Washington High School Sports News Archives

Good Morning, It's Monday November 30... December is nearly here. I guess it's going to feel like December later this week.

Ever since the St. Francis team heard longtime coach Mike Mitchell would be retiring after this season, the players have talked about sending their coach out in style.

Here is a press release on the 2009 Les Schwab Tipoff Classic. KENT -- Defending Class 4A state girls basketball champion Kentwood headlines a strong field at the 2009 Les Schwab Tipoff Classic, set to begin Thursday at Kentwood High School.

The Inland Northwest saw three of its four prep football teams advance to the state semifinal round in Saturday's state tournament action.

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.

The Kentwood High girls soccer team overcame a big hurdle Tuesday night in Sammamish.

Joel Lindberg knew if his Beamer girls soccer team could somehow get through overtime, it would have a great chance to upset top-ranked and undefeated Jackson in the shootout.

The candidate appearances and forums are over. The last letters to the editor of the campaign season have been published.

White Water Aquatics, a swim team who swam out of Evergreen Pool in North Highline until the pool closed in September, hopes to reopen the pool by the first of the year with community donations.

North Mason's Kim Wascher won the 50-yard freestyle and the 100 backstroke at the Class 1A/2A District swimming and diving meet at Olympic High School on Saturday.

North Kitsap's volleyball team made it through to play another day. The Vikings went 1-1 during the first day of the Class 3A West Central/Southwest District tournament Friday at Auburn Mountainview High School.

Father Judge is the PIAA Class AAA boys' soccer city champion, and Nick Morris is its hero.

Senior night for Seattle Lutheran High School ' s football team, with players and parents introduced just before kickoff Thursday night at West Seattle Stadium .

The result was a little less lopsided than last year, but not by much. Archbishop Wood got four goals and an assist from Tom Baker and beat Franklin Towne Charter, 6-0, to win the District 12 Class AA boys' soccer championship at Charlie Martin Memorial Stadium Thursady.

The girls' soccer District brackets have been announced, and per usual there are some perennial teams in the tournament, plus some surprising newcomers.

The Port Townsend Redskins ended their Class 1A Nisqually League football finale quickly.

This is the final week of the regular season for a number of our area's high school teams.

It was the "circle the date" match for teams in the Narrows League Tournament for a decade.

The football teams at South Kitsap and Central Kitsap will get a little extra time to prepare for their Class 4A state preliminary round games The Wolves and Cougars, who finished off their regular seasons with wins last Thursday, play Saturday for the chance to compete in the first round of the state tournament.

Neah Bay's football team remained undefeated in clinching the Pacific Coast League North Division championship by beating perennial league power Lummi on the road Saturday .

If you are a high-school volleyball fan , you gotta love the next two weeks. I am excited to get out and finally see some volleyball this weekend .

Phil Lumpkin, longtime boys basketball coach at O'Dea High School and a former NBA player, died over the weekend, principal Brother Dominic Murray confirmed Monday morning.

The mantra for the Gig Harbor volleyball team all season has been the quest to be their best.

Several area football teams know who they are playing, they just don't know when.

Miranda Caballero's first varsity goal could not have come at a better moment. South Kitsap's freshman center fullback sliced through Gig Harbor's defense in overtime and scored the winning goal in the semifinals of the Narrows League girls soccer playoffs, lifting the Wolves to 1-0 victory on Saturday at Mount Tahoma Stadium.