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Sp 9rts Year In Review
meet against the Panthers and
Glacier Peak, a 12-year-old
swimming mark came down
off the wall as the 400 freestyle
relay of Kami Girard, Megan
Shoemaker, Jewel LeValley
and Kendall Vincelette swam
a 3:47.89. The previous record
was set in 1996 by Emily Hut-
son, Richelle Little, Sarah
Imholt and Tracie Valentine.
It was not the only school
swim record to fall that season.
After breaking the school's six-
dive record as a sophomore,
junior Sarah Clark set a new
ll-dive record three weeks
after the Snohomish meet. She
would break it again and set a
meet record at the end of the
season, breaking 400 points
and the previous district record
at Kamiak.
File photo
Tomahawk senior Frankie Nelson throws a pitch to a Snohom-
ish batter in an early spring game. Nelson had a season that
drew the attention of league coaches who picked him to the
l-conference team. M-P earned a trip to the state tournament
With a 6-4 district win over Snohomish, their first defeat of the
team that season.
off tournament in Texas in late
July.
Undefeated in tlae regular
season, the 'boys continued
their perfect season all the way
up to the championship game,
where they fell to the North
Texas Falcons.
The boys ultimately placed
second out of 16 teams that
had traveled to 'compete in the
games at Texas Stadium and
Cowboys training facility Val-
ley Ranch.
"Marysville was winning
the championship game up
until the final minutes," said
head coach Dan White said of
the game they lost 19-14.
The team, comprised of
players from Marysville, Lake-
wood and Camano Island,
defeated the Arlington Eagles
in the regular season champi-
onship 46-26. They will move
up to compete at the senior
division next year, Arena Youth
Football's oldest division for
football players ages 15 to 16.
AUGUST
M-P produces another
Olympian
While most middle- and
long-distance runners set their
career-best marks in their 30s,
recent Marysville-Pilchuck
graduate Haley Nemra will
compete in the Beijing Olym-
pics at 18 years old.
Nemra, a cross country and
track Standout in her career at
M-P, competed in the women's
800-meter run for the Marshall
Islands, a small island nation
located about midway between
Australia and Hawaii. Her dual
citizen status and success at
the :South Pacific Games in
2006 earned her an invita-
tion to represent the Marshall
Islands in their first-ever Olym-
pic delegation.
She also represented the
nation in opening ceremonies,
donning traditional island
garb.
In the Aug. 15 preliminaries,
Nemra raced in the second of
six heats, finishing the course
in 2:18.83.
Nemra's personal best in
the event came three months
earlier at the Washington state
track meet in Pasco where she
finished preliminaries in a time
of 2:13.83.
While Nemra did not qual-
ify for the Aug. 17 semifinals,
nor did the three Americans in
the race.
After her Olympic experi-
ence, Nemra flew back to San
Francisco, where she began
her freshman year at the Uni-
versity of San Francisco. She
competes on the cross country
and track teams there.
Nemra became M-P's sec-
ond Olympian in as many con-
tests. In 2004, 1995 graduate
Jarred Rome qualified to rep-
resented the United States in
the discus at the Athens Olym-
pics.
SEPTEMBER
M-P swim and dive sets
school records
While the Tomahawk swim
team no longer boasted a per-
fect record, they set a new
record.
A school record, that is.
Though the girls fell 95-88
to Snohomish in an Oct. 9 dual
File photo
M-P senior Shaelei Lucas goes for a lay-up. The senior-laden
Tomahawk squad earned a trip to the district tournament and
finished one game short of a state berth, falling to Oak Harbor.
Lakewood defeats King's
Lakewood football suffered
its share of misfortune this
season.
But things looked especially
grim when the Cougars entered
the Sept. 26 game against con-
ference leader King's with-
out starting quarterback and
eventual all-league pick Justin
Lane.
In an impressive come-from-
behind victory in the fourth
quarter, the Cougars rallied to
beat King's 25-22.
Behind senior quarter-
back Saul Velasco, Lakewood
started strong, driving down
the field for a touchdown and
then picking off King's and
culminating the first half in a
field goal.
