The Vashon girls’ basketball team began its season on Monday, Dec. 1, under the direction of new head coach Rob Kearns and assistant coach Brian Van Buren.
The Vashon Pirate wrestlers opened their season at home last Friday in a dual meet against the Elma Eagles.
With three games behind it, the boys’ basketball team is on an early-season winning streak.
The third Annual Vashon Cup soccer game was played last Sunday under sunny skies on a slightly snowy field. This tournament has now been named the Ryan Krug Vashon Cup. Krug is remembered for many achievements, and his smile graced the first Vashon Cup just two years ago.
The look of district champions was no Halloween disguise as the girls’ Vashon High School cross country team ran to win the West Central District III Championship last Saturday at American Lake in Lakewood.
The first Sunday in November is the date for the Northwest’s premier fall regatta, the Head of the Lake race through the University of Washington’s Montlake Cut.
It was a perfect setting for a Halloween night football game. Darkness fell, the temperature dropped, and the steam rose in waves off the football players’ sweaty bodies. The fog rolled in off the treeline, settling low over the Pirates’ home field, and Vashon rolled over the Chimacum Cowboys, scoring a season-high seven touchdowns, and winning the contest, 54-20.
The final tournament of the season for Vashon boys tennis took place last Thursday and Friday at the Lakewood Racquet Club. Vashon had a somewhat daunting task due to some unfortunate seeding, which had them facing first or second seeds in the first round.
The Vashon High School girls’ soccer team is in the midst of a playoff run. The West Central District tournament kicked off last weekend, as the Pirates took on the Coupeville Wolves of Whidbey and produced a dominating 3-0 Vashon win.
The highly anticipated match-up between the Vashon Pirates’ and Nisqually League powerhouse Cascade Christian took place last Friday in an ark-worthy deluge on the Pirates home field. A sparse Homecoming crowd saw the Pirates lose the game by a final score of 56-16.
The Vashon High School girls’ soccer team played two hard-fought matches last week in its final week of Nisqually League play.
The Vashon High School Pirates came away from the league championships for cross country with wins in two separate sports: The girls’ team won the Nisqually League Championship, placing five scoring runners in the top eight finishers for a score of 29. In the second sport, Pirates Mason Carter and Selena Mildon won the post-race pie eating contest during the welcome good weather for the day that was sandwiched between days of downpours and windstorms.
Vashon’s Master and Junior crews made their first appearance in this regatta competing in 16 events and as has been the pattern for this fall performed exceptionally well returning with 9 first place finishes.