Prep Sports Report: Coach Chron nabs 1,000th victory as Bellingham blanks Mount Vernon

Memorable numbers were everywhere in Northwest Conference fall sports in a week packed with significant events.

As detailed in last week’s roundup highlight, Bellingham tennis coach Steve Chronister reached 1,000 dual match victories by his 77 boys and girls teams with a 7-0 win over Mount Vernon on Thursday.

One day earlier, however, Sehome’s unbeaten boys achieved a special number with a 5-2 win over Bellingham, delaying Chronister’s milestone and setting up a big rematch Oct. 14 in the final round of dual-match play.

Meanwhile, Lynden remained the only Whatcom County school to stay unbeaten in NWC games in both girls soccer and volleyball.

Lynden senior Evelyn Saldivar continued her soccer scoring streak of all nine games, a genuine rarity that would be a record for almost all high school girls teams.

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In swimming, Bellingham’s girls extended their streak to 15 dual-match wins with a 103-79 victory over a competitive Anacortes squad.

In cross country, Sehome’s defending state 2A champion boys and girls achieved the uncommon feat of a perfect score of 15 points (low score wins) by sweeping the first five places in their meet.

Girls soccer

In Round 8, Lynden (8-0, 9-0) beat Blaine 5-0 as Saldivar injected suspense by converting a penalty kick for the team’s final goal after assisting on three scores. It was the 16th goal of her remarkable season.

“Freshman Wren Dickson scored our first goal three minutes into the game on a beautiful through ball by Jayda Villars,” said Lynden coach Clark Bourgault.

Saldivar then assisted on goals by Faith Van Brocklin, Blaine Holman and Dickson.

“Our defense kept a feisty and athletic Blaine team (2-6, 2-6) from registering a shot on goal. Despite two wins during the week, Lynden dropped from No. 3 to No. 7 in the state coaches’ rankings. Lynden now faces five teams ranked in the state top 20 in their divisions in the final seven games.”

Sehome (7-1, 7-2) held off Sedro-Woolley 1-0 behind a goal by Vivian Moss, assisted by Kyle Ivcevic. Bellingham (6-2, 7-2) slipped with a 4-3 loss to Anacortes despite two goals by Ella Morrow and one by Sloan Mahn off a corner kick.

Squalicum (5-3, 5-3) remained in playoff contention with an 8-0 win over Mount Baker (0-7-1, 0-7-1) as freshman Siri Hoglin scored three goals. Kailana Perez had two goals and Hannah Bates, Kiarra Voight and Ava Simmons scored one apiece.

Lynden Christian (6-3, 7-3) took a 3-1 win over Meridian (1-6-1, 2-6-1) as Kayla Yun scored twice and Nayla Speer tallied off a corner kick. Avery Francis scored for the Trojans, assisted by Brooklyn Fuller.

Ferndale (3-3-1, 3-3-1) will need to make up a postponed game against Nooksack Valley (1-6, 1-9).

The scores in Round 7 were Lynden 9, Mount Baker 1; Squalicum 5, Nooksack Valley 0; Ferndale 1, Burlington-Edison 0; Bellingham 4, Oak Harbor 3; Anacortes 2, Lynden Christian 0; Sehome 3, Mount Vernon 0; and Meridian 1, Blaine 0.

In the lone-goal games, Kasey O’Niell scored for Ferndale and Fuller for Meridian.

Squalicum’s Ania Stawicki scored twice and Hoglin, Voight and Iyla Holley once. Bellingham’s Sophia Dione tallied twice and Newell and Beckett Ferry once each.

Sehome’s Keira Reeves had a goal and an assist, while Moss and Amaia Reed scored, with Bailey Berreth assisting Reed,

“We scored six goals in the first eight minutes,” Bourgault said of Lynden’s win, with goals by eight different players. Van Brocklin had two goals and an assist, while other goals came from Rylanna Newcomb, Meg Clarke, Morgan Heutink, Malia Mitchell, Kyleigh McVie, Saldivar and Holman.

