Boys Soccer 2012-03-30 vs Meadowdale

Oak Harbor scored goals in both the JV and Varsity games, but it wasn't enough as the 'Cats fell 5-1 in the JV game and 3-1 in varsity action.

The varsity goal came on a nice kick by Alex Krantz from almost 20 yards out.

Photos from both games are posted HERE.

Baseball 2012-03-30 vs Getchell

Even though it rained most of Friday afternoon, the Wildcat varsity baseball team was able to get in not only 1 game, but two, making up a rained out game at Getchell earlier in the week.

In the first game, the Wildcats dominated, winning 16-5 in 5 innings.

After a short break to rest and dry out the field a bit, the second game got underway. Although the Wildcats played a tight game, Getchell was able to push 3 runs across the plate to Oak Harbor's 2 runs, giving the Chargers their first-ever varsity baseball win.

Photos from the 2nd game are posted HERE.





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Track 2012-03-29 @ OHHS

Thursday afternoon was the perfect day for an outdoor track meet. Of course, that statement is full of sarcasm. The track meet was cold, rainy, windy and miserable.

That didn't stop a number of Wildcats from excelling in both running and field events.

Oak Harbor girls won a total of six events: Christina Alexander in the 200m dash, Christina Wicker in the 400m dash, Raeanna Wynne in both the 100 and 300m hurdles, the girls 4x200m relay (Irysh Concepcion, Kelsey Johnson, Molly Nordquist and Lizzy Chase) and Dominique Jackson in the discus.

In addition, other top 3 finishers were Hollins, finishing 2nd in the 100m dash, Wicker 3rd in the 800m run and Alex Laiblin was 2nd in the 1600 and 3rd in the 3200m run. Sierra Seabolt, Dejsha Lollar, Christina Alexander and Jessica Hollins teamed up to finish 2nd in the 4x100 relay while Laiblin, Hollins, Wicker and Hannah Bressler were 3rd in the 4x400m relay.

In field events, Jackson was 3rd in the shot put and Ciera Wiser 2nd in javelin.

The boys won 8 events, capturing all but one of the straight running events and all of the distance events. Winners were: Cody Hernkind in the 100m dash, Josiah Miller in the 200, Josh Schrum in the 800, Matt Reith in the 1600 and John Rodeheffer in the 3200. It was a very close finish in the 2-mile, with Rodeheffer passing Reith in the final 50 meters to win the race.

Carlton Johnson, Hernkind, Sheyenne Sams and Miller won the 4x100m relay, Dayne Herron got the shot put and Josh McVey the pole vault.

Other top 3 finishers were Chris Opdyke 3rd in the 300m dash, Cody Sanders 2nd in the 100m hurdles, Patrick Mayer 2nd in the 300m hurles, and the boys 4x400 meter relay (3rd). That relay team consisted of Dejon Devroe, Chris Opdyke, Connor Meyer and Miller.

Top 3 finishers in field events were Keon Crumpton - 2nd in discus, Hernkind 2nd in long jump, Chris Hailer 2nd in high jump and Miller 2nd in triple jump.

Over 100 photos from the meet are posted HERE.





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Baseball 2012-03-23 JV vs Shorecrest

The JV baseball team hosted Shorecrest on a sunny, but windy day last Friday.

The final score was not posted, but the JV boys played well, including a big 3rd inning that put them up by 4 runs.

Photos from the game are posted HERE.






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Girls Tennis 2012-03-23 JV vs Getchell

The JV girls tennis team got a big win last Friday over visiting Getchell, winning all 7 matches.

Individual results aren't available, but photos of all but 2nd doubles are posted HERE.

We'll get photos of 2nd doubles the next time the photographer is at a JV tennis meet, on April 4th.

At the same time, the varsity squad was in Marysville, and came out 5-2 winners.

3rd singles Chelsey McKenzie won 6-0, 6-1 and #4 singles Kyla McKinney won a grueling 7-6-(5), 7-6(5) match.

Doubles matches proved the difference, all all three OH teams won. Molly Van Dam and McKenzie Schneider won 6-1, 6-1, Rachelle Muzones and Joyce Abides 6-1, 6-2 and Jenny Landingin and Stephanie Milliron 6-4, 6-2.

OH tennis is off during spring break and returns on April 10th, with JV at home and varsity at Glacier Peak.



