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Unleash the photographers!!

Posted in Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, tagged Basketball, CHS Wolves, Danny Savalza, Eileen Stone, John Fisken photos, Madeline Strasburg, Million Dollar Arm on January 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »

The best photo star there’s ever been, McKayla “Million Dollar Arm” Bailey, hangs out with Carson Risner (left) and Aaron Trumbull. (John Fisken photo)

Wynter Thorne, ready for the runway or the hard-court. (Madeline Strasburg photo)

Shawn Walstad checks in on Lauren Rose (left) and Jae LeVine. (JF)

DeAndre Mitchell’s deep thoughts: “Yes, I can dunk and yes, it will rattle your very soul, son.” (Eileen Stone photo)

Wolf stars Hailey Hammer (left), Rose and McKenzie Bailey (front) kill time before their game. (JF)

Dalton Martin (bottom) is suspicious of this new paparazzi. The top row (l to r), Luke Merriman, Dante Mitchell, Desmond Bell and Beauman Davis, are a little more welcoming. (MS)

CHS guard Lauren Grove, fashionable and comfortable. (JF)

Josh (left) and Andre Stone are in the house to watch Makana Stone lay waste to her foes. (ES)

Proud Wolf grads Danny Savalza and Haley Sherman play us out. (JF)

Poor Canada. All that money and I still have a bigger photo crew than you.

While the Canuck-funded “local” newspapers do without a full-time photographer (hey, that’s money that can be spent on corporate vacations, eh?), I have an army at my beck and call.

Sort of.

None of them really respond to the whole beck and call thing very well. But they do take nice photos.

The photos above come courtesy of three different pic wizards — John Fisken, Eileen Stone and Wolf hoops star Maddie Big Time, aka Madeline Strasburg.

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Million Dollar Arm put on layaway!!

Posted in Girls Basketball, Softball, Volleyball, tagged CHS Wolves, McKayla Bailey, Million Dollar Arm, Softball, surgery on September 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

McKayla Bailey

Rumors that Bailey went on to photo-bomb the surgery team -- while knocked out -- are unsubstantiated ... but very, very believable. (Donna Bailey photo)

Rumors Bailey went on to photo-bomb the surgery team — while knocked out by anesthesia — are unsubstantiated, but very, very believable. (Donna Bailey photo)

Six months.

That’s how long Coupeville High School senior softball sensation McKayla Bailey is expected to be out after shoulder surgery Tuesday.

She’ll be in a sling for six weeks to start off the healing process.

Bailey will miss the rest of volleyball season and all of basketball season, with the hope of being healthy in time for her #1 sport, softball, in the spring.

The problems with her shoulder began after a long junior softball season, in which she was a one-woman pitching staff who carried CHS to its first state appearance in more than a decade.

Once the high school season was done, she tried to jump right into playing with her select traveling squad, but arm pain shut her down.

Bailey was originally diagnosed with two small tears in her pitching shoulder. One was in her rotator cuff, the other a “SLAP tear” in her super labrum.

The hope had been that the surgery would be minor, but doctors ran into bigger issues when they began to work.

“It went well but not as well as we hoped,” Bailey said. “There was more damage than we thought. They had to anchor down the tendon.

“No more volleyball and no basketball for me. It was really hard to hear,” she added. “But I know that in the future I’ll be glad I did this.”

Her mom, Donna Bailey, said her daughter’s natural sunniness never faded, even during the arduous hospital visit.

“She survived the anesthesia and I must say she was very polite to the nurses,” she said. “She thanked them for everything from taking her blood pressure to getting her saltine crackers. Pretty funny!”

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