South Whidbey beat Nooksack 2-1 despite a late goal by Khloe Mora, assisted by Becky Elmendorf.

Volleyball

In Round 7, Lynden (7-0, 7-1) held the NWC lead by beating Blaine 25-16, 25-23, 25-13. Reese Nyhoff had five aces, Finley Parcher 11 digs and eight kills, Campbell DeJong 11 digs, and Lexi Hermanutz and Sarah McVie combined for .400 hitting and 11 kills. Blaine had spirited efforts from Kaitlyn Harrington with nine digs, Tera Dube with eight digs, and Brie Smith and Hannah Phelps-McDonald with seven digs each.

Lynden coach Chris Elsner listed outstanding statistics per set by Rian Stephan, 3.7 kills, 0.8 aces and 3.2 digs; Parcher, 4.0 kills, 1.0 aces and 3.0 digs; Izzie Stephan, 9.4 assists; DeJong, 3.6 digs; and Nyhoff, serving efficiency with 15 aces and five errors.

Meridian (4-3, 4-3) beat Lynden Christian (5-2, 6-2), 25-15, 25-18, 27-25, as Eden Bernardy had 25 assists and nine digs, and Melanie Short registered 16 kills and seven digs. Grace Wells logged 34 assists and Gracie Pap had eight kills. For LC, Ellie Pierce had 10 digs and three aces, while Ella Fritts had 21 assists.

“Meridian served well. We could not counter with any sort of pressure,” said LC coach Dennis Janzen. “I’m really proud of how we battled back, especially in the third set.”

Sehome beat Sedro-Woolley 25-17, 25-22, 25-16 behind Hayden Niewiadomski with 10 kills, 10 digs and three aces, and Makenna Andrews with 10 digs and three aces. Emmy Lee and Taylor Turrell had 32 assists while six kills apiece came from Leah Lockwood, Maddie Behrends, Anya Winter and Bridgette Adams.

Squalicum (1-6, 1-7) earned its first win, 25-17, 25-19, 25-16 over Mount Baker (0-7, 0-7) behind Jolie Paz with 12 kills and eight digs and Penelope Durias with eight kills and seven digs. Jazzy Bersola had 15 assists and Alyssa Roselli had 11 assists and four aces/ For Baker, Maddi Lewis turned in four blocks and four kills, while Dakota Jimmie had three aces and Grace Zender had two blocks and two kills.

Bellingham (0-7, 0-8) lost to Anacortes 25-15, 25-16, 25-18 despite three aces, two blocks and two kills by Mary Lockhart and eight digs by Bailey Burge.

Ferndale (5-1, 6-3) and Nooksack Valley (3-3, 3-3) will need to make up a postponed match.

In Round 6, Lynden beat Mount Baker 3-0 as Cam DeJong “had a great night” as Elsner said with 15 digs and two aces. Lexi Hermanutz had nine kills and Rian Stephan had 13 kills and four aces, while Izzie Stephan had 24 assists. For Baker, Amariah Nutting had five kills.

Meridian beat Blaine 25-21, 25-14, 25-20, as Short had 12 kills and five digs, Wells had 27 assists, Eden Bernardy had 12 digs, seven kills and four aces and Rylan Bernardy had eight digs. Blaine’s Harrington had 14 digs and six kills, while Carly Saunders had 11 digs and Dube had seven kills.

Anacortes beat Lynden Christian 23-25, 25-23, 25-13, 25-9, despite eight kills by Etta DeJong and eight digs by Lyla Parreira and eight digs, 24 assists and four aces by Fritts. Pierce and Ellie Meyer had seven digs apiece.

Nooksack Valley beat Squalicum 26-24, 27-23, 25-23 in a spirited match as Eliazbeth DeLange had 17 kills and three aces to go with 35 assists, six digs and three kills by Peyton Bartl, plus eight kills and nine digs by Grace DeHoog and 15 digs and five kills by Gracie Rutgers. Paz had 14 kills and 15 digs for Squalicum, while Bronwyn Jones had 15 digs and three aces and Archer Burns had two blocks and seven kills.

