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B WednesdayOctober 10, 2012

Above, Mia Liang (left), 6, of Seattle, and Maya Smith, 5, of Sammamish, devour their waffle ice cream cones. At right, Charlie Kester, lead singer for the 1980’s band Charlie and the Tunas, performs with bandmates for the first time since 1995 in a one-time reunion Saturday on the Rainier Boulevard Stage.

Austin Ward, Charlie Meissner, Alexa Meyer and Courtney Koski (from left) finish their visit to Salmon Days as thousands of visitors remain on Sunset Way on a warm and sunny Saturday.

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Amber Lee, Issaquah

High School junior, plays

flute with the Eagles’

marching band.

Abdallah El Mhajib (left) and Mustapha Ajjab, Chefchaouen, Morocco, sister city councilmen, ride past the mural of historic Pickering Barn on the Darigold building during the Grande Parade.

Jared Rosas (left), 14, of Sammamish, and Jonathan Seto, 14, of Klahanie, are the last two of four players battling in the inflatable joust ring on the Field of Fun.

Above, Coho the

Kid, made of hundreds

of three-inch tissue

squares, greets

Festival visitors at

Front Street and Sunset

Way. At right, Anna Bassett, 8,

of Maple Valley,

enjoys a Fall City Pony & Horse Farm ride on the

Field of Fun.

Above, Salmon Days visitors stand on the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery footbridge watching chinook return to spawn. At right, Noureddine Afia, a visiting Moroccan artist, helps Vrinda Satyavolu, 8, of Issaquah, lift a stencil after she traced it for a painting project.

By Christina [email protected]

Coming off of two straight losses and with an injury list that grew longer by the minute, nothing had been easy for the Liberty High School football team.

Still, the Patriots con-tinued to persevere and put in the work during practice, Liberty coach Steve Valach said.

On Oct. 5, the hard work paid off as a de-termined Liberty team knocked off Sammamish, 50-7, to bring their re-cord to an even 3-3.

The Patriots had the game in hand by the end of the first quarter, when Liberty put up 36 points behind a strong rushing attack.

Tynan Gilmore put Liberty on the board first with a 26-yard rushing touchdown. On Liberty’s next possession, he did it again with a 22-yard score.

Sophomore Russell Boston rushed for two touchdowns and quar-

terback Kasper Lui Delange, who rarely had to throw the ball thanks to Liberty’s successful running game, rushed for another.

Liberty would go on to add yet another score, when Scott Dean ran for a 93-yard touchdown in the third quarter.

The Liberty running backs were finding holes all night after strong play by their offensive line, anchored by sophomore center Nate Jarvis.

“We just kept pushing,” Jarvis said. “If we keep pushing, the backs can get through the hole and score touchdowns, and that’s what we did all night.”

The Patriot defense played lights out, forcing four three-and-outs in the first half alone. Dean also returned an inter-ception for a 65-yard score.

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It’s homecoming time again and here’s what’s on the docket for Issaquah and Liberty high schools this week.

The theme for Liberty High School’s spirit week is “Lights, Camera, Liberty!” Students are dressing up all week at school and break-ing out their spirit wear for Friday’s LHS Color War. Before the big game, catch the annual homecoming parade, which will begin at Maywood Middle School at 4 p.m. Oct. 12.

Liberty’s football team kicks off against Mercer Is-land at Liberty High School at 7 p.m. The week caps off Saturday night, Oct. 13, with the homecoming dance from 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Issaquah High School is going James Bond with the theme of “Undercover and Over Dressed.” On Wednes-day, Oct. 10, students are invited to dress up with their “partner in crime” for Twin Day, and later that night check out the Issaquah High School The-ater at 7 p.m. for Home-coming Lip Sync.

The following day stu-dents can swap identities by dressing as their favorite celebrity or friend. That night, cram the stands at the school gym to support Issaquah Special Olympians at the 6:30 p.m. Project Uni-fy Basketball Game. Break out the tux for Friday’s final dress-up day or get a tux-edo T-shirt for $10 at lunch, with all proceeds benefiting Special Olympics.

The homecoming football game at Issaquah High School’s Gary Moore Sta-dium kicks off at 7 p.m. Then, dance the night away at the homecoming dance, from 8:30-11 p.m. Oct. 13.

By Lillian O’[email protected]

In the middle of the third game of the Oct. 2 volley-ball match, Skyline High School’s Molly Mounsey came from behind the middle and outside hitters to drive a set from Meghan Wedeking straight past Inglemoor’s blockers.

“It’s not the traditional one,” said Mounsey, who was beaming afterward about her perfectly ex-ecuted attack. “It’s not something the blockers on the other team expect us to do, so it can be more suc-cessful.”

That kill by 6-foot, 1-inch Mounsey was one of many successful three-touch plays that led the Skyline Spartans to secure the win against the Inglemoor Vi-kings within the first three games.

“We are a tall team,” coach Callie Wesson said.

Seven of Skyline’s play-ers are between the height of 5 feet 10-inches and 6 feet 2-inches. Inglemoor has three.

