Coupeville Sports

Whidbey warriors (l to r) Malia Hansen, Mia Littlejohn, Kalia Littlejohn and Jenna Cooley celebrate their tourney title. (Dawn Hesselgrave photos)

The best girls under 16 team in all the land.

The will to win is strong in these two.

Powered by its one-two combo of Wolf sharpshooters in sisters Mia and Kalia Littlejohn, the NWU GU16 select soccer squad romped to its third straight win Sunday afternoon, claiming a title at the 21st annual Skagit Firecracker tourney in Burlington.

NWU bounced Snohomish United GU16 2-0 in its final game to cap a 3-0 run through the tournament.

The squad, which boasts four players total from Whidbey, had opened play with a 4-0 drilling of Gala FC Friday.

It then pulled out a heart-stopping 2-1 win over Snohomish Saturday when Kalia Littlejohn slipped a penalty kick past the goalie with less than 30 seconds to play.

Snohomish rebounded to beat Gala FC 3-0 late Saturday to give itself a shot at the title.

Then reality hit like a Littlejohn bomb smacking into the back of the net.

The CHS duo were joined by longtime traveling companion Malia Hansen and newcomer Jenna Cooley to rep Whidbey on the tourney title-winning squad, which is otherwise made up of off-Island players.

Mia Littlejohn was one of Coupeville High School’s top scoring threats last year, winning the award for the team’s top new player.

Kalia, who starred for the CMS volleyball and basketball squads, is expected to join her sister on the pitch in the fall, when she’ll be a freshman and Mia will be a grizzled vet as a sophomore.