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Youth Basketball - 2012 Tulip Tournament

The Annual Skagit County youth basketball Tulip Tournament went on this year as usual, but even bigger than before. Between the boys and girls there were a total of 128 team covering 4 grade levels from as far away as Tacoma. Because of the high number of teams, the tournament covered 3 days and was played at 13 different venues from Sedro Woolley to Anacortes.

This year, Oak Harbor entered only a single girls team, made up of players from 5th through 8th grade. After discussion with the tournament director, the decision was made to place the team in the 7th grade division.

The girls won their opening game Friday evening at La Conner Middle School, then took on Orcas at Fidalgo Elementary in Anacortes. The Catz had a 19-12 halftime lead, but came out cold on offense to start the 2nd half, but cranked up the heat late in the game to win 37-22 to head to a quarterfinal game at Burlington-Edison HS.

At BEHS, the Catz took on the Blaine Fury, and after playing catchup early in the game, were able to take a 15-10 lead at halftime. After the half the OH girls pulled away to win 32-25.

In the semi-final game on Sunday, the Catz lost, then lost the game for 3rd, and wound up finishing in 6th place out of 15 teams.

Photos from both of Saturday's games are posted HERE.

Click HERE for video highlights of the Orcas game.

Blaine video clips are posted HERE.

On the boys side, Oak Harbor entered 6 teams, two each at the 6th and 8th grade level and one each at the 5th and 7th grade level.

None of the teams won their Friday games.

The 5th grade level was divided into Gold and Silver divisions, with OH in the Gold. They finished in 8th place out of 10 teams in their division.

The 6th grade Purple team finished tied for 6th place and the Gold team tied for 7th out of 19 teams.

The 7th grade team was tied for 13th out of 25 teams entered.

The 8th grade Gold team finished in 7th place and the Purple team in 11th place out of 12 teams.





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Middle School Wrestling 2012-03-20 vs LaVenture

On March 20th, the Wildcat United wrestling team hosted their final meet of the season with LaVenture Middle School from Mt. Vernon coming to town.

Wildcat United won 7 of the 13 matches, 5 by pin. Of the 6 losses, 4 were by pin.

Wildcat United winners were: Orien Altman (5-4), Casey Quijano (pin), Nick Dugin (11-4), Steve Dixon (pin), Caitlyn Woodworth (pin), Austin Taylor (pin) and Sam Zook (pin)

There were 9 JV matches wrestled after the varsity matches were finished, and WU won 8 of them.

JV winners were: Jacob Martin (6-4 OT), Deasha Obrien (Injury Default), Nathan Mecom (pin), Matt Bryant (pin), Amanda Stratton (pin), Brianne DeGuzman (8-3), Princeton Lollar (pin) and Matt Molitor (pin).

Photos from the match are posted HERE

Click HERE for video highlights.




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Track 2012-03-22

The OH track team traveled to Everett Thursday afternoon for a tri-meet against Shorewood and Jackson, and produced several winners.

On the girls side, event winners were

Sierra Seabolt - 100m dash (5th in the 200m dash)
Christina Wicker - 800 and 1600m run
Raeanna Wynne - 100m hurdles (4th in 300m hurdles)
Dominique Jackson - discus (Jackson also placed 2nd in the shot put)
Ciera Wiser - javelin
Denae McGaha - JV long jump

The girls 4x200m relay consisting of Dejsha Lollar, Raeanna Wynne, Ciera Wiser and Jessica Hollins also finished first.

For the boys, winners were:

Josiah Miller - 100 and 200m dash
Josh Schrum - 800m run (8th in the 3200m run)
Patrick Mayer - 300m hurdles (4th in 110m hurdles)
Jeremy Foster - shot put (9th in javelin)
Cody Hernkind - long jump (7th in triple jump)

The boys 4x400m relay team was first. The team is made up of Carlton Johnson, Chris Opdyke, Peter Franssen and Josiah Miller.

Next Thursday the track team is at home, hosting Glacier Peak and Mountlake Terrace at 3:45.




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Dakota Sinchak - JV long jump

Boys Soccer 2012-03-19 vs Glacier Peak

The Wildcat boys, with only a single senior on the team, hosted traditional powerhouse Glacier Peak Monday. GP got on the board first, scoring in the first half. Oak Harbor responded in the second half when Caleb Gatica-Cortes booted one in from nearly 20 yards out to tie the score 1-1.

