Maple Valley Parks & Recreation’s new coed basketball league is a 5-on-5, full court pressure league complete with regular and post-season play, officials, standings and awards. Games are played on Friday nights at local area schools. One division of play is offered and all teams advance to the playoffs. Team fee is $475 and deadline to register is March 3rd.
SPSL NORTH: AT A GLANCE
SPSL NORTH PLAYERS TO WATCH
In a guard-oriented league, the Kentlake High girls basketball team literally stands out.
With a front line of 6-foot-1 Morganne Comstock and 6-foot-3 Riley Butler to go along with 5-foot-9 guard Cody Sisco, the Falcons possess a decided height advantage over virtually every team in the South Puget Sound League North Division.
The challenge ahead for first-year Kentwood High girls basketball coach Dean Montzingo is daunting. Even pressure packed.
After all, in Keith Hennig, Montzingo is replacing the most successful girls basketball coach in Kentwood High history. Hennig led the Conquerors to the program’s first-ever state title last winter, a season that included the team’s fourth-straight South Puget Sound League North Division crown.
The Tahoma High girls basketball team has kicked the early season into high gear, picking up a couple of victories and planning for many more.
BASKETBALL: The Reporter girls and boys class 4A and 3A poll
Registration for Maple Valley Parks & Recreation 2010 adult coed volleyball league is now underway and will run through Jan. 5 or until full with 18 teams.
Emerald Downs jockey Gallyn Mitchell has been recognized as one of five finalists for the 2010 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award
The announcement was made at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.
The Tahoma High wrestling team dominated Auburn Friday at home with a 54-14 team victory.
Of the 13 weigh classes, Tahoma took 10 and the Trojans three.
Girls and boys 4A basketball poll
The tests have come early for the top girls basketball teams in the South Puget Sound League North 4A this season.
The SPSL North is stacked top to bottom on an annual basis.
The deepest of weight classes?
While it’s a tough call, the early season nod goes to the 103-pound weight class. The bracket includes returning state champion Ruben Navejas of Kentwood along with state placer Jesus Valdez of Kent-Meridian and up-and-comer Steven Tompkins of Tahoma.
The Tahoma Bears are primed and ready to rise to the top, all the way to the top of the state 4A class.
The Bears have been pegged as second in the state behind Lake Stevens by Dave Gilbertson on his Web site Washington Wrestling Report, and hopes are very high in Tahoma land.
It had all the hype and plenty of big-name players, but Tuesday night’s boys basketball game between top-ranked Federal Way and No. 3 Kentwood only provided half of the substance.
The Kentwood boys basketball team host Federal Way at 7 p.m. tonight.
Josh Smith Kentwood Center Senior
Notable: 6-10, 285-pound UCLA-bound senior is worth price of admission.
Defending Class 4A state girls basketball champion Kentwood headlines a strong field at the 2009 Les Schwab Tipoff Classic that began Thursday at Kentwood High. The tournament will feature four girls teams and four boys teams.
In a league loaded with talented big men, Kentlake will have to take a different approach this season.
The Falcons don’t have a single player who stands bigger than 6-foot-4 and the majority of the team’s roster stands between 5-9 and 6-2.
The Tahoma boys basketball team is looking for a turnaround season.
Coach Rob Morrow said the South Puget Sound League 4A, North Division, is “really good, but we have a chance to do well.”
Leading the charge for the Bears is Christian Behrens who averaged 21 points and 10 rebounds last year.
