In an electric game played by the Orcas Vikings against the Lopez Lobos on Saturday, Jan, 10 at Orcas high school, the Vikings prevailed in overtime 54-48.
The Orcas Christian High School is getting ready for its annual trip to Mexcio, where the students do mission work.
After 10 years with the county, one of them pushing a broom and nine of them recording legal documents at the auditor’s office, Diane Timm’s fellow employees brought savories and sweets to celebrate her final days on the job.
Orcas High School Sailing Team competes
In order to give a little background about the game during basketball season, this is the second – and final – installment in a series about the history and rules of basketball.
All sports, whether played with a ball, pins, darts, marbles, bones or rocks, come with a set of rules by which the game should be played as well as a set of penalties if the game is not played the way it is prescribed.
Due to freezing temperatures and snowstorms, many basketball games on both Orcas and Lopez Island were postponed for the week of Dec. 15 – Dec. 22. For more information on the schedules, please go to: http://oihssports.olinesports.com/ and http://www.lopez.k12.wa.us/.
Coach Dennis Dahl, Orcas High School football coach, was named this week to the Washington State High School Football ‘Coaches Hall of Fame’ for a Lifetime Achievement award. Coach Dahl, who came to Orcas in 1990 and has been coaching the Orcas varsity football team for 19 years, will be inducted into the Washington State Coaches Hall of Fame at the winter clinic in Bellevue, Washington, on Jan. 24, 2009.
The history of basketball and the rules of the game are fairly well known throughout the United States, and indeed, most of the world, but an interesting fact about the game is that it was invented by a Canadian, James Naismith.
Starting in August, the cheering squad of Lopez High School practices four times a week, for two hours at a time, preparing not only for football season, but basketball as well.
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) announced the 2008 Northwest All-League teams this week. For Orcas Island, the selections, representing offensive and defensive teams, are:
2008 was a prolific and fruitful year for football, soccer and volleyball at Lopez High School.
Lopez citizen scientists invite the community to join them on Sunday, Dec. 28 at Lopez Center for “Salmon-ation,” a celebration and recap of their first year of research on south end salmon nurseries.
After playing on Tuesday and losing to the Lummi nation basketball team 57-75, the game between the Lopez Lobos and the Tulalip Hawks was a physical and intense battle from the get-go.