Girls Soccer 2015-09-28 vs Arlington

The Girls soccer teams had a tough night Tuesday hosting the Arlington Eagles.

The JV squad lost 3-0 and Varsity 3-1, with the lone Wildcat goal made by Lydia Peplinski.  The goal was a thing of beauty, coming off her left foot and heading to the upper left corner of the net.

After a game at MP on Wednesday the 30th, the girls play 2 home games in a row, against Meadowdale on Oct 8th and Mountlake Terrace on the 13th.

Photos from the varsity game are posted HERE.

Girls Swim 2015-09-28 vs Getchell and Pilchuck

Two, two, two wins in one.

Hosting both Getchell and Pilchuck Monday evening, the Wildcat girls swim team beat both to improve their season record to 5-1.

It was a good day for the 'Cats as the won 9 event, and swept the 100 breast with Marissa Morris, Baelee Whitinger and Erica Sugatan finishing 1-2-3.

Natalie Hahn finished 4th among the divers to add to the OH point total.

The girls are on Thursday, Oct 1st, at Lake Stevens and won't have another home meet until Monday, October 19th when they host Mt. Vernon

Photos from the Marysville meet can be found HERE.

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OHFCL vs South Whidbey PowderPuff game 2015-09-27

While the Seahawks were whipping the Chicago Bears at CenturyLink Field, the OHFLC Mama Cats were whipping up on their South Whidbey counterparts in the 2nd annual Powderpuff fundraising game.

Kala Lewis tossed four TD passes in the game, one to sister Kaui Asinsin, as the Mama Cats romped to a 30-0 victory at Wildcat Memorial Stadium.  Lewis also ran for a 5th score.

On the receiving end, Heidi Wyman caught a Lewis pass for the first score of the game, Jamie Steinke caught a pair of TD passes and Alicia Force also got in the act with a score.

The players were assisted by a couple of dads and coaches who donned cheerleader attire and led the crowd in a variety of rousing chants.

Over 200 photos from the game can be found on Facebook at the league page, OHYFL.


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OHYFL 2015-09-26

Every team was in action last Saturday, with 3 at home and 4 on the road.

At the Ft. Nugent field, it was a Wildcat sweep, with Midget Purple beating South Whidbey 12-0, Midget Gold beating Orcas 46-6 and Junior Gold beating LaConner 18-6.

On the road, the Junior Purple team got their first win of the season in a 54-20 thumping of Conrete, and PeeWee Purple whipped LaConner 33-0.  PeeWee Gold lost in a very close 6-8 game at Friday Harbor and the Senior team lost to Mt. Vernon 40-6 at Burlington's corn field.

This coming Saturday, October 3rd, there are 4 games at Ft. Nugent, starting at 9am.  Junior Gold takes on Mt. Vernon Green, PeeWee Gold plays Mt. Vernon Black, Junior Purple plays Friday Harbor and the last game, starting at 3pm is PeeWee Purple vs Burlington.


Full league scores and standings can always be found at the North Cascade Youth Football League website:  http://www.northcascadeyouthfootballleague.com/


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FB 2015-09-25 vs Everett

by David Svien

A week off didn't cool Dyllan Harris down.

Coming off a bye week, the Oak Harbor High School senior ran wild for 191 yards and two long touchdowns to spark the Wildcats to a 55-7 thrashing of visiting Everett Friday night.

The win lifted the 'Cat football squad to 2-1 overall, 1-0 in league play.

Harris, who had been an All-League receiver for Oak Harbor, moved into a running back slot when four different 'Cat backs went down in the season opener. The transition has been seamless.

Taking advantage of a Seagull defense that couldn't contain, or control him, Harris rambled for scores on runs of 62 and 66 yards.

And he wasn't the only Wildcat back breaking backs.

Bouncing back from an injury, Princeton Lollar rolled up 87 yards of his own, crashing into the end zone on runs of 32 and two yards, while Savion Passmore tacked on 61 yards.

Everett came into the game with a 3-0 mark in non-conference games and pinned Oak Harbor at its own three-yard line to kick things off.

The rest of the night was not so great for the visitors.

Oak Harbor shrugged off the bad field position and drove 97 yards in five plays to open the scoring and built a 34-0 bulge by the half.

Everett finally got on the board with a late fourth-quarter touchdown, but was trailing 48-0 at the time, so it probably didn't mean much in the grand scheme of things.

In addition to Harris and Lollar, Oak Harbor got touchdown runs from Tyler Snavely, Passmore, Andrew Miller and Thomas Gilham.

