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Whidbey team qualifies for state; others closing in By JIM WALLER Sports editor
One Whidbey Island Little League team secured a spot in the state tournament and several others were poised to join them after District 11 play this week. The Central/South Whidbey 9/10 softball team took first place in its tournament in Langley to qualify for state, which begins July 12 in Asotin. Four other island teams began championship play Thursday. The North Whidbey and Central Whidbey 9/10 baseball teams squared off in Sedro-Woolley, the North Whidbey 11/12 baseball team played in the finals in South Whidbey and the Whidbey 13/14 team reached the finals in Anacortes. The Fourth of July holiday created an early deadline for today’s paper; therefore, results of those games were not available at press time.
9/10 Softball Central/South Whidbey won its third straight lopsided game, beating South Skagit 16-6 Tuesday for the crown. “There were many stars” in the win over South Skagit, coach Lark Gustafson said. Kaia Richmond scored four runs, Audrianna Shaw added three more and Thora Iverson tallied the final run to polish off South Skagit. Chelsea Prescott pitched a five-inning complete game.
11/12 Baseball The North Whidbey Little League 11/12 baseball team reached the championship series the hard way --- battling through the consolation bracket. North Whidbey won its third game in three days when it dumped Central Whidbey 7-3 Wednesday, July 2. The victory eliminated Central Whidbey from the tournament and lifted North Whidbey into the finals against Burlington. North Whidbey will have to defeat Burlington twice to take the title and grab a trip to the state tournament. Burlington rolled to the finals with three easy wins:
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ABOVE: North Whidbey’s Brock Boyer slides home with the winning run in the 9/10 team’s win over Burlington Tuesday. RIGHT: Audrianna Shaw hustles home for a run for the district champion Central/South Whidbey 9/10 softball team. 12-0, 17-0, 28-0. North Whidbey earned a little revenge when it defeated Sedro-Woolley 6-3 Tuesday. Sedro-Woolley beat North Whidbey 10-4 Saturday. North Whidbey used five pitchers (Aiden McCarthy, Nick Krantz, Cody Byars, Austin Boesch and Logan Gonzales) to stop SedroWoolley. McCarthy collected four strikeouts, and Gonzales finished the game with a K. McCarthy led the offense with a double and single. Noah Miller and Byars slugged doubles; Jeremiah Dailey, George Dailey, David Sisson, Will Ray and Boesch singled. Defensively, George Dailey and Gonzales set the tone with an early double play. In North Whidbey’s win over Central Whidbey, George Dailey and Trevor Sheils led the offense with triples, while Andrew Dixon and Jeremiah Dailey added doubles. McCarthy, Boesch
and Byars all singled. Gonzales and Noah Miller pitched in with an RBI each. Sheils started the game on the mound and recorded two strikeouts. Boesch followed and also picked up two strikeouts. Byers and Gonzales threw next, fanning three each. For Central Whidbey, singles by by Mason Testeroff, Elliott Johnson and Matt Hilborn produced a firstinning run. In the fifth, Johnson and Hilborn singled again and scored on Noah Meffert’s base hit.
9/10 Baseball Whidbey Island will be represented in the state Little League 9/10 baseball tournament. Whether it will be North or Central Whidbey depended on the outcome of the finals Thursday and Friday. North Whidbey won its third consecutive one-run
game Tuesday, nipping Burlington 3-2. One of those one-run wins was a 10-9 thriller over Central Whidbey Sunday. Central Whidbey stayed alive by defeating SedroWoolley 3-1 Tuesday and Burlington 16-9 Wednesday. Since North Whidbey entered Thursday’s matchup with Central Whidbey undefeated in the tournament, Central Whidbey needed to top North Whidbey twice to claim first place. In North Whidbey’s win over Burlington, the Cardiac Kids plated the winning run in the bottom of the fifth, then Colton Byars and Cody Duchnowski combined to strike out the side in the top of the sixth for the win. Burlington scored in the first inning, and North Whidbey came right back with a pair of runs in its half. With two outs, Byars walked and Shawn Day singled; they worked their way around on stolen bases, errors and wild pitches.
Burlington tied it in the top half of the fifth, then Joe Winnenberg led off the bottom half with a walk. Pinch runner Brock Boyer eventually scored on a wild pitch. Byars paced the offense with two hits. In Central Whidbey’s game with Sedro-Woolley, CWLL scored in the second when Scott Hilborn singled in Ty Hamilton. After Sedro-Woolley scored in the top of the third inning, Central Whidbey quickly responded with a run when Hawthorne Wolfe singled and Cody Roberts doubled. A double by Hilborn and a single by Wolfe helped Central Whidbey plate Drake Borden in the fourth. Wolfe pitched the first four innings, striking out 10 and walking none. Luke Vrable finished the game, striking out the side in the sixth. Hilborn and Wolfe led the offense with two hits each. Central Whidbey was tied with Burlington 4-4 heading into the fourth. Consecutive two-out hits by Hilborn, Vrable, Wolfe, Xavier Murdy, Roberts and Caleb Meyer put CW up 9-4.
13/14 Baseball Like the North Whidbey 11/12 team, the Whidbey Island Junior (13/14) baseball team worked its way through the consolation bracket to reach the finals. Whidbey, which includes players from the North, Central and South Whidbey leagues, drubbed Anacortes 13-0 Tuesday and South Skagit 16-10 Wednesday to earn a rematch with SedroWoolley. Sedro-Woolley defeated Whidbey 3-2 in nine innings in the first round. Whidbey must top SedroWoolley twice to take the championship. The first game was played Thursday. The second game, if necessary, is 1 p.m. today (Saturday, July 5) in Anacortes. In Whidbey’s win over Anacortes, Taylor Brown (SW), Donny Kloewer (NW), Joseph Dixon (NW) and Jojo Welling (CW) combined to pitch a two-hit shutout. Brown was 2-for-2 with a walk, two stolen bases and an RBI; Jakob Dailey (NW) recorded a single, walk and three runs; and Cody Wilkie (SW) collected a double, walk, stolen base and RBI.