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SPORTS
Football
starts vs. Notre Dame
After
trading tackles, testing techniques and fine tuning the
team’s timing at the Ferndale football jamboree on
August 31, Blaine’s Borderites will host the Notre
Dame High School Jugglers from Vancouver, B.C. in a non-conference
contest on September 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Vancouver is, perhaps, the only place on the planet where
a school named Notre Dame does not have the team name of
“Fighting Irish.” Vancouver College, another independent
Vancouver school, co-opted the Celtic moniker before NDHS
got going.
If reputation is any indicator, the Jugglers will be a tough
foe.
Those folks who like to make mad guesses, predicting how
things like tech stocks and teams will do, have Blaine as
an outside contender for the third and final North Cascade
Conference spot in the state playoff lottery.
Lynden Christian, Meridian, Nooksack Valley, Sultan and,
perhaps, Mt. Baker are also contenders. Having six NCC teams
considered contenders suggests 2001 will be a season of
close encounters of the fun to watch kind.
Neil's
Notes
Newell
All-Academic
Blaine
grad Jesse Newell was one of six Southeastern Louisiana
University players to be named to the 2001 Southland Conference
All-Academic baseball team. Newell, a redshirt freshman,
hit .270 with 10 RBIs and a home run in his first season
with the SLU Lions.
2001 Season Begins
Borderite sports teams open the 2001 season with a flurry
of activity.
The Lady B’s volleyball squad hosts Friday Harbor at
3:30 p.m. on September 6 and Nooksack Valley at 7 p.m. on
September 11 in non-conference action.
Blaine’s cross country team travels to Skagit Community
College for a jamboree on September 6 and to Meridian on
September 12 for the North
Schools opener.
The Borderite girls soccer side plays Nooksack Valley on
September 6 at 4:30 p.m. at the Pipe, travel to South Whidbey
for a September 8 session and return to the Pipe on September
11 for a 4:30 p.m. set-to against Granite Falls. All three
games are North Cascades Conference encounters.
Blaine boys tennis team plays at South Whidbey on September
6, host the Blaine Invitational at 9 a.m. on September 8,
and meet Sehome in a road meet on September 11.
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