Eric Jensen converted on seven of eight PATs.

Oak Harbor will return to action next Friday, Oct. 2, when they travel to Arlington, which bopped Marysville Getchell 34-7 in its Wesco North opener.

 

Photos from the game are posted HERE.

 

 

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Girls Soccer 2015-09-24 vs Edmonds-Woodway

Thursday night the varsity soccer team faced off against defending State Champion Edmonds-Woodway and came "this" close to upsetting the champs.

Jenna Cooley found the corner of the net on a deflected pass less than a minute into the game.

E-W tied the game on a penalty kick that nobody knew about until the ref put the ball on the PK spot. 

After halftime, EdWay showed why they are the champs, dominating on defense and putting in another goal past the Wildcat keeper to make it 2-1, which would be the final score.

In JV action, the Warriors were too much for a young Wildcat JV squad, winning 5-0.

Varsity photos are HERE

JV pics are HERE.

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XC 2015-09-24 at SVC

The Wildcats went Mt. Vernon last Thursday for a tri-meet against Mt. Vernon and Stanwood and ran some good races.

The girls team race was very close, with Stanwood on top of Oak Harbor by just 3 points, 36-39.  While the race wasn't won by a Wildcats, Alexis Smith, Carolynn Wicker and Tamia Rios finished 2-3-5 to help the OH point total.

For the boys, it was also a 3-point margin of victory in team scoring, with Oak Harbor on top over Mt. Vernon 28-31.  Miguel Guzman and Jake Hucko went 1-2 in the race, Michael Lym and Tyler Grehan were 5th and 7th for the 'Cats.

Oct 1st the teams travel to Lake Stevens for a 5-team meet, then host their one and only home meet on Thursday, October 8th at City Beach Park.


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Boys Tennis update

Last week on Wednesday the boys varsity tennis team traveled to always-good Stanwood while the JV squad hosted the Spartans.

Both results were the same - 5-2 wins for Stanwood.

Varsity got wins from 1st and 2nd singles, with Jackson Wezeman winning 6-4, 6-3 and Rodrigo Columbo winning 6-3, 6-4.  The 1st doubles team of Jared Hunt and Matthew Hallahan went the distance before falling 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

On the JV court, Trenton Cone won 6-0, 6-4 at 2nd singles and Clifford Hartley won 7-5, 6-4 at 3rd singles.  All the other matches were won by Stanwood in straight sets.

The very next day, the varsity squad hosted Pilchuck, sweeping the visitors with a straight-set, 7-0 victory.

1st singles - Wezeman won 6-0, 6-0
2nd singles - Columbo won 6-3, 6-2
3rd singles - Raymond Paraiso won 6-2, 6-1
4th singles - Calib Byers win 6-4, 6-4

1st doubles - Hunt and Hallahan won 6-4, 6-0
2nd doubles - Sidney Thomas and Jose Cabigting won 7-6(3), 6-3
3rd doubles - Matt Molitor and Aziya Sanders won 6-3, 6-1

In an exhibition match, Noel Pangilinan and Cobin Phipps won 8-1.

While the varsity squad was whipping the Tomahawks, the JV squad was at Cavalero Mid-High (the Lake Stevens freshman campus), falling 6-1.

The lone Wildcat winner was Cone, who slugged it out before winning 6-7(5-7), 6-3, 10-8.

Tuesday the 29th the varsity team is at Everett, then host Getchell on October 1st, with JV at the opposite locations.

Photos from the varsity match against Pilchuck are posted HERE.


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FB 2015-09-23 - Freshmen at Stanwood

Playing yet another game on the road, the Wildcat Freshman team picked up an extra game against Stanwood in place of the originally scheduled bye.

At first things did not go well for the 'Cats as the Spartans jumped to a 14-0 lead, but late in the second half Oak Harbor scored a pair of TDs, and converted on both 2-point PAT attempts to win the game 16-14.

They play their first home game of the season this coming Thursday, October 1st, against Everett.

Photos from the Stanwood game are posted HERE.


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Girls Soccer 2015-09-22 at Getchell

At Getchell last Tuesday, the Wildcat girls soccer teams played hard, but wins eluded them.

In the JV match, the 'Cats got 2 goals, as did Getchell.  Since there is no overtime or tiebreaker in JV matches, it ended in a 2-2 tie.

The varsity team clamped down on defense, but Getchell was able to slip a shot past the OH keeper just as the 2nd half started for the only scoring in the game.

