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A tough league soccer opener at Friday Harbor proved Taylor-made for a thrilling Lady Braves finish. Taylor Reimland scored twice, including an unassisted goal during a frenetic second half, to give La Conner a hard-fought 2-1 triumph last Thursday. The narrow victory was essential in terms of La Conner’s NW2B title hopes, veteran Lady Braves head coach Amy Freeto said going in. “I couldn’t think of a more fitting way to start the season,” she noted beforehand, than by, “jumping into our toughest competition and (doing so) on the road.” It...
For the La Conner High volleyball team, it’s a simple matter of reward outweighing risk. Putting themselves on the line — and at the net — against larger school foes in non-league matches runs the risk of suffering deflating early losses. But the reward of character-building tests — win or lose — is just too great for Lady Braves head coach Suzanne Marble to pass up. “We like to push our girls by playing a tough non-league schedule,” she said Sunday. By then, the Lady Braves had swept both 4A Woodinville and 3A Squal...
No one expected a ride down Easy Street for the La Conner Braves in Concrete on Friday night. Quite the opposite, actually. A few road bumps were expected as the Braves opened their 2015 grid campaign against the defending league champions in a pairing of longtime rivals all the more crucial since the NW2B has been allotted just one State playoff berth this year. Turns out, the only potholes jolting the Braves were ones the team bus hit en route to the Lion’s den, where La Conner paved the way for a quick start to the league title race with a...
It’s a big week for the La Conner High volleyball team. Big matches against big schools to help launch a season filled with big dreams. And the Lady Braves, a perennial State title contender, are used to turning those dreams into reality — in a big way. La Conner is coming off a third place State 2B Tournament finish a year ago, and while having lost Skagit area Player of the Year Emma Christianson to graduation, the Lady Braves return a solid nucleus — including five All-League players — to the fold in 2015. Head coach S...
Two former members of the Seahawks NFL team were in La Conner last week sharing advice and encouragement with local Braves athletes of every age. Here, former Seahawks Alonzo Mitz, left, and Nesby Glasgow assess the young players’ moves during a scrimmage. – Photo by Amylynn Richards...
La Conner Elementary third-grader CJ Edwards leads the pack through the fog at Century Link Field in Seattle on Monday after a youth safety event attended by 10 future Braves. Hosted by USA Football and the Seattle Seahawks, the day’s program taught parents and youth football participants about proper helmet fitting, safer tackling techniques and concussion recognition. – Photo by Amylynn Richards...
Peewee Quentin Cobbs keeps Oak Harbor away during the 2015 Youth Football Jamboree in Burlington on Saturday. – Photo by Amylynn Richards...
Preseason workouts are still a few weeks away, yet the La Conner High football team already has a heads-up on its foes. Literally. The Braves have adopted use of the Riddell InSite helmet, a sensor technology headgear with a monitor that alerts coaches and sideline staff when a player experiences a significant hit or multiple impacts during a game or practice. The La Conner football program, according to Super-intendent Tim Bruce and head football coach Johnny Lee, will be the first in Washingto...
Road trips are nothing new for the La Conner High basketball program – unless, of course, it’s one scheduled for late July. And one that’s been as much anticipated as a Christmas tournament at Port Townsend or trip to Spokane in March. A large La Conner entourage will drive to Tacoma tomorrow, Thursday, to attend ceremonies honoring head coach Scott Novak as one of eight inductees into the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Novak joins a 2015 class that includes former Concrete coach John Pet...
Cousins Kimi Ward, left, Chas James and Raylee Ward were taking advantage of open gym night on Friday at Ground Zero Gymnastics in Burlington. – Photo by Robin Carneen Edwards...
The La Conner High School girls 4X100 Relay team finished second in state at the championship track meet held late last month at Eastern Washington University in Cheny. Here, clowning for a celebratory photo from left are Heather Hendrickson, Emma Lee, Kamea Pino and Sofie Thulen. – Photo by Debbie Thulen...
It’s no secret diamonds have value. Same with the players who toil upon them. And, in the case of NW2B baseball and softball ranks, the most valuable players happen to wear La Conner High uniforms. The two pitchers who hurled La Conner teams to the top of league standings and into postseason each garnered MVP honors in recent balloting among NW2B programs. Max Miller, who went 10-1 with 99 strikeouts in 65 innings, was named the league’s Most Valuable Player on its baseball side. The softball MVP award was garnered by Olivia Hedlund, who fan...
The bus to Cheney will be full this week. Filled with La Conner High track athletes eager to hit the freeway after having run in the fast lane at two-day NW2B District trials in Bellingham. “We’re taking 29 athletes to State, and we won 31 of 34 events,” an elated La Conner head coach Peter Voorhees said after his charges dominated action at venerable Civic Field. The Braves won the boys’ side of the District Meet by outpointing runner-up Friday Harbor 281-120. Concrete placed third, with 63...
Thirteen is no unlucky number for the La Conner High baseball team. Nor is it necessarily lucky. Because at this stage of the game, having secured a seventh straight State playoff berth, the Braves know it’s far better to be good than lucky. La Conner showed just how good it is last week. The Braves posted a dramatic 5-4 Senior Day season finale win over Darrington, then put together two clutch loser-out District Tournament triumphs on Saturday to run their current winning streak to 13 games. It all adds up to a 1 p.m., May 23 matinee s...
