BELLINGHAM – Meadowdale scored two late goals and beat Lynnwood 3-0 in a 3A Northwest District girls soccer semifinal Wednesday.
The Mavericks (11-5-2) play Bellingham at 3 p.m Saturday for the district championship. The Royals (7-10-1) face Squalicum at 1 p.m. in a loser-out, winner-to-state game.
Meadowdale’s Courtney Hughes scored off an assist from Brittney Doran in the 26th minute. The Mavericks then held off a charge from Lynnwood, led by striker Sarah Smart, and added insurance goals in the 62nd and 68th minutes.
Meadowdale head coach Sean Griffin credited junior defender Alexandra Dunsdon with slowing down Smart, who was “doing some scary things with the ball.”
“Alexandra was man-marking Smart and she did a very good job of preventing her from getting any real good looks,” Griffin said.
Jessica Duty took a pass from Jamie Westby and scored Meadowdale’s second goal. Brooke Simons scored on a penalty kick for the third.
Goalie Tricia McMillan spearheaded Meadowdale’s defensive effort, notching her 10th shutout of the season.
Goals-Meadowdale: Hughes, Duty, Simons. Goalkeepers-McMillan. Lynnwood: not reported. Records-Lynnwood 7-10-1, Meadowdale 11-5-2. |
Volleyball
Cascade 2, Oak Harbor 0: At Everett, Cascade earned fourth place in the Wesco North division and a district playoff bid by beating Oak Harbor 25-23, 25-10 in the second match of a three-team, best-of-three tiebreaker meet.
Oak Harbor defeated Stanwood 23-25, 25-22, 15-13 earlier Wednesday to get into the fourth-place game against Cascade, which won a coin flip to receive the bye.
Stephanie Boyle’s 12 digs and Leslie Compean’s 13 kills led the Bruins, who play Everett at 7 p.m. Friday in a first-round district playoff game. The Bruins started the season 0-6.
Oak Harbor plays Jackson in a pigtail game Thursday to determine the Western Conference’s final district seed.
Lynnwood 3, Shorecrest 2: At Shoreline, Lynnwood outlasted Shorecrest 13-25, 25-23, 29-27, 18-25, 19-17 in the first round of the Northwest 3A playoffs. Molly Hunsinger had 20 kills and 20 digs, Britt Thoreson added 13 kills, Julie Nguyen dished out 36 assists and Day Wilke had 10 blocks to lead the No. 5 seed Royals over the fourth-seeded Scots. Becky Scherer pounded 24 kills, Karis Grounds added 12 kills and Lauren Herold compiled 39 assists and 20 digs to lead Shorecrest (7-3, 11-4). Lynnwood plays Sehome 11 a.m. Saturday at Lynden High School. Shorecrest plays a loser-out game against Bellingham at 1 p.m.
Mount Baker 3, South Whidbey 1: At Bellingham, Mount Baker (5-4, 7-8) upset No. 4 seed South Whidbey 25-22, 25-10, 20-25, 25-22 in the first round of the North Cascades Conference district playoffs. Brianna Hussey paced South Whidbey (5-4, 10-5) with 33 assists, while Katie McGillen and Bronwyn Russell added 12 and 10 kills, respectively. South Whidbey plays Nooksack Valley at 11:30 Saturday in a loser-out game.
Archbishop Murphy 3, Concrete 0: At Concrete, Ashley Werner had seven kills and Christina Mitchell added five to highlight Archbishop Murphy’s 25-12, 25-9, 25-14 regular season make-up game over winless Concrete. The Wildcats improved to 4-6 in Northwest A League play, 7-9 overall.
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