssa Siwa (24).

The team competes today and tomorrow in Everett at the District Meet with the top 16 finishers moving on to the state tournament.

46 photos of the league tournament are posted HERE.

Little League Softball 2011-05-14 @ Volunteer Park

Saturday afternoon we were able to get to a pair of Little League softball games at Volunteer Park near the pool.

First were the Minor Volcanoes vs South Whidbey. They played hard at there were a lot of dirty faces at the end of the game! At least it didn't rain and the sun was out for most of the game.

46 photos from the game are posted HERE.

Next were two of the three North Whidbey Junior softball teams, the Mariners and Angels. After a short delay due to a missing umpire, the game finally got started. The Mariners were able to get some hits and score runs while the Angels used smart baserunning to earn several runs by stealing home.

Again, lots of tired and dusty girls at the end of the game.

103 photos of both teams are posted HERE.

Youth Soccer 2011-05-14 @ Ft. Nugent Park

It was much nicer this weekend compared to last weekend with the heavy rain for most of the day.

With out of town commitments coming up for the next few weekends, this will be the last week of youth soccer photos. Some teams were missed, but with only one photographer it's hard to get to every team every year. Sorry.

Here's the teams that were photographed this past weekend:

BU-6 Mean Green One-Eyed Monsters vs Blue Hot Wheels (33 photos)

BU-6 Silver Rockets vs Red (30 photos)

GU-6 Blue Diamonds vs White Ladybugs (54 photos)

GU-6 Green Dragonflies vs Purple Pumas (43 photos)

GU-8 Green Spartans vs Purple Panthers (48 photos)

Have fun and stay safe this summer and we'll be back in the fall.

Track - League meet 2011-05-11 and 13 at OHHS

This year the WESCO 3A League Championship track meet was at Oak Harbor High School, spread over two days, Wednesday and Friday, May 11th and 13th. The first day, filled with a steady hard rain but little wind, was mostly preliminary heats of running events with a few running and field event finals, did not see Oak Harbor athletes earning a lot of points. At the end of the 1st day, the boys were in last place of 8 teams, earning only 2 points. The girls were 5th of 5 teams with points at 22. Everett was on top of the boys side with 56 points and Glacier Peak for the girls with 57 points.

While there weren't many points, Oak Harbor was positioned to earn more on the second day with a number of runners moving on to the finals in their respective events. Oak Harbor had Josiah Miller and Aaron Boesch both in the 100m and 200m finals, with Miller grabbing the fastest time of the day in the 100m dash. Chris Opdyke qualified for the finals of the 400m dash, Josh Schrum and Connor Meyer in the 800 and Matt Reith in the 1600.

For the girls, Janessa Ramos and Christina Alexander moved on to the finals of the 100m dash and 3 Wildcats, Sarah Young, Christina Alexander and Jalani Bobo all finished in the top 8 of the 200m dash. There were also 3 Oak Harbor runners in the 400 - Christina Wicker, Maura McKole and Jember Jansen. Addy Royal and Hannah Bressler qualified for the 800m run and Allison Duvenez and Raeanna Wynne both qualified for the finals in both the 100m and 300m hurdles.

Field event finals from Wednesday were in the boys shot put, boys high jump, boys long jump, girls discus, girls javelin and girls long jump. Top 8 finishers were Dominique Jackson in the discus (7th), Janelle Yoshimoto in javelin (2nd) and Janessa Ramos in the long jump (5th).

Running finals were held in the boys 1600 (Matt Reith was 7th) and girls 3200 (Christina Wicker 6th, Adrianna Royal 7th and Alex Laiblin 8th).

Friday was the opposite of Wednesday with mostly sunny skies early and a little bit of wind.