The momentum did not
remain with Lakewood.
King's came out in the sec-
ond half, scoring on a kickoff
return and then completing a
scoring drive after holding the
Cougars three-and-out.
The Lakewood defense kept
the boys in the game and ulti-
mately Velasco found the end
zone in the fourth quarter on a
two-yard keeper. The Cougars
had a three-point lead with 50
seconds on the clock.
The Lakewood senior would
eventually end up with 26 car-
ries for 155 yards, compete six
of 13 passes for 102 yards and
three rushing touchdowns.
After the game backup
quarterback Saul Velasco said,
"This was a team effort. We
played like a family today."
OCTOBER
M-P celebrates 100 years
o f football
With a little help from Jack-
son and a lot of hard running
on the ground, the Marysville-
Pilchuck football team became
the league's team to beat as
they improved to 5-0 with a win
over Arlington.
Thanks to the Tomahawks'
37-15 win as they celebrated a
century of M-P football on Oct.
3 and Jackson's 50-49 over-
time win over Lake Stevens,
the Tomahawks became the
last unbeaten team in Wesco
North.
Arlington received first and
scored on their opening drive.
Quarterback Jake Parduhn and
running back Kellen Botten
drove the ball 73 yards down
the field.
Within 10 seconds, Marys-
ville answered the Arlington
score as senior Andy Abadam
returned the Arlington kickoff
about 90 yards for a Tomahawk
touchdown.
The next several drives set
the tone for much of the rest of
the game. After holding Arling-
ton to three downs and a punt,
running back tandem Austin
Denton and Caleb Posey put
up big runs. Denton broke free
for a 50-yarder, while Posey's
12 yards set up Denton's scor-
ing run for a 12:7 lead with 3:43
left in the first quarter.
The Tomahawks celebrated
100 years of football at half-
time, announcing the names
of visiting alumni, one of whom
had played for Marysville High
School in the 1930s.
Players and coaches alike
pointed to this history as inspi-
ration for the season and the
Tomahawks had an inspired
season indeed as junior run-
ning back Denton ran into
the history books with one of
the school's best-ever rushing
efforts, a total 1,529 yards for
the regular season. That puts
Denton fourth on the all-time
list, behind Kyle Woods (1994),
Marquis Moses (2004) and
Andy Vodegal (1997).
Guske wins Hole in
the Wall, Cascade
Conference
There's no place like home
to run one's best.
It was at home at Lake-
wood's annual Hole in the Wall
Invitational on Oct. 11 that
junior Taylor Guske gave his
best perfo/'mance of the season
and won the varsity boys 5k.
With a time of 16:18, Guske
set his third personal record
of the season, beating Penin-
sula junior Chris Borg by two
seconds for first place. Guske's
performance helped lead the
Lakewood boys to a third-place
finish overall behind Issaquah
and Peninsula.
Senior Nick Devier also fin-
ished in the boys top 10, taking
10th place in a time of 16".41.
Byron Gouette (32nd), Trent
Tresch (38th) and Chad Skiles
(47th) also scored points for
Lakewood, all finishing within
a minute of Devier.
Guske followed up the effort
two weeks later by winning a
conference title, once again on
his home turf.
As Lakewood played host to
standout teams from around
the league including Cedar-
crest and King's, Guske's
championship effort helped
Lakewood earn its 20th boys
league championship in 25
years.
The Lakewood boys went on
to compete at state as a team,
placing seventh. They were
joined by Lakewood senior
Lacey Nation, who ran a big
personal record in her last
meet in a Cougar uniform.
M-P football completes
9-0 regular season
On Oct. 31, the Tomahawk
football team finished their
regular season with a 20-3
win over Oak Harbor and their
undefeated record intact.
A Wesco North champion-
ship secured the week before,
the Marysville-Pilchuck foot-
ball team rose to No. 5 in the
state coaches poll.
Senior running back Caleb
Posey put Marysville on the
board as the team success-
fully drove down the field on
their first possession, but the
game was still 7-3 in the fourth
quarter.
