The Cougars cross country teams tend to have one thing in common: performing their best at the end of the season.
While that may not have been case at the Cascade Conference meet Oct. 23, the Cougars will still move on.
Rachel Cundy didn’t know she was winning.
“I couldn’t tell until my coach (Jeff Sowards) told me I was leading around the second mile,” said the Lakewood junior.
The Eagles’ 2-1 loss to the Warriors was just another sign of improvement.
Arlington started a comeback, but couldn’t finish it at Edmonds Stadium Oct. 12, but showed a patience that can only come with experience.
Eagles coach Melissa Thompson could see it coming.
“We came so close earlier this week (against Snohomish) that I thought if we worked hard all week, we’d get the win,” Thompson said after Arlington defeated Stanwood 3-1, Oct. 7.
The Eagles kept pace with Snohomish just two days earlier, but didn’t come out with the win.
ARLINGTON — Now is about the time for Arlington coach Sean Cunningham to start thinking about the regional and district tournament.
That’s why in matches such as Oct. 7, when Arlington lost 6-1 to Lake Stevens, he will be looking for which pieces worked well together.
The Eagles made it clear that they didn’t want another close game with the Spartans.
Scoring on a 62-yard pass on the first play of the game, Arlington went on to dominate Stanwood 29-14 and reclaim the Stilly Cup Oct. 9.
The Cougars learned a valuable lesson they’ll need in the playoffs this season — how to close games.
Lakewood took a 35-27 lead into the fourth quarter against King’s, but a few miscues on defense and special teams led to a 46-43 Knights victory Oct. 9.
Greg Dailer will take an old-fashioned blowout any day of the week over a slugfest.
Unfortunately for the Arlington head coach, that’s what happens when two teams playing high caliber football like the Eagles and Lake Stevens Vikings do when they get together.
The Cougars threw just about everything they could at the Wildcats.
In a battle of the Cascade Conference’s top football teams Oct. 1, Lakewood lost a wild one to Archbishop Murphy 35-28, though it wasn’t for lack of effort — or creativity.
Arlington girls soccer manager Nathan Davis sees the same potential in this year’s team as he saw in his 2009 squad.
It was at the halfway point of last season that the Eagles won five of their final seven matches to come within just a point of the final district playoff spot.
Lakewood goal keeper Miranda Head has a routine when the whistle is blown at the end of a second overtime and the match is to be decided by a shootout.
ARLINGTON — A battle of conflicting fighting styles will be on display at the Emerald Queen Casino Oct. 30 as Arlington MMA fighter Matt Kovacs will defend his CageSport Heavyweight Championship title against Nick Braker.
ARLINGTON — At one point in the fourth quarter, Riley Cobb was hunched over, gasping for every breath before the next play.
“He’s an animal back there,” Arlington coach Greg Dailer said about his halfback. “He feels tired back there, but when the ball snaps he’s right back in it.”
