Panthers prevail in rivalry matchup

Published 7:20 am Thursday, September 6, 2007

SNOHOMISH – It’s been a long rivalry, the Wesco North boys tennis equivalent of the Yankees and the Red Sox.

In what has traditionally been a back-and-forth battle, Snohomish got the upper hand Wednesday, sweeping Cascade 7-0 at Snohomish High School in the first of two meetings between the Panthers and Bruins this season.

“We have a real long rivalry,” Snohomish head coach Dick Jansen said. “We’ve been going at each other for a lot of years.”

The Panthers (2-0 in league and overall) won every individual match, but none was contested more than at No. 2 singles.

Jansen said Brandon Kent’s 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 victory over the Bruins’ Sopheak Seng was the “singles match of the evening,” because Kent was able to “pull out a third set victory.”

Since it was also the longest match of the day, all the other Snohomish and Cascade (1-1) players came over to cheer their respective teammates on in the epic duel.

The Snohomish coach said that despite the final score, the match was “well contested” and went on to say that it was a “fairly important match early in the season. Now we’ve got the upper hand, but the shoe’s been on the other foot in the past.”

“There’s no bad blood” between the teams, Jansen said. Just “good, tough tennis.”

At Snohomish H.S.

SinglesMerkley (S) def. Nguyen, 6-1, 6-3; Kent (S) def. Seng, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; Stockwell (S) def. Thongdy, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2); Pecha (S) def. Pham, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3); DoublesRatzke-Shields (S) def. Beaver-B. Le, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1; Thomsen-Prete (S) def. Kone-T. Le, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4; Chittenden-Scott (S) def. Abad-Chung, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5. RecordsCascade 1-1. Snohomish 2-0.

Oak Harbor 6, Arlington 1: At Oak Harbor, Danny Lura at No. 1 singles won 6-3, 6-1 to lead the Wildcats to the Wesco North victory. Riley Spears and Ari Fernando captured Arlington’s victory in straight sets at No. 3 doubles.

At Oak Harbor H.S.

SinglesLura (OH) def. Aylesworth, 6-3, 6-1; Thomas (OH) def. Meyer, 6-0, 6-1; Evans (OH) def. Boulton, 6-2, 6-0; Jewell (OH) def. McElroy 6-1, 6-3. DoublesValles-Kingma (OH) def. M. Morin-N. Morin, 6-4, 6-3; Bragg-Whitley (OH) def. Tankersley-Cobb, 6-2, 6-4; Spears-Fernando (A) def. Kensworthy-Baleros, 6-2, 6-3. RecordsArlington 0-1 in league and overall. Oak Harbor 1-1, 1-1.

Stanwood 6, Monroe 1: At Stanwood, Kyle Koetje, Drew Kidd, Kyle Klempel and Gabe Herigstad swept the singles matches without dropping a set to lead Stanwood to the Wesco North victory.

At Stanwood H.S.

SinglesKoetje (S) def. C. Amsberry, 6-3, 6-2; Kidd (S) def. T. Amsberry, 6-4, 6-4; Klempel (S) def. Carel, 6-1, 6-1; Herigstad (S) def. Hastings, 6-2, 6-2. DoublesSchonberg-Beauchamp (S) def. MacIntyre-Adams, 6-4, 6-2; Simon-Harris (M) def. Kline-Heintz, 6-1, 6-3; McLaughlin-Nelson (S) def. Meews-Edwards, 6-0, 6-0. RecordsMonroe 1-1 in league and overall. Stanwood 2-0.

Edmonds-Woodway 7, Mariner 0: At Everett, Calvin Tran and Andrew Dinh earned a straight-sets victory in the No. 3 doubles match to help lift Edmonds-Woodway to the Wesco South sweep.