After both 5-minute overtime periods, the game was declared a draw.

In the JV game, the Grizzlies scored early and often on their way to a 9-0 win.

Photos from both games are posted HERE

Girls Golf 2012-03-20 - Whidbey Shootout

Tuesday afternoon the Girls Golf team kicked off their season, hosting the annual Whidbey Shootout, featuring just about every school in WESCO 3A and 4A.

The Wildcats fielded only 4 golfers, so were not included in the team standings. Wildcat Sophomore Annie Leete led the team with a 98, Bre Roderos finished with 130, KC Winfield 137 and Hannah VonGrey 152.

Photos from the day are posted HERE.

Girls Tennis vs Mountlake Terrace, Everett, Lynnwood and Meadowdale

The girls tennis team opened their season with a 1-6 loss at Mountlake Terrace.

Next, at Everett, Oak Harbor won 3rd and 4th singles, but that was it in the 5-2 loss. The JV won their home match against the Seagulls 6-1. That is the only JV score reported so far this season.

On the 19th, the varsity team hosted Lynnwood. Jen Fremd won her match at 3rd singles and all the OH doubles teams won, leading to a 4-3 team victory.

Photos from the Lynnwood match are posted HERE

2 days later, the Wildcats won 3 of 4 singles matches, but none of the 3 doubles teams were able to secure a win, leading to a 3-4 team loss for the Wildcats.

This Friday, the JV team hosts Getchell and the varsity team is on the road.

Softball vsLake Stevens, Arlington & Lynnwood

After the scheduled season opener at Sedro Woolley was postponed due to snow, the Wildcat girls opened the 2012 season by hosting the Mt. Vernon Bulldogs, coming away with a 4-2 victory. MV did not field a JV team that day due to a lack of eligible players.

Photos of the Mt. Vernon game, including preseason team photos, are posted HERE.

Next the girls went to powerful Sedro where there were thumped 13-0 by the Cubs.

Coming back home, varsity beat Lake Stevens 7-5 for their 2nd win of the season.

In their final preseason game, the Wildcats hosted Arlington, who went to state last year and is picked to finish #1 in the WESCO North this year. While the Wildcat girls played hard, a 9-run first inning by the Eagles put the game away. The final was 15-0. The JV squad also lost in 5 innings, but were able to get one run across the plate.

JV and Varsity photos from the Arlington game are posted HERE.

On March 20th, the girls traveled to Lynnwood to open league play and could not get their offense on track, falling 11-1. The JV squad, while not getting a win, pushed 8 runs across the plate in their 14-8 loss.

Next for the girls a league-leading Everett at OHHS on Friday.

Baseball vs Stanwood, Mariner & Monroe

The OHHS boys baseball team had a busy early season.

On 3/16 the varsity squad hosted Stanwood while the JV team was on the road at Stanwood. Varsity won 8-6 and JV won 12-8.

Photos from the varsity game are posted HERE.


On the 20th, varsity hosted Monroe with JV on the road again. JV won a squeaker, 4-3, while varsity shut out the Marauders 9-0.

Wednesday it was the varsity's turn to be on the road, going to Monroe while the Bearcats sent their JV to Oak Harbor. Varsity lost that game 1-0 and the JV score is not yet reported.

Track 2012-03-15 - Jamboree @ OHHS

The Wildcat track team hosted Stanwood, South Whidbey, Coupeville and Lakewood Thursday afternoon to kick off the 2012 track season with the Island Jamboree.

Even with many of the Wildcats' top athletes out with too-few practices, the runners, throwers and jumpers all did well.

On the boys' side, of the 14 events that were competed, OH boys won 10 and placed 2nd in 6 events.

Winners were - Josiah Miller - 100 & 200m dash, Chris Opdyle - 400m dash, Josh Schrum - 800 & 1600m run, Jeremy Foster - Shot Put, Keon Crumpton - Discus, Chris Hailer - High Jump, Dejon Devroe - Long Jump, and Cody Hernkind - Triple Jump.

For the girls, 13 events were run with Wildcat girls finishing first in 4, but filling many of the top 10 spots.

Individual winners were Christina Wicker - 1600m run, Dominique Jackson - Shot Put and Discus, and Chylan Bass - Triple Jump.

Full results can be found by clicking HERE.

Photos of Oak Harbor athletes in action are posted HERE.

