Cardinal Voice

TACOMA - At Saturday's state championship game, the Cardinals' home crowd didn't have a live mascot like Blitz, the big bird of the Seahawks, or the Mariners' Moose, to fire up the crowd.

They didn't need one. They had the lovely WP cheerleaders and they had Melissa Harting, whose one-of-a-kind voice has been booming from the sidelines of ball fields for years now.

We want to salute Harting and the hundreds of other dedicated hometown fans for coming out to support the boys of fall on the other side of the state and for holding a hand in their back during this weekend's landmark title game.

"I...