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Darrington first responders provided aid and hope aplenty to those impacted by the tragic Oso mudslide. But there was little Darrington’s high school softball team could do to stop the avalanche of runs posted by the Lady Braves last week. La Conner pounded out 16 hits in five innings en route to a 20-3 romp in the nightcap of a key NW2B doubleheader on Tuesday. The Lady Braves had earlier blanked Darrington 3-0 behind a one-hitter tossed by sophomore hurler Olivia Hedlund. With the twin wins, La Conner improved to 5-0 in league play and 1...
The La Conner High mile relay team shared the limelight at the Stanwood Twilight Invitational Track Meet. The Braves’ quartet of Kolbe Rasler, Mitchell Grant, Harrison Orkney, and Josh Summers took top honors in the 4x400 meter event, capturing gold with a time of 4:11.86 in a field that included entries from Lake Stevens, Oak Harbor, and other larger schools. La Conner’s mile relay triumph highlighted a sixth place finish for the Braves, who more than held their own at the May 9 competition. On the girls’ side, the Lady Braves were eight...
The Sedro-Woolley mile relay team was a leg up on its Skagit County foes, but in the end it was a La Conner High quartet standing atop the medal platform. All because of an unfortun-ate wardrobe malfunction. Not one of Super Bowl proportions, but enough to elevate the Braves’ relay squad of Alejandro Ruis, Kolbe Rasler, Harrison Orkney, and Mitchell Grant from runnerup status to 4x400 meter titleists on the boys’ side of the 108th Skagit County Track and Field Championships. The strange tur...
La Conner High smashed Concrete 11-1 Friday to remain in the fast lane for a run at the league softball title. With the lopsided win, the Lady Braves remained unbeaten in four NW2B starts and improved to 12-3 overall. Better yet, La Conner showed it’s gearing up for what might well be an extended playoff ride. The Lady Braves put together their most complete game of the year in the double-digit home triumph over Concrete, a key tuneup leading into critical late season league games with Orcas and Darrington. “The team had a great effort in all...
It was the best of times and the worst of times last week for the La Conner High baseball team, which still has great expectations for another deep playoff run. The Braves, with key league dates this week opposite Orcas and Darrington, were coming off a novel two-game road split in which they both won and lost by double digits. La Conner romped past Lummi 18-1 last Monday behind a stellar mound performance by Erick Reinstra. The Braves, though, fell 10-0 at Lakewood on Wednesday in non-conference action. First, the good news. Reinstra tamed...
Long before their long distance events began, La Conner High track teams had gone the distance. And then some. La Conner ventured 300 miles last weekend to take part in the Undeberg Invitational Track Meet — held in Ritzville, near Spokane — which traditionally draws many of Eastern Washington’s top small school programs. This year’s event, featuring nearly three dozen schools, was no exception. La Conner, Lakeside, and Seattle Academy joined the field from west of the Cascades, and...
Bowled over by non-league power Lynden Christian, La Conner avoided landing in the gutter last week by having secured a two-game split courtesy a key win at Friday Harbor. La Conner struck down the Lady Wolverines 13-3 Tuesday afternoon, taking some of the sting out of its one-hit, 8-0 shutout loss Wednesday to Lynden Christian. The youthful Lady Braves emerged from the up-and-down week with a solid 11-3 overall mark, but perhaps more important having also gained new insight into the art of winning consistently. Primarily in the form of...
It took a lot of drive by Kelley McClung to come back from serious ankle injuries that sidelined her most of basketball season and well into the softball campaign. And that drive is now being showcased on local golf courses. That plus a nice iron game and putting stroke, as well. While awaiting clearance to play softball, McClung has tried her hand at golf — with better than anticipated results. The La Conner High senior shot a 63 in her nine-hole debut during a recent league match with Grace Academy and Mount Vernon Christian, the top...
The La Conner High baseball team, its compass still pointed to the top of NW2B standings, veered off course briefly last week to test non-league waters. Now the Braves, after setbacks at Lynden Christian and Friday Harbor — both larger enrollment schools — are poised to lift anchor and rejoin the league title race. La Conner and Concrete were in a virtual dead heat for the league’s top spot when the Braves’ schedule took them out of the loop for successive trips Monday and Tuesday to face the high-powered Lynx and Wolverines. La...
When it rains, it pours. Perhaps no more so than in the Darrington area, still reeling from last week’s tragic mudslide at nearby Oso, a disaster so heartbreaking it has played out repeatedly in the national media. The La Conner High Lady Braves were scheduled to visit Darrington last week, but persistent rain — not the aftermath of the somber and tearful Oso emergency — washed out the much-anticipated District softball pairing. “We had confirmed with them that they really wanted us...
The La Conner High baseball and softball teams were on the ropes at times, but each managed to strike back and earn hard-fought split decisions in early season action last week. The Braves were blanked on two hits in a 14-0 non-league setback to Meridian Monday before opening conference play Friday with a 20-4 rout of Cedar Park Christian. The Lady Braves, meanwhile, bounced back from a 13-4 loss to edge Bellingham 15-14 in the nightcap of a non-league twinbill on Saturday. Meridian plated five...
One La Conner High diamond team didn’t use a scorebook Saturday. The other would just as soon not have. The end result was pretty much the same, however. Head coaches Peg Seeling and Jeremiah LeSourd now have the means to measure early season progress made by their respective clubs, regardless of stats. Seeling and the Lady Braves debuted at home with a multi-team jamboree format in which the emphasis was to practice game-type situations rather than put crooked numbers on the board. “We don...
