Youth Football 2015-08-29

It wasn't a really good weekend for Oak Harbor Youth Fooball, as only 3 of the seven teams won their games, and only one of the teams playing at home.

On the road, it was PeeWee Purple 32, MV Green 0, Midget Gold 18, MV Green 20, Junior Purple 6, MV Green 12 and Junior Gold 26, Bellingham TD 12.

At home, strong winds played havoc with the passing and kicking games.

The Midget Purple team was the sole home winner, beating Friday Harbor 25-0.  The Gold PeeWees lost 20-6 to Lakewood and the Seniors 27-0 to Sedro-Woolley.

PeeWee photos are HERE

Midget photos are HERE

Senior photos are HERE

No games next week due to the Labor Day weekend.

Youth Football - 2015-08-22

The first week is in the books, and overall, OH teams did well.

Both Junior teams were on the road, with the Purple squad falling to Granite Falls 14-6 at 11am.

The Gold squad went to Sedro Woolley, and battled not only the Blue team, but also smoke from the fires when the wind shifted halfway through the game.  In the end, OH was victorious, winning 38-6.

At home, the day started with the Gold PeeWee team demolishing South Whidbey 35-6.

Pictures are HERE

Next up was the Senior squad, facing off against a select Bellingham team, and although there were flashes of greatness, the Wildcats fell 39-12.

Senior pics are HERE

The 1pm game was the Purple PeeWees vs Sedro Blue.  This game was close throughout, and a strong defensive stand near the end of the game preserved a 20-15 win.

Click HERE for Purple Peewee pictures.

At 3pm the Midget Purple team played Sedro White, and the Wildcats just could not get anything going.  The game was delayed for about a half-hour, as a Wildcat was injured on a kickoff, was complaining of neck pain, and an ambulance was called.  He got a round of applause as he was loaded into the ambulance and waved to his teammates.  Reports say he'll be fine, medical was called as a precaution.  By the time the game ended at nearly 5:45, Sedro had a commanding 41-18 lead.

Midget Purple pics are HERE.

For the nightcap it was the Gold Midgets vs Sedro Blue, with the Wildcats winning convincingly, 37-13.

Photos from the game are posted HERE.

There are not a lot of photos from this week, as most of the time was spent up in the lift.  Next week will be an all-photo week at the home games.

A few plays from the first 4 games are at THIS LINK.

Next week there are only 3 games at the Ft. Nugent fields.  The Senior team hits the gridiron at 10am vs Sedro-Woolley.  At Noon it's the Purple Midgets vs Friday Harbor, and at 2pm it's the Gold PeeWees vs Lakewood.

Junior Purple is at MV Green at 9am, Junior Gold at Bellingham at 10am, Midget Gold at MV Green at 1pm and Peewee Purple at MV Green at 5pm.

Youth football 2015-08-15

The 2015 sports seasons kicked off last Saturday with the annual youth football Jamboree at Burlington High School.

Oak Harbor is fielding 7 teams this year, 2 each of PeeWee, Midget and Juniors, and one Senior team.

On Saturday, the Juniors and Seniors played in the morning session, with each team playing four 25-minute scrimmages against other teams from the North Cascade Youth Football League.

In the afternoon it was the Midgets and PeeWees, with the final scrimmage wrapping up shortly after 6pm.

All 2015 Youth football photos will be available at this link

Individual game/scrimmage photos from Saturday are below.

Seniors vs Lakewood and Sedro-Woolley

Junior Gold vs Granite Falls

Junior Purple vs Anacortes and MV Black

Midget Gold vs MV Black

Midget Purple vs Lakewood

PeeWee Gold vs Lakewood

PeeWee Purple vs MV Green

Regular season games start on Aug 22 with the Senior team, both PeeWee and both Midget teams playing at home at Ft. Nugent.  Game times are 9, 11, 1, 3 and 5pm.


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Grad Night - Class of 2015

All of the Grad Night photos are posted here;

https://ohhsgradnight2015.shutterfly.com/

Feel free to click and download all you want.  You can then crop, edit, caption to your heart's content.

These photos have not been edited in any way, except rotation. 

If the photo was too dark or so out-of-focus you could not tell who was in it, it was deleted.  All of the others were uploaded.

