Fireworks are usually associated with another national holiday, but the Ferndale and Mount Baker boys basketball teams started their Memorial Day contest with an explosive offensive display that lit up the scoreboard. It was the undefeated Golden Eagles, however, who kept up the hot shooting and pulled away for an 81-67 Northwest Conference victory on … Read more
Two full weeks into the season, Whatcom County teams already are showing where the power is in the Northwest Conference. Three of the four squads that are unbeaten in league play are north of the Skagit County line: Lynden Christian, Ferndale, and Lynden. And two more, Sehome and Blaine, are lurking behind with just one … Read more
The season is barely two weeks old, and already it’s a third of the way over. But has been long enough to show the strength of our Whatcom County teams. Undefeated defending Class 1A state champion Lynden Christian is again at the top of the Northwest Conference standings after passing a pair of big tests … Read more
The Lynden girls basketball team has faith in its defense, and it showed in the Lions’ 51-23 victory Friday night over the Squalicum Storm. Of course, it didn’t hurt just to have Faith. Faith Baar, the Lions’ 6-foot-1 senior center, who had been quarantined during Lynden’s first four games, collected game-highs of 15 points and … Read more
The Meridian and Sehome girls basketball teams learned an important lesson in weaponry: Many little guns are better than one big gun, especially when the little guns play really good defense. The Trojans used their balanced four-guard offense to offset a big game by the Mariners’ Ava Lunny and hand Sehome its first loss of … Read more
The Sehome and Squalicum boys basketball teams learned that nothing comes free and easy when Northwest Conference rivals square off. For Sehome, the 59-51 victory on Tuesday night, May 25, was anything but easy as the host Mariners had to fight off the winless Storm again and again to stay unbeaten. “We want to play … Read more
Four Whatcom County boys basketball teams sit atop the standings with Lynden Christian, Lynden, Ferndale and Sehome among the six undefeated teams in the Northwest Conference after the first week of play. As perennial state powers, the Lyncs and Lions are no surprise, winning all six of their games by at least 19 points. But … Read more
After just one full week of play for the girls, the Northwest Conference favorites already are separating themselves with Lynden Christian, Ferndale and Sehome among the five undefeated squads. Close behind are Nooksack Valley and Lynden, which has dropped two close games despite being without key players who are soon coming back. Both the Pioneers … Read more
If you look hard enough, there are lots of victories that can be found in any basketball game as the Lynden and Bellingham boys found out Friday night, May 21. Lynden earned the biggest victory, jumping to a big lead and then leaving the Bellingham gym with a 69-50 win. The Lions are now 3-0 … Read more
Sometimes the score tells the whole story, and in a way the Nooksack Valley girls’ 64-16 victory over visiting Blaine did just that. The talented and deep Pioneers, one of the top Class 1A teams in the state, played the kind of defense the Seahawks’ Legion of Boom would be proud of in stifling the … Read more
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