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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
SPORTSCAN
Danielle's Picks
Sports Reporter
Danielle Szulczewski
360-659-1300
dszulczewski @ marysvilleglobe.com
Picks of the
Week
M-P Boys
Basketball
M-P boys basketball
vs. Stanwood
Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m.
Marysville-Pilchuck
High School
Stanwood has size and
swagger on its side as
it rolls into Marysville
for this post-holiday
meeting. Marysville
has the league's only
3-0 start (as of press
time) and home court
advantage. With the
Tomahawks' early
success, a win here
could give M-P new
prestige in the eyes
of the league's other
coaches.
M-P, Lakewood
Wrestling
M-P, Lakewood
wrestling at
Arlington JV
Tournament
Jan. 3, 9 a.m.
Arlington High
School
While varsity wrestling
can be thrilling for the
sheer power and intel-
ligence required to
succeed, junior varsity
wrestling is appeal-
ing to watch because,
with a broad range of
experience, almost
any wrestler can win
any given match. With
seniors speckling the
rosters of many local
teams, come get a pre-
view of next season's
up-and-comers now.
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JANUARY
M-P's heavy weights lead
Premier meet in kind of
state preview
In what would become a kind
of preview of the Tomahawks'
state wrestling team, M-P wres-
tlers Tannon Hillis and Michael
Pfeiff won the top weights at the
Jan. 12 meet.
Pfeiff, who would go on to
place fourth at the Mat Clas-
sic at the end of the season,
advanced through the bracket,
pinning every opponent except
Snohomish's Jake Reinhard in a
9-3 semifinal decision.
Hillis, who placed fifth at the
end of the season at 215 pounds,
defeated Snohomish's Derek
Britton with a 7-4 decision in
the final.
Freshman Demitri Robinson,
a Tulalip student who coops with
the Marysville wrestling team,
was the third member of the
Tomahawk squad to wrestle at
state, placing first the Class 1B
bracket at 103 pounds. Though
Robinson met mostly 4A com-
petition throughout the season
on the Tomahawk mats, he met
wrestlers from Tulalip-sized
schools in the district and state
matches.
FEBRUARY
Lakewood girls secures
district spot
A big game in a big venue
gave the Lakewood girls basket-
ball team a late-season boost.
Playing Sultan at Key Arena
Feb. 2, the girls gained an extra
game advantage over the Turks,
Lakewood's closest competition
for the league's second auto-
matic district berth.
Lakewood won 59-50.
"Mathematically, we're in the
playoffs now," said Lakewood
coach Chris Walster.
Seniors Jennifer Lind and
Aly Stewart led Lakewood's
scoring with 15 and 11 points
respectively.
Caldwell, Ordonez
represent Lakewood's
state wrestlers
LeValley swam an All-American
Consideration time and won the
preliminaries of the state 200
individual medley.
The team went to place sixth
in the meet at the King County
Aquatic Center Feb. A5-16.
LeValley's time of 1:55.20
earned him the top seed in the
200 IM finals where he eventu-
ally took third place. He also
was third in the 500 freestyle.
Teammates Spencer Girard,
Oliver Durand and Taylor Gib-
son also qualified for finals in
their individual events.
MARCH
Early loss imparts lesson
to conference champion
Lakewood baseball
After a flat performance cost
Lakewood baseball its opener
against Archbishop Murphy, the
Cougars roared back to capture
the series with 12- and 14-run
performances.
Despite the foreboding start
in the March 10 game there
were bright spots.
Right fielder Josh Spears
-- who would go on to garner
conference player of the year
honors -- had a first-inning
double and a long pass to home
plate for a dramatic second-
inning out.
With a sweep of Granite Falls
to close Out the season and some
help from South Whidbey, Lake-
wood earned their first confer-
ence title since 2005 when the
Cougars made it all the way to
the state championship game.
Lakewood met South Whid-
bey in the opening round of
the district tournament in
Anacortes where the team ulti-
mately fell a game short of quali-
fying for state.
