In last Saturday’s edition of the Whidbey News-Times, we featured the 2014 exploits of Whidbey athletes Marti Malloy, Joanna Leete, John Rodeheffer, Ben Etzell and the Oak Harbor High School bowling team, as well reviewing the months January through April.
Here’s a look at the highlights through the rest of the year.
May
Coupeville High School graduate Hunter Hammer, competing for Trinity Lutheran College of Everett, placed third in the discus and fifth in the hammer throw to earned All-American honors at the National Christian College Athletic Association track and field championships.
Oak Harbor’s Sue Sapp teamed with Mount Vernon’s Lavonne Klinefelter to post the best flight 3 net score at the Washington State Golfers Association Women’s Best Ball Championships.
The Coupeville High School baseball team, coached by Willie Smith, qualified for the state tournament for the first time since 2008. At state, Wolves fell 2-1 to Rochester.
Coupeville baseball players Ben Etzell and Aaron Curtin also competed in the state 1A tennis tournament in doubles, winning one of three matches.
Oak Harbor High School’s Mac Kerfoot, the league medalist, won a playoff for the second year in a row at the boys district golf tournament to earn a trip to the state championships. At state, he placed 40th.
Bree Roderos, a two-time state qualifier for the girls, placed 42nd.
Coupeville’s Christine Fields placed fifth in the girls 1A district golf tournament and qualified for state for the third time. She was fifth at state, the best finish in school history.
Eric McCardle, an Oak Harbor High School graduate, shared medalist honors in a United States Golf Association qualifier for the U.S. Open in Las Vegas.
Oak Harbor’s Katie Carroll, who coaches lacrosse in Snohomish, was named the Washington Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association Coach of the Year.
The Coupeville softball team, coached by David and Amy King, qualified for the state tournament, just the second state berth ever for the Wolves. At state, the Wolves lost to Warden 8-1 and Okanogan 5-2.
Makana Stone broke her Coupeville school 200- and 400-meter records at the tri-district track meet and went on to place second in the 400 at the state meet.
Rob Treece defeated Robert Tercero in a playoff to win the 49th annual Whidbey Golf Club Men’s Invitational.
Olivia Tungate and Kelly Huffer were among only 112 swimmers from across the country to be selected to compete in the USA Swimming Zone Select Camp.
Oak Harbor grad Allison Duvenez, running for Northwest Christian University, earned All-American honors while placing sixth in the 5,000 meters at the NAIA track championships. She won the 5,000-meter title in her conference meet.
June
First-team, all-league choices in spring sports for Coupeville were Etzell (baseball), Fields (golf) and Madeline Roberts (softball).
Fifteen Oak Harbor athletes were first team: soccer players Caley Powers, Andrew Mitchell, Gavin Stewart, Chase Muller and Kevin Silveira; golfers Leete, Roderos, Resego Mooki and Kerfoot; track members Rodeheffer and Dejon Devroe; baseball players Daniel Wolfe and Brent Mertins; softball player Natalie Fiallos; and tennis player Mckenzie Perry.
Leete, who also played basketball, and Caley Powers (soccer and swim) were selected Oak Harbor High School’s Athletes of the Year.
Nick Streubel (football, basketball, track) and Breeanna Messner (volleyball, basketball, softball, cheer) were Coupeville’s top athletes.
Oak Harbor graduate and Washington State University junior Yale Rosen was selected in the 11th round of the professional baseball draft by the San Diego Padres.
Ocki Dureau and Leete teamed up to win the Whidbey Golf Club Ladies Invitational.
July
The Central/South Whidbey 9/10 Little League softball team, coached by Lark Gustafson; the North Whidbey 9/10 Little League baseball team, coached by Mark Tanner; the Central Whidbey 13/14 Junior Little League baseball team, coached by Kevin McGranahan; and the North Whidbey 15/16 Senior Little League baseball team, coached by Shawn Philp; all qualified for their respective state tournaments.
