LANGLEY — Two games into the Cascade Conference season, and the South Whidbey Falcons already surpassed last season’s conference win total.
Falcon junior Ellie Greene scored 19 points to lead all scorers and Falcon senior Lacy Williams blocked a late field goal to defeat Granite Falls 45-37.
Look out, Santa. The Whidbey Chapter of the Fraternal Order of the Eagles is getting pretty good at giving.
Almost two years passed before Lydia Johnson painted again.
She found a reason in helping fundraise for the 2012 Grad Night. Johnson, a para-educator at South Whidbey Elementary School, got her brushes out to help Lori Chiarizio, her friend and co-worker who is also the fundraising chair for the Grad Night party.
The veteran lettermen did what they were supposed to in the first wrestling tournament for South Whidbey.
They won.
The four first-time high school Falcon wrestlers surpassed expectations — and lost.
Youth, inexperience, injuries and whatever other reason can be given, has.
Coaches of the South Whidbey boys basketball team know all of the excuses. After a 58-47 loss to Lakewood on Tuesday that had 27 Falcon turnovers, they needed to remind themselves of the reasons, said head coach Henry Pope, and be patient with the team. It was the opening Cascade Conference game of the season and Lakewood improved to 1-0 in conference and 1-2 overall.
LANGLEY — South Whidbey saved its best defense for the final four minutes in an overtime victory against Lakewood, 60-52, earlier this week.
South Whidbey slowed down and got the ball to its 6-foot-8 senior forward to win its first game, 48-44, against Friday Harbor.
LANGLEY – Lockdown defense and late-game heroics got the Falcon girls basketball team its first victory of the season against Lakewood, 60-52.
LANGLEY — Nancy Thompson puts in lots of work preparing for the arrival of little ones, even though the infants she helps are not hers.
Hayley Newman played as hard as she could, until her body reached its limit in a 41-35 loss to Friday Harbor.
Ryan’s House has changed its name.
As the nonprofit shelter for homeless youths on Whidbey Island approaches its second year, it added a few words to its former title.
LANGLEY — On the first day of practice, second-year South Whidbey head coach Andy Davis was running offensive and defensive plays.
This time last year, he was getting to know names, conditioning the players and learning plays himself.
LANGLEY — The mat room at South Whidbey High School is empty. The lighting is low and the blue mats on the walls and on the floor give the white lights a soft blue hue.
In the corner sit the Falcons’ head wrestling coach Jim Thompson and his assistant Paul Newman against the wall, talking about the season.
