Check out Jeff Graham and Annette Griffus talking about boys and girls basketball rankings this week.
Check out Jeff Graham and Annette Griffus talking about boys and girls basketball rankings this week.
Sequim High will hold the first All Olympic League girls wrestling dual Thursday.
Junior varsity matches start at 6 p.m. with varsity scheduled to start at 7 p.m.
Sequim athletic director Dave Ditlefsen said all league schools are sending their female wrestlers to participate in the match, giving them the experience of a varsity-style dual.
“This will become an annual event that will rotate schools in the future,” Ditlefsen said.
Olympic junior Kaira Cabato sent out this tweet Monday night saying she verbally committed to play softball at Bethune Cookman University.
Proud to announce that I have verbally committed to Bethune Cookman University❤️⚾️ #hailwildcats @BCUsoftball pic.twitter.com/vBDPVhafla
— Kai🌸 (@kaira_cabato) December 6, 2016
The university is located in Daytona Beach, Florida.
South Kitsap HS video production will be live streaming South’s girls basketball game against Olympia on Thursday at 7 p.m.
You can watch the stream by clicking here or SK’s YouTube page. It will also be live on SKTV 205 Wave Digital cable.
Evergreen Lutheran’s Liam Peterson of Port Orchard was named the All-Sea-Tac League B first team
The sophomore was also named the team’s offensive player of the year after scoring nine goals and eight assists for the Eagles. Erik Grey, a freshman from Kitsap, was named to the All-Sea-Tac League second team. Junior Micah Pittenger, also from Kitsap, was named to the All-Sea-Tac League second team.
Seven players from Kitsap play for Evergreen, which qualified for the Tri-District tournament; senior Andrew Yang, junior Micah Pittenger, sophomores Ben Schwartz, Sam Bessler and freshman Gabriel Park. The Eagles also received the WIAA Distinguished Scholastic award as the academic state champions for a team grade point average of 3.49.
Co-MVP—Emily Peters, sr., Klahowya; Mia
Littlejohn, jr., Coupeville
Coach of the year—Troy Oelschlager, Klahowya
First team
Hailey Sargent, jr., Klahowya; Alyssa Peters, fr., Klahowya; Rylee
Fenske-Radford, so., Klahowya; Kylie Woodrum, so., Klahoywa; Lauren
Grove, sr., Coupeville; Sage Renninger, jr., Coupeville; Lindsey
Roberts, so., Coupeville; Kaitlyn Meek, jr., Port Townsend; Jasmin
Apker-Montoya, so., Port Townsend; Grace Johnson, so., Chimacum;
Samantha Raines, sr., Chimacum.
All-Olympic/NIsqually 1A Team
MVP—Berkley Hill, sr., Port Townsend
Offensive MVP—Tyquan Coleman, jr., Cascade
Christian
Defensive MVP—Gabriel Wallis, sr., Klahowya
Coach of the Year—Randy Davis, Cascade
Christian
First team offense
QB—Parker Johnson, fr., Cascade Christian. RB—Detrius Kelsall, jr.,
Port Townsend; Bryce Hoisington, sr., Vashon; Gabriel Wallis, sr.,
Klahowya. WR—Hunter Smith, sr., Coupeville; Austin Carder, sr.,
Cascade Christian. TE—Cooper Cochran, sr., Charles Wright.
OL—Jackson Foster, jr., Port Townsend; Dylan Leer, sr., Klahowya;
Evan Minsk, sr., Charles Wright; Jeremy Ocbian, jr., Cascade
Christian; Corbin Nohr, jr., Cascade Christian. Offensive
athlete—Dylan Zuber, sr., Klahowya.
First team defense
DL—Corbin Nohr, jr., Cascade Christian; Nathan Suiter, jr., Cascade
Christian; Jackson Foster, jr., Port Townsend; Christian Miller,
sr., Bellevue Christian; Dylan Leer, sr., Klahowya. LB—Detrius
Kelsall, jr., Port Townsend; James Gherna, sr., Klahowya; Tanner
Carle, jr., Cascade Christian; Blake Stoltenberg, sr., Charles
Wright; Bryce Hoisington, sr., Vashon. DB—Dylan Zuber, sr.,
Klahowya; Alex Meadowcroft, jr., Charles Wright; Hunter Smith, jr.,
Coupeville. Defensive athlete—Zach Bartolome, sr., Cascade
Christian.
First team special teams
K—Gerry Coker, sr., Port Townsend. P—Lane Dotson, sr., Chimacum.
KR—Bryce Hoisington, sr., Vashon.
Second team offense
QB—Henry Lenaberg, jr., Charles Wright; Hunter Downes, jr.,
Coupeville. RB—Zach Bartolome, sr., Cascade Christian; James
Vogelgesang, sr., Charles Wright; Daniel Ficca, sr., Bellevue
Christian. WR—Alex Meadowcroft, jr., Charles Wright; Joe Helton,
sr., Bellevue Christian. TE—Tanner Carle, jr., Cascade Christian.
