Washington High School Football News

But then a guy like Kentwood High School's Reese McGuire comes along - a teenager with sustainable catching skills who quickly is cementing himself as a top-20 selection in next month's Major League Baseball amateur draft.

SPOKANE – Pasco High's Christian Young used to spend his Saturdays flying over jumps and around courses on a BMX bike.

He already has a Class 2A state championship in pole vaulting in his back pocket and owns the top vault in the state of Washington so far this spring at 16 feet, 1 inch.

Bodies were falling over and over again onto the unforgiving Orca Field turf. Legs were tangled, jerseys were pulled, heads and shoulders collided and play was chippy as ever.

It was only four years ago that he started using a freshman catcher behind the plate.

The ESPN Pac-12 blog is running a most important player series and Kevin Gemmell got to Washington State on Friday.

Tanner Romo, a 2011 South Kitsap graduate, enters the second game of Sunday's doubleheader for Everett Community College against Douglas in left field.

The Seattle Mariners used to have "The Big Unit," when Randy Johnson was in his prime - the Lynden baseball team has "The Eclipse." Though Lions senior Matt Meyer gives up 5 inches in height and more than 20 mph on his fastball to the former Major Leaguer and throws with his thick right arm, the 6-foot-5, 280-pound Washington State bound offensive ... (more)

The celebration would have to wait. The Marauder fans crowded the fence on the sideline of Frank Goddard Memorial Stadium like a whale pushing against the walls of its tank.

Perhaps drawing from Mount Rainier's aura, Puyallup Vikings right-hander Jacob Howard fires a strike against Emerald Ridge on April 25.

Skyline High School 's football program in Sammamish - apparently known nationwide as a "quarterback factory" - has reportedly attracted one of the country's hottest prep football prospects from Naples, Florida.

Matt Noll stole 18 bases this season and hit close to .400 for the Knights, who are back in the playoffs after a long absence.

Union's Trent Cowan and Columbia River's Remick Kawawaki were the top scholarship winners honored during a Sunday reception recognizing high school seniors who played football in Southwest Washington.

Another in a series reviewing Pac-12 spring-football camps. Today, Stanford, which is coming off consecutive BCS-bowl appearances .

Even a No. 1 seed is allowed to be nervous. Despite the fact Saturday night's first-round 2A district game wasn't an elimination match, nerves found a way into the minds and stomachs of the Archbishop Murphy boys soccer team.

While Stewart is best known for his football prowess, the current Carolina Panthers running back wasn't too shabby on the track, either.

It's pretty darn solid: 17-year-old Nick Mitchell will join his older brother Josh on the gridiron at Corvallis, Ore.

Five hours before the first pitch Thursday night at Cheney Stadium, the rooms adjacent to the Rainiers' clubhouse reflected the vagabond nature of pro-baseball lifers.

North Kitsap boys soccer coach Greg St. Peter graduated from NK in 1995 and played under current Kingston coach Craig Smith.

It gets a whole lot easier when you have some offense to back you up, though, and Brockmann made sure give himself plenty of that on Wednesday, May 1, in the first round of the Class 1A Northwest District Baseball Tournament.