M-P grad plays in NCAA
tourney upset
A standout on M-P's basket-
ball team the year before, San
Diego freshman Nathan Lozeau
played for the Torero team that
Tomahawk track wins
Kent-Meridian Invite
In a portent of how their
season would unfold, the Toma-
hawk track team earned a big
early season victory as the girls
won the Kent-Meridian Invite.
M-P also turned in the top coed
score at the March 29 meet.
Senior boys Blake Lovell
and Brandon Greene won their
respective events, with Lovell
taking the javelin with a throw
of 153-6 and Greene the high
jump.
With a mark of 4:12.87, the
girls 4x400 relay of Cali Cull,
Haley Nemra, Alisha Oden and
Nicolette Runyan beat Thomas
Jefferson High by a seven-sec-
ond margin.
The girls gave M-P a fourth
event victory as senior Michaela
Caldwell cleared 9-6 in the pole
vault to win the event.
Marysville's performance at
Kent was buoyed by a slew of
top-five finishes.
M-P coach Randy Davis cred-
ited big meets like the Kent-
Meridian Invite for fostering
competitiveness in his athletes.
"One of the things too, you
need to learn how to win," he
said.
Caldwell, who edged team-
mate Robin Mueller in the
pole vault, went on to share
the school record in the event
with her teammate. Both girls
cleared 11-0 to break Caldwell's
old school record of 10-9 at the
conference championships at
the end of the season.
A strong senior class helped
the girls go on to win their first
district championship in more
than 32 years.
APRIL
M-P boys soccer beats
Cascade, plays at state
With a chance at school his-
tory on the line, the M-P faithful
turned out in droves to watch
their Tomahawk soccer team
wrest control of the league from
a physical Cascade team.
In a come-from-behind vic-
File photo
Lakewood senior Aly Stewart drives to the basket in her team's winning effort against Sultan at Key
Arena. Stewart and fellow senior Jennifer Lind led the team to a second-place finish in the Cascade
Conference, bypassing a play-in game and going straight to the district tournament.
Lakewood junior Christina
Ordonez and sophomore Keely
Caldwell stormed through the
opening rounds of the girls
wrestling regional at Arlington
High School, pinning all oppo-
nents in their path.
Eachfell in the.regional title
match, but not before securing
berths to Washington's first
girls state wrestling tourna-
ment Feb. 15-16.
Though neither Lakewood
wrestler placed at the Mat
Classic, the girls returned for
another try in 2008-09.
LeValley swims AAC at
state
Tomahawk junior Trevor
knocked off No. 4 Connecticut
'in the opening round of the
NCAA basketball tournament.
Lozeau's Toreros defeated
the Huskies 70-69 on March 21
to play fellow upstart Western
Kentucky.
Despite watching UConn
basketball from an early age,
Lozeau took to heart his coach's
message about playing in the
tournament.
"He just says to come out and
have fun, don't get intimidated
by the name on their jersey,"
Lozeau said.
A freshman on the team, Loz-
ean played only about a minute
of their opening draw, getting a
rebound against Connecticut.
tory, M-P broke the tie for first
place and seized control of its
destiny, with the school's first-
ever conference championship
and an automatic berth to the
state tournament on the line..
Cascade took the first lead as
Bruin forward Jeff Gosslee beat
Tomahawk keeper Erik Cruz.
"At some point we started
going away from our game
plan, so we started to throw
their game plan at them," said
M-P coach Geoff Kittle after the
April 24 game.
M-P got ready for their first
match against Cascade by prac-
ticing and defending restarts.
It paid off when the Tommies
scored in the 51st minute off a
File photo
The Tomahawk track team poses on the field after the girls won
the Kent-Meridian Invite early in the spring 2008 season. The win
came early in a season with many more impressive wins includ-
ing a conference championship and the first girls district title in
32 years.
corner kick, a patented Cascade
scoring technique. Off a kick-in,
senior midfielder Nick Burdett
put the ball in the air and junior
Seth Jones headed it in.
