The Oak Harbor High School bowling team will try to return to the top of the heap when it competes in the Washington State Bowling Proprietors’ Association Varsity State Championships Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 18 and 19, at Spokane’s Lilac Lanes.

The Wildcats won four consecutive state titles from 2011 to 2014, then finished fifth in 2015 and second in 2016.

“I think we can win it all this year,” coach Jason Youngsman said. “We have a good group of kids.”

Five of the Wildcats — Devin McCardle, Daniel Johnson, Niko Hawkins, DJ Rutter and Earl Angeles — competed at state in 2016. Coupeville’s Dominic Dausey rounds out the team.

Oak Harbor won its conference, the Whatcom-Skagit-Island Travel League, with a late-season surge. The Wildcats overtook Riverside Lanes based out of Mount Vernon to win the league for the 10th year in a row.

Oak Harbor enters state with the second-best average, 926, five pins behind Moses Lake. Moses Lake edged the Wildcats for last year’s state crown.

The Wildcats are peaking right now, Youngsman said, and have a good shot of returning to the top.