The Tommies hit their first speed bump of the of the year in a clash of unbeatens early in the season.
Marysville-Pilchuck had difficulty adjusting to the Jackson pressure in a 2-0 loss March 30.
The Tommies’ passive-aggressive streak this season hit its pinnacle March 24 against the Eagles.
In a 2-1 Wesco North victory, the Tommies allowed a goal and scored a goal within the first two minutes of play.
The Lady Tomahawks got the familiar feeling of a Wesco North softball win in its first conference game of the season.
It might have taken a couple of innings for the offense to wake up, but Marysville-Pilchuck started the conference season where it left off in 2010: perfect.
For the second straight year the Cougars have gotten a wake-up call when jumping into Cascade Conference play.
Cedarcrest scored early and often to defeat Lakewood 5-0, March 22, in a match that saw the Cougars having a hard time holding onto the ball.
So much for wondering where the Tommies’ offense was going to come from.
Through two matches so far, Marysville-Pilchuck’s soccer team has scored seven goals and all that the Tomahawks have needed to find the back of the net was inspiration.
The Tommies saw a little bit of everything en route to their first win. In a 10-9 nonconference victory over Sehome, March 17, Marysville-Pilchuck’s baseball team swung a big stick, but had trouble closing out the game.
If the Cougars looked like a team that hadn’t seen much time together on the pitch against Burlington-Edison, it’d be a fair assessment — and true.
“This is the first time we’ve been able to play on a full, grass field,” said Lakewood manager Bryce Barker after his boys lost 2-0, March 15. “We’ve been practicing on a dirt field the past couple of weeks so, with that, I think the guys played better than anybody expected going into today.”
For a day at least, on March 13, boys were better than girls.
Two Marysville U-10 soccer teams set out in a battle of the sexes at the Premier Indoor Sports Arena in Marysville and the Dynamite came out victorious by a score of 9-4.
Without playing a game yet, the Tommies can say things about their 2011 softball that no other team in the Western Conference can say.
With six returning all-league players — three of whom were first-teamers — there is reason for Marysville-Pilchuck to be considered the favorite to win the Wesco North and more.
Kurt Koshelnik has run into a different situation than he’s used to in the spring.
The fourth-year manager of the Tomahawks baseball team has more new faces than familiar ones in terms of varsity experience.
The pressure is off the Tomahawks this year on the pitch.
Despite the fact that Marysville-Pilchuck’s boys soccer team will try to earn its fourth consecutive state berth this year, coach Geoff Kittle believes that there isn’t as much attention on his team.
Green and gold is back into effect.
The Marysville School Board did an about face in allowing Marysville Getchell varsity sports to begin in the fall of 2011 instead of a year later.
Collectively the six Tomahawks wrestlers had as rough of a first round as possible at Mat Classic XXIII.
All six M-P wrestlers lost their first match at the state tournament Feb. 18 and 19 in the Tacoma Dome, but the Tommies still came away with a pair of ribbons.
