POST SEASON HONORS

Hope everyone had a great start to the Holiday season- I joined fifty-one of my immediate family for a 'cozy' Thanksgiving' at the Iron Horse Inn in CleElum. The food was wonderful-but the hilight was,as always, the entertainment. Family tradition is you have to'sing or some other form of entertainment' for your supper. I come from a very creative family.Back to volleyball- All three teams have had their post season celebrations and Winter sports are now in full swing. It is nice to see that the people outside the EW volleyball Family recognize the accomplishments of our players. All-Wesco South ---Ashley Kelly-Norling Hon. Mention-Hannah Lauber 2nd team-Miah Diirell, Haley Scott and Leigh Fishback 1st team. In addition Haley and Leigh were named 2nd team All-Area. They are among only twelve players from all the schools in the Herald's circulation region selected. A huge honor. I also invite you to visit the Bryant University web site to view Leigh's signing and profile. On a historical note-Erin Greenwood finished her playing career at UNLV last week. She leaves as one of the top five in UNLV history in numerous categories and more importantly-academic All-Conf honors every year. Again -thanks for a wonderful 2009 season and hope to see you at a basketball game-we have a number of our players who put the brown thing in the round thing. ALSO BE LOOKING FOR/GATHERING ITEMS FOR UPCOMING BOOSTER CLUB AUCTION. gooo warriors!

TICKET PUNCHED- TRI CITIES-HERE COME THE WARRIORS

Really difficult getting to sleep last night-but for a good reason. The Lady Warriors met the challenge Thursday and defeated the North 2 seed,Marysville, and the South 1 seed, Jackson. These victories guarantee the EW volleyball team of a berth in next weeks State 4A tourney in Kennewick. A huge thank you to a very enthusiastic crowd who really got into it and helped keep the energy level high thru both matches. The win over Jackson avenged an earlier loss during the regular season. Highlites-Miah 14 kills and 5 aces-the last two to close out the match-Haley S 12 kills 2 aces -Ashley K-N 11 Kills-Leigh 44 assists and two great kills-Hannah and Katy combined for 12 kills and huge blocking Becca 19 digs.Marysville stats not compiled yet. Saturday we play Kamiak at 1:00 at MP for Dist. 1 championship. State seedings should be on WIAA web site Sunday along with a detailed fan bulletin. Team will leave Wed morning by rental vans. We will be staying at the Fairfield Inn. 4A teams play at the Toyota Center Thursday and Friday. You may have trouble recognizing me Saturday as I will be without my facial hair companion of forty years-moment of weakness,but a worthwhile promise. Hope to see a big crowd Saturday. GOOOOOO WARRIORS!

POST SEASON BEGINS

As most athletes turn in their Fall sports gear the top teams in leagues around the state prepare for 'post season'. EW is happy and proud to be among the latter. The Lady Warriors head to their sixteenth straight District 1 tourney this Thursday at Marysville Pilchuck. They finished the regular season 7-2 [11-3] with sweeps of Meadowdale and Glacier Peak. The Meadowdale match was a highly emotional affair as we said goodby to seven seniors. Season highlights included several new school records.-Frosh standout,Miah Diirell, had five aces against GP and set a new record for aces in the regular fourteen match season with forty two. Hannah Lauber,senior three year starter, finished with 101 kills and a new record efficiency average of .444. Finally, senior setter, Leigh Fishback broke several records as she contributed 10.18 assists per set and finished her career-regular season- with 1375 assists .The team had four players with 100 or more kills-also a record-Miah Diirell-133, Haley Scott-133, Ashley Kelly-Norling-110 and Hannah Lauber-101. The team average .266 hitting eff. is second highest in school history and jr. libero,Rebecca Stern's 214 digs place her second all time for EW defensive players in a season. Thursday we play North#2 Marysville at 4:00. It is a modified double elimination tourney-we must win two before loosing two in order to claim one of the three berths to State. Hope to see you at MP on Thursday as these wonderful young ladies continue to chase their athletic goals. GOO WARRIORS!

WARRIORS WIN !