VB 2015-09-21 vs Arlington

They were loud, they were proud, they didn't give up.

Finding themselves down 2-0 in a best-of-five match against Arlington, the Oak Harbor volleyball girls dug deep and found that something....that something that let them overcome the deficit to capture the match 3-2.

Although playing with a lot of fire in the first two games, the Wildcats couldn't get it done, falling 25-10 and 25-16, but in a back-and-forth 3rd game, OH pulled out the 25-20 win, then won game four to tie the match at 2.

In the 5th and deciding game, the Wildcats were down early, but got a lead late.  Spurred by a late service ace by Clair Anderson, the 'Cats went on to win 15-10.

Unfortunately, the JV and freshman squads did fare so well, both falling 3-0.

JV game scores were 12-25, 12-25, 19-25, while Freshman scores were 12-25, 16-25, 11-25.

The volleyball teams won't play at home again until October 1st, when they host league-leading Glacier Peak. 

Before that, they have two road matches, at Shorecrest on Wednesday the 23rd and at Meadowdale on Tuesday the 29th.

Photos from the varsity match are posted HERE.

Click HERE for JV photos

Freshman pics are HERE.


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Girls Swim 2015-09-21 vs Stanwood

Oak Harbor 104, Stanwood 87.

Those were the team scores as the Wildcats defeated the visiting Spartans in the first home meet of the season.

Again, Taliah Black had a stellar night, winning 2 individual events and as a member of 2 winning relays.

In all, Oak Harbor won 6 events, with many swimmers setting new PRs in their events.

The Wildcat girls are at home again next week, hosting Getchell and Pilchuck on Monday at the Vanderzicht Pool.  First event is scheduled for 5:30pm.


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Boys tennis update

Both the varsity and JV tennis teams played Friday afternoon, with the JV at home and Varsity on the road against Getchell (for the 2nd time this week)

At MG, again the Wildcats crushed their opponents in sweeping the singles matches but could not pick up a doubles win for the 4-3 team victory.

Jackson Wezeman won 6-1, 6-0, Raymond Paraiso 6-1, 6-0, Rodrigo Columbo 6-0, 6-1 and Calib Byers 6-0, 6-1.

In JV action, Getchell won 4-3, with Oak Harbor picking up wins at 2nd singles (Nathanael Thompson, 6-2, 4-6, 10-8), 4th singles (Clifford Hartley, 7-5, 6-1), and 3rd doubles (Shawn O'Connor and Jacob Schermerhorn, 6-3, 6-3).

The JV team was back on the court Monday afternoon with a match at Arlington and lost 5-2.  Thompson won 5-7, 6-4, 10-8 at 2nd singles as did Hartley at 4th singles, 7-5, 7-6(7-3).

The netters have 3 matches left this month.  On Wednesday the 23rd the varsity heads for Stanwood with JV at home.  The next day it's varsity at home and JV at Pilchuck.  Finally, on 9/29 it's varsity at Everett and JV at home.


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Volleyball 2015-09-17 vs Lynnwood

At Lynnwood High School Thursday night, the Wildcat volleyball team won the first game in an extra-point 27-25 thriller, but the Royals came back to win three straight to collect the 3-1 win.

The JV team fell 2-1 and C/Freshman team was swept 3-0.

The VB girls are at home on Monday, September 21st, hosting Arlington.

JV/C start at 5:15, varsity at 7.


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Girls Swim 2015-09-17 @ Everett

In a dual meet Thursday afternoon in Everett, the Wildcats won 9 of the 12 events to swim past the host Seagulls 116-70.

Taliah Black won the 200IM and 100 breast and was a member of the winning 200 free and 200 medley relay teams.

Marissa Morris won the 200 free and 100 back, and was on the winning 200 and 400 free relay teams.

Other individual event winners were Jillian Pape (50 free), Anna Kate Fahey (100 free).

The girls are at home next Monday, September 21st, hosting Stanwood in a dual meet at Vanderzicht Pool, with a 5:30 scheduled start time.


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Cross Country 2015-09-17 at Jackson

Finally, the Wildcat Cross Country team got into action, with a trip down south to Jackson HS to take on the host, plus 4A schools Cascade and Kamiak.

For the boys, the Wildcats tallied 77 points to finish 3rd.  Jackson won with 29, Kamiak 2nd with 48 and Cascade 4th with 80.

Miguel Guzman was first among the Wildcats, finishing in 13:44, 9th overall.  Tyler Grehan, Michael Lym, Caleb Peek and Ben Gasper were also in the race and earned points for the Wildcats.