Josh Whitley won the Whidbey Amateur Golf Tournament July 12 and 13.
Roger and Doug Pierce joined forces to win the Washington State Golfers Association Parent-child Championship.
Oak Harbor graduate and MIT athlete Christina Wicker won the 1,500 and 5,000 meters in the Micronesian Games.
Tungate finished in the top five in six events, winning two, at the Pacific Northwest Swim Long Course Championships.
August
Coupeville’s Laura Luginbill and Oak Harbor’s Johnathon Janowiecki produced the best finishes among local runners in the the half marathon of the Race the Reserve.
For the first time in 40 years, hydroplanes raced in Oak Harbor. Forty-two boats in 10 divisions from the American Power Boat Association raced before an estimated 15,000 spectators, according to event organizer Michelle Curry.
Jenny and Howard Park won to Couples Chapman Tournament at the Whidbey Golf Club.
Pam Smith won the Whidbey Island Golf Club Ladies Championship.
September
Rodeheffer and Jonalynn Horn finished first and second respectively in their divisions of the Three Course Challenge cross country meet in Seaside, Oregon. The meet featured 117 teams and 2,000 athletes.
October
Rodeheffer and Horn won the boys and girls Wesco North individual cross country titles.
Maria Crowell captured first in the Gallery Women’s Golf Club season-long competition, including a win in the concluding tournament.
The Oak Harbor/Marysville-Pilchuck football game to decide the division title was cancelled because of a shooting at M-P High School that resulted in five deaths. Oak Harbor, coached by Jay Turner, offered to forfeit the game; later that evening a group of Wildcat players attended a Marysville-Pilchuck team meeting in a show of support.
Marysville-Pilchuck, coached by Brandon Carson, came to Oak Harbor the following week and presented the Wildcats with the divisional championship trophy in response to Oak Harbor’s act of sportsmanship.
Turner also earned the state’s Coach of the Week award for Oak Harbor’s gesture of sportsmanship.
Curtin finished second in the District 3 tournament Oct. 31 and earned a trip to state.
Oak Harbor football player Princeton Lollar was named the state’s 3A Player of the Week for his 163-yard, four-touchdown performance against Mountlake Terrace.
November
Josh Bayne rushed for 311 yards and scored six times in Coupeville’s 55-38 win over Bellevue Christian. The game was the last for coach Tony Maggio, who resigned earlier in the week. Bayne earned state 1A Player of the Week honors for his big day.
Bayne, Aaron Wright, Oscar Liquidano, Matt Shank and Wiley Hesselgrave were first-team, all-Olympic League choices.
Cooupeville soccer players Julia Myers, Erin Rosenkranz and Marisa Etzell and volleyball players Hailey Hammer and Valen Trujillo were also first team.
Oak Harbor all-Wesco, first-team selections were football players Tyler Adamson, Jackson Constant, Devroe, Dyllan Harris, Mike Laningham, Mark Johnston and Clay Doughty; cross country runners Rodeheffer, Horn and Laura Rodeheffer; swimmers Marissa Morris, Mollie Briddell, Erica Sugatan, Molly Vagt, Jillian Pape, Taliah Black and Lauren Vagt; volleyball player Claire Anderson; and tennis player Jackson Wezeman.
Horn finished 12th at the state cross country meet and became the first Oak Harbor girl to record two top-12 finishes.
Oak Harbor, playing in the state football playoffs for the first time since 2007, lost 42-14 to Peninsula.
Oak Harbor High School’s Vagt placed 12th in the 500-yard freestyle and Morris 16th in the 200-yard freestyle at the state 3A swim meet. Briddell, Black, Lauren Vagt and Mollie Vagt nabbed 15th in the 200 medley relay.
December
Jahleel Vester was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler at the 14th annual Graham Morin Memorial Tournament after winning the 138-pound class. Johnston (152 pounds) also placed first.
Bayne was named to the first-team, all-state 1A football team as a running back and second team as a linebacker.
