By David Svien, coupevillesports.com
They made the national news without playing a down.
Just hours
before Oak Harbor High School was scheduled to host Marysville-Pilchuck
Friday, Oct. 24, with a divisional title on the line for the third
straight year, their rival's campus was torn apart by a teenage gunman.
In
the aftermath of the shooting, which left the shooter, a freshman
Tomahawk football player, and at least one of his victims dead, neither
school was ready to immediately return to football.
Instead, the
Wildcats, who are coached by Jay Turner, a 1990 graduate of MPHS, voted
as a team to forfeit the game so Marysville would not have to
reschedule.
Oak Harbor offered to accept second place in the
Wesco 3A North and then many of its players traveled to Marysville to
join a vigil with the same players they would have normally been
tackling and blocking Friday night.
The 'Cats (5-1 overall, 4-0
in league play prior to the offered forfeit) will play a home crossover
game Oct. 31 with Mountlake Terrace for playoff seeding.
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