On the girls' side, Kamiak won the meet with 23 points.  Oak Harbor was 2nd with 44,  Jackson 3rd with 59 and Cascade 4th with 102.

The top 3 OH finishers finished 5th, 6th and 7th in the race (Alexis Smith, Tamia Rios and Carolynn Wicker).  Emma Lerch and Olivia Flack also earned points for the 'Cats.

JV results are not available.

The teams travel next to Mt. Vernon on Sept 24th for a tri met against Mt. Vernon and Stanwood at Skagit Valley College.


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Girls Soccer 2015-09-17 at Stanwood

In what was a busy day for Wildcat sports, the girls soccer team traveled to Stanwood, with the JV team picking up a 4-1 victory but the Varsity getting shut out 3-0.

It was the first league loss for the 'Cats, who travel to 0-3 Getchell next Tuesday, the 22nd, then return home to face Edmonds-Woodway on Thursday the 24th.


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Boys Tennis 2015-09-17 vs Arlington

The scheduled JV match at Arlington was postponed to a future date.

At home, the varsity team lost a close 4-3 match to the visiting Eagles, capturing 3 of the 4 singles matches, but none of the doubles.

Winning for the Wildcats were:

1st singles Jackson Wezeman, 6-2, 6-2
3rd singles Rodrigo Columbo, 6-1, 7-5
4th singles Calib Byers, 6-1, 6-0

The 1st doubles team of Jared Hunt and Matthew Hallahan went to 3 sets before falling 2-6, 7-5, 2-6.

In an exhibition match, Nathanael Thompson and Trenton Cone teamed up to win 8-3.

Friday is the 2nd match against Getchell this week, with JV at home and Varsity on the road.  Matches start at 3:30pm and are free to all.


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FB 2015-09-17 - Freshmen at Sedro-Woolley

Instead of the originally scheduled freshman football game, which was to be at home against Ferndale on Wednesday, the Oak Harbor boys had to travel to Sedro-Woolley for a mini-jamboree against Sedro and Ferndale, playing a half against each team.

Oak Harbor won the first, against Sedro, 6-0, but dominated the game on both sides of the ball for most of the 20 minutes of play.

The second game, against Ferndale, was 6-0 in favor of the Golden Eagles.

Next week, instead of the originally scheduled Bye, the freshman team will not travel to Stanwood with a special 4pm kickoff time.

Some photos from Thursday's action against Sedro are posted HERE.


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Boys Tennis 2015-09-16 vs Getchell

On Wednesday the 16th, the varsity Boys Tennis team traveled to Getchell while the JV team hosted the Chargers.

At the OH courts, Getchell won the team scoring 5-2, but with 2 of the losing matches going into tiebreakers, it could have gone either way.

Winning for Oak Harbor were 2nd singles Nathanael Thompson (6-3, 6-1) and 3rd singles Trenton Cone (6-4, 3-6, 10-8)

Going to a 3rd set were 1st singles Rheeno Kwak in a marathon match (6-3, 6-7(3-7), 12-10), 4th singles Clifford Hartley (7-5, 2-6, 10-6), and 1st doubles Luke Martin and Matt Kolden (3-6, 6-2, 10-4)

Down in Marysville, the varsity squad came away with their 2nd 4-3 win of the young season.

Oak Harbor won all four of the singles matches (Jackson Wezeman 6-0, 6-0, Ray Paraiso 6-1, 6-3, Rodrigo Columbo 6-0, 6-0 and Calib Byers 6-1, 6-1), but lost all 3 doubles matches.

Thursday, 9/17 the varsity is at home against Arlington and Friday back to Getchell again, with JV in the opposite location (away Thursday, home Friday)

Photos from the JV match are posted HERE.


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Girls Swim 2015-09-15 vs Snohomish & GP

The Girls Swim season started with a long trip down to the brand-new Snohomish Aquatic Center to take on the Panthers of Snohomish and Grizzlies of Glacier Peak, and came away with a split.

In team scoring, the Wildcats crushed Snohomish 105-73, but fell to Glacier Peak 98-84.

More importantly were the district meet qualifying times posted by 6 of the Oak Harbor swimmers, and in a variety of events.

In the 100 backstroke, 3 girls qualified - Marissa Morris, Erica Sugatan and Baelee Whitinger.  Sugatan also qualified in the 200 IM and Morris in the 200 free.

Other 2-event qualifiers were Taliah Black (200IM and 100 breast) and Jillian Pape (50 free adn 100 fly.  Sophie Dickinson qualified in the 500 free.

