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PREP FOOTBALL Rivalry revenge Lynden’s defense limited Ferndale’s Wing-T rushing attack to 192 yards and held the Golden Eagles scoreless until midway through the fourth quarter as the Lions earned a 34-7 rivalry victory on Friday night. (Cameron Van Til/Lynden Tribune) Lynden’s defense shuts down Ferndale for resounding win in annual rivalry game By Cameron Van Til [email protected] FERNDALE — A year ago, Ferndale celebrat- ed on Lynden’s home turf after riding its Wing- T rushing attack to a 37-35 upset victory that snapped the top-ranked Lions’ 33-game win- ning streak and ended their five-year reign atop the rivalry. Lynden was not about to let the Golden Ea- gles celebrate two years in a row. “There was definitely a lot of extra motiva- tion, because we had so many returning start- ers,” senior linebacker Jensen Mayberry said. “We all really wanted to be able to get revenge.” The Lions did just that — and in resounding fashion. Lynden’s defense held Ferndale scoreless until midway through the fourth quarter and se- nior quarterback Sterling Somers accounted for four touchdowns as the Lions earned a 34-7 win Friday night at Ferndale High School in What- com County’s biggest annual football rivalry. “The last couple weeks, we felt like we turned the corner (in) lots of different ways,” Lynden head coach Curt Kramme said. “And to- night was kind of the culmination of that. “We knew Ferndale was a quality team, but we also suspected if we came out and played like we’ve been seeing in practice and the last couple games that we’d have a great chance. It was a to- tal team effort.” Lynden’s defense has struggled to defend the run at times over the past year — one of the primary instances being the 292 yards it surren- dered in last season’s loss to Ferndale. But the Lions (5-2, 4-1 Northwest Conference) buckled down on Friday and made things awfully dif- ficult for a multifaceted Ferndale ground attack that featured two of the top six leading rushers in See Lions on B3
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LAUREL — Meridian senior running back Nick Dritsas rushed for five touch-downs and head coach Bob Ames earned his 300th career victory as the Trojans celebrated homecoming with a 41-18 rout of Lynden Christian on Friday night. Ames, in his 42nd season as head coach of the Trojans, became just the sec-ond high school football coach in Wash-ington state history to reach the 300-win mark, joining Tumwater’s Sid Otton (378 victories). A 2012 Washington Coaches Associ-ation Hall of Fame inductee, the 70-year-old Ames has led Meridian to three state championships (1999, 2003, 2006) and 22 state playoff appearances. Dritsas finished with 220 yards on 21 carries for an average of 10.5 yards per rush. Combined with the five touch-downs he scored in Meridian’s Sept. 26 victory over LC, Dritsas now has 10 touchdowns in two games against the Lyncs this season. Dritsas snapped a scoreless tie mid-way through the second quarter with a 24-yard touchdown run. Then after Da-kota Jones came up with an interception and hauled in a 27-yard fake punt pass from Daniel Young, Dritsas scored on a six-yard run to give the Trojans (4-3, 3-1 Northwest Conference) a 14-0 halftime lead. Dritsas added a 55-yard touch-down dash in the third quarter to make it 21-0 before LC senior quarterback Lu-cas Roetcisoender tossed an eight-yard touchdown pass to Nate Hielkema for the Lyncs’ first score of the game. Meridian pushed its lead to 28-6 in the fourth quarter on a three-yard touch-down run by Dritsas, which senior quar-terback Simon Burkett set up with a 28-yard run. Then after Roetcisoender ran for a 16-yard score, Dritsas answered with a 55-yard touchdown run — his fifth score of the night — to extend the Trojans’ lead to 41-12. Meridian totaled 369 yards rush-ing at an average of nine yards per carry. Tony Schleimer finished with 53 yards rushing, while Burkett and Marcus Mc-Guinn added 45 apiece. Aside from a 17-yard fake punt run by LC’s Jake Poag, Meridian held the Lyncs (4-3, 1-3) to just 63 yards rushing on 29 carries. Roetcisoender was lim-ited to 6-of-21 passing for 181 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. Hielkema finished with three recep-tions for 89 yards and a score, while Zach Roetcisoender caught two passes for 83 yards, including a 37-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter.

