After a disappointing conclusion to their most recent outing, a loss to rival Meadowdale on Jan. 24, the Edmonds-Woodway Warriors made sure to put together a full-game effort on Monday; their reward was a big road win
The Warriors earned a solid 67-57 victory over the Arlington Eagles in a key Wesco League matchup played at Arlington High School.
Both the Warriors and the Eagles entered Monday’s contest with identical 5-3 Wesco League marks (9-5 overall), but with the win E-W moves ahead of Arlington by a full game in the league standings and keeps the team in contention for the all-important No. 4 seed in the District 1 3A Boys Basketball Tournament next month (top four district tourney seeds open the event with home games).
Four Warriors scored in double figures on Monday: Nikko McNeal with 18 points, Nuer Bol with 16, Bryan Bunyatipanon with 15 and Mutdung Bol with 13. Arlington’s Ethan Martin led all scorers in the game with 19 points.
E-W will play their third road game against an upper-tier league opponent in less than a week then they head to Mountlake Terrace on Wednesday, Jan. 29, to face the Hawks (6-2 in the 2A/3A Wesco League, 11-3 overall). Tipoff is scheduled for 7:15 p.m.
Prep Boys Basketball: Edmonds-Woodway at Arlington, Jan. 27
Edmonds-Woodway 19 17 14 17 — 67
Arlington 16 15 12 14 — 57
Edmonds-Woodway individual scoring: Nikko McNeal 18, Nuer Bol 16, Bryan Bunyatipanon 15, Mutdung Bol 13, Tollak Crawford 3, Jacob Gabler 2, Steele Swinton, Andy Cerejka, Shiloh Zevenbergen, Chinedu Acholonu
Arlington individual scoring: Ethan Martin 19, Jaden Roskelley 9, Joseph Schmidt 8, Luke Brown 6, Will Abram 5, Cade Younger 3, Nick Lewis 2, Gavin Hawthorne 2, Colby Williamson 2, Quintin Yon-Wagner 1, Ryan Brown, Grayson Falk
Records: Edmonds-Woodway 6-3 in 2A/3A Wesco League, 10-5 overall; Arlington 5-4 in 2A/3A Wesco League, 9-6 overall
Edmonds-Woodway next game: versus Mountlake Terrace; Wednesday, Jan. 29; 7:15 p.m. at Mountlake Terrace High School
— By Doug Petrowski
I can’t believe Edmonds District is adopting Lucy Calkins’ program. It is not just the lack of phonics instruction and other skills that is a problem.. It is a utilization of time problem together with the lack of direct (or explicit) instruction. I have observed classes using this program and there are a lot of children sitting around with no direction. They are supposed to be reading books–but unless the teacher spends some time providing instruction to the class–children are bewildered, Effective reading teachers spend some time teaching to the whole class. There is nothing wrong with that as long as there is also small group instruction and individualized instruction. Balance in reading is the key–and always has been–but instead we tend to swing from extreme to the other. Either highly structured skills programs or literature based programs such as “Whole language.
JoAnne Nelson, former First Grade Teacher and REadimg Specialist. Edmonds S rE