Challenger Baseball - OH Mariners vs Mill Creek Royals

For the first time, the North Whidbey Little League is sponsoring a Challenger team.  Challenger teams are made up of special needs children and play with rules similar to T-Ball

Sunday afternoon, the Mill Creek Royals traveled to City Beach for a game against the Oak Harbor Mariners.

If you weren't there, you missed one of the most wonderful things ever.  Both the players and parents had an obviously good time, with loud cheers from both sidelines for any good plays.

Photos of the Mariners in action are posted HERE

Royals photos are in a separate album and are posted HERE.

NWLL photos

More photos are now posted!

Major Dodgers at Central Whidbey

Minor Angels vs Red Sox

Rookie Blue Wahoos vs Tin Caps

Senior NW vs Sedro-Woolley

More to come this week and next.

Youth soccer 2015-05-16

There's not many weeks left in the Spring Rec Soccer season, so if you haven't been down to Ft. Nugent Park on a Saturday morning to see the fields filled with color, you're missing quite the sight.

On May 16th, we were able to get photos of every U-8 team.

Those photos, along with all the U-6 teams can be found by clicking HERE and looking for your team.

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Track 2015-05-22 - District 1 Championships

At Shoreline Stadium for the 2-day District 1 tournament, the Oak Harbor Wildcats turned in some impressive performances, including breaking two school records, one a 50 year-old mark.

John Rodeheffer broke his own 2-year old 3200 mark, but a lot.  Two years ago at the state meet he posted a time of 9:20.19.  At this years District meet he smashed that time with a 9:06.85.

Dejon Devroe, moving from the 400m dash to the 800m run, got 2nd place in the District (and a trip to State), and in doing so set a new record of 1:53.53.  The old record was set in 1964, and was the longest standing OH record.  The old record in the 880 yard run, converted to 800 meters, was 1:54.

Rodeheffer also won the 1600m run, and Devroe will also run in 2 events, the 800 and the 4x100m relay.

Hayley Lundstrom earned 3rd in the high jump and will join the girls 4x100m relay team (Janae Payne, Amaya Rittierodt, Jenna Cooley and Matti Miesle) at the State Meet at Mt. Tahoma High School in Tacoma this weekend.  Claire Anderson is an alternate in the triple jump and Alana Austin in the 200m dash.

Joining Devroe in the 4x400 relay event will be Mac Nuanez, Sebastian Ceaser and Jared Gray.

Photos from the first day of girls action are posted HERE

Boys day 1 photos are HERE.

Boys Finals

Girls Finals.

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Girls Golf 2015-05-20 - District 1 Tournament

At the Kayak Point GC near Stanwood, three OHHS girls golfers extended their season by earning a trip to the State Tournament May 27th and 28th in Richland.

Marisa Sligh, Hailey Beecher and Rosie Mooki are all headed to the east side of the state this week, with Beecher winning a 3-way playoff to get the final spot on the state roster.

Some photos from day 2 of the District tournament are posted HERE.

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Girls tennis 2015-05-20 - District 1 tournament

AnnaBelle Whitefoot started the Wesco 3A North tournament seeded 9th, then qualified for the District tournament by placing 3rd.

At the District tournament at Arlington HS, she started with a 6-4, 6-0 loss, but came back to win 3-6, 6-0, 6-1, then beast the North's #2 seed 7-6(5), 6-2 in one of AnnaBelle's now patented marathon matches (this one lasted 2 1/2 hours).

That win put Whitefoot in the final win-and-go-to-state match, but used a lot of energy in the previous match and fell 6-2, 6-4, finishing 4th, and will go to the state tournament as an alternate.

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Middle School Track 2015-05-19 - Championships at OHHS

Tuesday afternoon, the North West Middle School League track teams met at OHHS for their finals.

The 8th grade boys and 7th grade girls were first in team standings, the 7th grade boys 3rd and 8th grade girls 4th.

The 8th grade boys had only 2 event winners, Nathan Merrill in the javelin and Haven Brown in the long jump, but a bunch of placer pushed the point total high enough for the team championship.

For the 7th grade boys, Tyrell Torres was the lone individual champion, winning the javelin.