Mount Baker 57, Nooksack Valley 14 EVERSON — Mount Baker senior quarterback Mason Bass threw for 228 yards and a pair of long touchdowns to Thomas Barbo as the 1A No. 5-ranked Mountaineers rolled to a 57-14 road win over Nooksack Valley on Friday night. Bass made the most out of his 11 pass attempts, completing seven while connecting with Barbo for a 58-yard touchdown on the game’s first snap and for a 45-yard score in the second quarter. Barbo finished with three catches for 150 yards. Junior running back Jed Schleimer — who ran for a state-record 521 yards and six touchdowns in the teams’ prior meeting three weeks ago — finished with 122 yards rushing and first-quarter touchdown runs of four and two yards as the Mountaineers (6-1, 4-0 Northwest Conference) raced to a 43-6 halftime lead. Vadim Kotsyuba ran for 67 yards and two touchdowns on five carries, adding to a Mount Baker rushing attack that to-taled 290 yards on the ground. Bass also scored on a one-yard run and Cronk ran for a five-yard score. The Mountaineers held Nooksack Valley (0-7, 0-4) to 270 yards of offense, including just 24 yards rushing on 13 car-ries. Nooksack Valley sophomore quar-terback Casey Bauman finished 20-of-37 passing for 239 yards and two touchdown passes — a 54-yarder to Joe McNeely in the first quarter and an 18-yarder to Tre Silva in the fourth. McNeely hauled in six passes for 79 yards, while Kyle Veldman had five recep-tions for 79 yards.

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Lynden’s defense limited Ferndale’s Wing-T rushing attack to 192 yards and held the Golden Eagles scoreless until midway through the fourth quarter as the Lions earned a 34-7 rivalry victory on Friday night.(CameronVanTil/LyndenTribune)

WHATCOM — For the first time in program history, the Lynden girls’ soccer team is postseason-bound. The Lions clinched a spot in the 2A District 1 tournament with a 3-0 win over Bellingham on Thursday, led by a pair of goals from sophomore Sierra Smith. Lynden (11-1-1, 8-0-1 Northwest Conference) currently sits at second place in the 2A league standings with 25 points. Even if the Lions lose each of their final three matches of the regular season and Bellingham (7-6-1, 6-3-1) wins both of its remaining matches, Lynden, at worst, would finish tied with the Red Raiders for the fourth and final district playoff spot. And with Thursday’s victory, the Lions hold the head-to-head tiebreaker. Smith began the scoring with a 17th-minute goal off an assist from Kali Spady. Three minutes later, Jasmyne Neria netted another Lynden goal, as-sisted by Emily Holt. Smith scored her second goal of the match and team-

high 16th of the season in the 75th minute off an assist from Erin Fiebig. On Oct. 13, Kali Spady netted a pair of goals as Lynden earned a 4-1 win over Anacortes. Smith and Peyton Fullner each tallied a goal and an assist apiece, and Neria added an assist. Lynden has won eight straight matches, 11 out of its last 12 and hasn’t lost since a season-opening non-league defeat to Ferndale on Sept. 8. Lynden Christian (5-9-1, 3-7-1) is closing in on the NWC 1A’s No. 2 seed after winning two of its three matches last week. The Lyncs (10 points) are in second place and hold a three-point lead in the standings over Mount Baker (seven points), which wraps up its reg-ular-season slate this week with difficult matches against Ferndale and Bellingham. LC began last week with a 5-3 loss to Sedro-Woolley on Oct. 13 in

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Lynden’s defense shuts down Ferndale for resounding win in annual rivalry gameBy Cameron Van [email protected]

FERNDALE — A year ago, Ferndale celebrat-ed on Lynden’s home turf after riding its Wing-T rushing attack to a 37-35 upset victory that snapped the top-ranked Lions’ 33-game win-ning streak and ended their five-year reign atop the rivalry. Lynden was not about to let the Golden Ea-

gles celebrate two years in a row. “There was definitely a lot of extra motiva-tion, because we had so many returning start-ers,” senior linebacker Jensen Mayberry said. “We all really wanted to be able to get revenge.” The Lions did just that — and in resounding fashion. Lynden’s defense held Ferndale scoreless until midway through the fourth quarter and se-nior quarterback Sterling Somers accounted for four touchdowns as the Lions earned a 34-7 win Friday night at Ferndale High School in What-com County’s biggest annual football rivalry. “The last couple weeks, we felt like we turned the corner (in) lots of different ways,” Lynden head coach Curt Kramme said. “And to-

night was kind of the culmination of that. “We knew Ferndale was a quality team, but we also suspected if we came out and played like we’ve been seeing in practice and the last couple games that we’d have a great chance. It was a to-tal team effort.” Lynden’s defense has struggled to defend the run at times over the past year — one of the primary instances being the 292 yards it surren-dered in last season’s loss to Ferndale. But the Lions (5-2, 4-1 Northwest Conference) buckled down on Friday and made things awfully dif-ficult for a multifaceted Ferndale ground attack that featured two of the top six leading rushers in