“We have a lot of hitting options, blocking options — being able to use that height to our advantage is our biggest asset,” Wesson

said.The Vikings struggled

to gain control in the first game and sent several freeballs over the net. And the Spartans capitalized on the soft returns, transition-ing into place to carry out various plays. With point after point going up on the scoreboard for Skyline, the deficit between the two teams continued to grow until it reached a victorious 25-13.

“They know what needs to happen when you get certain balls, like free-balls,” Wesson said, who added she was impressed that the plays the team runs in practice came au-tomatic during the match. “It’s nice to see that they are learning in practice … We want to serve tough at everybody and definitely pass well, because once we do that we can run all of our hitting options.”

The Spartans started the second game off with a scoring run, rolling out seven straight points that included an ace by server Katy Valencia. The sopho-more at Skyline kept the run going during one rally when she dove on the floor for a save. With the assistance of senior Kennedy Stoat, the ball was kept alive and the

Spartans spike another foe,

stay unbeaten

Schools host homecoming

festivities

Above, Molly Mounsey (left), Skyline High School junior middle blocker, and Halle

Erdahl, senior outside hitter, go up to hit back a volley by

Inglemoor junior Julia Howard for a point during the second

set. The Spartans won, 25-13, 25-14, 25-11. At left, Crystal

Anderson, Skyline High School junior outside hitter, digs an Inglemoor volley during the

second set.

PHOTOS BY GREG FARRAR

play continued.The Vikings attempted a

comeback later in the game when Skyline sent over a few sloppy freeballs. But a kill here and a kill there was not enough to catch

By John [email protected]

While Newport and Sky-line appear to be running away with possible KingCo 4A volleyball titles, other teams like Issaquah are toiling just to contend and keep up.

“Newport is probably the most organized and well-drilled squad in this league, but Skyline most likely is the better team as far as sheer physical size,” Issaquah head coach Todd Parsons said recently.

“Giants rule in the world of volleyball and we don’t have nearly as many six footers on our squad as the Knights (5-0 in league) and the Spartans (5-1 in league).

“But despite the recent absence of senior setter Nina Moore, who had her tonsils out two weeks ago, I think we are going to be all right,” he added. “Eight out of the 11 squads in this conference go to the playoffs, and despite our lack of real size, we are playing .500 volleyball

right now.”Issaquah has prevailed

against Ballard, Bothell and Woodinville.

The last regular sea-son game for Issaquah is against Skyline at 7 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Eagles Nest.

Meanwhile in the KingCo 3A/2A, Liberty has had a frustrating see-saw, sometimes-on sometimes-off trials and tribulations

this season, in a confer-ence that features Mercer Island (8-0, 11-0) and everybody else.

One of the Patriots’ more memorable matches came a week ago, when they locked horns with nemesis Bellevue who has the same 4-4 league mark.

Liberty took the first set, 25-17, and then the Wolverines captured the second set by the same score, reflecting the type of season Liberty has struggled through. After Liberty surged forward

to take the third match, Bellevue earned the win in the fourth set to push the match to a sudden-death pressure cooker.

Liberty battled for the conquest and pounded the final nail into Bellevue’s coffin, 15-12. The win seemed to fuel Liberty. In the Oct. 4 matchup with Juanita —thanks to the 30 assists of Malia Parilla, the 21 kills of Krista Merca, and the combined 23 kills of Delane Agnew and Jessi-ca Pickering — the Patriots put together a win, 3-1.

Eagles struggle to keep up with league leadersVOLLEYBALL

ROUNDUP

By John [email protected]

The stars appeared to be in perfect alignment for most of the Issaquah School District’s KingCo football squads last weekend, as Skyline and Liberty won handily Oct. 5. The next night, Issaquah’s Eagles traveled to Memo-rial Stadium in Seattle to take on Garfield, where they overwhelmed the Bull-dogs, 40-0.

Skyline kept its league accounting to an untar-nished 3-0, when it hosted Ballard Oct. 5, demoral-izing the visitors, 64-17, to stay abreast of undefeated nemesis Newport in the league standings.

The lopsided triumph over Ballard also elevated the Spartans’ overall record to an unblemished 6-0 as they continued to humiliate their adversar-ies, as they had in the pre-vious five outings. Skyline is currently averaging a formidable 58 points per

contest, while relinquishing one-third that many points to its “competition.”

Skyline bounded out to a 51-17 halftime advantage, mostly behind the arm of senior Spartan quarterback Max Browne, who tossed three touchdowns in the first half. One came in the initial stanza on a 23-yard rainbow to Andrew Giese, while the other tandem of touchdown tosses came in the second frame and were aerials of four and 15 yards to Trevor Barney.

Browne, who played sparingly in the second 24 minutes of the deci-sive victory over Ballard, was recently honored by an invitation to represent Skyline High School in the 2013 U.S. Army All-

FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

See FOOTBALL, Page B5

Skyline juggernaut steamrolls Garfield

BY GREG FARRAR

Scott Dean (right), Liberty High School senior defen-sive back, picks up a block from teammate Max Hill on Sammamish junior quarterback Allen Terrence, who threw the interception to Dean for his 65-yard touchdown as time expired at the half.

Patriots pound Sammamish

See PATRIOTS, Page B5

See VOLLEYBALL, Page B5