The Prep Beat

West Sound has a couple more entrants in to the Washington Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Howard Thoemke will be honored at the induction ceremony on July 24.
Thoemke is going in as an assistant coach. He coached at Crescent (Joyce), Central Kitsap, North Kitsap and North Mason. Thoemke was also the head coach at Olympic. He was the coach when the Christian Welp-led Trojans won the AA title in 1983. That was the last Kitsap boys basketball team to win a state championship.
Former Sequim coach Larry Hill will also be inducted.
North Kitsap’s Jerry Parrish, a Hall of Fame football coach, will receive the Ed Pepple Service Award for his contributions to high school basketball. Parrish was a longtime official and announcer.

Bainbridge’s All-Metro League forward Grace Kenyon has signed a letter of intent to play basketball for Idaho State, the school announced Tuesday.
From the release:
As a senior Kenyon averaged 18.8 points, 10.7 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 2.8 steals. She scored over 1,100 points in her high school career and ranked second overall in rebounds and double-doubles.
“Grace is a hard working athletic forward who can score around the basket or step out and hit the three,” Idaho State coach Seton Sobolewski said. “She is also an exceptional student. We look forward to having her on campus soon.”

Kingston’s KT Deam, a three-year starter for the Bucs, will play basketball at Green River Community College.

Ashli Payne, the Olympic League girls MVP, will play basketball at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.

Olympic’s Quentin Phillip and Ashli Payne, the Olympic League boys and girls MVPs, were named second team on the Associated Press All-State basketball teams on Monday. Sequim’s Jayson Brocklesby was also a second-team selection.
The team are selected by a vote of media from around the state.
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Jewel Johnson, a junior point guard from Port Townsend, was chosen to play in the 17th Annual Washington-North Idaho All-State Girl’s Basketball Game.

The game is in Spokane June 22, at the HUB Sports Center. Tip off is 3:30 p.m. Johnson is coached by Randy Maag and is the daughter of Louis and Lenora Johnson.

Olympic High’s Ashli Payne was the only West Sound player to be selected to play in the Washington State Girls Basketball Coaches Association Senior All-State game.

The games will be Saturday at Seattle Christian High School in SeaTac.

Payne was chosen to play in the Class 2A, which will match up against the 1A at 4 p.m. The 1B vs 2B game is at 2 p.m. and the 3A vs 4A game is at 6 p.m.

The WSGBCA will also select its Players of the Year for each classification and the Coach of the Year.

Admission is $8 for adults and $6 for students with ASB. WSCA members are free.

Here are the complete rosters;

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South Kitsap’s Ryley Callaghan and Caulin Bakalarski and Central Kitsap’s Michael Thomas have been selected to play in the Cloud 9 Sports South Sound All-Star game.
The game is open to players in the South Puget Sound League, Narrows, Nisqually or Seamount Leagues. Twelve players are chosen from each league.
Callaghan and Thomas were first team All-Narrows League, and Thomas was second team.
The game is Friday at Auburn High.
The Nisqually plays Seamount at 4 p.m. The 3A SPSL plays the 2A SPSL at 5:30 p.m. The Narrows 4A plays the Narros 3A at 7 p.m., and the SPSL 4A North plays the SPSL 4A South at 8:30 p.m.

We’re running a live web stream of the game here.
You can get some more info on the game here, including the players.

Tony Chisholm has stepped down after seven seasons as boys basketball coach at North Kitsap.
He resigned effective March 1.
Chisholm’s final season ended in the Class 2A West Central District basketball tournament.
His best season was in 2009 when the Vikings advanced to the Class 3A state tournament. He had a 53-99 career record.

Kitsap basketball teams may be done for the season (but don’t forget about Sequim), but there’s still a state basketball tournament to play.
Tourneys tip Friday at the Tacoma Dome, Yakima SunDome and Spokane Arena. Schedules are here.
Here’s a good column out of Vancouver about what to call the whole regional/state thing.
For the Class 4A tourneys, the Tacoma News Tribune ranked the boys and girls, and they did the same for the 3A boys and girls.
Rainier Beach, as always, is the favorite to win the 3A boys title, which would put coach Mike Bethea in record territory.
Here’s a roundup of tournament stories from around the state.
For the Class 2A and 1A tourneys, the Yakima Herald-Republic’s Tourneytown page is the place to go.
Nobody covers the B tourneys better than the Spokesman-Review. Here’s the place to go for the small schools.