In that final quarter, Oak
Harbor drove deep into Marys-
ville territory, with a first and
goal and the chance to go
ahead. The Tomahawk defense
buckled down with a goal-line
stand, holding Oak Harbor at
the one-yard line and getting
the ball back with a turnover
on downs.
That defensive play was
quickly followed by a 94-yard
scoring run by Ryan Ster-
ley that helped put the game
away.
NOVEMBER
M-P volleyball qualifies
for state tournament
An upset was brewing as
Marysville-Pilchuck volleyball
took on Snohomish in the dis-
trict semifinals Nov. 15.
The Tomahawks had nar-
rowly lost to Snohomish in a
preseason match at the begin-
ning of their calendar, and then
again late in the season with
district seeds on the line.
But that wasn't the upset:
As Snohomish called time-
outs in games two and three,
trying to turn around a game
that would eventually eliminate
the Panthers in straight sets,
the Tomahawk volleyball team
couldn't help stealing glances
over at the other court where
a Kamiak-Stanwood match was
creating quite a stir.
The winner of M-P-Sno-
homish would face the winner
of that game for a trip to state,
and the Tomahawks certainly
had a horse in that race. The
Tommies lost their opening
bout with Kamiak 25-19, 19-
25, 19-25, 20-25 three days
earlier. Although each game
of that meeting had been close
enough to swing either way, it
was clear M-P preferred a Stan-
wood challenge.
And as the Stanwood base
cheered every late point-- the
Spartans won games two,
three and five in extra points
-- it seemed to energize the
Tomahawks in their own game
against Snohomish.
After falling to Kamiak Nov.
12, the Tomahawks marched
on through the consolation
bracket, defeating Arlington,
Snohomish and Stanwood
en route to a trip to the state
volleyball tournament in Ken-
newick Nov. 21. While M-P vol-
leyball might have surprised
some observers by qualifying
for this year's state tourna-
ment, but that wasn't the last
surprise up their sleeves.
The Tomahawks stormed
into Kennewick's Toyota Cen-
ter Nov. 21, pulling off an upset
victory in their opening match
against No. 1-seed Curtis. Play-
ing a nearly flawless game, the
Tomahawks defeated Curtis
24-26, 29-27, 20-25, 25-22, 15-
12.
M-P coach Shelly Johnson
credited a 100 percent serving
effort by the gifts for their first-
round win.
The win sent the girls into
a match the same afternoon
against Skyview and M-P
forced an epic third game
before falling in that set for a
25-19, 25-16, 34-32 loss. The
gifts fell in a final round against
Kentwood, coming up one win
short of placing at state.
DECEMBER
M-P's Soriano hits seven
three-pointers against
Cascade
By the time senior guard
Nick Soriano scored his first
three-point basket against
Cascade, the Tomahawks were
already up 15-11.
So while there were a few
early lead changes in the Dec.
9 game, neither the first nor
the next six of Soriano's three-
pointers came at a critical time
to the Tomahawks. It was just
an excellent performance in a
very good team effort as M-P
defeated Cascade 75-57. Sori-
ano had 23 points, matching
the effort of Cascade star Chris
McGrath.
"Soriano was on fire," said
M-P coach Bary Gould. "He
was feeling the tingle."
McGrath was hitting shots
from around the court, but
while Cascade's 14- and 20-
point efforts in the first half
were nothing to sneeze at, they
couldn't quite hold up to the 20
and 22 points M-P put on the
board. The Tomahawks always
seemed to have an answer for
anything the Bruins did.
While Soriano said he
hopes to have the hot hand for
Marysville this season, he just
wants to see plenty of time on
the court after limited minutes
off the bench last year. "It's just
nice to play after being in the
system," he said.
File photo
Senior running back Caleb Posey gets ready to block a Lake Stevens defender as fellow running
back Ryan Sterley takes the handoff from quarterback Devin Peterson. A strong running tandem
and good defense helped the Tomahawks shutout Lake Stevens, spoiling the Vikings homecom-
ing. The same formula carried M-P all the way to a 9-0 regular season and a state tournament
berth.