Timing in life is everything. And there was little time to waste on Friday for the La Conner High softball team, which made fast work of Orcas in a key doubleheader that got a late start due to a delayed ferry schedule. The Lady Braves improved to 6-1 in NW2B action and 10-5 overall with a convincing sweep of the home twinbill. La Conner, despite a shaky start, defeated Orcas 7-3 in the opener behind an eight-strikeout effort from junior hurler Olivia Hedlund. The hosts followed up with a 9-1 triumph in the nightcap as Elizabeth Tripp singled...
Dressed for success are these La Conner High Braves. More specifically, dressed to the nines after fashioning a key 6-4 road win over Friday Harbor last week that broke a first place tie and lifted the Braves into sole position atop NW2B baseball standings. The sometimes gritty, blue-collar triumph at Friday Harbor was La Conner’s ninth straight win. More important, it completed a two-game season sweep of the Wolverines, who fell to 7-4 in league play. La Conner improved to 9-1 in conference action. “It was another good week for us,” said...
He teaches math, but Scott Novak has long been a student of history. Especially La Conner High basketball history. Novak, a hoops coach at the school since 1988, has painstakingly developed within the foyer of Landy James Gym a virtual pictorial museum of La Conner basketball dating back nearly a century. Now he’s about to make some history of his own. Novak is among eight new members to be inducted into the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame this summer. N...
The La Conner High baseball team enjoyed a smooth ride to Concrete on Friday. And ace hurler Max Miller made sure the Braves didn’t hit any bumps in the road during their brief upriver visit. Miller earned his seventh mound win of the year with perhaps his best outing to date, a one-hit shutout, as the Braves blanked Concrete 4-0 in a key NW2B road test. Second place Friday Harbor sported a 5-1 NW2B mark – its lone loss coming to the Braves – entering this week’s conference play. The win over Concrete was huge for a Braves club that...
The La Conner High baseball team answered several questions last week with three big statement wins. All of which had Braves coach Jeremiah LeSourd speaking in superlatives and exclamation points afterward. “We had our best week of the year,” LeSourd stressed Saturday, following a clutch 7-6 non-conference win over Mount Baker, his club’s third triumph in five days. “The team is having fun and continuing to improve,” he added. “The pitchers and defense kept us in games, and offensively we had big innings that put us over the top.” It do...
They took no shortcuts, it just seemed that way. La Conner High track teams made fast work of an NW1B/2B League Meet at Friday Harbor on Thursday, where practice and preparation paid off with several of coach Peter Voorhees’ charges recording personal bests. He cited two, in particular — thrower Sarah Hastings and distance runner Jordan Holt — afterward. “They were our athletes of the week,” he said, “with Sarah setting PRs (personal records) in the shot and discus and Jordan setting a big PR in the 3200 and doing things right a...
It was an up-and-down week for the La Conner High softball team, which earned a split in games against two quality foes. Fortunately for the Lady Braves, they won the meeting that mattered most. La Conner edged NW2B rival Friday Harbor 3-1 at home behind a virtuoso seven-strikeout effort from junior hurler Olivia Hedlund, who helped her cause with a double and two runs driven in. With the win, La Conner kept its conference ledger unblemished with a 2-0 mark. The Lady Braves are 5-3 overall going into today’s (Wednesday’s) 2 p.m. non-league hom...
It’s their field contestants who are throwing La Conner Braves foes off track this spring. Both figuratively and literally. It happened again last week, at Northwest 1B/2B League Track and Field trials at Mount Vernon Christian. Michael Page, Zach Harris, and Brady Nelson swept a trio of field events to help lead the Braves to the meet title. La Conner edged host MVC 217.5 – 179 for top spot on the boys’ leaderboard. The La Conner High Lady Braves, led by Anna Cook’s four solo victo...
The La Conner Braves had proved gracious hosts to Orcas a couple weeks ago, letting a key NW2B baseball verdict go to the Vikings by a slim 2-1 margin. The second time around it was La Conner that presented its calling card. And the Braves did so with not a bit of hesitation. La Conner took advantage of island hospitality by posting a 10-5 victory on Wednesday that gave the Braves a season split with Orcas and left the two rivals tied for second in league standings behind undefeated Friday Harbor entering this week’s action. The Braves were s...
La Conner High started slow then poured it on late at Concrete last Monday. The Braves came from behind to record a key 5-2 NW2B baseball road win, improving to 2-1 in league standings and squaring their overall mark at 3-3. And, even more important, La Conner seized much needed momentum going into a crucial conference test at Orcas today. The April 8 matchup gives the Braves a chance to avenge an earlier 2-1 loss to the Vikings. Orcas, La Conner, Concrete, and Friday Harbor are the favorites vying for a lone Northwest District berth to State t...
La Conner High came out flat but kept on truckin.’ And, in the end, the Lady Braves shifted gears with some daring base running and timely hitting to forge a 6-5 comeback win in non-league softball action with Meridian on Thursday. Elizabeth Tripp stole two bases during a key sixth inning La Conner rally that tied the score, setting up a sharply hit game-winning infield grounder by Le Anne Swan in the seventh. “Coming back to tie the game in the sixth and then winning it in the seventh was a huge confidence builder for us,” said La Conne...
