Girls Soccer from Thursday

On what turned out to be a pleasant night for soccer, the Oak Harbor Wildcats honored their senior players before their last game of the year, against Snohomish. Each girl was introduced individually before the game, along with their parents, and quite a few tears were shed. The departing seniors are Kathy Silveira, Jamie Turnek, Carson McKole, Claire Trepanier, Roni Tomlin, Hope Thompson, Shelbie Peddie and Kirsten Roof.

Kathy Silveira had been injured and unable to play most of the year, so what the refs and Snohomish agreed to was to let Kathy on the field for the opening kick, and the Wildcats would kick the ball out of bounds, allowing Coach Barker to sub in a player for Kathy. What wound up happening is that when the Wildcats kicked the ball towards the side line, it didn't go OOB, so instead of kicking the ball around, a Panther player called out to her teammate who was on the ball and told her to just kick it out, which she did. It was some good sportsmanship on the part of the Snohomish Panthers soccer team.

Once the game got going, everyone could tell the girls were energized and motiviated to play. The ball spent a majority of the time in the Panther side of the field, and our girls had at least 4-5 good shots on the goal just in the first half. One of these, by Hope Thompson, went in with just over 2 minutes left to give the 'Cats a 1-0 halftime lead.

The aggression continued in the 2nd, with Carson McKole adding another goal to make it 2-0. However, Snohomish lit a fire of their own and scored two goal of their own in the last 4 minutes of the game, sending it into overtime.

Neither team was able to score in OT, and since it's not a playoff game, it was allowed to end a tie.

The JV team didn't do as well, posting a 4-0 loss.

52 photos of senior night activities are posted HERE.

76 game photos, both JV and Varsity are HERE.