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Grace Stringer, Chelsea Schultz, Rosie Portillo and Hannah Cotton — advance to the 1A tri-district round at Gold Mountain Golf Club in Bremerton on Tuesday, May 14. Abbi Rautenberg of Meridian High School was the co-champion and also shot 82 strokes through one round.
Girls golf team wins district title Look out, Washington 1A girls golf teams. South Whidbey is on top of its game. The Falcons won the Cascade Conference championship match Monday, then claimed the 1A District 1 tournament Thursday. Both matches were contests between Cascade Conference rivals South Whidbey and King’s, and South Whidbey bested its private school foe each time. In the district championship, South Whidbey won with 464 strokes to the 496 of King’s. Falcon senior Jenna Kaik was the co-medalist as the top golfer with 82 strokes through 18 holes at North Bellingham Golf and Country Club. All six varsity golfers for South Whidbey — Kaik,
Fastpitch misses on senior night South Whidbey softball had its shot to win its last home game of the year. Instead, Archbishop Murphy rallied in the final inning with the go-ahead run. The Wildcats held the Falcons scoreless in their last frame to preserve the Cascade Conference finale victory. See-sawing in the first five innings, Archbishop Murphy (8-9 Cascade Conference; 8-11 overall) seized the lead in the third with a five-run burst. Trailing three scores, South Whidbey (3-15
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Cascade Conference; 3-15 overall) tied in the sixth with three runs. Falcon senior Alex Kubeska and Mackenzie Hezel both pitched in the game, with Kubeska opening and closing the bout. South Whidbey also lost its final Cascade Conference game of the season, 5-3, to Granite Falls on Thursday. The Falcons took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a two-run homer by Falcon senior Ellie Greene. Granite Falls jumped ahead in the sixth with three runs.
Streak continues for Whidbey Crabs The Whidbey Crabs picked up their ninth consecutive victory with a 9-8 rally against the North Seattle Rainiers on Wednesday evening. The Rainiers jumped out early with six runs in the first inning. Whidbey chipped away, tying the score at 6-6 all in the fifth. After falling behind in the seventh inning, 8-6, Whidbey scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to get the win. Connor Antich had two hits and three scores, while Austin Sterba added four runs. Will Simms delivered big hits with three RBI with Josiah Seargent adding two RBI. Trent Piehler was roughed up for six runs in the first inning but settled down to shut out the North Seattle team for three more innings before giving way to Lewis Pope for two innings. Antich pitched the final inning and picked up the victory.
Charles Wright bumps baseball in extra innings By BEN WATANABE Staff reporter A seesaw baseball game between South Whidbey and Charles Wright Academy tilted the Tacoma team’s way in an extra-inning affair Tuesday, 8-7. South Whidbey, an underdog in the 1A tri-district tournament, led much of the game. Charles Wright Academy tied the game in the sixth inning at 5-5. In the top of the seventh, South Whidbey had a runner on base and senior Jack Lewis at the plate. Lewis jacked a two-run homer to center field to lift the Falcons, 7-5. “We really thought that was the momentum to put us over the top,” said Falcon head coach Tom Fallon. “We played a really good game … Defensively we didn’t hurt ourselves.” Needing three outs, the Falcons took the field ready for an unlikely victory. This Disney tale didn’t go South Whidbey’s way. The Falcons allowed two runners on base on consecutive “questionable” walks, as Fallon called them. A couple hits later and the game was tied 7-7. A heroic throw from center field by junior Jake Sladky to throw out a runner at the plate forced an extra inning to determine the outcome. South Whidbey pitchers, led by Brent Piehler,
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the ball, Lyons lofted it over him and into the goal, but the sideline ref flagged it as an offside penalty, negating the goal. Joy was short lived by South Whidbey. Cascade Christian responded in the 52nd with a goal by Bradner off Anthony Dahlquist’s corner kick. “The back post is the majority of our goals (allowed),” Holt said. “And I’m taking the majority of the blame on that. Once the ball is kicked, we’re like ‘Andy will get it,’ and the back guy gets loose.” An already physical, testy game was exacerbated when Falcon sophomore Davin Kesler collided with Cascade Christian’s Dahlquist as he went for a header. Falcon assistant coach Skip Robbins erupted at the refs, pleading for them to take command of the game and issue a yellow card. Instead, he was awarded the yellow card for comments to the field ref. That seemed to fire up South Whidbey, which got off two decent shots on goal that were both saved in the final 14 minutes. Cascade Christian responded with its own aggression as junior Garodd Stimets charged a through ball in the box, colliding with Holt as he grabbed the ball. Stimets received a yellow card, Holt yelled at him, and when a Cougar fan was heard yelling back, Holt yelled at her, too. Everything was on the line for South Whidbey and Cascade Christian, and emotions ran high. That may have taken its toll late in the game and in the bonus periods, as both teams lacked the energy to chase down long through balls along the sidelines. Missing that zest and zip, the match went to the shootout where Cascade Christian won.
allowed only one other walk the entire game. Charles Wright Academy’s ace pitcher, whom Fallon said has a scholarship offer to play baseball for Wake Forest University, retired the side in the top of the eighth. Then the home team won the game in the eighth, 8-7. “It was a tough one to take,” Fallon said. “But the experience we earned is only going to carry the program forward. No one felt satisfied by not continuing.” South Whidbey finished its season 7-11 in Cascade Conference play and 9-15 overall. Their record put them in fifth place in the league standings just behind Granite Falls, which owned the league tiebreaker. The Falcons lose three seniors from the squad and will return much of its varsity lineup. That portends well for the future of the program, Fallon said, when so many young players have playoff experience and even a dramatic playoff elimination. “They believe they can win now,” Fallon said. “We were in every single game we played in, basically.” “We’ll have more confidence in the young guys next year.” Lewis went 1-for-3 with the two-run homer. Senior catcher Aaron Curfman batted 3-for-4 with four scores and a double. Sladky hit 2-for-4. Piehler was 1-for-3 with a double.
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