Girls final results - top 8 finishes listed:
100m dash - Janessa Ramos 3rd, Christina Alexander 7th.
200m dash - Christina Alexander 5th, Sarah Young 6th, Jalani Bobo 7th
400m dash - Christina Wicker 1st (by nearly a full second - it wasn't even close), Maura McKole 5th, Jember Jansen 7th.
800m run - Adrianna Royal 3rd, Hannah Bressler 7th
1600m run - Adrianna Royal 3rd, Hannah Bressler 7th
100m hurdles - Allison Duvenez 4th, Raeanna Wynne 5th
300m hurdles - Duvenez 1st, Wynne 2nd
Note - both hurdlers set PRs in both their hurdle events. Rae knocked almost 2 seconds off
her previous best time in the 300m final.
4x100m relay - OH 3rd (Yoshimoto, Bobo, Young, Ramos)
4x200m relay - OH 1st (Young, Alexander, Bobo, Ramos)
4x400m relay - OH 2nd (Alexander, Duvenez, Jansen, Ashley Everett)
Shot Put - Dominique Jackson 7th
Long Jump - Ramos 5th
Triple Jump - Katelyn Bristow 7th

Boys top 8 finishers:
100m dash - Josiah Miller 2nd, Aaron Boesch 8th (Miller was beaten by just .02 seconds)
200m dash - Miller 2nd
400m dash - Chris Opdyke 5th
800m run - Josh Schrum 5th, Connor Meyer 7th
3200m run - Matt Reith 6th
4x100m relay - OH 4th (Cody Hernkind, Carlton Johnson, Sheyenne Sams, Aaron Boesch)
4x400m relay - OH 2nd (Johnson, Opdyke, Justin Everett, Miller)
Discus - Keon Crumpton 7th
Javelin - Kevawn Brooks 5th
Pole Vault - Josh Mcvey 4th
Triple Jump - Miller 1st, Hernkind 7th

Full, complete results are available online at Athletic.net

75 photos from Wednesday's event are posted HERE

121 photos from Friday's action are HERE.

Finally, a big shout out to the hundreds of volunteers who worked to make this, and all the other home events happen. Even though it might have been pouring rain, blowing wind, bitter cold or blazing sun, you were there for the kids. Thanks!

Little League Baseball 2011-05-09

After some stops and starts and cancellations due to rain, we were finally able to get to a T-Ball game, this on the Bees vs the Knights at the Hillcrest field.

If you've never been to a T-ball game, go. They are entertaining and a lot of fun to watch. Games are held at Hillcrest and at Koetje park almost every day and start around 5pm.

73 photos of the Bees-Knights game are posted HERE.

Baseball 2011-05-09 vs Glacier Peak

After sweeping the Grizzlies 13-1 and 7-2 in the final two games of the regular season, the Wildcats again faced Glacier Peak in the first game of the double-elimination playoff tournament. The 'Cats were able to get men on base, but were not able to get them across the plate and GP went on to win 5-1. The Wildcat's run came off a Yale Rosen solo home run shot in the 5th inning.

The team next plays at Mt. Vernon, the #2 seed and surprise 2-0 loser to Meadowdale. The game will be tonight, Tuesday, at 4pm in Mt. Vernon.

44 photos from Monday's game are posted HERE.

Baseball 2011-05-09 vs Shorewood

For their final home game of the year, the Oak Harbor softball team hosted Shorewood. The varsity team hung in there early, but the Thunderbirds exploded for 9 runs in the final two innings to win 11-1 in 5 innings.

The JV team had quite a bit of offense also but so did the visitors.

Click HERE are 43 photos of the JV team in action.

Youth Soccer 2011-05-07 at Ft. Nugent Park

Sorry for the long delay. Here are Saturday's soccer photos.

Someone forgot to tell Mother Nature that it was May and April showers were supposed to give way to May showers. It rained almost the entire day, and during the BU-12 game was raining quite hard. There was a lot of splashing about and some very wet and muddy kids after the games ended!

Click HERE for 53 photos of the BU-6 Yellow Supersonic Seahawks vs an Red team without a name. The red team is sponsored by Angelo's Caffe downtown on Pioneer Way. The Supersonic Seahawks are without a sponsor.

