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The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball returned to regular season play this week after Christmas break with a win and a loss. Last Wednesday, the Lady Mules lost 44-41 in a close game with Toutle Lake. "We struggled as a team," Coach Rob Garrett said, "but both Amirah [Abdul-Kariem] and Bailey [McKinley] really stepped it up offensively which gave us an opportunity to keep the game within reach. Amirah played great on both sides of the ball. In the end, unfortunately, we had too many mental...
Sixty was the magic number for the Mule boys basketball team last week, when they won three games with that score and were named champions of a Christmas tournament at Mount Vernon Christian School. Lummi Nation went into high gear in the final minutes on the Mules first night of competition, scoring 31 points in the fourth quarter, but it wasn't enough. The Mules managed to hold on for a 60-58 win. Zakk Carlson scored 26 points and pulled down eight boards against Lummi Nation. Brodie Avalon...
Wahkiakum Mule wrestlers Malachi Schaefer, Lilian Hale, and Mckenna Mendez placed second in their classes at a recent meet in Clatskanie. On Saturday, the girls head to Kelso and the boys will be competing in Ridgefield. Wahkiakum will host the first league mix and match meet on Wednesday, January 11. Courtesy photo....
The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team participated in a girls' tournament at Mount Vernon Christian School during the last week of December. The Lady Mules lost their first and second games, 32-19 to Orcas Island and 47-37 to Moses Lake Christian Academy/Covenant Christian School respectively, but finished the trip on a high note with a 56-42 win against Crosspoint Academy. They returned to regular season play on Wednesday at home against Toutle Lake, but the score was not available by...
Above: A Kalama player went high on Mule Tanner Collupy in basketball action last week. Photo by Todd Wilson. Right: Kyler Sause rammed home two points as the Mules took on the Rainier Mountaineers. Photo by Todd Wilson. The story that goes with these photos was published in the December 22 edition of The Eagle....
The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team followed two wins with a loss this week. Last Wednesday, the Lady Mules traveled to Kalama and beat the Chinooks 57-46. "The Kalama game was a lot of fun," Coach Rob Garrett said. "Reigha [Niemeyer] was unconscious, shooting 7-11 from three point range, and leading the way with 31 points. I thought everyone did a good job in the game, working at their role to complete a team effort. Our defense looked solid most of the time, and we came out with a good...
The Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team won two more games this week and found themselves rated the number 10 team among 2B schools in the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Rating Percentage Index (RPI), which uses a formula of the winning percentages of teams, their opponents, and their opponents’ opponents, to rank teams in the state. On Wednesday, the Mules traveled to Kalama and beat the Chinooks 68-35. “Offense was created by our defense,” Coach Todd Souvenir said. “We g...
The Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team split games this week. On Thursday, the team beat Toutle Lake at home 72-57. Zakk Carlson led scoring with 18 points. Dominic Curl and Brodie Avalon added 15 points apiece, Kyler Sause had 11 points. Titan Niemela had six, Jacob Johnson added five, and Tanner Collupy finished with two. Toutle Lake 16 15 16 10 --57 Mules 27 19 12 14 --72 On Friday, the Mules picked up their first loss of the season in Castle Rock, 66-57. Carlson led scoring again with 17...
The Wahkiakum Mules wrestling team has a new head coach, Ross Lofstrom. Lofstrom, who graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 2008, never wrestled for the Mules. Instead, he played for the basketball team. These days he knows that if wrestling and basketball had different seasons, he would have gladly participated in both. After graduating, Lofstrom headed to Central Washington University, where he studied philosophy and earned a bachelor's degree. With an itch to travel, he headed to Thailand,...
The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team forfeited their game with Napavine last Wednesday, because of injuries and illness, but came back on Friday with a win on the road against Onalaska, 42-30. There were no statistics available for the game, but Coach Rob Garrett reported that Reigha Niemeyer scored 17 points. The Lady Mules traveled to Kalama on Wednesday. The score was not available at press time. They host Winlock on Friday and Mossyrock on Tuesday before taking some time off for the...
By Diana Zimmerman The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team is back to their old tricks with two wins after a season starting loss to Ilwaco. Despite the 49-46 loss to Ilwaco Nov. 30, it was a good game, according to Coach Rob Garrett, marred by an "ice cold" third quarter, when the team only scored one point. "We gave up too many second chance opportunities to Ilwaco in the long run," Garrett said. "I was really proud of the girls for battling back. We made a lot of good decisions down the...
The Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team is off to a running start this week with two wins on the road. With seven seniors and a bit of height, the team is capable of scoring from the perimeter and from inside, but they are still learning how to balance those assets and when to take advantage of them, according to Coach Todd Souvenir. The Mules opened the season with a win against the Fishermen in Ilwaco last Wednesday, 64-62. "Last year Ilwaco ended our season. It was definitely a game we were...
Games begin this week for winter sports. On Monday, the Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team was getting ready for their first game against Ilwaco on Wednesday, and the girls basketball team was headed to Longview for a jamboree. Five wrestlers will represent the Mules this year, and they were in the wrestling room preparing for their first match this weekend. Photo by Diana Zimmerman....
