Dyllan Harris scored 40 points but it wasn’t nearly enough as the Oak Harbor High School boys basketball team fell 79-57 to Skyline at the Bulldog Holiday Classic in Mount Vernon Monday, Dec. 28.
The Wildcats (0-8) face Sedro-Woolley (2-5) at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, in the consolation game of the tournament. The Cubs lost 65-63 to host Mount Vernon Monday.
Harris drained eight three-pointers on the way to his 40 points, the fourth highest single game total in OHHS history.
Pat McGreevy holds the Oak Harbor record with 49 points in 1953. Drew Washington scored 44 in 2014, and his older brother, Mike Washington Jr., scored 41 in 2012 and 40 in 2011. Rod Durant (1977) and Brannon Stone (1998) also hit 40 for the Wildcats.
Skyline (3-4) used a big second quarter and its height to put the ‘Cats away.
The Spartans held a 19-14 lead going into the second quarter, then outscored Oak Harbor 23-6 to take a 42-20 halftime lead.
Both teams scored 37 points in the second half.
“We started the game pretty well, but it really got away for us in the second quarter,” coach John Weston said.
“They responded well to our pressure defense and got some open looks when they broke the press and got a lot of second chance points.”
Skyline, a 4A Kingco school from Sammamish, had five players taller than the biggest Wildcat, according to Weston.
Freddy Jarvis and Braden Ahlemeyer, a pair of 6-7 posts, scored 11 and 10 points respectively for Skyline. However, one of the Spartans’ shortest players, 5-11 Kellan Przybylski, did the most damage, scoring 21.
Harris received little offensive support, with Preston Rankin’s four points the next highest total for the Wildcats.
Diangelo McKinney scored three points, Josh Cote two, Ozell Jackson two and Savion Hollins-Passmore one.
A highlight for Oak Harbor, according to Weston, was the varsity debut of sophomores T.J. Hollins-Passmore and Jordan Bell. Both scored, Bell getting three points and Hollins-Passmore two.
(Left: Sean Erskine shoots over the Skyline defense. Below: Diangelo McKinney goes to the hoop after being fouled. Photos by John Fisken.)