At Mariner H.S

SinglesCho (EW) def. Bustos, 6-0, 6-0; Stepenski (EW) def. Abarro, 6-0, 6-0; Warren (EW) def. Nguyen, 6-1, 6-1; Fredrickson (EW) def. Locke, 6-1, 6-0.DoublesOrtiz-Maeda (EW) def. Lee-Chung, 6-1, 6-1; Lave-Knell (EW) def. Seng-Syharath, 6-3, 6-1; C. Tran-Dinh (EW) def. V.Tran-Hope, 6-1, 6-3. RecordsEdmonds-Woodway 2-0 in league and overall. Mariner 0-2.

Marysville-Pilchuck 4, Everett 3: At Everett, Marysville-Pilchuck’s Kyle Hanks outlasted Everett’s Rikki Dunn 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 in a two and a half hour match to lead the Tomahawks to the Wesco North victory.

At Clark Park

SinglesMonroe (E) def. Dyer, 6-0, 6-1; Troung (E) def. Butner, 6-3, 6-4; Hanks (MP) def. Dunn, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4; Silva (MP) def. Ellison, 6-3, 6-4. DoublesGilbertson-Jacobsen (MP) def. Tower-Ivory, 6-1, 6-1; Wall-Jensen (MP) def. Lichneckert-Church, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Samuel-Iringan (E) def. Willis-Stevens, 6-3, 6-2, RecordsMarysville-Pilchuck 1-1 in league and overall. Everett 0-2, 0-2.

Jackson 7, Meadowdale 0: At Lynnwood, Richard Oam won a straight-sets victory in the No. 1 singles match to help Jackson earn the Wesco South sweep.

At Meadowdale H.S.

SinglesOam (J) def. Donnelly, 6-0, 6-0; Bae (J) def. Casper, 6-2, 6-3; Rojas (J) def. Bohmke, 7-6(7-5), 4-6, 7-6(7-3); Choi (J) def. Haight, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. DoublesPence-Kim (J) def. Pham-Sherrill, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5; Kwong-Taylor (J) def. Lee-Peterson, 6-2, 6-0; Jacobsen-Law (J) def. Vu-Smith, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2. RecordsJackson 1-0 in league and overall. Meadowdale 0-2.

Kamiak 7, Lynnwood 0: At Lynnwood, Kamiak’s Chris Klaezynski came from behind and defeated Daniel Yuen in three sets to finish a perfect day for the Knights in the Wesco South match.

At Lynnwood H.S.

SinglesAhn (K) def. A. Nguyen, 6-2, 6-1; Oh (K) def. Ansdell, 6-1, 6-1; Klaezynski (K) def. Yuen, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Yang (K) def. P. Nguyen, 6-0, 6-3. DoublesPatterson-Strickland (K) def. Wieven-B. Nguyen, 6-0, 6-1; Song-Chao (K) def. Magnanet-Robertson, 6-2, 6-1; Keto-Jeon (K) def. Sim-Cano, 6-0, 6-1. RecordsKamiak 2-0 in league and overall. Lynnwood 0-2.

Girls soccer

Archbishop Murphy 4, Kentlake 0: At Kent, Lindsey Bos scored two goals to lead the Wildcats to the non-league victory. Alexa Hughes and Sarah Carratt shared the shutout for Archbishop-Murphy.

at Wilson Fields

GoalsArchbishop Murphy: Lindsey Bos 2, Brauner, Ryan. AssistsArchbishop Murphy: Fortune, Pettinger. GoalkeepersArchbishop Murphy: Alexa Hughes, Sarah Carratt. Kentlake: not reported. RecordsArchbishop Murphy 1-0 overall. Kentlake 0-2.

Volleyball

Monroe 3, Everett 0: At Everett, Monroe swept Everett 25-16, 25-16, 25-21, in both teams’ first match of the year. Ky Munoz had 18 kills and Kaitlyn Drew added 33 assists for the Bearcats (1-0 overall) in their non-conference win. Lauren Altman led the Seagulls (0-1) with five kills.

Mountlake Terrace 3, Lynnwood 1: At Lynnwood, after losing the first set 18-25, Mountlake Terrace (1-0) won the following three 25-14, 25-18 and 25-17 in the non-conference game. Kaytlyn Dill had a solid game for the Royals (0-1) with 16 kills.