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Highlights, scores and observations of all things sports. Welcome to life on the bench with Ben Watanabe.
There were a couple of new faces on the Falcon varsity volleyball team Tuesday night. …Read the rest of this post
District 1 cross country meet hosted by South Whidbey
October 25th, 2011 at 2:02 pm by benwatanabeSouth Whidbey will again host the District 1 cross country meet. The Falcon girls team will race at 11:30 a.m., and the boys team will run at 12:50 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29. …Read the rest of this post
The Falcon football team’s last game at Lakewood on Thursday, Oct. 27 has been rescheduled for 6 p.m.
Release time will be 3:30 to catch the 4 p.m. ferry.
The junior varsity team also has a schedule change. It will host the JV Lakewood team at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, instead of its usual Monday night game. Falcon co-head coach Mark Hodson said the match will pit the league’s two best JV teams against each other for an informal JV conference championship.
Not a lot of shakeups in football from this weekend. …Read the rest of this post
The season is over for the South Whidbey girls soccer team, and Archbishop Murphy finished it with a 5-0 win at Waterman Field on Saturday. …Read the rest of this post
Remember when I said Arizona State University would beat Oregon? Well, Brian “Duck Man” Kelly does, and he has reminded me almost every day since then.
Perhaps I made a poor decision when I guessed last week the Sun Devils would beat the Ducks at Autzen Stadium.Nay. I made an awful, wretched, foolish and possibly arrogant (definitely wishful) prediction that Arizona State would beat Oregon. Rather MOREGON (like more again) dumped ASU 41-27, and without leading rusher LaMichael James rushed for 327 yards.
This week, Washington travels to Palo Alto to face eighth-ranked Stanford at 5 p.m. It airs on ABC and ESPN 3. Oregon visits Colorado for what is sure to be a yawner. In professional sports, we’ll continue to analyze the Seahawks as they play Mike Holmgren’s new pawns the Cleveland Browns and ignore the NBA lockout and the World Series since Brian’s still devastated the Detroit Tigers didn’t make it, and my apathy resulting from the Mariners woeful season has yet to abate. …Read the rest of this post
South Whidbey again claimed The Bucket by beating Coupeville 34-0.
Pat Monell, a junior running back, scored two rushing touchdowns, including a 65-yard run, to lead the Falcons over their Whidbey Island and conference rivals, the Coupeville Wolves.
Playoffs? PLAYoffs? PlayOFFS?
Yes, Jim Mora/Coors commercial. Playoffs are around the corner for high school fall sports. The brackets for District 1 (Northwest and Cascade conferences) playoffs are available. They have yet to be filled out, however, as another week remains in the regular season.
During halftime of the girls soccer match against Cedarcrest on Tuesday, South Whidbey took an extended timeout to honor its seven seniors.
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Falcon volleyball overcomes mistakes to sweep Cedarcrest
October 19th, 2011 at 10:45 am by benwatanabeSouth Whidbey needed a couple extra points in the second set, but the Falcons overcame 15 errors to win 27-25. The second set was almost another collapse for the Falcons who have played more five set matches than any other team in the Cascade Conference.
Communication ceased as errors mounted for South Whidbey. Falcon head coach Mandy Jones called a timeout and asked her team a simple question: “Do you really want to do this to yourselves when you don’t have to?”
They responded by rallying to take the lead and win in straight sets.
Winning the match 25-18, 27-25, 25-18 in less than 90 minutes was critical for the third-place Falcons after losing 2-3 to Coupeville.
“We needed that confidence booster,” Jones said. “Our confidence was really down after that match on Thursday against Coupeville.”
The Falcons were led by senior hitter Linden Firethorne’s 16 kills, two blocks and one ace. She was assisted by senior setter Emily Houck with 12 assists, four digs, one ace and one kill and sophomore setter Meagan Longdon with 15 assists and two aces. All-conference libero Brittany Wood had 10 digs, five aces and three kills.
South Whidbey (9-3; 9-3) travels to play an undefeated (12-0) King’s team Thursday and hosts second-place Archbishop Murphy (10-2) on Tuesday for senior night.
