Thursday sports - Tennis, Swimming, and Girls Soccer

The OHHS varsity tennis team ended their season Thursday at Snohomish. The Panthers are the top team in WESCO and have one of the top tennis programs in the state. They are a good, well coached team, and it showed against the Wildcat boys.

All 7 matches were won by Snohomish in straight sets, and only Ryan Evans and Jordan Kingma could win more than 2 games in any set.

Snohomish has one more match, but is a cinch to finish the season 16-0, while the Wildcats, although starting off well, finish the season 4-12.

In girls soccer against Everett, the JV played well, but lost 3-0. It should be noted that 2 of the goals were made against a substitute goalkeeper. If anyone sees Hannah Bressler tomorrow, the reason she has a black eye is that she got a rather large gash just under her left eyebrow, and had to head to the hospital for stitches.

Varsity was a different matter. Everett scored early, twice on corner kicks, enroute to a 4-0 halftime lead. The Seagulls scored 3 more times in the 2nd to win 7-1. The lone OH goal came off a penalty kick by Carson McKole. In what was not the most classy of moves, Everett scored their 7th goal with less than 30 seconds remaining in a game that was already won. It wasn't a long kick that just happened to go in, but hard, overpowering play on top of OH goalkeeper Janelle Green.

86 photos of the two games, including shots of Hannah's cut eyebrow (she wanted them posted) can be found HERE.

Finally, the swim team pounded Everett at Forest Park Pool in Everett 135-50. For the third time this season (at least), Oak Harbor swimmers won all 11 swimming events. In addition, an Oak Harbor diver won the diving competition for the first time this year, when Abby Rankin scored 122.75 points to win the diving competition.

In the past couple of weeks, there has been a new swimmer on the team. Sophomore Abby Leete, who is recovering from a running injury, moved from cross country and is now on the swim team, and was a member of the winning 400 meter freestyle relay along with Karina Concepcion, Carolyn Vasquez and Amanda Streubel.