Washington High School Sports News

The best thing about following the Skyline-Bothell rivalry this season is listening to the way both teams talk about each other.

As previously reported last week , long-time Shorecrest assistant Brandon Christensen will replace Mike Wollan as the school's football coach.

Christian Faith concluded a stellar girls volleyball season with a tremendous effort at the Class 2B state tournament in the YakimaSun Dome.

If offense is your thing, hopefully you made it down to Woolsey Stadium for Friday's Class 1A quarterfinal in which Nooksack Valley stunned King's 54-47. Both squads were attempting to advance past the quarterfinals for the first time since the field expanded to 16 teams four decades ago.

Sometime next spring, when the sun returns and lawns are awakened from their winter slumber, Barry Crust will coach his last game at Hudtloff Middle School in Lakewood.

Maddy Huggins and Alli Beard scored goals as Archbishop Murphy won its second Class 2A state girls soccer championship in the last four years with a 2-0 victory over Cheney Saturday night at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup.

On the heels of our report a few hours ago about the Seattle Lutheran girls' soccer team taking 3rd in the state , we have more big news about local youth sports - thanks to Michael Zuppe for sharing this news: West Seattle Wildcat Seniors beat the Renton Rangers 12 to 8, at Husky Stadium, to win the South King County Jr.

Thomas Roberts of Centre Pointe Consultants in Kent surveys the track a Bremerton Memorial Stadium on Thursday.

They returned just two starters this season and were pegged for a letdown. Yet, the Kentwood High volleyball team found itself in familiar territory last week, playing in the Class 4A state tournament in Kennewick.

Should the Redlands East Valley girls volleyball team match its success of a year ago, when it advanced all the way to the state finals, Tuesday's game against Torrance Bishop Montgomery will go down as a minor coincidence.

The South Carolina baseball team has announced its schedule for the 2010 season featuring 25 games against 2009 NCAA Tournament teams as well as 33 home games at Carolina Stadium.

Don Braman coaches a Skyline team that survived a tough KingCo 4A season. The adage of "taking one game at a time" has been used often this season by coaches and players in the girls state soccer playoffs.

I've have another favorite coach to add to my ever-growing list. Actually, I appreciate all of our area coaches, the job they do to support high school athletes and the cooperation they provide to help us get prep results to you.

Below you'll find the Class 4A all-tournament volleyball team, as selected by members of the media covering the event.

Guam High's football campaign ended on a losing note as the Panthers fell 24-7 to the Yokota Panthers of Japan in yesterday's third-place game of the 2009 DODEA Pacific Far East High School Class AA football playoffs at Mike Petty Stadium, Kubasaki High School, Camp Foster, Okinawa.

Beamer goalkeeper Megan Graf, right, stops Coral Anderson's attempt to score for Skyline in the second half of Saturday's quarterfinal.

The high school girls soccer postseason continued Tuesday night with the first round of the state tournament.

All-American Jake Heaps in the No. 7 senior quarterback in the nation according to ESPN.

MADISON SOCCER: Thanks to Cheryl for sending word that Madison Middle School 's girls' varsity soccer team is in tournament semifinals today, playing Washington Middle School at 3 pm at Memorial Stadium downtown , and hoping for a big cheering section.

It took one perfect shot to end Union's soccer season. Lakeside's Emi Lawson launched a free kick from 29 yards out, the ball curved from the center of the net toward the top left corner, and slid just under the cross bar in the match's 47th minute.