With a time of 1:50.82, Issaquah finished the 200 medley relay in fourth place.

“It was a great race,” said Maier, who swam lead for the Issaquah team. “That was super fun, just having our whole team there. We did amazing in prelims. And we just had that great atmosphere and all that energy built up, and I was super excited.”

Issaquah coach Laura Halter was also excited by the race.

“That’s the fastest med-ley relay swim I’ve seen in three years,” she said. “They all brought their game on and they all per-formed very well.”

The championships were far from over for the Spar-tans and the Eagles, as their swimmers competed in several more events.

For Skyline: Munoz went

on to swim the 100 butter-fly in 59.30 to take eighth place. She also finished 13th in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:12.38. Volodkevich took fourth in the 100 freestyle with 53.13. After coming in a little more than a second behind the state champ in the 50 freestyle, Volodkev-ich finished fifth in the 50 freestyle in 24.13.

In the diving finals, Alyssa Holt placed 16th overall with 284.95 total points. Sara Elderkin finished the 100 butterfly in 1:03.6 for 15th. Swim-ming the 100 backstroke in 1:00.74, Umezawa placed 14th. Scarcello took fifth in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:06.97. In the championship’s final event, the 400 freestyle relay team (Umezawa, Scarcello, Munoz and Volodkevich) finished fifth with 3:40.41.

In the end, the entire Skyline team combined for fifth place overall with 132 points.

“Of course, the last three years have been different, but we are so pleased with our girls,” coach Susan Simpkins said.

Skyline won the state title in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

“We are really happy with our outcome and how they swam,” Simpkins said. “And a lot of them are seniors, so it is a very emotional night.”

IssaquahRight behind Skyline on

the leadership board was Issaquah, who took sixth place overall with 127 team points. In the previ-ous three years, the Eagles have placed fourth, sixth and fifth.

Issaquah had three

swimmers in the top 16 of the 100 freestyle. Gabriel Gevers came in 10th with a time of 54.5 and Maier took fifth. Her time of 53.16 was three one-hundredths of a second behind fourth-place finisher Volodkevich.

“We are the best of friends. So it’s fun to always race against her,” Maier said of her Skyline opponent. “She did amaz-ing and I couldn’t be hap-pier for both of us.”

Right behind Maier was her teammate Kayla Flaten, who placed sixth with a time of 53.94. The Issaquah senior also took seventh in the 100 breast-stroke, which she swam in 1:07.81.

“It was a great way to go out,” Flaten said. “It was really nice to see my whole

By John Leggettip-sports@isspress.com

To say that the Sky-line High School football squad is above reproach isn’t quite accurate. Every team has its Achilles heel, but the Spartans are a perfect ten — 10-0 that is.

The relentless grid-iron machine that is the Skyline football contin-gent, currently No. 1 in the state at the Class 4A level, kept its untarnished accounting intact when it hosted Lake Stevens on Nov. 9 at Skyline Stadium, annihilating its visitors from the north, 42-0.

The onslaught began innocently enough, as at the end of the first 12 minutes of action the scoreboard displayed a scoreless tie. But in the ensuing quarters, the steamrolling Spartans slowly wore their formi-dable Vikings foe down, just as they had their previous nine adversaries.

Skyline’s stop troopers on defense more often

than not don’t relinquish much turf, usually one or two touchdowns per tilt if they are feeling gener-ous and zeroes if they are feeling stingy.

On this rather chilly evening in front of a large partisan group of rabid followers, Skyline was its usual proficient self on offense, too, as senior Spartan signal caller Max Browne surgically shred-ded the Vikings’ sec-ondary going 15-for-20 through the air for well over 300 yards and three touchdowns. Defensively, Skyline was downright mi-serly, never allowing the guys in the purple-and-gold uniforms to encroach into their red zone.

