Thursday sports - XC, Swim, Soccer & Volleyball

It wasn't the best of days for women's sports at OHHS.

At Marysville, the girls cross country team ran well, but in team scores finished 3rd out of 4 teams. First for the OH girls was Allison Duvenez, whose name got totally mangled by the Everett Herald (sorry, Alison). She finished 6th overall, and was followed by Adrianna Royal in 8th, Kathryn Fisken in 12th, Kim Kyle in 19th and Heather Dale in 22nd. The totaled 62 team points against winner Monroe's 35 (low score wins in XC).

The boys did better, finishing in 2nd place, just 7 points behind team winner Marysville. Tyler King of Coupeville but running for OH finished 2nd overall. Josh Duhrkopf finished 5th while Klauer, Reith and Bolte were bunched together in 9th, 11, and 12th respectively.

In Swimming, the girls team dropped their first league meet 106-80 against Marysville. The Wildcats did pick up wins in 5 events, the 100 backstroke, which Amanda Streubel won with a state-qualifying time of 1:02.01. Other winners for Oak Harbor were Ciara Hu in the 200IM and 100 butterfly, Rachel Weinstein in the 500 free, and the team of Karina Concepcion, KeriAnne Wright, Tori Nickerson and Carolyn Vasquez in the 200 meter free relay.

On the Snohomish soccer field, one player for the Panthers scored 3 goals as the Wildcats fell by a 4-0 score. The JV also got shut out by the Panthers 5-0.

Finally to the volleyball court at Meadowdale HS in Lynnwood. I don't have results yet for the Freshman and JV teams. The varsity match started out looking good for the Wildcats, as they won the first two games 27-25 and 25-22. The varsity girls stumbled in the 3rd, losing 17-25. Game 4 was close, but Meadowdale pulled off a 25-23 win to force the 5th game. The final game went strongly in the Mustang's favor, as they won 15-7, and finished the match with a 3-2 victory. Both Jessica Muzzall and Jen Jansen were in double-digits for kill, with 16 and 16 respectively, and Muzzall added 2 service aces for the Wildcats.

Next up for swimming is a home meet at Vanderzicht Pool against Snohomish next Tuesday at 3:00. The soccer and volleyball teams are both away on Tuesday, with the Soccer girls at Monroe and Volleyball at Lake Stevens. Cross Country runs next on Thursday, traveling to Meadowdale.

Home sports events this coming week, in addition to swimming on Tuesday are:
Boys Varsity Tennis at 4pm Monday (weather permitting) against Stanwood
Boys JV tennis at 4pm Wednesday against Everett (weather permitting)
Freshman football Wednesday at 5:30
Girls Soccer Thursday vs Lake Stevens, JV at 6, varsity at 7:30
Boys Tennis on Friday vs M-P at 4pm.