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LC girls’ cross country returns four runners from team that finished third at last year’s state championshipsBy Cameron Van [email protected]

LYNDEN — As Lynden Christian head coach Darren Postma explains, having a tight pack of runners is key to a cross country team’s success. The Lyncs last year were a case in point. Despite not having a top-10 finisher at last season’s 1A state champi-onships, the LC girls’ cross country team earned third place, the program’s highest finish at state in 27 years. Sarah Ball led the way with an 18th-place finish, while Brandy Bruneau (36th), Brianna Bruneau (37th) and Taylor Ten Pas (38th) finished back-to-back-to-back and McKenzie Young rounded out the Lyncs’ scoring at 47th place. “Basically, you want your gap between one and five to be as tight as

possible,” Postma said. “That really helps with scoring.” LC returned four of its top five runners this season, but after losing Young to graduation, a major key was finding a fifth runner to fill the gap. Enter Brooke Berendsen. The junior is in her third year of cross country with the Lyncs, but has been hampered by injuries the previous two seasons. This year, she’s healthy and finally able to unleash her potential. “She spent half her time on the exercise bicycle and elliptical and stuff like that,” Postma said of Berendsen’s last two seasons. “So we’re seeing some definite, dramatic jumps in her times because she’s been healthy this year, so that’s been great. “She’s kind of the missing piece of our five-piece puzzle that we had to put together.” With its top five runners solidified, LC has a strong leader in Ball fol-lowed by a compact foursome of the Bruneau twins, Ten Pas and Berend-sen. “After Sarah, we have four girls that run within 10 seconds of each oth-er for many of the races,” Postma said. “So they kind of run as a pack, and

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OBItUARIESMary Nelson Mary Lee Nelson passed away at home on Sept. 30, 2015, with her loving hus-band Grant and son David by her side. M a r y was born on Dec. 7, 1926, in B r o c k t o n , Illinois, to p a r e n t s Lloyd and Velma Spit-tler. She graduated from Fair-mont High School and then spent a year in Washington, D.C., as a “government girl” during the last year of World War II. She then attended the University of Illinois where she met her soon-to-be hus-band, Grant W. Nelson. Fol-lowing graduation she had a one-year internship at Stan-ford University in California. She was a dietitian at the Uni-versity of Chicago hospital while Grant attended dental school. They married in 1952 following Grant’s gradua-tion from dental school and moved to Ferndale for Grant to begin his dental practice. Mary Lee stayed home and raised their two chil-dren, Nancy Lee and David Alan. She was both a Cub Scout leader and a Camp

Fire Girl leader. The entire family traveled extensively in the United States and to for-eign countries. Mary Lee en-joyed her family very much. She also enjoyed cooking, gardening, having a pet cat, knitting, playing bridge, swing dancing and games of any sort. And she loved trips in the family motorhome. Mary Lee was a member of the United Church of Fern-dale, chapter BQ P.E.O., the Tillicum Club and numerous bridge clubs. Mary Lee is survived by her loving husband, Grant; her son, David, his wife Yele-nia and step-daughter Katy; her daughter, Nancy Lee Iacolucci and her husband Dan, along with their chil-dren Christopher and Al-exa; her sister Norma Deane Phelps and her grandchil-dren Katy, Alexa and Chris-topher. Mary Lee was preced-ed in death by her parents, Lloyd and Velma Spittler; and her sister, Betty Jane Tetero. Mary’s memorial service will be held on Oct. 31, 2015, at 10 a.m in United Church of Ferndale. Please visit www.moles-farewelltributes.com to leave memories and condolences.

Jack Heller Jack H. Heller was born on June 27, 1916, and passed away on Oct. 15, 2015. A vigil service will be held at Westford Funeral Home at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. A mass of Christian burial will be at the Church of the Assumption in Belling-ham at 10:30 a.m. on Friday,

Nov. 6, with a reception fol-lowing. Committal will follow at St. Peter’s Catholic Cem-etery. Memorials may be made to Hope House. View a complete obitu-ary and share memories with the family at www.westford-funeralhome.com.