Defense wins cham-pionships, but offense sells tickets, and Browne, who will be helping the University of Southern California win games in the Pac-12 next year, was fashionably late, deciding to get the party started in the second frame, as Skyline exploded for 22

points.Browne blew things

wide open to break the scoring ice when he con-nected on an 80-yard rainbow to Matt Sinatro. The point after touch-down kick was made by Sean McDonald, making the score 7-0.

Moments later, it was

touchdown time again as fleet-footed senior wide out Trevor Barney took the ball on an end around and sprinted to pay dirt from 10 yards out for six more. This time around, the Spartans elected to

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By Lillian O’Rorkeltucker@sammamishre-view.com

When Skyline High School’s Maria Volodkevich marched out to the pool-side for the state champi-onships Nov. 10 the words “just race” were scrawled across her palm.

It was the first event of the 2012 4A Girls State Swim and Dive Champion-ships and, after finishing two-tenths of a second ahead of Issaquah in the preliminary race, the Spar-tans 200-yard medley relay team was ready to battle it out for the state title.

“Winning the 200 medley was my goal for the entire season, so I always write on my hand ‘just race’ before a race,” said the senior who anchored the team. “So, that is what I thought about diving in is just race.”

First off the block in lane four was Spartan Kristaley Umezawa; next to her in lane five was Stacy Maier, swimming backstroke for the Issaquah Eagles. The two emerged for their first breath at the same time, throwing their arms back

in synchronized windmills. Maier edged ahead and Issaquah’s Kayla Flaten maintained the slight lead over Andi Scarcello in the second leg.

Then, Stephanie Munoz, of Skyline, dove in for the third leg and passed Eagle Kellie-Marie Langan.

“I didn’t know until the second 25 and I was like, ‘OK, I really need to bring it up for my team.’ It was really exciting,” Munoz said after the race. “I didn’t know what else to do but smile.”

Keeping the momentum going, Volodkevich dove in the pool for the final leg and pulled ahead of every-one to take the title for the Spartans. Skyline’s final time of 1 minute, 49.12 seconds was more than a second and a half faster than their preliminary finish.

“Steph and I always have this thing where she brings it in, and I take it home, every time. Before a race she is like I’ll bring it in, you take it home,” Volod-kevich said. “It felt like all the hard work I’ve put into this team, and everyone’s hard work, paid off.”

By Christina Corrales-Toynewcastle@isspress.com

The memories of last year’s 3A state championship game delicately linger in the minds of the Liberty High School soc-cer players.

Last year, the Patriots were up 2-0 in the state final against Seattle Prep, but ultimately fell to the Panthers, 3-2, after a roaring comeback.

This year, under the direc-tion of first-year coach Tami Nguyen, Liberty doesn’t intend on letting it happen again.

“The team’s goal is to win these next two state games, so anytime I can help them

achieve that goal, then I’m happy about that,” Nguyen said.

It’s been a successful season for the fifth-ranked Patriots, who captured the KingCo 3A title after going 12-1-1 in league play. Liberty had only three losses in the season, all against ranked opponents.

The Patriots took the first step toward advancing to the state championship game when the team defeated Sho-recrest, 2-0, in the first round of the state tournament Nov. 7.

It took the team a bit of time to get going in the game, but after junior Kali Youngdahl scored in the 59th minute, the

Patriots seemed to hit their stride, Nguyen said.

“I thought we started the game really well, and I felt like we got in and we had a few chances and once those didn’t go, then I felt like we did kind of tense up a little bit,” she said. “Then, once we found the net on the first one, I knew we would kind of relax a little bit and then hopefully find more.”

Later, the Patriots added an insurance goal after Jacquelyn Anderson scored in the 75th minute.

Youngdahl said she was sur-

After a couple of phenom-enal post-season runs on the road, it is quite possible a tandem of KingCo 4A Crown Division rivals, Is-saquah and Skyline, may be paired off in the girls state soccer championship show-down, in Puyallup’s Sparks Stadium at 4 p.m. Nov. 17.

Between Skyline and Is-saquah, neither is an easy mark.

The last time they met was Oct. 23 when the two squads dueled to a scoreless tie.

