There won’t be much for the highlight tape from Sumner’s win against White River on Friday, but at this point the Spartans will take wins any way they can get them.
Dave Alwert didn’t so much provide an answer when he was asked how it felt to be 3A Narrows League champions. The Wilson boys basketball coach simply grinned ear to ear.
Having dropped a heartbreaker to Federal Way in the first go-round, Todd Beamer got its revenge Friday night, beating its rival, 53-50.
Before the high school bowling season even started, trash talk started flooding the ears of Emerald Ridge High senior Courtney Couch.
It might have been the worst-kept secret around Bellarmine Prep the past week, but Michael Rector tried to play it as one. At about 7:40 a.m. today, Rector made the decision official he was going to sign his national letter of intent with Stanford after being committed to Washington for much of the past seven months.
For as much damage as quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell did last season on Eastern Washington’s football opponents – and he did plenty, considering he was the Payton Award winner as the top player in the Football Championship Subdivision – the Eagles had issues slowing down passing attacks.
In an apparent display of self-torture, the Wilson High School student section decided to sit still and not make any noise until their team scored 10 points.
A blowout turned into a shootout Wednesday night.
Wednesday’s highlights
Every coach claims to have a great national signing day. Nick Saban actually does — every year.
His word stood for seven months. And Bellarmine Prep's Michael Rector takes that sort of thing seriously.
In SPSL 2A boys basketball, Steilacoom’s Deshawn Habte scored a team-high 16 points to guide the Sentinels to a 60-59 win over Sumner. Joey Kendall led the Spartans with 17 points.
The first time Decatur played Lakes this season, Gators guard Dom Hunter was in foul trouble all game and had little impact. A big game from Markus Rawls helped Decatur pull off a one-point win that day.
Despite mistake after mistake in the first half, the Mount Rainier High School boys basketball team rallied Tuesday for a 79-66 home win over Kentwood.
Between bites of pasta and chicken during lunch Tuesday, Cedric Dozier dialed up California football coach Jeff Tedford. “We were just talking and something just hit me, telling me ‘Hey, right now is your time, this is what I want you to do,’ ” Dozier recounted. “It was Cal. I said ‘Hey coach, I think it’s time that I recommit.’ ”
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