Next were the BU-10 Gold Wolverines sponsored by Island Realty. 28 photos are posted HERE.

Continuing with the boys theme of the day, the BU-12 Blue Bombers, sponsored by El Cazador, splashed around on the lower field against a Coupeville team. For a while it was hard to tell if they were playing soccer or water polo! HERE are 45 photos from that game.

Not to let the girls feel left out, the GU-12 Soccer Punch, sponsored by Nautilus Construction, took on a South Whidbey team. 65 photos of the mostly dry game are posted HERE.

Finally, North Whidbey BU-15 team took on South Whidbey on the upper field for the last game of the day. Of course, the rain decided to start up again. 54 photos are posted HERE.

Softball 2011-05-05 vs Meadowdale

On senior night vs 2nd place Meadowdale, senior Abby Rankin hit a 2-run double in the 7th inning to tie the game and forcing extra innings. After Meadowdale scored 3 runs, the Wildcats came back again in the 9th and won the game when Amanda Pavey hit a single in the 9th inning, making the final score 6-5 in favor of the Wildcats.

82 photos of pregame senior night activities are posted HERE. Feel free to download and Facebook any of these photos.

48 game photos are posted HERE.

Middle School Track 2011-04-20 at OHHS

Sorry for the delay

No results were provided, so below is a link to the 157 photos from the meet.

Click HERE for photos.

Baseball 2011-05-03 vs Glacier Peak

The Wildcat varsity baseball team clinched a second place finish in WESCO and will be the #3 seed in the District tournament after thumping visiting Glacier Peak 13-1 in five innings.

GP got on the board first with a single run, but the 'Cats exploded for 8 runs in the 2nd and added 5 more in the 3rd, ending with a 2-run home run by Yale Rosen over the right field fence.

46 photos from the game are posted HERE.

Youth Soccer 2011-04-30 at Ft. Nugent Park

After the Eagle Run, we got out to Ft. Nugent Park for some youth soccer games. Photos are below.

Remember to support not just your sponsor, but sponsors of other teams as they are supporting youth soccer in general.

The first game were the BU-6 Blue Hot Wheels vs the Blue Sharks. 51 photos are HERE.

Next were the Green Beautiful Butterflies vs the Red Ladybug Roses. The Ladybug Roses are sponsored by All Island Pest Control. 26 photos from this game, mostly of the Butterflies, are posted HERE.

Whidbey Bounce House sponsors the BU-6 Black Fireballs and they played the Gold Stingrays. 47 images are posted HERE.

In the older games, the BU-10 Wolverines, sponsored by Island Realty took on the blue Fun. The Fun are sponsored by Pizza Factory. 29 photos are posted HERE.

At GU-10 it was the Pink Revolution vs a South Whidbey Team. Click HERE for 48 photos.

Finally, the BU-10 Red Devils played South Whidbey and just 19 photos are posted HERE.

OHCS Eagle Run 2011-04-30

The annual Oak Harbor Christian School Eagle Run, in conjunction with Oak Harbor's Holland Happening, went off as planned last Saturday morning at Windjammer Park.

The event consisted of an untimed 1-mile fun run and a time 5 kilometer race.

Winning the 5k this year was Andrew Wyman, with a time of 16:45.30. Second was John Collins in 17:02.

The first 14 & under runner was John Rodeheffer in 17:21 and 3rd place overall.

The first female runner was 14 & under Laura Rodeheffer in 20:43 and 9th place overall. The first adult female was Taylor VonGrey, an OHHS track team distance runner. She was 11th overall with a time of 21:11.

Overall there were 174 official finishers in the 5k and over 100 entered in the fun run.

150 photos from the 1-mile fun run are posted HERE.

237 images from the 5k are HERE.

Little League Baseball

Only two games were photographed in the past few days.

One was the Major Dodgers vs Angels on April 28th (Thursday).

77 photos from that game are posted HERE.

The only other game was the Junior game between the Athletics and Royals (La Conner) at Ft. Nugent field on Saturday.

56 photos from the game are posted HERE.