Issaquah celebrated a 2-0 road victory over the Tides in Gig Harbor’s home digs Nov. 7. Then, the Eagles, current-ly sporting an 18-2-1 overall mark, went toe-to-toe with Central Valley, of Spokane.

Issaquah befuddled the home crew, shutting out

Despite playing what its coach called its best vol-leyball of the year in beat-ing Newport 3-1 to claim the KingCo 4A hardware and then cruising through regional action, the Sky-line High School Spartans’ momentum waned as they ultimately lost their way Nov. 9 and 10 at the state tournament held at St. Mar-tin’s University.

The Spartans, who made their presence known in their 2011 state appear-ance, rallied back to take a solid sixth-place trophy back home to Sammamish. They seemed to get off on the wrong foot this time out of the gate and finished ninth out of 16 teams.

Skyline lost its initial match to the hustling Union Titans in three straight sets, 25-19, 25-21 and 25-21. Before they knew what had hit them, the Spar-tans found themselves in disarray and, in the Friday evening consolation brack-et, one setback away from being an early casualty.

Skyline did some soul-searching and battled back against the Panthers of Wenatchee, after the big cats jumped out front, securing the first set, 25-23. The gals in green were not ready to be counted out just yet, however. They bounced back to win the next three sets, 25-18, 25-20 and 25-16, to cage Wenatchee.

Skyline spiked from state playoffs

Liberty girls soccer rolls to state semifinals

Spartans relay swimming prowess

to state titleSkyline, Issaquah and Liberty among state’s top 10 finishers

Kristaley Umezawa (left), Skyline High School junior, and Issaquah High School senior Stacy Maier start side by side for the 200-yard medley relay final during the state 4A swim cham-pionship Nov. 10 in Federal Way.

BY GREG FARRAR

See SWIMMING, Page B5

CorrectionThe name of an Issaquah

High School volleyball play-er was incorrect in the Oct. 31 issue of The Issaquah Press. The correct name is Lauren Alberg.

BY GREG FARRAR

Matt Sinatro, Skyline High School senior wide receiver, pulls in a second-quarter bomb from quarterback Max Browne for an 80-yard touchdown against Lake Stevens.

See VOLLEYBALL, Page B5

Vikings no match for Spartan onslaughtLocal rivals on collision course for soccer title

See SOCCER, Page B5 See FOOTBALL, Page B5

BY GREG FARRAR

Kiana Hafferty (left), Liberty High School senior midfielder, races Kate Hildahl, of Shorecrest, for the ball during an attack on goal Nov. 7. See PATRIOTS, Page B5

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ArrestPolice arrested an

18-year-old woman for theft and possession of drug paraphernalia in the 700 block of Northwest Gilman Boulevard at 8:27 p.m. Oct. 25.

Happy birthdayPolice responded to

suspicious activity in the 100 block of First Av-enue Northwest at 10:34 p.m. Oct. 25. The officer encountered four people walking home from a bar where one of them cel-ebrated his 21st birthday, and the intoxicated man’s friends were walking him home. Police advised the group to be quiet.

DrugsPolice arrested a

23-year-old North Bend woman for possession of heroin in the 100 block of Front Street North at 11:20 p.m. Oct. 25.

Jewel heistJewelry was stolen from

Plateau Jewelers, 2830 228th Ave. S., before 3:30 a.m. Oct. 26. The thief used a hammer to break a glass door and then ripped a mounted cabinet from the store and fled in a dark-col-ored minivan. Police used dogs to search the area, but could not locate a suspect. The estimated loss is more than $22,000.

CutA chainsaw and a miter

saw were stolen from a shed in the 22800 block of Southeast First Street before 4:45 p.m. Oct. 26.

Smoke breakPolice responded to

a report of somebody smoking marijuana be-hind Safeway, 630 228th Ave. N.E., at about 2 p.m. Oct. 27. The officer contacted a 30-year-old Sammamish man seated inside a parked vehicle, and smelled marijuana. The man handed police a pipe and bag of marijuana. Police contacted the man’s employer to let it know he had been smoking mari-juana while on the job.