On the girls side, Mikhaela Cortes won the 7th grade 400m dash, Jenny Danielson the the 7th grade 1600m run, Cami Bristow the 8th grade javelin, and the 7th grade girls won both the 4x200 and 4x100 relay races.

Complete results are at athletic.net.

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Boys Golf 2015-05-48 - District 1 meet at Battle Creek GC

At Marysville, after the first day of the 2-day tournament, Steven Timm sat in 20th place, but only the top 17 move on to State.

In the 2nd day of action, Timm shot an 81 to move up to 15th and earned himself a trip to Kennewick on May 27 and 28th.

Mason Dieter, after shooting a 79 on the first day, good for 6th place, stumbled on day to and missed the cut by 2 strokes.

Raiden Poe, Ben Fikse and Aaron Kelley all just missed the cut as well. 

169 was the cut for a trip to State.  Poe shot 174, Fikse 177 and Kelley 178.

NWLL Baseball and Softball

Now that Shutterfly is working again, below are some links to recent North Whidbey Little League games, ranging from T-ball to Juniors.


T-Ball Owls vs Rock Hounds


T-Ball Emeralds vs Mud Cats


Minor SB Grasshoppers vs Coupeville



Major SB NW Purple vs Coupeville



Major BB Angels vs Rockies


Junior BB NW vs Sedro

Middle School Track 2015-05-13 - NW League prelims

At Burlington-Edison HS Wednesday, the Wildcat United middle school track team did very well at the league prelim meet.

In team scoring, WU got first place in both boys and girls 8th grade scoring, 1st for 7th grade girls and 2nd for 7th grade boys.

Event winners for the boys:

Kevin Schuldt - 8th grade 400m dash
Blake Servatius - 8th grade 1600m run
Peyton Horn - 7th grade shot put
Nathan Merrill - 8th grade javelin
Tyrell Torres - 7th grade javelin
Mason Fields - 7th grade high jump
Dorian Hardin - 8th grade long jump

For the girls:

Leielle Salinger - 7th long jump and 7th 200m dash
Cami Bristow - 8th javelin
7th 4x200m relay (Addy Day, Catherine Wicker, Frances Empinado, Breanna Scheppler)
Jenny Danielson - 7th 1600m run
Mikhaela Cortez - 7th 400m dash
Alexis Hughes - 7th 100m dash

In addition to event winners, the top 4 in each running event and top 6 in field events all move on to next week's finals, to be held Tuesday the 19th at OHHS.

First event at 4:15pm

Here are links to two recent meets - May 5th at Burlington and May 6th at OHHS.

Burlington Meet - This meet features only runners, but I believe there is a photo of every runner on the team.

Oak Harbor Meet  - These photos are mostly of jumping events.


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Boys Golf 2015-05-13 - Wesco 3A North tournament at Everett

Thursday the OH Boys Golf team headed to the Legion Golf Course in Everett, hoping to upset favorite Stanwood and win the 3A North team title.

That didn't happen, but other good things did.  Stanwood scored 387 to Oak Harbor's 417.  Arlington was 3rd with 421.

Because the Wildcats finished in 2nd place, all five OH golfers qualify for the 3A District tournament on May 18-19 at Battle Creek Golf Course on the Tulalip Reservation in Marysville.

Mason Dieter and Raiden Poe both shot an 81 to lead the Wildcats.  Aaron Kelley and Ben Fikse both shot an 83 and Steven Timm finished with 89.


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Baseball 2015-05-13 - playoff at Pilchuck

Tuesday the #1 seed Marysville-Pilchuck Tomahawk baseball team was upset 3-0 by #5 seed Lynnwood, setting up a loser-out game at Pilchuck on Wednesday.

Even though the weather wasn't the best, the game went on, and after scoring 2 runs early, the Wildcat's couldn't find any more offense, falling 7-2 to the hosts, ending the Wildcat's season.


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Track 2015-05-13 - Wesco 3A North Championships at OHHS

Wednesday afternoon the first day of the Wesco 3A North track championships took place at OHHS.

While most events were prelim/seeding races, a few events were finals.

