The Prep Beat

The Olympic League had a rough time in the West Central sub-district basketball tournaments.
The six teams — boys and girls — went a combined 2-10 in tournaments Thursday and Friday. The only two winners were the North Kitsap girls in the 2A tourney and the Bremerton girls in the 3A Thursday.
The boys went 0-for-6 as all five of the 2A boys lost Friday. Bremerton was eliminated in the 3A tourney on Thursday.
Olympic and Klahowya were eliminated. Olympic lost to Foster 62-59 and Klahowya fell to Fife 53-41.
Kingston, Port Angeles and Sequim all lost Friday, but they play Saturday in seeding games for next week’s Class 2A West Central District tournament.

The Kingston vs. Port Angeles girls sub-district seeding game has been changed to 2 p.m. Saturday at Klahowya.

Kingston and PA are playing for the third/fourth seed into the Class 2A West Central District tournament, which begins next week.

Here’s the final regular-season stats:

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Bainbridge gymnastics coach Cindy Guy was elected to the Washington State Gymnastics Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Guy, whose gymnastics program is always among the top Class 3A teams in the state, will be honored at the state meet at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall of Feb. 18.

Guy is wrapping up her 32nd year coaching at Bainbridge. Among her accomplishments are coaching the Spartans to the 2005 Class 3A state championship. She had three state all-around champs and and six individual titles. She’s won four state trophies (top-four finish). Her team won 115 consecutive regular-season meets, a streak that ended in 2010.

Crosspoint Academy’s Jordan Barton will continue her soccer career at Olympic College.
Barton also had a scholarship offer from Yakima Valley, but she decided she wanted to stay close to home.
Barton was a Class 2B second-team All-State player who helped the Warriors to a third-place finish at state.

Here’s the second-to-late Associated Press state basketball poll. No local teams made the cut, but Kingston and Port Angeles received some votes in the boys poll:

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Central Kitsap wrestling coach Mike Harter said Wednesday that 100-pounder Alison Johnson won’t be competing in Saturday’s girls regional tournament at Emerald Ridge High School because of a death in the family.
Johnson, a sophomore, won a sub-district title last weekend and was looking to qualify for the state tournament for the first time.
“I think Alison was going to get up on the podium,” Harter said.

The West Central sub-district basketball tournaments begin Thursday.
Here are the brackets for the Class 2A boys and girls.
And here are the brackets for the Class 3A boys and girls.
Also, the Metro League tournament has been going on all week. Here’s the updated bracket for boys and girls.
Also, the Crosspoint girls head to the Class 2B Bi-District tournament on Friday. Here’s that bracket.
The Class 4A district tournament starts next week. We’ll bring you those brackets when they’re finalized.

Here are your latest All-Classification rankings, courtesy of Washington Wrestling Report. If you look closely, there could be some great matchups for our wrestlers chasing Class 2A state titles. Of course, Mat Classic is still two weeks away, so there could be a lot of change between now and then.