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which the Lyncs surrendered an early three-goal advantage. After Haley Hollander net-ted a pair of early goals and Shaye Brandsma scored off a Morgan Wandel assist to give LC a 3-0 lead in the 26th minute, Sedro-Woolley scored five straight goals, including four in the second half. LC bounced back with a 4-0 victory over Blaine on Oct. 15, led by an onslaught of three Lyncs goals in a span of five minutes. With LC holding a 1-0 lead early in the second half, Hollander netted back-to-back goals in the 50th and 51st minutes, and Kenadi Bratt scored shortly after in the 54th. Brandsma, who assisted Hollander’s sec-ond goal, scored in the first half off an assist

from Hollander. Bratt and Bailee DenBleyker also tallied assists for the Lyncs. DenBleyker then recorded a hat trick and two assists on Saturday as LC cruised to a 9-0 win over Nooksack Valley. McKenzie Clark netted a pair of goals in the rout, while Hollander and Wandel each finished with a goal and an assist. Madi Hall-berg and Belle Hernandez each added a goal, and Bratt, Libby Hielkema and Brittany TeVel-de each had an assist. Mount Baker (3-8-3, 2-5-3) earned an impressive 0-0 draw with NWC 1A first-place Meridian on Saturday. Emily Brandland made 13 saves to help the Mountaineers overcome a 16-5 shots-on-goal deficit and earn the result. Earlier in the week, Mount Baker picked

up its first two conference victories with a 2-0 win over Nooksack Valley on Oct. 13 and a 3-1 win over Anacortes on Oct. 15. The Mountaineers were deadlocked in a scoreless tie with Nooksack Valley until Taylor VanBrocklin netted a 62nd-minute goal off an assist from Jensen Bertrand and Hailey Made-ra added another goal in the 71st. Brandland made 11 saves for Mount Baker. VanBrocklin, Bertrand and Breeana He-syck scored in the Mountaineers’ win over Anacortes. Meridian (8-4-1, 5-4-1) surrendered five second-half goals in a 6-3 loss to Bellingham on Oct. 13. Payton Lunde helped the Trojans to an early 2-0 lead, scoring in the fourth minute

and assisting a Lindsey Moore goal in the 12th. After Bellingham evened the match in the 46th minute, Lunde scored two minutes later to give Meridian a 3-2 lead. But Bellingham responded with four straight goals, scoring in the 51st, 53rd, 72nd and 74th minutes to hand the Trojans a loss. On Oct. 15, Micaela Pimento scored her team-leading 14th goal of the season, but it wasn’t enough as Meridian suffered a 2-1 loss to Ferndale. The Trojans were then shut out in a 0-0 draw with Mount Baker on Saturday. Nooksack Valley (0-15-0, 0-11-0) suffered a 2-0 loss to Mount Baker on Oct. 13, an 8-0 loss to Sedro-Woolley on Oct. 15 and a 9-0 loss to LC on Oct. 17.

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the league entering the night. “We just knew going into the game that if we read our keys and did our jobs, we would be able to stop their physical running backs,” May-berry said. Lynden held the run-heavy Gold-en Eagles (4-3, 3-2) to 190 yards rush-ing at an average of 3.7 per carry while preventing the types of gashing and bruising runs that Ferndale rattled off for big gains last year. “It felt really good,” Mayberry said of the defensive performance. “There was so much hype going into the game about how good Ferndale was, how we weren’t as physical and that there just wasn’t any way to beat them. “So it was great to just be able to prove everybody wrong who thought we weren’t as good.” Even when the Golden Eagles did move the ball, Lynden’s defense not only made them work for every yard and methodically drive down the field, but was nearly impenetrable in the red zone. Ferndale failed to come away with points inside the 20-yard line on three separate occasions, as Lynden kept the Golden Eagles out of the end zone for more than 42 min-utes. “I just can’t say enough about our defense,” Kramme said. “To shut a team like that out for most of the game is quite an accomplishment for our defensive players and our de-fensive coaching staff that have been working really hard.” Lynden also put together an im-pressive performance on the offen-sive side, led by its star quarterback. Somers completed 12 of 21 passes for 217 yards and three touchdowns, while also running for 108 yards and a score on eight carries. Somers was named the contest’s Most Valuable Player by the Great American Rivalry Series, which was in attendance to feature the game as part of its weekly celebration of high school football rivalries across the country. “I can’t say enough great things about him,” Kramme said of his se-nior quarterback. “He just threw some beautiful balls tonight.” Somers kept Lynden’s second drive of the game alive by pulling off his best Russell Wilson imperson-ation, scrambling and evading multi-ple pass rushers before finding senior receiver Noah King for a 35-yard gain on third-and-7. Two plays later, Somers took the first snap of the second quarter and plowed his way through Ferndale’s

