Saturday shouts

 Time for our high school Saturday shouts.

Want to start with some football and a pair of wins last night. Great job Mount Si to come back from down 14-0 at half to win the game on a field goal with 40 seconds left beating Woodinville 21-20, and Cedarcrest as well, shouts to you guys on your 55-0 blowout over Evergreen/Tyee. Want to make a quick mention though of something that happened late in that Cedarcrest game last night that I saw this morning on the NFHS stream of the contest - that injury to the E/T QB that happened with about a minute left in regulation and resulted in the player being taken I'm presuming over to Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland by the fantastic aid crew from the Duvall Fire Department.

10 years ago almost to this exact week, Mount Si's football team when it was still part of Kingco 3A, faced Sammamish, and late in that game, which was similarly one-sided to last night's game, a Sammamish player suffered a serious injury which required aid and a trip to the hospital. One thing that I hate seeing in these kind of games is these kind of injuries, especially to players from the teams being routed. Like Evergreen/Tyee last night, Sammamish was a team that year that had very low turnout, so it was a squad that can not afford any sort of serious injury, and that is very much the case here this year for E/T. Losing your quarterback in a game like this for a team like this is absolutely devastating.

So Mount Si, in response to that Sammamish kid's injury, sent a delegation of players to visit that player in his hospital room a couple days afterward, and delivered him a get well poster. This gesture was well-received by parents and fans from both schools after that Sammamish player went on social media to point out the act of kindness from the Mount Si team and players and it was picked up by both the Wildcat social media folks and by yours truly.

We would suggest Cedarcrest should look to do something similar in this case for the Evergreen/Tyee player who was injured last night. It would be a gesture that would likely, if people heard about it, be very well-received by both schools and perhaps send a valuable message to many schools in the conference who may not be terribly comfortable with Cedarcrest being a part of the league this year for various reasons, not the least of which is extra travel, that the Red Wolves are ready and willing to be a strong, supportive member of the Kingco family and be that for many years to come.

Cross country shouts this morning for Cedarcrest High School's boys and girls who held well in a home meet on Thursday at McCormick Park in Duvall. CHS hosted Lindbergh and Lake Washington although the visiting Eagles from Renton did not compete in the girls' meet. Jake Zlateff and Pierce Graham get our boys shouts with a one-two finish for the Red Wolves in the boys' race. Zlateff clocked 13 minutes, 30.23 seconds while Graham was about three seconds behind in that runner-up spot. The CHS girls won their team title despite not racing their top two runners in the race.

So we're going to shout out all of the girls who did run - freshmen Abby Summerson, Ava Oliver, Charlotte Pace, Sophia Peterk, sophomores Ruby Ross and Anna Farrell, and junior Claudia Finch in the actual girls' race, and top freshman Stella Metcalf and junior Lydia Swenson, who, according to coach Bruce McDowell, both ran against the boys to get them more quality competition and ended up both with top-20 finishes in that race when you put their times up against the boys' times. Good stuff. Swenson and Metcalf both ran times of 15:21 and change, and that was a good three minutes ahead of the field in the actual girls' race so it was a smart decision by McDowell to race those two against the boys. CHS's boys as a team finished second to Lindbergh.

Mount Si was at North Creek High School Wednesday for a three-way and once again, they don't race their best people in Kingco meets, the end result is you finish third in the three-way in the team comp in both the boys and girls' races. This new coach this year is the same in this it seems as his predecessor and this TBH frustrates the heck out of me as someone covering this stuff. But those Saturday regional meets are big stuff and they were probably resting the top kids after this past weekend's Nike race. Top runners Wednesday were freshman Max Burd for the boys, who took ninth and sophomore Clara Von Trapp for the girls, who took third and was among three from the ladies that finished in the top 10. As for last weekend down at the Nike event in Portland, the headliner was the Cossey's, with the twins Hailey and Aleeya racing together and finishing in the top 10 together helping Mount Si's girls to a fifth-place showing in the top-level Danner division which saw them take on a lot of top Oregon teams and a couple from California and Idaho as well. Good stuff there. Sure hope those two are running collegiately next year.

Volleyball this morning and our shouts for Cedarcrest as they moved to 6-0 in league with two more wins this week are far and wide. CHS opened the week on Tuesday with a sweep of Tyee at home in Duvall. The Red Wolves won 25-20, 25-12, 25-16 over the Tyee squad, from Sea-Tac. In that game, Lola Fryc had 10 assists, three digs and three aces, while Kaylee Rogers had four kills, two aces, five digs and a block, and Avery Leniszewski had four kills, two blocks and four digs. The Red Wolves swept Renton 25-14, 25-11, 25-6 Thursday. In that game, shouts for Maddie Benjamin, who had 11 kills, two aces and three blocks, Thea Wood, who had five aces, Paige Roberts, who had 13 assists and an ace. and Izzy Ojeda, who had 12 aces and a dig.

Back next week with another round of these folks!

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