New coach Meredith Jenks is having fun getting to know her swimmers.
Against Cascade, Dec. 9, each Tommie got to pick one race in which they don’t normally compete, and the result was a 117-71 Wesco North victory.
Playing the second of back-to-back, games, the Cougars walked a fine line between too little and too much energy.
In a 51-49 nonconference win over Blaine, the Lakewood boys hoops team overcame fatigue, foul trouble and a 14-point deficit Dec. 11.
The Marysville grapplers didn’t waste any time or energy in taking down Oak Harbor 61-13 in a Wesco North double dual.
M-P scored seven pins in the meet — and all were inside the first two minutes.
MARYSVILLE — Nobody can seem to remember the last time the Arlington boys won on the Marysville-Pilchuck hardwood.
ne of the most difficult things a young team has to learn is to keep playing when faced with a double-digit deficit late in a game.
The Tulalip boys hoops team found out why more experienced teams attack in those situations, as they nearly overcame a 15-point deficit in the final minutes of a nonconference game Dec. 1.
For the most part, the Cougars looked like a team playing its first varsity basketball game.
Finding someone with as much knowledge of Tommahawk swimming as Scott Knowles would be impossible, but Merideth Jenks is about as close as it gets.
This year’s Tomahawks squad is out to prove that experience goes a long way.
A lack of exposure to the Wesco North is what often got Marysville-Pilchuck in trouble last season, but coach Bary Gould is convinced being green is a thing of the past.
LAKEWOOD — In 2010, the Cougars may have enjoyed their most successful boys basketball season — but the immediate future may look even brighter.
The Lady Tomahawks nicknamed 2010 the golden year.
And after a rough first day at the Class 4A state swim meet, Marysville-Pilchuck finished in 11th place, and hope for the future.
“We were much better today,” said M-P swim coach Jaci LeGore-Hodgins. “That’s the peril of this sport, but you can comeback and get things right.”
By the time the Tommies settled down on the gridiron, they had some serious climbing to do
Early mistakes led Marysville-Pilchuck to a first-round loss, 49-13, at Issaquah in the Class 4A state tournament.
Lakewood’s bid for a state title was quashed Nov. 9 in dramatic fashion against a familiar foe.
The Cougars returned to Silverdale Stadium, where they captured the school’s first state tournament victory in girls soccer a year ago, but weren’t as fortunate the second time around, losing to Klahowya 1-0 in overtime.
Cougars girls soccer coach Jeremiah Wohlgemuth can still remember Nov. 2, 2009 distinctly.
“Like yesterday,” he said. “I was just sitting in my (class) room, in front of 11 girls and we started crying.”