Next for the Wildcat girls is a trip to Everett for a dual meet against the Seagulls.

The first home meet is Monday, September 21st against Stanwood, followed a week later with another home meet on Sep 28th against both Marysville schools.

Admission is free for all home swim meets!


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Girls Soccer 2015-09-15 vs Lynnwood

There was mixed success for the Oak Harbor girls soccer teams Tuesday night as the Wildcats took on Lynnwood High School at Wildcat Memorial Stadium.

In the JV opener, the two teams fought to a 0-0 tie, with a number of great saves by the OH keeper.

In varsity action, the score was 0-0 at halftime, but, due to an injury, the Royals had to play most of the game a man down, and the Wildcat speed wore down the visitors, resulting in a 2-0 win by Oak Harbor.  The first goal was by Lydia Peplinski with an assist to Cailey Etherington.  The second goal was by Malia Hansen with the assist to Peplinski.

The girls play the next to matches away, at Stanwood and at Getchell, before returning home on Sep 24th to play Edmonds-Woodway.

Photos from the JV match are posted HERE

Varsity pictures are HERE.


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Boys Tennis 2015-09-14 vs Glacier Peak

Monday was not a good day for Oak Harbor tennis as both the varsity and JV teams fell to Glacier Peak 7-0.

Glacier Peak has a strong tennis team and has enjoyed a lot of success since the school was first built.

All the varsity matches ended in straight-set losses.

There are still 3 matches remaining this week, with two of them against Getchell.

The varsity team travels to Marysville on Wednesday, then hosts Arlington on Thursday and Getchell on Friday.  The JV squad will be at the opposite location.

Photos from Monday's matches are posted HERE.


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Youth football 2015-09-12

It was a good week for the Oak Harbor Football and Cheer League last Saturday, with 5 of 7 teams winning their games, included a 3-game sweep on home turf.

On the road at Sedro-Woolley White, the Gold PeeWees won 26-8, and the Junior Gold team walloped Arlington 42-0.

The Purple Juniors fell to Sedro White 31-7 and Senior team lost to Friday Harbor 33-7.

At home, the Midget Purple team built a 19-0 first-quarter lead before cruising to a 40-7 win over Mt. Vernon Black.

At noon, the Midget Gold team was up 14-0 on Anacortes White after running just a single offensive play and using a minute of game time, and the team rolled to a 50-12 win.

The 2pm game featured the PeeWee Purple team vs Anacortes.  The Seahawks scored first and converted a 2-point PAT while OH scored but did not convert.  In a close game, the Wildcats held on for a 20-18 win.

Next Saturday there will be 5 home games with just the two PeeWee teams on the road.

First game at 9am - Junior Gold vs Lakewood Maroon.

Be there and support our youth!

Midget Purple photos are HERE

Gold Midgets are HERE.

Click HERE for the PeeWee Purple team

Click HERE for photos of previous games, and the Jamboree

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FB 2015-09-11 vs Ferndale

By David Svien

They got their bite back.

A week after being knocked around, a resurgent Oak Harbor High School football squad roared back to life, upending a ranked team on its home field.

Despite playing without seven key players, the fired-up Wildcats rolled up 368 yards of offense en route to a 31-28 upset of Ferndale Friday, Sept. 11.

The Golden Eagles, who won their opener in overtime, entered the game ranked 10th in the state in the latest 3A polls.

Now 1-1 on the young season, Oak Harbor will enjoy a rare week off, which should enable most of its dinged-up stars to get healthy in time for the Wesco North opener.

That game is Sept. 25 in Oak Harbor (7 PM kickoff) and undefeated Everett (2-0) is the next upset victim on the menu.

Coming off of a 55-6 loss on opening night, the 'Cats were looking for a spark and Savion Passmore delivered.

The only one of Oak Harbor's top five running backs in uniform, he ripped through the Ferndale defense (or lack of one) for 146 yards on 15 carries.

He had help, as well, with all-league wide receiver Dyllan Harris sliding into the backfield, where he posted 101 yards on 12 carries. Quinn Karney provided the third prong in a three-prong attack, rumbling for 45 yards on 14 carries.

With a crisp 302 yards on the ground, Oak Harbor didn't need much from its quarterbacks, but what the Wildcats did get was efficiency.

Taylor Kolste and Tyler Snavely combined to complete six of 12 passes for 66 yards, with Harris hauling in just about everything. He finished with five snags for 59 yards.

