The Oak Harbor High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps secured the 2015-16 division championship with an impressive performance in the final regular season competition at Marysville-Pilchuck High School Saturday, Feb. 27.
The Wildcats piled up 10 wins Saturday and finished with 61 team points for the regular season, good enough to claim the Olympic Division title. Marysville placed second with 52 points in the seven-team division.
Oak Harbor now heads to the 32-team conference regional competition Saturday, March 19, at Bethel High School in Spanaway.
Only the top three teams in each category from each division qualify for the conference finals. Oak Harbor’s color guard No. 2, precision air rifle, sporter air rifle and physical strength No. 1 teams all placed first in the division and earned regional berths.
Oak Harbor’s armed drill, unarmed drill and physical strength No. 2 teams also finished in the top three and qualified.
The duos of Nathen Larsen and Jonathan Francisco (dual armed exhibition drill) and Alex Hartley and Noel Pangilinan (dual unarmed drill) earned regional berths as well.
At the Marysville-Pilchuck meet, armed drill, sporter rifle, precision rifle and physical strength No. 1 all took first in team competition.
The unarmed drill and physical strength No. 2 teams were second, color guard No. 1 was third and color guard No. 2 finished sixth.
The rifle teams dominated. In precision, Austin McBride, Mara Rouse, Montana Koslowski and Elena Flake finished 1-2-4-5; and in sporter, Steven Richards, Micah Moss, Julia Flake and Mia Gehrmann went 1-3-4-5.
Chante Powell and Callie Nuttall captured the top two spots in the strength team ironwoman competition.
In other individual competition, Oak Harbor earned firsts from Ria Bains (unarmed commander) and Larsen (armed commander).
Jose Cabigting, Hartley, and Kegan Snell finished second through fourth among ironman physical strength participants.