Two years ago, when the South Whidbey football team went 0-11, Coach Mark Hodson was making plans.
“It wasn’t fun but we knew we had the seeds of a very good team,” he said. “We just needed a little time.”
Last season was a mixed year for volleyball as the Falcons 7-8 record shows; the girls had lost a fairly accomplished group of seniors the previous June, so Coach Tim Durbin promoted several girls up from JV.
BUSH POINT — It just doesn’t get much better than this, unless you’re a salmon or an errant rabbit.
Thursday, it was sunny but cold at Bush Point as a fog bank lay just offshore. The fish have been biting big recently and a dozen or so fishers were hoping for the best.
LANGLEY — Officially, it’s called the Toilet Bowl. And the Falcons’ first scrimmage of the season served its purpose by flushing out some hidden gems and unexpected stars.
Last Saturday, the Falcon football team held a team scrimmage between the blue and the white in front of several dozen fans as they readied for their first home game. It’s at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31 at Waterman Field against North Mason.
Team takes fourth place
It almost didn’t happen.
After the regular Junior Little League season ended in June, it was hoped there would be enough players to form an All-Star team from South Whidbey.
There weren’t, but at the last minute Bob Brown, the manager from Coupeville, called and suggested a combined team if South Whidbey coach Andy McRea was interested.
South Enders finish with personal bests
LANGLEY — By any race standards, 2 minutes, 9 seconds is a long time.
That was how long it took for the second runner to cross the line behind Ryan Brown in Saturday’s 11th Race the Rock triathlon.
For Jon Chapman, running the final lap of the 189-mile Ragnar Relay on Saturday meant pride of place — he lives on Bayview Road.
“I ran right past my house,” he said after finishing at the Intermediate School. “It was fun to see people I know along my normal training route. I waved to my kids as they were eating ice cream in front of the Dog House Tavern. That was the high point for me.”
It’s Race the Rock time again and hundreds of bikers will be pedaling their way through downtown Langley, along Bayview Road, over the Saratoga Road hills and along other thoroughfares like Sixth Street and Maxwelton Road for the 2007 Whidbey Island Triathlon.
It didn’t take me long to figure out I was in over my head Saturday.
I had been invited to check out the Island Rowing Association’s bi-monthly trek onto the waters of Holmes Harbor.
Hey, I like boats — tug boats, sailboats, canoes, aircraft carriers and ferries — all kinds of vessels.
Things looked pretty bleak for Kimery Hern in December 2004.
She had broken her arm and the college recruiting offers for the young South Whidbey High School senior began to dry up.
South Whidbey defeated South Skagit’s American League 5-1, and came back to beat Burlington 4-1 on July 11 during the District 11 Little League All-Star tournament in Oak Harbor.
School’s out and summer vacation is here — time to sleep late and catch up on a few video games. Right?
Not if you’re a member of the 2007 Little League All Star team, working hard at practice to get up to speed for the big game against South Skagit next week.
BAYVIEW — This is a story about softball, lazy summer days and memories of good times under a hot sun. And it’s about children honoring their father.
In the late 1950s and early ’60s — before the national upheavals of assassinations, Vietnam and Watergate — South Whidbey’s villages had the reputation of having a real small-town atmosphere.