While the Wildcat defense didn't force a punt, it did bring the Golden Eagles to a crashing halt three times, forced the ball to be turned over with a fourth-down stop.

Toss in a relatively cleanly-played game (only two penalties) and much-improved special teams play (which included a 23-yard field goal off of the toe of Eric Jensen) and Oak Harbor was all about the precision.

The 'Cats spread out their touchdowns, getting scores from Mac Nuanez (one-yard run), Passmore (57-yard run) and Harris (13-yard run and one-yard run).


Photos from the game are posted HERE.


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FB 2015-09-09 - Freshmen at Monroe

It was the closest of the 3 football games against Monroe this first week of the season, but the freshman team fell to the host Bearcats 27-20 last Wednesday at Monroe HS.

Monroe got on the board first with a long play, just 50 seconds into the game.

Oak Harbor responded with a pick-six at 7:38 in the 2nd, but the PAT failed, leaving the score at 7-6 for Monroe.

OH then took the lead with just under 3 minutes left in the half and converted the 2-point PAT to make the score 14-7 at halftime.

The 3rd quarter was back and forth but with just 5 seconds left in the quarter, Monroe was able to tie the game at 14, then due to a muffed kickoff, took a 20-14 lead at the horn.

With exactly 5 minutes left in the game, the Wildcats got on the board again to tied the score at 20, but with 3:18 left in the game the Bearcats scored once more, then held out to end the game with a 27-20 win.

Next week the Freshman team was supposed to host Ferndale, but now it looks like they'll travel to Sedro-Woolley to play a half against the Cubs and a half against Ferndale.  More details later as they are firmed up.


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Boys Tennis 2015-09-10 vs Mv Vernon

The OHHS boys tennis teams got off to a good start Thursday with a pair of wins against Mt. Vernon.

In varsity action, the Wildcats swept singles play, with Jackson Wezeman shutting out his opponent 6-0, 6-0 at 1st singles.  Ray Paraiso at 2nd singles win 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, Rodrigo Columbo won at 3rd singles 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 and Calib Byers won 6-0, 6-1 at 4th singles.

In doubles, however, it was all Bulldogs as OH lost all 3 matches, but the match win went to Oak Harbor 4-3.

At Mt. Vernon, the JV team also notched a win, 5-2, with all four singles players getting wins: Nathanel Thompson, Trent Cone, Clifford Hartley and Luke Martin.  Also winning was the #2 doubles team of Jacob Schermerhorn and Jordan George.

The next match is next Monday, the 14th, with varsity at home and JV on the road at Glacier Peak.


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FB 2015-09-07 JV vs Monroe

Another night, another big loss to 4A Monroe, this time the JV team on Monday night.

Monroe rolled to a 34-0 lead, including a pick-six and a kick return before Oak Harbor was able to score with 10:59 left in the game.

The final was 41-7 in favor of Monroe.  The Wescoathletics site says 46-7, but the scoreboard read

Next Monday the JV Squad travels to Ferndale for an early 4pm game.

Photos from the Monroe game are posted HERE.

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FB 2015-09-04 - Varsity at Monroe

By David Svien

Can they get a do-over?

Opening night was rougher than expected for a young Oak Harbor High School football squad, as it hit the road Friday and took a 55-6 thrashing at Monroe.


Not only were the Wildcats bruised on the scoreboard, but on the turf as well, as top rusher Princeton Lollar limped to the sideline early in the second quarter.


Before he went Lollar rambled for 59 yards on nine carries, teaming with Jordan Washintgon (7-51) and Savion Passmore (8-32) for most of Oak Harbor's offense.

'Cat quarterbacks Taylor Kolste and Tyler Snavely combined for just two completions and 10 yards through the air.

Monroe came out on fire and never cooled off, scoring on the first play of three separate drives. The Bearcats rolled up nearly 400 yards of offense, while forcing three Oak Harbor fumbles and blocking two kicks.

The Wildcats lone score came in the second quarter, and was set up by two nice runs from Lollar right before his injury.

Riding bursts of 15 and 12 yards from Lollar and an 18-yard zag from Washington, Oak Harbor finally moved down field at a consistent pace. Passmore then capped the drive with a 26-yard dash to the end zone.

Monroe blocked the extra point, however, holding on to a 21-6 lead, and things went quickly downhill from there for the Wildcats.

Oak Harbor managed just a single first down in the second half, coming courtesy a 16-yard run by Mackenzie Nuanez in the fourth quarter.

More photos are available HERE