The Friday Harbor baseball team lit up the scoreboard with 34 runs in just 10 innings and closed out the regular season with back-to-back victories Saturday at home against an under-equipped and overmatched Shoreline Christian squad. But the story of Saturday’s doubleheader wasn’t really about the action on the field; the Crusaders haven’t put up much of a fight on the baseball diamond as of late. It was, rather, about the field itself.
A Marysville man is believed to have taken his own life after authorities recovered a dinghy that was abandoned and adrift near Stuart Island Friday afternoon, and found a suicide note tucked inside.
In the sixth, shortstop Hannah Starr smacked a triple to provide a much-needed spark and the Wolverines tallied 11 runs in their final two at-bats to seize a decisive victory.
In the opener, Jangard, batting over .500 so far this season, launched a rocket over the fence with the bases loaded as Friday Harbor tallied six runs in the second inning to take a control of the Northwest 1A/2B League contest. The Wolverines added two more in the third and another three runs in the sixth inning to seal the opener.
The Wolverines took care of business with a 14-2 victory April 20 at home over Concrete and kept their shot at a share of the league title alive. Friday Harbor jumped out in front early and were never tested in posting the win in just five innings of play. Freshman Jean Melborne pitched a complete game in tallying the second win of her high school career.
The Wolverines will face an uphill battle in their head-to-head match up with Coupeville for regional bragging rights. The Wolves slipped past Friday Harbor 3-2 in team play April 16 on their home court to net the first of three regular-season match ups between the 1A rivals.
Senior Parker Lawson had three base hits and a pair of RBIs, and scored a run in the third, in leading the Wolverines to a 4-1 win at home April 20 over Concrete. On the mound, Shawn Cutting held the Lions scoreless over four innings before giving way to Alex Jangard, who kept Concrete in check over the final three innings to seal the victory.
The Wolverines got off to a shaky start by giving up three runs in the first inning of the April 17 doubleheader against Orcas. But after that, it was all Friday Harbor.
Shawn Cutting isn’t likely to forget his first-ever outing against Orcas. The junior southpaw tossed five innings of no-hit ball in leading the Wolverines to a 15-0 win in the opening game of the April 17 doubleheader at Hartman Field. And if that weren’t enough, Cutting, who struck out 10 Vikings, also had two base hits and scored two runs.
The San Juan County Council took another step down a path that some believe will lead to better cell-phone coverage throughout the islands. In a 6-0 decision, the County Council on April 13 gave preliminary approval to removing the local rules on personal wireless communications facilities from the county Comprehensive Plan, where they function much like a sub-area plan, and inserting them instead into the Unified Development Code.
The San Juan County Council on April 13 agreed that the goals and policies of the Water Element of the county Comprehensive Plan should “discourage” against taking water out of agricultural resource lands for use elsewhere. The council came up one vote shy, however, of prohibiting such a transfer of water outright. That prohibition, proposed by Councilwoman Lovel Pratt, and backed by councilmen Gene Knapp and Bob Myhr, failed to earn enough votes to be included as part of the Water Element update. The council deadlocked 3-3.
Friday Harbor’s Roy Taylor sent his slugging percentage through the roof. The junior infielder had a home run, a double and six RBIs in the Wolverines’ 13-0 five-inning defeat of Concrete in Game 1 of a doubleheader on the road, April 10.
The Wolverines made quick work out of Concrete and swept a doubleheader on the road Saturday by a combined total of 35-4.
More importantly, perhaps, senior Kerri Goff had her groove on from the very first pitch. “She pitched the first three innings of both games without giving up a walk. That’s zero base-on-balls,” Head Coach Kevin Carlton said. “And she threw hard.”