Ben Harper took Mat-ters into his own hands at last weekend’s State Wrestling trials in Tacoma. Harper, a La Conner High senior and son of Braves’ head wrestling coach Barry Harper, capped a strong season by splitting four Mat Classic XXVI matches at the Tacoma Dome while placing fourth overall in the Boys’ 2B 145-pound weight class. Harper rebounded from an opening round loss Friday to win two straight pairings en route to La Conner High’s best showing in the 2014 State Finals. The La Conner...
Their team doesn’t wear the Bi-District hoop crown, but La Conner fans can still tip their caps to the Lady Braves. That’s because coach Scott Novak’s charges have again thrown their hat in the ring for a possible State Tournament berth. The Lady Braves, now 17-5 overall, take the first step toward what they hope will be a trip to Spokane with a Regional matchup opposite Napavine this Saturday at 4 p.m. at Everett Community College. This comes after La Conner split two Bi-District home tests...
First, the bad news. The La Conner Braves dropped successive Bi-District home games last week, falling 70-61 in overtime to Auburn Adventist Academy Thursday night before dropping a 54-50 Saturday matinee decision to Tacoma Baptist. Now, the good news. It wasn’t a totally lost week for the Braves, who at 16-7 on the campaign, remain a key player in the 2B Regional field, despite their rare twin playoff setbacks. What it means, though, is La Conner — one of the more storied small school p...
It’s been a long season, but La Conner High wrestlers can’t wait to go to the mat one more time. Only now, it’ll be on the big stage. Five La Conner grapplers have advanced to Mat Classic XXVI at the Tacoma Dome this Friday and Saturday, after having survived recent Regional trials in Darrington and Burlington. Josh Summers, Ben Harper, Riley Morgan, and Sid Lease are Mat Classic qualifiers, after having placed at the boys’ 2B Regional Meet in Darrington. Frances Ziemantz returns a second straight year to Tacoma, after reaching the finals...
La Conner’s quest for a District boys’ hoop crown was anything but carved in stone early in the Braves’ title matchup with Concrete at home Friday night. But while Concrete rocked in the first quarter, building an early 11-4 lead, the Braves eventually rolled to a convincing 66-38 triumph before a large crowd at Landy James Gym. The upset-minded Lions were ultimately buried by a landslide of deep treys launched by La Conner three-point specialist Skylar Krueger, who led all scorers with 22 po...
You might say the Lady Braves literally stole the District hoop title from Orcas Friday night. La Conner head coach Scott Novak would rather term it a case of his club taking care of business late in regulation and in overtime to cash in on a hard-fought, 62-59 blue-collar victory. La Conner trailed by 10 points midway through the fourth quarter before forcing a series of Orcas turnovers, the last of which was a steal and layup by Lauren Reynolds with 19 seconds left that tied the score at 57-57...
Thursday was filled with crowning achievements for the La Conner High girls’ basketball team. Sharing center stage with the University of Washington’s pep band, the Lady Braves also struck a chord with those gathered at Landy James Gym for special Senior Night festivities. La Conner fashioned a convincing 60-20 triumph over Concrete, a rout that clinched co-league championship honors for the Lady Braves. With the win, they also locked down a favorable seed and home court venue for this Fri...
Concrete was solid, but La Conner High chipped away just enough Thursday so that the visitors crumbled in the end. The Braves, playing before a large and supportive Senior Night crowd, held on for a surprisingly tough 57-48 league victory in their regular season finale at Landy James Gym. It was anything but a smooth triumph — nothing like La Conner’s 79-29 steamroller win at the two teams’ earlier meeting at Concrete. Still, the Braves avoided an upset loss that would’ve repre...
Upset-mindedFridayHarborwas looking to steal a game at La Conner last week. It wasn't happening. Not with the Lady Braves having already planned an inside job of their own. Lauren Reynolds and Anna Cook scored 17 points apiece – with most of their damage coming in the paint – as La Conner cruised to a 46-30 home conference win Friday night at Landy James Gym. With the win, La Conner improved to 14-4 overall.FridayHarborfell to 6-12. The Lady Braves had won the two teams' earlier meeting, a 47-28 decision at Port Townsend in...
The Northwest 1A/2B hoop title was literally on the line for La Conner High Friday night. And that's where the Braves might've let this year's league crown slip away. On the line. The foul line, that is. La Conner suffered through a woeful 11-for-23 night at the foul stripe while dropping a heartbreaking 41-40 decision toFridayHarborat Landy James Gym. Both clubs entered the eagerly anticipated match with identical 4-0 conference marks. But it was the Wolverines who remained atop league...
The coronavirus pandemic wiped out the 2020 spring sports season across Washington state. Now the La Conner softball and track teams are sidelined for a two-week period, due to recent positive COVID-19 test results among team members. “We have had several COVID cases in track and one currently in softball,” interim La Conner Schools Superintendent Rich Stewart told the Weekly News on Saturday. “Both teams are in quarantine for the required 14 days and will require tests.” Stewart said La Conner Schools staff is working with the Skagit County...
The La Conner High volleyball team found a happy medium last week. But there was no happy Meridian at Landy James Gymnasium. That’s because the Lady Braves handed Meridian a straight-sets defeat before a large and supportive crowd on hand for La Conner’s home net opener. La Conner defeated its 1A foe with a balanced attack and a quick, mobile defense that was stingy when it came to yielding points at the net. State Player of the Week Heather Henriksen set the tone with another all-around per...
The final numbers were similar, but moods of La Conner and South Whidbey players couldn’t have been more different at Landy James Gym Saturday afternoon. That’s because the Lady Braves transposed the winning score, creating a lopsided margin of victory, in their matinee non-league hoop matchup. La Conner routed South Whidbey 61-16 in a game where from the start, everything added up nicely for the Braves. The hosts bolted to a quick double-digit lead, seizing command 21-6 in the first frame, en...
