Mount Si wrestling beats Patriots, Totems in makeup date
February 1, 2012
By Sebastian Moraga Mount Si’s Tanner Stahl, in red, wrestles Zach Toombs, of Liberty High School, Jan. 28 at Bellevue High. Stahl won on points, 9-5. Mount Si prevailed over the Patriots and then demolished the Sammamish Totems the same day. Next for the ‘Cats is the league championship Feb. 3 and 4.
Six points. Six little points.
The Mount Si High School Wildcats were one forfeit away from fulfilling Aaron Peterson’s challenge.
On Jan. 28, the 145-pounder challenged his teammates to shut out the Sammamish Totems.
Bellevue basketball breaks Wildcats’ hearts with OT victory
February 1, 2012
The Mount Si High School Wildcats lost an overtime thriller to the Bellevue Wolverines in Bellevue Jan. 30, 52-49.
“It’s the hardest loss I have taken as a coach in nearly 10 years,” Wildcats head coach Steve Helm said.
The Wildcats had two chances to tie the game, first with 12 seconds left and two free throws that would not drop in, and then with a trey at the buzzer that rimmed off.
“The boys left it all on the floor,” Helm said. “Usually, you do get the win on the scoreboard, but tonight we didn’t.”
Players were in tears afterward in the locker room, he added.
Mount Si led at halftime, with brilliant performances by Anthony McLaughlin, Levi Botten and Ryan Atkinson.
In the second half, Bellevue turned it around, but the Wildcats kept battling.
Mount Si basketball star overcomes injury, gets herself back in the game
January 25, 2012
By Bob Wachtendonk/A Moment In Time Fotography Jordan Riley, Mount Si High School’s 6-foot senior post, puts up a shot Dec. 20 against Nathan Hale High School, won by the Wildcats, 60-39.
It was the week after Christmas 2010. The Mount Si Lady Wildcats basketball team was facing off against the Shorewood High School Thunderbirds in the KingCo WestCo Challenge Tournament.
In the second quarter, Jordan Riley had gone up for a lay-in just as a defending player hit her knee from the inside. That’s when the tell-tale popping noise indicated something had gone wrong, and she fell immediately.
Standout kicker Cameron Vanwinkle dreams big, works hard
January 25, 2012
So the snowstorm had a plus side to it, after all.
At least it did for Cameron Vanwinkle.
The power outages kept the Mount Si High School junior and record-breaking kicker from watching one of his heroes stumble on national television.
As part of his education as a kicker, Vanwinkle has attended kicking camps directed by Billy Cundiff.
Photo by Calder Productions Mount Si High School junior Cameron Vanwinkle, in action for the Wildcats, has caught the eye of some big universities thanks to his kicking and punting prowess.
Cundiff, the Baltimore Ravens kicker, missed a 32-yard kick Jan. 22 that kept his team from advancing to the Super Bowl.
“I was a little surprised,” he said of hearing about Cundiff’s mishap. “The pressure must have gotten to him.”
The student of the game, and of kicking in particular, has other hypotheses as to what might have happened.
Games rescheduled
January 25, 2012
Basketball games against Lake Washington postponed due to the snowstorm have been rescheduled as a doubleheader for Feb. 3. Games start at 5:45 and 7:30 p.m.
The games against Interlake are set for 6:30 and 8 p.m. Jan. 28 at home.
Wrestling meets have been rescheduled. The meet against Mercer Island was scheduled to take place Jan. 26, and the meet against Sammamish will occur 1:30 p.m. Jan. 28 at Bellevue High School.
Check start times at www.mountsihighschool.com to confirm.
Wildcats are nominated for academic award
January 18, 2012
The Seattle-King County chapter of the National Football Foundation tapped Mount Si High School’s Brian Copeland and Connor Deutsch as nominees for its 2011 Scholar Athlete award.
The foundation will choose finalists and then announce two winners 10 a.m. Feb.12 at CenturyLink Field.
Five line players and five skill players from Western Washington have been nominated.
Wildcats’ basketball shows some improvement in away loss to Islanders
January 18, 2012
Jason Smith, Mount Si High School junior forward, looks for an outlet pass as Mercer Island junior guard Nick Nordale defends at the end of the first half of their Jan. 13 basketball game. By Greg Farrar
A month ago, Mercer Island beat the Wildcats by 22 points.
Wildcats escape Saints
January 11, 2012
Mount Si’s AJ Brevick wrestles 2011 state runner-up Jacob Marks Jan. 5. Brevick trailed 12-8 in the third round before pinning Marks with eight seconds left. By Sebastian Moraga
Mount Si High School Wildcats’ assistant coach Brad Rorem had called it prior to the match: It was going to be a close one.
So, imagine his surprise and the crowd’s when the Wildcats’ wrestling team jumped to a 24-0 lead over Interlake, winning its first three matches by pins and the next two on points.
Exchange students reach for new heights in gymnastics team
January 11, 2012
From Denmark and Italy, exchange students Tatjana Bertram and Caterina Zita landed in Snoqualmie. And they stuck the landing.
Bertram and Zita joined the Mount Si High School gymnastics team after never having tried gymnastics before.
Bertram, from Denmark, was a boxer, a swimmer and a handball player in her native country. Zita practiced ballet, sailing and skiing in Italy.
Both said they wanted to try something new.
By Sebastian Moraga Tatjana Bertram (left) and Caterina Zita are two of four exchange students in this year’s Mount Si High School gymnastics squad.
Both said this “something new” was harder than they thought it would be.
“You need a lot of muscle and you need to be in pretty good shape,” said Bertram, a senior who arrived in Snoqualmie Aug. 17.
Although new to the sport, both Bertram and Zita said they liked how the rest of the team welcomed them.
Josh Mitchell climbed a mountain to reach the top of high school wrestling
January 4, 2012
Mount Si High School's 6-foot-4, 285-pound Josh Mitchell, top center, wants to repeat as state champion and go undefeated in his final high-school wrestling season before beginning his college football career at Oregon State University. By Dean Rutz/The Seattle Times
Josh Mitchell is the perfect poster boy for the Mount Si High School wrestling program.
Coaches like detailing his rags-to-riches story, how one of the top state’s wrestlers started his high school career near the bottom.
Mitchell won only a handful of matches his freshman year, when senior standout Ryan Ransavage convinced him to give the sport a try.