For Coupeville boys, Mitch Pelroy was 2nd in the 100 and 3rd in the 400m dash. Seven other athletes finished in the top 10 in 8 events.

The Coupeville girls produced one event winner - Madison Tisa-McPhee won the 100m hurdles by over a half-second.

Jai'Lysa Hoskins finished 2nd in the 100m dash and 3rd in the high jump, and Grace LaPoint finished 3rd in discus. To end the meet, the Coupeville girls' 4x400m relay team finished in 2nd place.

Photos of some of the Coupeville athletes in action can be found by clicking HERE.





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Girls Tennis 2012-03-14 vs Mountlake Terrace

On a cold, windy day, the Wildcats made up their snowed-out match against Terrace Wednesday afternoon and the Hawks came to play tennis, winning 6 of the 7 matches, with all wins in straight sets.

Only senior Jen Fremd was a winner, on top by 6-2, 6-1 scores at 3rd singles.

AAU BBB 2012-03-10

In the second day of the SWISH league end-of-season tournament, the remaining 4 OH teams were in action.

The 5th and 7th grade teams, along with the 6th grade Gold and 8th grade Purple team played at various sites around Skagit County. The Oak Harbor Sports Report was able to get to 5 games during the day.

The 5th grade team played all their games at Sedro-Woolley HS. The first game was a very close 22-20 loss to Burlington, but the team regrouped to beat Stanwood 34-25 to capture 4th place.

Video highlights from the Stanwood game are posted HERE.

Photos of the 5th grade game vs Stanwood are posted HERE.

At Skagit Valley College, the 3rd seeded 6th grade Gold team started with a big 30-6 win over the Sedro-Woolley Titans, then beat 2nd seed LaConner 38-32, putting them into the championship game vs Mt. Baker. That game started out extremely slow, with OH leading just 2-0 at the end of the first quarter. Things heated up in the second, with OH leading 13-6 at halftime. The 'Cats got a second wind after halftime and extended their lead to 27-17 on their way to a 31-20 victory. The wins were even more impressive in that the team played all 3 games with only 6 players available. There were some tired boys at the end of the day.

Video clips from the game vs the Titans are posted HERE.

HERE are photos from the Titans game

Photos from the Mt. Baker game are HERE.

The 7th grade team also played all their game at SVC. They dropped a close 29-26 game to Anacortes, came back in the consolation bracket to destroy Sedro Woolley 42-12, then fell to Granite Falls 36-31 to finish the tournament tied for 5th place.

7th grade photos vs Sedro are posted HERE

Finally, the 8th grade Purple team split their games between Mt. Baker and LaVenture Middle School. The first game was vs "The Team" at Mt. Baker MS, and things did not go well for the 'Cats as they lost 31-23. In their consolation game they won 41-32 over Burlington to finish in 4th place.

8th grade Purple photos vs Burlington are posted HERE.








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MS Wrestling 2012-03-07 vs Mt. Baker & Anacortes

In their first home meet of the season, the Wildcat United wrestling team hosted Anacortes and Mt. Baker in a double dual meet at NWMS.

In the Mt. Baker meet, the Wildcat team struggled, winning only 6 of the 13 matches. Winners were: Larson (pin), Mecom (pin), Rude (6-2), Dixon (pin), Molitor (pin) and Taylor (pin).

The team did much better against Anacortes. Of the 16 matches wrestled, our wrestlers won 10. Winners were: Charlesworth (6-0), Altman (11-8), Larson (pin), Martin (pin), Quijano (pin), Bryant (8-0), Rude (13-0), Dixon (pin), Lollar (10-5) and Molitor (pin).


Photos of the meet vs Anacortes are posted HERE

The Mt. Baker meet photos are HERE.

Click HERE for some video highlights.







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AAU BBB 2012-03-03

The undefeated 8th grade AAU boys basketball Gold team continued their winning ways Saturday at the end-of-season tournament at LaConner High School.

After a first-round by due to their first-place finish in the league standings, the team won there first game. It wasn't pretty, but a win is a win.

The second game was against the Mariners from Bellingham. The first half was a bit shaky, with the Mariners ahead 10-9 at the end of the first and 18-14 at halftime, but the 'Cats turned up the defense in the third and allowed only 5 points while scoring 12 and took a 26-23 lead into the final period. In the 4th, the offense heated up even more, scoring 17 points. The final was 44 for Oak Harbor and 31 for the Mariners.

