The Prep Beat

South Kitsap’s Bryce Broome and Austin Kanouse and Central Kitsap’s Greg Cleveland will play for the East team in the annual East-West Football game in Moses Lake. Here’s the West roster.
The Earl Barden Classic, the annual football game for small-school players, is also Saturday in Yakima. North Kitsap’s AJ Milyard was the only local selected to that game.

To limit concussions and other injuries, Texas is moving toward limiting contact during football practice to 90 minutes per week. You can read about that here.
It’s an interesting move coming from the state where high school football is king and it shows how things are changing in the sport.
The WIAA approved new rules for summer practices in the spring. It came in response to an amendment that would ban helmets during the offseason in an effort to eliminate contact and decrease concussions.
I was at the WIAA winter coalition meeting in March where the summer practice amendment was discussed. I heard some of the discussion and the state coaches association knows change to their sport is coming and they’re hoping to be out in front on the issue before others change their sport for them.
It’s going to be interesting to see how this issue moves. If Texas is willing to make these changes, it could just be the first domino toward the rest of the states.
And if this is the way the sport is going, how will the sport evolve? Will it change the on-field product? Will it dramatically alter how many are injured in the sport? How will the higher levels of the sport evolve?

The Bainbridge Football Boosters club officially formed following this last Metro League season, said member Jeff Wysong.

The club includes 280 parents and meets every other Wednesday at the fire station on Madison Avenue at 6:30 p.m. Their next meeting is May 15. You can find them on Facebook at Bainbridge Football Boosters and Twitter, @BIFootball.

North Kitsap quarterback was named to the Earl Barden Classic, the East-West All-State football games for small schools.
The Earl Barden is for players at Class 2A schools and smaller. The game is in Yakima on June 22.
The rosters for the East-West game (for 4A/3A schools) haven’t been announced.
You can find complete Barden rosters here.

The Associated Press All-State football team was released Friday, and there’s a couple local players named to the first team.
South Kitsap defensive back Bryce Broome, who had eight interceptions, was named first-team for Class 4A.
North Kitsap kicker Kyler Gracey was named first-team at kicker for Class 2A. Gracey was also named second team for punter.
Bremerton linebacker Lucas Anderson, the Olympic League defensive MVP, was first team in the 2A.
A few other players were honored:
Klahowya receiver Josh Ganowski, who led West Sound with 14 touchdowns receptions and 909 yards receiving, was a second-team pick for 2A.
North Kitsap tight end Mitch Adams was a second-team pick for 2A.
Chimacum’s Daryl Settlemire, a two-time Nisqually League defensive MVP, was picked on the D-line for the 1A team.
You can see the complete team here.

You can read about that here.

We finally have all the replays of our weekly streaming football games online.
Every game from Week 1 to the state playoffs are available for you to watch again and again.
You’ll find them right here.

Also, we’re starting our weekly basketball game of the week. We’re starting with a girls/boys doubleheader as Crosspoint visits Klahowya. You’ll find that here.

The state football championships are Friday-Saturday at the Tacoma Dome.
Friday
Class 2B
Who: Morton-White Pass (12-0) vs. Lind-Ritzville-Sprague (12-0)
Time: 4 p.m.
Broadcast: WIAANetwork.com
Notable: Five towns are vying for one state title.
Class 3A
Who: Bellevue (13-0) vs. Eastside Catholic (12-1)
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Broadcast: ROOT
Notable: Bellevue, ranked No. 2 in the nation by ESPN, is going for it’s 10th title since 2001.
Saturday
Class 1A
Who: Royal (12-1) vs. Montesano (11-1)
Time: 10 a.m.
Broadcast: WIAANetwork.com
Notable: Royal, which lost to Montesano in the 1994 state title game, is looking for its sixth state 1A title since 1996.
Class 2A
Who: Lynden (12-1) vs. Tumwater (12-1)
Time: 1 p.m.
Broadcast: WIAANetwork.com
Notable: Both Tumwater coach Sid Otton and Lynden coach Curt Kramme have won five state championships. Tumwater is looking for second title in three years. Lynden is looking for third in four years.
Class 1B (eight-man)
Who: Neah Bay (12-0) vs. Liberty Christian (13-0)
Time: 4 p.m.
Broadcast: WIAANetwork.com
Notable: Neah Bay won the school’s first state title in any sport last year. This is first trip to the finals for Liberty Christian (Richland).
Class 4A
Who: Skyline (13-0) vs. Bellarmine Prep (12-1)
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Broadcast: ROOT
Notable: Skyline is going for its fifth state title since 2007.

Both totals are national records. But, they might not go into the national record book because of a technicality.
Speaking of national records, here’s an interesting look at the most unbreakable records out there. The career rushing record on that list was recently broken.

Capital’s Kai Van Sickle rushed for 167 yards as his Cougars lost to the Lynden Lions 48-21 in a Class 2A state football semifinal game at the Tacoma Dome on Friday.
The 6-foot, 190-pound senior finished the season with 2,768 yards to break the state’s single-season rushing record.
Interlake’s Jordan Todd, who is playing at Central Washington University, piled up 2,681 yards last season.
Earlier this season, Blaine’s Mario Gobbato rushed for 2,821, but a good chunk of that came in a Kansas tiebreaker, which is not normally considered a game in which stats count toward season totals. Gobbato had 2,661 yards through 10 games.
Van Sickle, who had 1,974 through eight weeks, scored 41 touchdowns