A very good week for the Lady Warrior volleyball team. Wins over rivals Terrace and Lynnwood bring with them a Dist. 1 playoff berth-[sixteen straight]. Miah Diirell,Haley Scott and Ashley Kelly-Norling have all joined the EW 100 KILL CLUB. Hannah Lauber is only fifteen away and the team is closing on several team and individual records. Tomorrow the jv competes in the jv championships at Terrace-starts at 8:00am. Monday is the last home match of the season against Meadowdale. This is not only a huge match for Conference and Dist. rankings-but also Senior Night. We hope to have a huge crowd to send off our seven seniors. Wednesday we finish the regular season with Glacier Peak. I will give out directions at practice Tuesday. Thanks for your continued support as the Warriors wrap up the school's twentieth volleyball regular season and enter our seventeenth playoff. GOOO WARRIORS!

MONROE INVITE AND BEYOND

The chaos that is Homecoming is now over. The Warrior varsity concluded the week with a healthy win over Mariner. Leigh and Haley L. each dished out 15 assists as the team recorded the second highest hitting efficency in the programs twenty year history-.452. Saturday, minus a sick Shannon Reilly and a not yet-ready-but close, Sydney Donaldson,the Lady Warriors traveled to the very tough Monroe Invite. Six of the twelve teams competing have been/are ranked in the top ten in either 3A or 4A. EW went 5-1 in pool play finishing with a 27-26 win over Kingco power Issaquah.A stuff block by Hannah for the final point clinched a four seed into the Gold bracket. EW then met the current 4A number 6 ranked Monroe. In probably the most contested set of the tourney the Warriors prevailed 30-28. After dropping the second set,the Warriors trailed 9-14 in a fifteen point third. With the match on the line,they earned a side out and Haley Scott served out the match with six straight points and a 16-14 result. IN the semi finals EW played its best defensive match to date. Numerous great blocks and spectaclar digs resulted in a tense-close match. Kamiak finally prevailed 2-1 and went on to defeat highly ranked Eastside Catholic in the finals. A tremendous third place for the Warriors and a great way to head into the last two weeks of the regular season. Tuesday is a huge match aganist Dist.15 rival Terrace. It is also our annual Hawaiian Night-so dress the part. Next Saturday the Warrior jv will seek to defend its League title at Terrace. Another big week for Warrior volleyball-hope to see you at a match. GO WARRIORS!

Season moving quickly

It has been some time since last post. The season is moving very fast with only a little over two weeks remaining in the regular season. Still several chances to see the 2009 Lady Warriors. We are at Mariner tonight and home on Tuesday for traditional rival-M Terrace. That happens to be 'Hawiian Night'. Put on your beach wEAR and join us. The varsity is coming off a tough loss to Kamiak and is fighting to make Districts. Congratulations to Miah Diirell-named Enterprise Female Athlete of the week. JV on a three match win steak as they battle for a high seed into WESCO championships next Saturday at Terrace. This Saturday the Varsity competes at the Monroe Invite-first pool play round starts at 8:30. Be sure to enjoy the remainder of Homecoming week and salute our own Mattie Houvener-Freshman Princess. GOOOO WARRIORS

A CARNIVAL RIDE WEEK

What a week to end the preseason. Last Saturday the jv finished second to an excellent Newport team and took the first 'hardware' of the season at the twelve team EW Invite. High point of the day-four seed EW knocking off first seed Holy Names in the Gold semi-finals. Tuesday a sweep of Monroe as all three teams won. The varsity played inspired ball knocking off the states #3/4 ranked team in five. Truly a playoff calibur match. Thursday was a different story- the Lady Warriors won the first two sets easily and then dropped the final three. Saturday saw us bounce back at South Whibey. EW went 8-2 on the day. They swept thru their pool 6-0,with a +70 point differential. Dropped a tough semi to highly ranked Chelan 23-25 20-25 but bounced back to defeat Cascade in two and take third out of sixteen and more hardware. Overall a very good week and now the coference season begins. NOTES: Thanks to Kathy Roper and Debra Miranda for agreeing to be parent reps. to the Booster club.Work is already starting on the March auction. This Thursday's match at Jackson is the first of four where we have a drop only bus. If your daughter needs a ride back to EW let us know ASAP.We are excited to begin the October run and hope to see you at a match. Go Warriors!