The Lakewood Cougars took their lumps against a South Whidbey team with something to prove.
In just her second opportunity to do so, Lakewood junior Chelsea Stokes showed how much work she did in the offseason when she broke recent graduate Lacey Nation’s school record in the girls 5k.
It wasn’t always a pretty game, but the Lakewood volleyball team showed they have skills to be reckoned with after pulling off come-from-behind wins to defeat Granite Falls in five games Sept. 16.
The Tomahawk football team started their season with seven quarters of shutout defense, more than enough to pick up a league win against Snohomish at Veterans Memorial Stadium on Sept. 11.
The first week of school was an educational opportunity in another way for the Marysville-Pilchuck cross country team.
The addition of freshman Hannah Taylor has provided a big boost to the Tomahawk swim team in the first week of competition.
After a week of tennis, the Tomahawk boys worked out some jitters and finished the week 2-1.
After four meetings in as many years as football coach Dan Teeter has been at Lakewood High School, Teeter finally got the best of his alma mater and the Cougars defeated Lynden Christian 38-21 on Sept. 11.
Any teams who were planning to look past the Tomahawk girls soccer team this fall should reconsider that strategy.
In all four of their games against Snohomish, the Marysville-Pilchuck girls were the first team to five points, a goal pushed by volleyball coach Shelly Johnson every year.
The Tomahawk football team stormed out to 1-0 start thanks to a shutout in the team’s Sept. 4 season opener at Shorecrest.
Turnout is steady for the Marysville-Pilchuck boys tennis team, which is looking to build upon a third-place finish in Wesco North last year despite the loss of five seniors to graduation.
Small, private schools aren’t the ones whose athletic programs are feeling the sting of the economic times.
