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At Foss they lost 10 seniors and it looked like a rebuilding year. But they have a coach who doesn’t get along well with low expectations.
In the Foss gym last Saturday morning, after a loss the previous night at Central Kitsap, 57-55, none of coach Mike Cocke’s players are feeling his love. Read more...
Teams face final push in tight race toward league title and tournament
This year the West Central District semifinals are going to be played at the ShoWare Center in Kent, a treat for the players and even more so for the fans. (Note to the old guys who bring those portable seatbacks: you won’t need them.) Read more...
Showtime: George Fox vs. UPS at home
The Northwest Conference women’s basketball game of the year to this point will take place this week (Jan. 30), when the University of Puget Sound hosts conference leader George Fox at 6 p.m. at Memorial FieldHouse. Read more...
When a basketball coach reaches the state tournament eight times in 16 years and wins two state titles he must be doing something right
Up until last week, the Curtis High School boys basketball team was undefeated. If you talked to players or coaches, it was like, whatever. It was okay, you know. Not bad. Actually kind of random, when you came right down to it. Some close games. Could have gone either way. Read more...
In a highly-charged girls basketball game, Bellarmine’s Barnes provides the right spark
Expressing a buoyant sense of optimism this season, the young Wilson girls basketball team, with more victories than in the past three years combined, took on the league’s best team, Bellarmine Prep, last week in front of the largest crowd to see a girls basketball game in years at Wilson. Read more...
Loggers hit stride against Whitman
A night after dropping a contest due to poor shooting against the Whitworth Pirates, the Puget Sound Loggers turned in their best performance of the year against ex-Logger head coach Eric Bridgeland’s Whitman Missionaries, winning 88-66 in a Northwest Conference men’s basketball game last week at Memorial Fieldhouse. Read more...
Wilson win gives them something to build on
As the Narrows League season passes the midway point, one thing is for sure: the most competitive races in both divisions in recent memory will make for a great stretch run. Last week at Bellarmine’s Booster Gym before a packed house, Wilson’s Demetrius Smith, Mikey Hope and Jibreel Stevens combined for 41 points, as the Rams defeated the Bellarmine Lions by a score of 53-46. Read more...
George Foreman made a lifelong transition from thug to king of the ring to tender tycoon. Now he is helping shephard his son's boxing career.
George Foreman made the lifelong transformation from a teenage street thug who beat up kids in Houston for their lunch money to a heavyweight world champion, preacher and highly respected businessman. The former 1968 Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion came to town last week to support his son, George III, who is making his own transition to the professional fight game. Read more...
The Lions went up against a good Foss team and proved they belong at the top of the league
In the 54-year history of the Bellarmine Booster Gym, many a player wearing the navy blue and white of Bellarmine Prep has made his mark on this venerable floor. Steve Anstett, Bryce McPhee, Casey Calvary, Avery Bradley and Abdul Gaddy, just to name a few. And in this the final season for the old building, you can add another. Donald Gaddy, a lean-in 8-footer with his right hand and subsequent foul shot with 8.7 seconds left, gave Bellarmine a thrilling 55-54 win over the Foss Falcons in a battle of Narrows League division leaders. Read more...
Freshmen contributing big time at PLU
PLU freshman Cameron Schilling, who played for Decatur High School’s state championship team last year, had his best game of the season, scoring 16 points and taking down 12 rebounds, and the Lutes, with a 83-73 victory over Lewis & Clark last weekend, find themselves with a 3-1 Northwest Conference record heading into a big weekend with games against Whitman and Whitworth. Read more...
