Championship games today at North Beach High’s “Holidays With the Hyaks” basketball tournament. The North Beach girls remains undefeated, after a 20-point win last night. They play today at 4 p.m., followed at 5:30 p.m. by the boys team, who defeated Evergreen Lutheran last night, 63-51.

The North Beach girls basketball team just rolled up their record to 9-0, with a 56-39 win at home, over Willapa Valley. The Lady Hyaks, led by seniors Nicole Mosley and Tahnee McCrory , used a tenacious defense to break open a close game. Dramikha Skaar, scoring a late lay-up:

From North Beach High wrestling coach Maynard Reed: In our league’s first new mix-‘n-match duel format at Adna last night, an inexperienced and incomplete North Beach wrestling squad performed very well and continue to improve as a whole. Overall, North Beach won 15 of 25 matches punctuated by double match winners: Jennifer Law, Eddie Prescott, Robert Buck and Tyler Reed.

First Round Results:

285: Dean Lampert (Toledo) pinned Brett Weaver (NB) – 1^st round

135: Eddie Prescott (NB) pinned Travis Wallace (Adna) – 1^st round

Last night at home, the Lady Hyaks overpowered Ocosta, 56-30 (corrected final score). Next up for Brett Mackey’s 7-0 team: at Raymond, Friday night.

Another impressive road win for the North Beach girls basketball team, now 6-0 after a tough win at Northwest Christian. See the local stars at home against Ocosta on Tuesday night. Daily World story:

Hyaks 52, Navigators 49 (OT)

LACEY — Ihya Bastian scored six points in overtime as unbeaten North Beach opened Pacific League play by edging Northwest Christian on Saturday at Lacey.

Bastian scored 17 points, including a critical 3-point basket with 2:20 remaining in the fourth quarter.

A fast, athletic Hoquiam team ran away from North Beach, 76-36, last night. Derek Archer (pictured) scored 14 for the home Hyaks. The boys, now 2-1, and undefeated girls teams are both at Montesano on Friday night.

Nettie Wagner photo of the North Beach cross country boys team, which finished 16th at the State tournament.  The team:Quinton Porter, Ben Grover, Joseph Wagner, Dylan Hearn, Gunner Trygstad, John Johnson, Kasen Foy. Grover was the fastest Hyak, finishing 20th.

A dozen schools, including North Beach High, competed at yesterday’s 1B/2B District 4 Cross Country Championships at Evergreen State College. The top 5 boys teams and top 25 individuals qualified for the State championships. The North Beach boys finished 3^rd, led by Ben Grover’s 5th place finish “the highest finish for a male Hyak in over 20 years,” according to coach Rick Leighty. Dylan Hearn (22^nd) and Gunnar Trygstad (23^rd) also made it to the State meet Nov. 6 at the Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco.

Finishing 5^th, the girls team just missed making the State competition; only the top 3 girls teams and top 15 girls finishers move on. Results:

Bill Duncanson, principal of North Beach Junior and Senior High School, said the school will be evacuated for about an hour today. This is the result of a note apparently written by a student yesterday, saying a bomb would go off in the school at 10:10 a.m. today. According to Duncanson, a bomb squad from Olympia came to the school today at 5 a.m. “They cleared the building, and we were allowed to come back in at 7. We’ll be evacuating the building in a half hour to go to the Convention Center. The bomb squad are going to sweep the building again.” Duncanson expects the students to return to the school around 10:40 a.m.

Students were sent home with a note explaining the situation yesterday. Duncanson said that two-thirds of the kids did not attend the junior high/high school today, which is on a half –day schedule.

Asked about the mood of the school this morning, the principal said: “I think the kids are pretty disgusted.”

All of the North Beach High cross country runners who entered the Pacific Cross Country League Championships (at Ocasta, Tuesday) qualified for the District championships. From Coach Rick Leighty:
North Beach Results Boys Team: 2nd Place