OL—Peter Besel, jr., Bellevue Christian; Riley Grider, sr., Charles
Wright; Lane Dotson, sr., Chimacum; Kaiden Parcher, jr., Port
Townsend; Abel Nutu, jr., Cascade Christian.
Second team defense
DL—Jeremy Ocbian, jr., Cascade Christian; Abel Nutu, jr., Cascade
Christian; Evan Minsk, sr., Charles Wright; Jacob Massie, sr., Port
Townsend; Chris Greene, sr., Klahowya. LB—Jonathan Smith, sr., Port
Townsend; Michael Tucci, jr., Charles Wright; Jake Nielsen, sr.,
Cascade Christian. DB—Connor Hoisington, jr., Vashon; Joe Helton,
sr., Bellevue Christian; Noa Apker-Montoya, fr., Port Townsend;
Tyquan Coleman, jr., Cascade Christian.
Second team special teams
K/P—Billy Chissoe, jr., Charles Wright. KR—Alex Meadowcroft, jr.,
Charles Wright.
South Kitsap seniors Tia Lawrence, Diane Olson and junior Madison Jackson were all named to the All-South Puget Sound League 4A volleyball team.
All three were added to the honorable mention team.
All-SPSL 4A Volleyball
MVP—Hannah Pukis, jr., OH, Bellarmine Prep
Coach of the year—Tony Batinovich, Puyallup
First team—Kasey Woodroof, jr., L, Curtis; Lauren Wilson, sr., OH, Olympia; McKenzie Schwan, sr., OH, Bellarmine Prep; Addy Woolery, jr., L, Bellarmine Prep; Peyton Foster, jr., OH, Graham-Kapowsin; Kaitlin Sugai, jr., RS, Puyallup; Tayler Templeman, jr., OH, Emerald Ridge.
Second team—Katie Yorke, jr., RS, Curtis; Sarah Randall, so., M, Curtis; Hannah Barbour, sr., L, Graham-Kapowsin; Jordan Hunter, sr., OH, Puyallup; Anna Saelens, jr., S, Puyallup; Jadyn Mullen, jr., S, Emerald Ridge.
Honorable mention—South Kitsap: Tia Lawrence, sr., L; Diane Olson, sr., M; Madison Jackson, jr., S.
The second day of the state girls swimming and diving championships are underway at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.
The Class 2A meet is underway and top qualifier Port Angeles won the 200-yard medley relay with a hard charge from Liberty, 1:50.76 to 1:51.31.
Port Townsend was named the academic champion with a team grade point average of 3.508 for 1A and head coach Peter Braden.
200 freestyle final: Klahowya junior Kira Crane placed fifth in 1:57.39 and North Kitsap’s Isabel Hendryx was sixth in 1:59.90.
200 IM consolation final: Olympic sophomore Chloe Partsch finished 10th overall in 2:16.82, well ahead of her prelim time of 2:20.54 from Friday.
50 free final: North Kitsap freshman Eleanor Beers won her first state title in the 50 freestyle in 23.36. That’s the second fastest all-time in 2A and she tied with Missy McIntyre of Oak Harbor for the top 10 all-time.
100 butterfly final: Klahowya’s Crane finished second to Alexis Schmidtt of Cheney, 58.21 to 58.24. Partsch of Olympic was sixth.
100 free final: Beers claimed her second individual title with a time of 50.98, a state record by one-one hundredth of a second. Amelia Messegee held the record of 50.99 since Nov. 10, 2007.
500 free final: Kingston’s Claudia Velie finished fifth.
200 free relay final: Liberty edged North Kitsap to win the relay, 1:39.45 to 1:39.84.
100 backstroke final: North’s Isabel Hendryx finished second to two-time state champion Taylor McCoy of Pullman. McCoy will swim at WSU next year. Hendryx’s had a time of 59.58 to McCoy’s 56.40.
400 free relay: North Kitsap won in a time of 3:14.36, holding off Liberty in 3:14.71.
North Kitsap finished fourth overall. It’s the first Greg Braun-led Vikings team to podium at the state meet in his 26 years as head coach.
Class 3A
1-meter diving: Bainbridge’s Zora Opalka won the school’s first girls title with 422.10 points to hold off Lakeside’s Amber Chong, 421.70. Bainbridge’s Cammy Rouser was fifth.
200 IM final: Central Kitsap sophomore Taylor Sims placed eighth in 2:14.03.
North Kitsap’s football team puts its 10-0 record on the line tonight at 7 p.m. in Poulsbo against Archbishop Murphy. The Wildcats (10-0) are the top-ranked team in Class 2A.
Can the Vikings — ranked No. 6 — pull off the upset? Tune in here at 7 p.m.
Read about tonight’s matchup:
-Austin Miller writes about how the Vikings are anxious to take on the challenge of facing the same team that knocked North Kitsap out of the state semifinals last year.
-Jeff Graham writes about his past experience with covering games featuring undefeated teams.