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Island Little League Baseball has a great 2024 season!

July 25, 2019 by Bitta Gordon




Islanders II little leaguers drop season finale to Sister Bay

By Jim Rose

On Wednesday, June 26, our little league Islanders II hosted the Bays of Sister Bay in a rare afternoon game.  It was a makeup game for a game rained out the afternoon of Memorial Day.  The visitors would strike first, in the first, scoring four runs.  They would add on two more in the third, and we were down 6-0.

In the third, we would start to claw back into the game.  Coilton Steffen walked but was erased when Tilly Gunnlaugsson hit into a fielder’s choice.  But then brothers Tug and Zac Gunnlaugsson would get base hits, and Tilly would score.  In the top of the next inning, the Bays would get that one back, scoring one.  

We were down 7-1, but in the bottom of the fourth we score three, and made up some ground getting closer.  Noah Haertig, Owen Mann, and Freya Sorenson got base hits.  Isaac Weilbaker, Landon Mann, Owen Farm, and Tilly walked, driving in the three runs.  It was now close, at 7-4, but the Bays would score two more in the top of the next inning, making the score 9-4.  

In the fifth inning Zac singled, and then three walks forced him in, and we were closer at 9-5.  The sixth and top of the seventh were scoreless, so we still had our last raps to try to make up the difference. Noah hit a double, and Owen Mann walked.  Then Griffin Gibson got a base hit, scoring Noah, but Owen got caught off base for the last out, and we ended up with a 9-6 loss.

 Zac led the way at the plate for us with three hits, and made some great catches of fly balls.  Noah had two hits.  Gideon Haertig was our starting pitcher, and threw six strikeouts in three innings.  We had one more rained out game, but it looks like it will not be made up, as the other team could not find a time to make it up.  So this was the end of our regular season.

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Photo Contest 2024

July 25, 2019 by Bitta Gordon

Photo submitted by Michael R. Anderson for 2023 Photo Contest

Enter the Observer’s annual reader photo contest

The Island is a beautifully photogenic place, and its beauty can change by the season, the day and even the hour. As you walk, run, swim, mingle, boat and play, what scenes make you stop and stare?

The Washington Island Observer’s popular reader photo contest is ready for your best photos. Subscribers are invited to photograph and share what strikes them as beautiful, interesting and perhaps unique.

You need not be a professional or possess professional equipment to enter. An iPhone image capturing high resolution/large photos is acceptable. 

To enter, you must be a Washington Island Observer subscriber. Categories are landscape, people and wildlife. You may submit as many as three photos in each category. 

The photographs must have been taken on Washington, Plum, Detroit or Rock islands or on Lake Michigan near these islands between Aug. 1, 2023 and Aug. 1, 2024. There is no entry fee. Each photograph must be emailed to office@washingtonislandobserver.com  by midnight Aug. 1, 2024. Only one photo per email.

Judges will select first, second, third and honorable mentions from the three categories. 

Complete rules can be found at washingtonislandobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/Photo-Contest. 

Copyright ownership of the images remains with the photographer, but by entering the contest, photographers agree to allow the Observer use of the photos for print and social media, with credit given to the photographer. 

Winning photographs will be published in the Labor Day edition of the Observer.




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