Sehome topped Mount Vernon 25-14, 25-9, 25-21 as Lee had 22 assists and Turrell had 14 assists. Niewiadomski had 11 kills to go with 7 kills by Winter, six kills and four blocks by Lockwood and 13 digs and five aces by Andrews.

Burlington beat Ferndale 25-16, 25-10, 25-14 despite 15 digs by Katrina Ferry. Oak Harbor defeated Bellingham 25-23, 25-11, 21-25, 25-23.

Girls swimming

“We faced our biggest challenge of the season,” Bellingham (6-0) girls swim coach Matthew Buckmaster said of the Bayhawks’ 103-79 win over Anacortes, which extended their win streak to 15 meets.

“The team has three meets left in their bid to complete two consecutive unbeaten seasons.”

Sehome (4-0) is one of the three teams still to face Bellingham. The Mariners scored 122 points to beat Squalicum with 43, Blaine with 15 and Mount Baker with 8.

Earlier last week, Bellingham amassed 124 points to beat Ferndale with 31 and Meridian with 10, and Sehome defeated Lynden 105-63.

Bellingham 103, Anacortes 79. Bellingham winners: 200 medley relay: Bellingham (Hayes, Acord, Sorensen, Wilson) 2:02.35; 200 free: Annika Holland 2:14.50; 200 IM: Jasmine Garcia 2:36.43; 50 free -- June Wilson 28.67; 100 fly -- Sorensen 1:00.14; 100 free: Holland 1:01.75; 500 free -- Acord 5:50.18; 200 free relay: Bellingham (Nies, Hayes, Holland, Wilson) 1:58.46; 100 back: Sorensen 1:03.01; 100 breast -- Acord 1:17.81; 400 free relay: Bellingham (Windram, Holland, Acord, Sorensen) 4:02.98.

Bellingham 124, Ferndale 31, Meridian 31. 200 medley relay: Bellingham (Hayes, Acord, Sorensen, Wilson) 2:06.64; 200 free: Garcia 2:18.,57; 200 IM -- Wilson 2:56.38; 50 free: Sorensen 26.69; 1-meter diving: Aviva Weinstein 125.25 points; 100 fly -- Addy Hayes 1:21.89; 100 free: Garcia 1:00.75; 500 free: Acord 6:09.83; 200 free relay: Bellingham (Windram, Sherrer, Nies, Taysi) 2:14.76; 100 back -- Hayes 1:15.48; 100 breast: Acord 1:21.83; 400 free relay -- Bellingham (Garcia, Nies, Holland, Sorensen) 4:13.47.

Sehome 122, Squalicum 43, Blaine 15, Mount Baker 8. Winners: 200 medley relay: Sehome (Gharaei, Costanzo, VanJaarsveld, Hicks) 2:11.25; 200 free -- Elsa Ethelbach (Se) 2:35.6; 200 IM -- Sage Maden (Se) 2:44.72; 50 free -- Ayla VanJaarsveld (Se) 27.18; 1-meter diving: Laura Webb (Se) 180.50 points; 100 fly -- VanJaarsveld `1:08.64; 100 free -- Hailey Ferrell (B) 57.62; 500 free -- Ethelbach 5:46.51; 200 free relay: Sehome (Gharaei, Maden, Hicks, Ethelbah 2:00.94; 100 back -- Parnia Gharaei 1:15.15; 100 breast -- Costanzo 1:23.03; 400 free relay: Sehome (Van Jaarsveld, Ethelbah, Tellefson, Costanzo) 4:22.26.

Sehome 105, Lynden 63. Winners: 200 medley relay: Sehome (Maden, Costanzo, Van Jaarsveld, Gharaei) 2:12.48; 200 free -- Ethelbah 2:16.13; 200 IM -- Van Jaarsveld 2:35.13; 50 free -- Ella Bredeson (L) 29.09; 100 fly: Van Jaarsveld 1:11.18; 100 free: Bredeson 1:07.42; 500 free -- Ethelbah 6:10.85; 200 free relay: Sehome (Costanzo, Hicks, Tellefson, Ethelbah) 2:03.85; 100 back: Ghareai 1:15.50; 100 breast -- Costanzo 1:23.35; 400 freee relay: Sehome (Van Jaarsveld, Tellefson, Maden, Ethelbah) 4:26.45.