Dyllan Harris scored 22 to pace the 'Cats and Elijah Smith was also in double figures with 11 points. Donovan Sellgren finished with 5, Dalton Martin with 4 and Wiley Hesselgrave with 1.

The Championship game was versus Blaine, and this time there was no slack in the Wildcat play. Our boys jumped to an early 16-5 lead and led 23-13 at the half. An outstanding 3rd period built the lead to 36-17 and the boys cruised home to a 48-31 win.

In this game Harris was also the top scorer, netting 19 points and again Smith was also in double figures with 10. Also getting on the board were Sellgren and Tanner Walker with 4 each and Fred Miller and Martin with 2 each.

Also playing last Saturday was the 6th grade Purple team at LaVenture Middle School. They lost their first game, to the Regulators, 38-35. Results of the consolation game weren't available.

Next week, the other 4 OH team are all in action. The 8th grade Purple started at 9am at Mt. Baker Middle School, the 7th grade team also at 9am at Skagit Valley College, the 6th grade Gold team at 11:15am at SVC and the 5th grade team at 2:15pm, also at Sedro-Woolley HS.

Video clips from the 8th grade Gold team are posted HERE.

Photos from the Mariners' game are posted HERE

Photos from the Championship game are posted HERE.

MSGBB 2012-03-01 NWMS @ OHMS

The second meeting between North Whidbey and Oak Harbor Middle School girls' basketball teams went differently than the first meeting.

In their first meeting just a week ago, North Whidbey 7th graders won 27-21. In Thursday's game, North Whidbey struck first and led 6-4 at the first break. Oak Harbor regrouped and scored 13 points in the second quarter to take a 17-11 lead into the locker room at halftime. North Whidbey fought back in the third, closing to withing 4 points, 23-19 at the end of the 3rd, then tied the game 23-23 with 5:14 left in the game. Anxious to redeem themselves after losing the first meeting, the Panther girls pushed late in the game to win 30-26.

For the winning Panthers, Julie was big, scoring 17 points. Lydia finished with 7, Ally 4 and Kristen P. 2 points. For the Cougars it was Rahsahna on top with 11 points, Michaela wiht 6, Bryn 5 and Jaden and Mia 2 each.

7th grade photos are posted HERE

7th grade video is HERE


The first 8th grade game ended with NWMS winning 42-20. In last Thursday's game, the Cougars were missing their leading scorer who is out with an injury. OHMS scored 42 points again, but the Cougars were able to put up on 13 in this most recent effort.

For the Cougars, Annabelle scored 7, Mui 4 and Genevieve 2. Jinai was on fire for the Panthers, finishing with 22 pints. Deja scored 9, Rickell and Taylor D 3 each, and Hannah, Janae, Suzanne scored 2 each.

Click HERE for 8th grade photos

HERE are 8th grade video highlights

The season isn't over yet, as NW hosts LaVenture Tuesday afternoon, 3/6 and OHMS hosts Cascade MS on Thursday the 8th.

Mussels in the Kettles 2012-03-03

Saturday morning the Whidbey Island Bicycle Club held their 2nd annual Mussels in the Kettles poker ride in conjunction with the Penn Cove Musselfest.

After only a few dozen riders last year, the club this year saw nearly 200 riders pedaling through the Kettles on 3 different trails with increasing levels of difficulty.

Over 100 photos of riders passing the first checkpoint are posted HERE.

For more information on the Club, click HERE to go to their website.

Student-Staff Basketball 2012-03-02

Friday night members of the Oak Harbor School District staff took on seniors (and a junior) from the OHHS student body in the annual game for bragging rights.

The staff came out hot, building an early lead, but the students came back and cut the staff lead to just 2 points, 27-25 at halftime.

At the end of the third it was 41-38 for the students.

With time running down, the staff pulled a rope-a-dope play and Eric Collins sank a 3-pointer from the baseline to tie the game and send it to overtime.

With just 34 seconds left, the staff was again down by 3, but another baseline shot by Collins went off the rim and the students then scored twice more to win 74-67.

Photos from the game are posted HERE. There is no charge for these photos. Feel free to right-click and download and post to Facebook. The only charge will be if you want to order prints, and they will be at the wholesale rate.

Or, see Mrs. Ottenbreit. She has all the photos as well.