Oak Harbor seniors hit milestones as Wildcats extend win streak

Oak Harbor’s softball surge has become bigger than a winning streak. In eight days, seniors Reese Wasinger and Layla Suto stacked up three milestones that show how much they have shaped the Wildcats’ identity, not just their box score.

Wasinger struck out her 500th career batter in an 11-2 win on April 15, then followed with the first no-hitter of her high school career in a 20-0 victory on April 21. Suto reached her 100th career hit on April 23 in a 13-1 win. Those numbers arrived during a five-game win streak that pushed Oak Harbor to 12-9 overall, according to the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.

The milestones matter because both players have been central to the program’s rise for more than one season. Oak Harbor finished 2025 with an 11-4 conference record and a 13-8 overall mark, one of the best fastpitch seasons in school history, and Wasinger already owned school career records for wins and strikeouts. Suto hit .411 that year, giving the Wildcats a middle-of-the-lineup threat who could change games with one swing.

The pair also has carried that success into the circle and the field this spring. On March 17 at Coupeville, Wasinger and Suto were described as Oak Harbor’s potent duo, and Wasinger struck out 15 batters over eight innings in a pitcher’s duel. That kind of sustained production is what made the April milestones feel like the latest stop on a longer climb rather than a one-week spike.

For both seniors, the numbers also reflect years of work that started long before Oak Harbor’s current run. Suto has played softball for four years, but she has played baseball since she was 4. She also plays travel softball for the Auburn-based Washington Avengers and quarterbacked Oak Harbor’s varsity flag football team in the winter. Wasinger began pitching around age 8 after taking a lesson, then returned after breaking her arm early in her development and never stopped.

Now, both captains for the first time this season are headed to college softball, with Suto committed to the University of Sioux Falls in South Dakota and Wasinger bound for Rhodes College in Tennessee. Their graduation will leave Oak Harbor with more than two proven athletes to replace. It will leave younger Wildcats without two familiar leaders who helped turn recent success into a standard the program can build on at Oak Harbor High School and beyond.