Sounds badPolice arrested teen-

agers for shoplifting at Bartell Drugs, 526 228th Ave. N.E., Oct. 31 after they left the store without paying for headphones and a wireless mouse. A store employee contacted the teens and called police.

All that glittersJewelry was stolen from

a home in the 21400 block of Northeast Sixth Place before 5:45 p.m. Nov. 2.

The Press publishes names of those charged with felony crimes. Information comes directly from local police reports.

EASTSIDE FIRE & RESCUE REPORTS FOR NOV. 144Five engines were

needed at 12:31 p.m. Oct. 27 to extinguish a building fire in the 22900 block of Southeast 66th Street.4Three engines were

dispatched at 8:44 p.m. Oct. 27 to the scene of a motor vehicle accident in the 100 block of Renton-Issaquah Road Southeast. There were no injuries.4An engine was sent to

investigate a downed power line in the 1000 block of 209th Avenue Northeast at 5:59 a.m. Oct. 29.4An engine extin-

guished a fire at 10:17 a.m. Oct. 30 in the 2900 block of 228th Avenue Southeast.4Three engines were

sent to investigate the report of smoke in the 2300 block of Northeast Park Drive at 9:08 a.m. Oct. 31. The “smoke” turned out to be steam or another harmless gas.4Two engines

responded to a motor vehicle accident with injuries in the 100 block of Southeast 43rd Way at 4:47 p.m. Oct. 31. 4An engine assisted a

person in distress at 1:26 a.m. Nov. 2 locked out of his or her home in the 4500 block of Klahanie Drive Southeast.

ON THE MAPSee the Issaquah Police Department’s reported activity from the previous 72 hours at a crime map created by the city at www.ci.issaquah.wa.us/crime-map. Addresses contained in the map have been rounded to the nearest hundred block. The address displayed reflects the location where the officer responded to the incident — not necessarily where the incident occurred.

POLICE & FIRE

Angel Program startsIssaquah High School

has announced the start of its Angel Program.

The Angel Fund is a confidential resource for Issaquah High students and their families who are struggling financially. Get help by calling Jeanette Werre in the counseling office at 837-6140 or Kim Michaels, the school regis-trar, at 837-6141.

No member of the PTSA or any other staff member will have access to names or information of those who seek assistance.

The Angel Program is also seeking donations. Give money, clothes or ser-vices like dental check-ups by calling Laurie Foreman at 401-8648.

Checks can also be made out to Issaquah High PTSA with the subject note “An-gel Fund” and dropped off at the school’s head office.

Store collects toys for foster children

Sleep Country USA is hosting the annual Secret Santa Toy Drive for Foster Kids through Dec. 16.

The public can drop off new, unwrapped toys, books, electronics or musical instruments for children of all ages at any Sleep Country store, including the Issaquah location, 730 N.W. Gil-man Blvd., Suite C-110. The store is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Satur-day and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Sunday.Donors can also snap a

photo as they donate and enter the Sleep Country Be a Secret Santa Photo Contest on Facebook. The grand prize is a Kindle Fire HD. Learn more about the contest at https://www.facebook.com/sleepcoun-tryusa.

Sleep Country USA hopes the social promotion increases donations by at least 10 percent. The toy drive for foster children collected 21,387 toys and gifts last year.

Lottery offers tickets to benefit veterans

Through a partnership between the state Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs and Washington’s Lottery, lotto players can help veterans by purchasing a ticket.

Funding for the Veterans Innovations Program to aid service members returning from Afghanistan and Iraq comes from the Veterans Raffle. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit service members and military families.

Tickets for the Veterans Raffle, on sale through Jan. 1, can be purchased at more than 3,700 lottery retailers statewide for $10.

The program raised more than $247,000 last year for the Veterans In-novations Program.

Participants can also go to www.walottery.com/raffle to learn more about the program and support the cause.

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