Finals were held in the boys 1600m run (won  by OH senior John Rodeheffer), boys shot put (Tyler Adamson finished 4th), boys High Jump (Mac Nuanez 6th), boys Pole Vault (Quinn Karney 8th) and Long Jump (Mark Johnston 4th, Diangelo McKinney 6th)

Girls finals were in the 3200m run (Jonalynn Horn 3rd), Discus (Julie Jansen 3rd, Kenna Prosch 7th), Javelin (Taylor Deconzo 4th, Samantha Hines 6th) and Long Jump (Jenna Cooley 5th, Haley Lundstrom and Priya Osborne tied for 6th).

The meet concluded Friday with a 5:30pm start time, with many more Wildcats qualifying for the District 1 meet.


Also moving on to compete in the District 1 meet for the boys were Mac Nuanez and Cedric Ekberg (400m dash), Michael Lym in the 800, Sebastian Ceaser in the 1600, Jared Gray and Garren Guerrero (110 and 300m hurdles), the 4x100 and 4x400m relay teams Joseph Nolan (Discus), Michael Corfman and Blaine Coleman (Javelin), Andrew Miller in the triple jump and Quinn Karney (Pole Vault.  Rodeheffer also won the 3200m run on Friday.

For the girls, Alana Austin, Mattie Miesle, Amaya Rittierodt and Alora Caillier all advanced in the 200m dash, Deja Bunch and Suzanne Kaltenbach in the 400, Jonalyn Horn added the 3200m run to her 1600 placing, and Carolynn Wicker qualified in the 3200.  Kaitlyn Chelburg and Samantha Hines qualified in both the 100 and 300m hurdles, and Nalani Gabbert qualified in the 100 hurdles.

All 3 relay teams - 4x200, 4x100 and 4x400 - moved on, along with Deconzo and Kaylee Lamb in the shot put.

In jumping events, Kaltenbach and Taliah Black moved on in the pole vault and Claire Anderson and Hayley Lundstrom qualified in the triple jump.

Girls photos from Friday are posted HERE

Boys pics from Friday are HERE.

Girls Tennis 2015-05-12 - Wesco 3A North tournament at Arlington

The 2-day Wesco 3A North tournament kicked off Tuesday afternoon at Stanwood HS, and at the end of the day, there were two Wildcats still alive.

In first-round singles action, AnnaBelle Whitefoot won 6-0, 6-1.  Makenzie Perry had a first-round bye.

In the second round, Whitefoot lost 6-0, 6-0 while Perry won 6-2, 6-3.

In first-round doubles action, Hanna Gluth and Erina Horikawa lost 6-3, 6-1 and Tamia Rios and Alyssa Eden lost 7-6(1), 6-3.

The tournament would have continued yesterday, but rain pushed second-day action to Thursday.

In 2nd day action, Perry developed an illness and lost her first match 6-1, 6-3 the defaulted to teammate Whitefoot and was eliminated.

Due to the default, Whitefoot finished 3rd and moves on to the District tournament.

The top four singles and doubles players play next at Arlington HS for the 3A District tournament on May 19-20.

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Softball 2015-05-12 vs Getchell

In their final game of the 2015 campaign, the OH girls saved the best for last.

In the varsity game, Oak Harbor spotted the visiting Chargers a 7-1 lead, then had a seemingly perfect 3rd inning, pushing 11 runs across the plate to take a 12-7 lead.

As the game continued, Getchell started to chip away at the lead until the score stood at 14-12 in favor of Oak Harbor starting the final inning.

The Wildcats used excellent defense in the top of the inning, with 1st baseman Taylor Heidt catching a foul ball for the final out.

Over at Hillcrest, hot bats created another high-scoring affair, with OH winning 10-8 to end the season.

JV photos are posted HERE

Varsity photos are posted HERE.

Remember, proceeds from photos sales are the sole funding source for the Oak Harbor Sports Report/WescoAthletics.com Student-Scholar Award - a pair of $500 scholarships awarded each years to two deserving multi-sport athletes.

Baseball 2015-05-12 - playoff vs Arlington

After losing the first game of the double-elimination Wesco 3A tournament, the Oak Harbor baseball team found themselves at home against Arlington, and they took it to the Eagles, eliminating the visitors 10-6.

With the win, the Wildcats move on to play the loser of the Pilchuck (#1 seed) and Lynnwood.