The Naselle Comet football team came up just short last weekend of advancing to the state Class B1 football semifinal. Principal Justin Laine offered this report: So proud of our Comet players and coaches. They traveled to Moses Lake to play a game in sub-freezing temperatures against #1 ranked, undefeated, perennial powerhouse Odessa. They fought right up to the very end before falling by a score of 76-74. They played with tremendous heart, toughness, and resilience. Our coaches had them well...
Wahkiakum volleyball and football players were honored by Central 2B league coaches and named to All League teams for their athleticism on the court and on the field this season. Reigha Niemeyer was named to the second team in volleyball, while Miya Kerstetter and Amirah Abdul Kariem were given honorable mentions. The football team received several honors in the south division. Tanner Collupy was named to the first team as a linebacker, and second team for offensive line. Aimon Lee was given an...
The Wahkiakum Mules volleyball team’s season ended last week, but not without a fight. After losing 3-1 to Toutle Lake in the first round of the double elimination district tournament on October 29, the Wahkiakum Mules volleyball team had to win their next three games to have any chance of advancing to state. They won the first two games, beating Morton/White Pass 3-1 that same day, and Rainier 3-0 on November 2. It was later on that second day of district competition that Wahkiakum lost to F...
The Class B2 top ranked Napavine Tigers brought the Wahkiakum Mule football season to a close with a 56-0 shutout last Thursday night in Napavine. The teams played the game in heavy sideways rain and 40 mph wind gusts. "Napavine is the real deal," Mule Coach Ryan Lorenzo commented Monday. "They have a solid coaching staff; their athletes were class acts. "Our team was hit with a lot of adversity all year long. I'm proud of the athletes that stuck with their team. The ones that were left at the end went to battle, and I'm proud of the character...
The Naselle Comet volleyball team is headed to the 1B state tournament at the Yakima Valley SunDome on November 10-11 after taking second in the district tournament on Saturday. The team started the district tournament on Thursday with a three set win against Columbia Adventist. On Saturday, they beat Taholah in three sets and advanced to the district championship game against Mossyrock, which they would lose later that day in four sets. Naselle begins play in Yakima on November 10 at 1:30 p.m....
The Naselle Comet football team will journey to South Bend this Saturday to start the state Class B1 football playoffs. The 9-2 Comets will take on 7-3 Almira-Coulee Hartline at 2 p.m. The winner advances to play top ranked, 9-0 Odessa in the state quarterfinals the following weekend....
The Naselle Comette volleyball team begins postseason play on Thursday, November 3, at 6 p.m. at home when they take on the winner of Wednesday’s match between Three River Christian and Columbia Adventist. If Naselle wins, they will play Taholah at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 5 at Montesano. If they lose, they will play in a loser out game at 6:30 p.m. the same day in Montesano. Four teams from the district will go to state. If Naselle wins their first two games, they are guaranteed a ber...
It's not going to get much easier. The Wahkiakum Mules lost 50-28 to the Onalaka Loggers last Thursday in a Central League football game. Today (Thursday), they travel to Napavine to challenge the 9-0 top ranked Tigers for a berth in the playoffs. The Mules kept up with the Loggers for three quarters. In the first quarter, Onalaska took the lead on a 43-yard pass play. The Mules responded with Zakkary Carlson returning a kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown. Onalaska took a 14-6 lead on a 37-yard...
The Wahkiakum Mules volleyball team advanced in the double elimination district tournament on Saturday when they followed an opening round loss to Toutle Lake with a win against Morton/White Pass. The Lady Mules lost to Toutle Lake in four sets, and beat MWP in four sets. Wahkiakum faced Rainier in a loser out match yesterday (Wednesday) at Ocosta HS at 4 p.m. The season ended for the loser, but the winner played a second match that evening against the winner of the Ilwaco/Forks game at 7 p.m....
District games begin on Saturday for the Wahkiakum Mules volleyball team, which split games this week with a win on the road and a loss at home. Last Thursday, the Lady Mules traveled to Winlock and lost to the Cardinals in four sets, 25-22, 22-25, 25-22 and 25-14. "Our focus tonight was on playing together and holding steady energy as a team," Coach Kayli Hurley said. "We made strides in this area." Reigha Niemeyer had13 kills, six aces, and 10 digs. Miya Kerstetter added seven kills and seven...
The Stevenson Bulldogs found three different ways to score and defeated the Wahkiakum Mules 14-12 in the Mules' homecoming football game last Friday. The visitors caught the Mules in their own endzone to score a two-point safety early in the game. The Mules responded with Zakkary Carlson scoring on a 21-yard touchdown run. The conversion failed, leaving the Mules ahead 6-2. The Mules led 12-2 at halftime after Dominic Curl returned a recovered fumble 37 yards for a touchdown. The conversion...
Football: October 21 Stevenson 14, Wahkiakum 12 21 Taholah forfeited to Naselle 22 Naselle 76, Sound Christian 20 28 Wahkiakum at Onalaska 29 Naselle at Evergreen Lutheran Volleyball October 27 Willapa Valley at Naselle 29 Naselle at Pe Ell See volleyball district updates on Facebook at “The Wahkiakum Eagle Sports Report...
