If the rest of the season goes like opening week, the Vashon High School boys soccer team will be strong this year.
On Sunday, March 14, the Vashon Island Junior Rowing Club — composed of rowers in eighth- through 12th-grades — competed against Bainbridge Island Rowing Club and Orcas Island Rowing Club on Bainbridge Island, winning several races and putting in a strong all-around showing.
The Vashon Pirates opened the 2010 season March 13 with a resounding 13-1 victory over the Redskins from Port Townsend High School.
At the West Sound Middle School League Wrestling Tournament on Saturday, McMurray wrestlers won one first place, four second places and one third place. The Mustang team took fourth place overall.
Sports can have a profound and positive impact on our youth, but only if those of us who work with young athletes craft programs that foster participation, embrace long-term learning and reward effort — even into the teen years.
The Pirate girls’ basketball team won a game, but dropped two, at the state tournament in Yakima last week. Though they did not place, they played hard and had an outstanding season, coaches said.
The Vashon Pirates girls drew eventual state championship finalist Granger as their first round opponent in the state 1A tournament.
Having won two big games, the Pirate basketball team qualified to compete in the 1A state tournament, with its first game this evening.
Four years ago, from the bleachers of Yakima’s Sundome, four young boys watched the 2006 Vashon Pirates take third in the 2A state basketball championship. It was the best season finish of any Vashon High School boys’ team.
There are several things one could say about Vashon wrestlers: They wear green singlets, they’re scrappy, and you’ll never catch them breathing hard on the mat.
The Pirate girls basketball team secured a spot at the state tournament with three consecutive wins, the third a nailbiter that wasn’t won until the final moments of the game Feb. 27. The team plays its first state game on Wednesday, March 3, in Yakima.
The Pirates beat the Life Christian Eagles at their last home game Feb. 16 but fell to the Cascade Christian Cougars in their first playoff game Feb. 20. Though the Pirates lost Saturday’s game, Vashon and Cascade Christian are 2010 Nisqually League co-champions — Vashon’s sixth consecutive league title.
For senior Sam Chapman, the climax to his 15-year wrestling career hinged on the last 10 seconds of the championship match for the state 112-pound title on Saturday.
Minutes before taking the floor for the last regular season home game on Feb. 16, the Vashon girls basketball team had its sights set squarely on the fact that there was more to be done. The favored Pirates needed a win over the Life Christian High School Eagles to force a playoff game to settle second place in Nisqually League and the right to play in the league title game.