Then, the cards started fall-
ing against Cascade in the sec-
ond half, literally. A call against
the Bruins with less than five
minutes pending set up a short-
range penalty kick. Burdett was
set to kick and delivered, avert-
ing overtime and all but assur-
ing M-P the win.
The next week, Arlington put
off M-P soccer's quest for a con-
ference championship, but they
couldn't keep the Tomahawks
from earning the district's
third state tournament slot and
the team's first trip to state in
23 years.
M-P drew eventual state
runners-up Puyallup in the first
round, playing to a 1-1 over-
time tie, but falling on penalty
kicks.
MM
Lakewood boys soccer win
district
After two regular season
losses to Cedarcrest, the Cou-
gar boys finally got a win of their
own over their league nemesis.
With a 1-0 win, Lakewood
defeated the Red Wolves May
10 in the district championship
game at Mount Vernon High
School.
Lakewood midfielder Joseph
Hawkins scored the game-win-
ning goal in the 76th minute.
Lakewood hosted Mark Mor-
ris in the opening round of the
state tournament May 13, ulti-
mately falling 2-1.
M-P fastpitch tops
Monroe, wins districts
The Marysville fastpitch
team was written off by pre-
season polls, picked to finish in
the cella/- of the Western Con-
ference.
But with a 1-0 win over a
highly-touted Monroe program
in districts at Skykomish River
Park May 16, the Tomahawks
proved the naysayers wrong,
earning their first trip to state
since 2004.
Senior shortstop Kristina
Sherriff got the team's first
hit against Monroe's heralded
pitcher Jordan Birch, making it
to first base on a sneaky bunt
in the fifth inning. Freshman
Megan Rollings batted her in on
a base hit to right field to give
the Tomahawks the game-win-
ning run. The Marysville win
was Monroe's third loss of the
season and the second at the
hand of the Tomahawks.
Sherriff, who batted 2-for-4
against Monroe, was in tears at
the end of the game.
"It's just so surprising. We
proved everyone wrong," she
said.
The girls defeated Jackson
4-2 in the district championship
game the next day. Freshman
Riley Fritz pitched all three
games for M-P.
The girls went 1-2 at the state
tournament in Tacoma.
File photo
Led by freshman pitcher Riley
Fritz, the Tomahawk fastpitch
team enjoyed a truly Cinderella
season. After losing a heart-
breaking district play-in game
the year before, M-P defied all
expectations to win the district
tournament at Skykomish Park
in Monroe and earn a berth to
state. The girls were white-hot
coming into districts, coming
off of a big win over one-loss
Monroe. They replicated the
feat in the second round of the
tournament to qualify for state
and defeated Jackson for the
top seed.
M-P grads play for
NWAACC championship
team
M-P graduate Brandon
Kizer started on the mound for
Edmonds Community College,
helping his Tritons defeat Lower
Columbia 6-4 for the Northwest
Athletic Association of Commu-
nity College tournament cham-
pionship.
The May 26 win was a fine
end to Kizer's second 7-0 sea-
son in a row, after leading the
Tomahawks to the district tour-
nament his senior year of high
school.
Kizer was joined on the
championship team by fellow
2008 graduate Kyle Mallory.
Seattle University announced
in November that Kizer and
fellow Tomahawk alum Ricky
Holm had signed letlers of
intent to play for the school's
first baseball team in some 20
years, beginning in the 2009-10
season.
JURE
Stilly Valley places at
Strawberry Tournament
It took extra innings, but the
Stilly Valley Falcons defeated
Marysville-area Walker's Cof-
fee Company to vie for the
Strawberry Tournament cham-
pionship at Cedar Field.
The June 10 playoff game was
scoreless for four innings until
Stilly Valley took advantage of
a walk, scoring on Seigo Hall's
RBI to mid-right field. Hall's
was the first of three consecu-
tive hits that gave the Falcons
a 2-0 lead and a big momentum
swing.
Walker's came back, scoring
one run. The defense held Stilly
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