Girls win, boys finish second
Competing in a four-team race at Lynndale Park against cross country teams from Meadowdale, Cascade and Arlington, Oak Harbor High School proved they are one of the top squads in the WesCo League.
Paced by Allison Duvenez who finished in second place on the 2.67 mile course, the Oak Harbor girls scored 35 points to win the event.
Adrianna Royal placed second and Kathryn Fisken was seventh.
Kimberly Kyle rounded out the scoring crossing the finish line in 10th place.
Arlington finished in second place with 41 points.
In the boys half of the meet, Cascade was the winner with 38 points and the Wildcats scored 53 to finish second. Arlington was a close third with 55 points.
Tyler King finished second for Oak Harbor and senior captain Josh Duhrkopf came in ninth.
Cody Klauer was 12th, Michael Reith was 14th and Matt Bolte came home in 16th place.
Wildcats split WesCo matches
Coming back from a 3-1 loss to Lake Stevens Tuesday evening, the Oak Harbor High School volleyball team rebounded with a 3-1 victory at Arlington on Thursday.
The win evens the Wildcats’ league record at 1-1, and boosted their season mark to 3-5.
Arlington captured the first game 25-18, but then it was time for Oak Harbor to rally.
The Wildcats battled back to win the second game 26-24 and then put the match on the line with a 25-23 victory in the third game.
In the fourth game it was all Oak Harbor as the Wildcats pounded the Eagles and won the match with a 25-22 victory.
Melany Cone had 34 assists for the Wildcats and Jennifer Jansen had 12 kills.
Jessica Muzzall added 13 kills and four blocks, and teammate Marisa Sutherland had nine kills.
Going head-to-head on the road at Lake Stevens Tuesday evening in the first WesCo North league match for both teams, Oak Harbor came up on the short end of a 3-1 score.
Despite losing to the Vikings, the Wildcats played well and the match was a close one.
Oak Harbor won the first game in impressive fashion 25-15, but dropped the second and third games by identical scores of 27-25.
In the fourth game, the Vikings kept their momentum going and pulled out the match with a 25-19 win.
Cone had 33 assists for the Wildcats and Muzzall led all players with 16 kills.
Oak Harbor shutout 3-0
Up against a strong Monroe High School soccer team in a WesCo North game Tuesday evening, Oak Harbor had another strong defensive performance but couldn’t put the ball in the net and lost to the Bearcats 3-0.
Monroe scored twice in the first half and upped the lead to 3-0 with a third goal seven minutes into the second half, but the Wildcats tightened things up and held the host team scoreless for the remainder of the game.
Oak Harbor is 1-8-0 in WesCo games this season.
October’s 4-3 court jinx
October has been a difficult month for the Oak Harbor High School tennis team.
Starting Oct. 1, the Wildcats lost a 4-3 decision to Lake Stevens and then dropped the next three matches as well to Arlington, Stanwood and Everett by the same 4-3 scores.
Oak Harbor’s second, third and fourth singles players, Ryan Evans, Jordan Kingma and Josh Evans, picked up victories in all four matches, most of them coming in straight sets, but the rest of the team has struggled.
Coach Horace Mells said before the season began that the Wildcats have good singles players and were a bit weak in doubles, and his words were true.
He also said most of the WesCo North teams have a good first-singles player, and that has proved to be the difference in the last four matches.
Marathon game at Langley
Coupeville hooked up with South Whidbey in a Cascade Conference volleyball court Tuesday night and the the fourth game was one to remember.
The Wolves won the first game 25-20, but South Whidbey rallied to win the second and third games.
With their backs to the wall, Coupeville pulled out the fourth game by a score of 32-30.
However, the Falcons captured the fifth and deciding game 15-12 to win the match 3-2.
Linde Maertens had 26 digs and 21 kills for Coupeville.