Cross Country

Sehome’s boys and girls scored sweeps, while Lynden Christian’s girls and Lynden’s boys won other meets.

5K at Hovander Park: Boys -- Sehome 15, Squalicum 57, Mount Baker 74. 1. Parker Norman 16:54.74; 2. Jackson Rogers 16:55.14; 3. Sebastien Valid 16:55.53; 4. Nick Gargano 16:55.79. Girls: Sehome 15, Squalicum 50, Mount Baker 100. 1. Samantha Knipp 19:45.59; 2. Lil Desler 19:45.85; 3. Sloane Clives 19:46.16; 4. Sydney Harri 19:46.65.

4K at Meridian High School. Boys -- Anacortes, Bellingham, Meridian no scores. 1. Berkeley Pass (B) 12:45.0; 3. Baynes Machinski (B) 12:52.5; 4. Reuben TeVelde (M) 12:53.2. Girls -- Anacortes, Bellingham, Meridian no scores. 1. Logan Ignacio (M) 14:49.1; 3. Nora Alexander (B) 15:59.9; 4. Zaya Smith (B) 16:05.5.

3.6K at Nooksack Middle School: Boys: Lynden Christian 23, Lynden 30, Nooksack Valley inc. 1. Nickolas Luce (LC)( 12:02.50; 2. Larson Rische (LC) 12:37.60; 3. Colby Honcoop (LC) 12:41.20, 4. Peter Tamminga (L) 12:43.10. Girls: Lynden 19, Lynden Christian 36, Nooksack inc. 1. Sloan Dickson (L) 13:35.60; 2. Lucy Palmer (Lyn) 14:56.0; 3. Jorja Dyk (Lyn) 15:05.10; 4. Ella Vos (LC) 16:13.90.

Boys tennis

Through matches of Friday, Oct. 4, Sehome was 10-0, Bellingham 10-1, Squalicum 5-4, Ferndale 2-7, and Lynden 2-7.

Sehome 7, Oak Harbor 0: Winners: Harley Kaiser, Zachary Chai, Justin Barras, E.J. Lin, Christian Leon/Sean Lane, Ethan Kuzin/Jae-Yoon Lee, Joshua Friesen/Quinn Crocheron. Sehome 5, Bellingham 2: Winners: Jacob Kuhn (B) Chai, Barras, Yee, Leon/Lane, Friesen/Crocheron, Kaiden Whitman/Owen Bloom. Sehome 7, Lynden 0. Winners: Kaiser, Chai, Barras, Lee, Leon/Lane, Crocheron/Friesen, Kuzin/Boudreaux. Bellingham 7, Squalicum 0: Winners: J. Kuhn, L. Kuhn, Aaron Minter, Marcus Hinderman, Caleb Imbach/Nate Lyon, Taylor Watts/Colin Mannen; Whitmore/Bloom. Bellingham 7, Mount Vernon 0. Winners: J. Kuhn, L. Kuhn, Minter, Hinderman, Lyon/Imbach, Watts/Mannen, Whitmore/Bloom.

Oak Harbor 4, Squalicum 3. Squalicum winners: Andy Trinh, Colin West, Benjamin Ahn. Ferndale 4, Sedro-Wooley 3. Ferndale winners: Jonas Carpenter, Paulo Ferreria, Mason Helt, Eathan Feaster. Squalicum 6, Ferndale 1. Winners: Carpenter, Ahn, West, Henry Walker, Brandon Le/Andy Trinh, Hudson Daughters/Jackson Legoe, Christopher Le/Owen Slind. Mount Vernon 6, Ferndale 1. Ferndale winner: Helt. Anacortes 7, Lynden 0.

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