On Jan. 11, San Juan Island Fitness hosted a swim-a-thon as a fund raiser for the Swim Team … San Juan Island Fitness, in cooperation with the local PTAs, offers another “Kids Night Out.” Cost is $7.
Football has come to an end, at least temporarily, at Western Washington University. University officials announced Thursday that the Vikings football program will be eliminated as a cost-cutting move meant to ensure the excellence of all the school’s intercollegiate sports.
Friday Harbor boaters can expect Fair Winds and Calm Seas for the year 2009. How do we know this? Well, for a number of years now, Gloria and John Bentzen, and Judy and Arne Bentzen have celebrated their Danish tradition of “Saluting the Compass” on New Year’s Day by hosting this marine ritual on the waters off Brown Island. The essential element is, of course, the toast to Thor, god of thunder, lightning and wind.
The Friday Harbor girls basketball team put a scare into a highly-touted Nooksack Valley squad before running out of steam Saturday in a 48-29 loss in Turnbull Gym.
Foul trouble in the second half proved the Wolverines’ undoing as Nooksack Valley took care of business at the free-throw line and slipped out of Turnbull Gym Saturday with a 53-46 victory.
Outgunned and out-of-synch, the Friday Harbor girls basketball team suffered its third loss of the season Tuesday at home in a deflating 56-19 defeat at the hands of Division 2A Mount Baker High.
How to simulate being a sailor: 1. Buy a steel dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for six months.
Jordan Nash notches double-double, 17 points and 10 rebounds, Ryan Aylward tallies 18 points in debut at home
The Falcon boys basketball team remains undefeated at 3-0 after beating Friday Harbor 54-47 in a non-conference match-up Saturday, at South Whidbey. The main problem faced last week, mainly a lack in intensity in the third quarter, threatened but didn’t overwhelm.
Funding woes have the fate of Friday Harbor High School’s sports program in jeopardy.
But if athletics end up on the shelf, a whole lot more hardware will end up there as well, thanks to the players and teams of the 2008 fall season.
Former Friday Harbor football standout Danny Cumming had two tackles, including one for a 1-yard loss, Saturday in Western Washington University’s 25-10 Dixie Rotary Bowl win over Colorado School of Mines. The game was played before a crowd of 2,598 at Hansen Stadium on the campus of Dixie State College of Utah. It was the fifth-largest crowd of the Vikings’ season and the site of their 20-14 win over Dixie State on Nov. 1.
Western Washington University scored 25 unanswered points and used a stifling second-half defensive effort en route to a 25-10 victory over Colorado School of Mines in the 23rd annual Dixie Rotary Bowl, Saturday afternoon at Hansen Stadium on the campus of Dixie State College of Utah.
Friday Harbor High School’s wrestlers will be first out of the gate this winter sports season with a match on the road today at Meridian. The Wolverine grapplers tackle the Trojans beginning at 6 p.m.