defense on a quarterback keeper, breaking several tackles before scam-pering free for a 37-yard touchdown run and the game’s first score. After the Lions ended Ferndale’s first three possessions by forcing a pair of punts and stuffing a fourth-and-1 quarterback sneak, the Golden Eagles drove into the red zone late in the first half. But on third-and-10 from the 15-yard line, the ball slipped out of the Ferndale quarterback’s hand as he was getting ready to pass, and Lynden senior linebacker Nui Labat-Alconcel pounced on it. The Lions took over on their own 24-yard line with just 44 seconds left, but it proved to be enough time for another score. Senior receiver Jordan Wittenberg keyed the quick drive with a diving catch on a perfectly thrown 43-yard pass by Somers. Two plays later, se-nior running back Ben Colwell hauled in an 18-yard play-action touchdown pass from Somers with 13 seconds left to give Lynden a 14-0 halftime lead. The Lions opened the second half with an eight-play, 66-yard scoring drive, capped by a 14-yard touchdown pass from Somers to Wittenberg, who dove for the pylon to extend Lynden’s lead to 21-0. Ferndale mounted a 12-play, 69-yard drive later in the third quarter, but once again failed to come away with points. King, also a defensive back, broke up a Ferndale slant pass on fourth-and-6 from the Lynden 11 to turn away the Golden Eagles in the red zone for the third time of the night. The Lions responded with a seven-play, 88-yard scoring drive, as Somers connected with King for a 44-yard completion and Bode for an 11-yard touchdown pass on the ensuing play to push the lead to 28-0 early in the fourth quarter. Wittenberg finished with six catches for 123 yards. Senior Dalton Ohligschlager added a 13-yard touch-down run in the fourth quarter and finished with 49 yards on eight carries. The win was Lynden’s fourth straight and the second in a pivotal three-game stretch that concludes next week against Sedro-Woolley in a 2014 state title game rematch at Rollie DeKoster Field. “We’re going to enjoy this one to-night,” Kramme said after the game, “but then we have a big test again (next) week. “We knew this was going to be the heart of our season, and so far, so good. That’s a good win for our pro-gram tonight.”

WHATCOM — Nook-sack Valley (4-5, 4-7 North-west Conference) clinched the NWC 1A’s No. 2 seed with a pair of victories last week. On Oct. 13, the Pioneers earned a 25-21, 25-16, 25-8 sweep of Mount Baker. Nooksack Valley then edged Sedro-Woolley for a 22-25, 25-17, 25-7, 23-25, 15-13 win on Oct. 15. With the Pioneers trailing 11-10 in the final set, Olivia Berkan won three of Nooksack Valley’s final five points on spikes to give her team a thrilling five-set victory. Berkan finished with 11 kills and 24 digs, while fellow senior Brianna Turner tallied 29 digs and two blocks. Jenna Tenkley led the Pioneers with 26 assists, and Katrina Gim-maka recorded 11 kills, 16 digs and two blocks. Grace Himango had three blocks. 1A No. 4-ranked Lynden Christian (9-2, 8-1) earned sweeps over Sedro-Woolley on Oct. 13 and Blaine on Oct. 15.

Lynden (3-7, 3-5) lost both of its matches last week in four sets, falling to Ana-cortes on Oct. 13 and to Bell-ingham on Oct. 15. The Lions are in sixth place out of eight teams in the NWC 2A stand-ings. Meridian (3-7, 1-7) was swept in both of its matches last week, suffering a 25-12, 25-19, 25-15 loss to Belling-ham on Oct. 13 and a 25-23, 25-7, 25-14 loss to Ferndale on Oct. 15. Ellie Dennis led the Tro-jans with 16 digs in the loss to Bellingham, while Kyrin Baklund added 14 digs and Sarah Hofbauer had 16 as-sists. Meridian will host win-less Mount Baker on Wednes-day in a match that will likely determine the NWC 1A’s third and final playoff spot. Mount Baker (0-10, 0-8) suffered a 25-21, 25-16, 25-8 loss to Nooksack Valley on Oct. 13 and a 25-7, 25-13, 25-19 loss to Anacortes on Oct. 15.

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Lions: Somers propels offense as Lynden wins fourth straightContinued from B1

Above: Lynden senior running back Ben Colwell hauls in an 18-yard touchdown pass with 13 seconds left in the first half to give the Lions a 14-0 lead. Below: Lynden senior quarterback Sterling Somers ran for 108 yards and a touchdown, in addition to throwing for 217 yards and three scores. (Cameron Van

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