4A tournaments at Columbia Basin Racquet Club, Hanford, Richland HS
3A tournaments at Tri-City Court club, Kamiakin High School
2A tournaments at Nordstrom Tennis Center, Seattle
1A/2B/1B tournaments at Yakima Tennis Center

Returning champions: Sammi Hampton, Skyview (4A girls singles), Mitch Stewart, Federal Way (4A boys singles), Nora Tan, Mercer Island (3A girls singles), Daniel Yu/Josh Rasmus, Washington (2A boys doubles), Teddy Grenley/Phillip Grenley, Charles Wright (1A/2B/1B boys doubles), Michelle Lui, Forest Ridge (1A/2B/1B girls singles).

4A skinny: Stewart is a University of Washington commit. The field better hope his legs are tired from running the boys’ …

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4A, 3A championships at Sparks Stadium, Puyallup
2A, 1A championships at Sunset Chev Stadium, Sumner

Tickets: Single passes – $9 for adults, $7 for students and senior citizens. Tournament passes – $15/$10.

* CLASS 4A
Snohomish (19-1): The Panthers won the Wesco North title and made it out of the first round of the state playoffs for the first time since 2006 – also the year they won their second 4A title. The Panthers work rate, plus their decisive edge in set pieces – defender Blake Crutchfield’s huge throw-ins set up lots of scoring chances – make them …

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4A, 3A championships at GESA Stadium, Pasco
2A championships at County Stadium, Yakima

Tickets: Single passes – $9 for adults, $7 for students and senior citizens. Tournament passes – $15/$10.

** CLASS 4A
Kentwood (21-5): Even after losing 10 players from last year’s state title-winning squad, the Conquerors are in the semifinals for the third time in the past four seasons. Great hitting lineup, including All-Area player of the year Reese McGuire at catcher.

South Kitsap (20-5): The Wolves last reached the semifinals 10 years ago – the same year they won the title. In just his first …

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Down two strokes to Fife High junior Kendall Gray with seven holes to play and a state title hanging in the balance, Steilacoom High’s Cherokee Kim took a deep breath, telling herself to focus on the little things.

It worked. And the result was Kim shooting 1-under through the final seven holes to claim her second straight, Class 2A girls state championship at the Classic Golf Club on Wednesday.

After shooting a 77 in the opening round, Kim finished with a 79 for a winning score of 156 strokes over two-day tournament.

And for the second straight year, Kim fended …

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Sometimes, even amid a spectacular run of golf like the one the Bellarmine Prep girls have put together, not everything goes your way.

The Lions easily accomplished Wednesday what they set out to do – win their fourth consecutive Class 4A girls’ team championship. With six golfers making the cut at Club Green Meadows in Vancouver, they scored 168 points – well ahead of Kentwood (921/2) and Eastlake (911/2).

But Bellarmine Prep also had a chance to win the individual title in back-to-back seasons, and saw it shockingly halted under rainy weather conditions.

First, overnight leader and defending 4A champion …

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Class 4A, 3A, 2A (Star Track XXXI) at Mount Tahoma Stadium, Tacoma
Class 1A, 2B, 1B at Roos Field, Cheney

Schedule: For 4A, 3A, 2A – Session I Thursday begins at 3:30 p.m. Session II Friday begins at 9 a.m. Session III Friday begins at 1:15 p.m. Session IV Saturday begins at 9:30 a.m. For 1A, 2B, 1B – Session I Friday begins at 10 a.m. Session II Saturday begins at 10 a.m.

2012 boys’ team champions: 4A – Gig Harbor. 3A – Bellevue. 2A – Ephrata. 1A – Hoquiam. 2B – Riverside Christian. 1B – Valley Christian.

2012 …

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They might be Lions. But they survived like ducks.

Unrelenting rain soaked the first round of the west-side WIAA state high school golf championships Tuesday. But Bellarmine Prep’s boys and girls did not seem to mind.

Lions’ top golfer Greg Gildea birdied the first three par-5 holes at Camas Meadows to move into a five-way tie atop the leaderboard at the 4A boys’ tournament. He joined Union’s Eddie Abellar, Lynnwood’s Rudy Caparas, Camas’ Brian Humphreys and Eastlake’s Li Wang with 2-under-par 70s.

And the Bellarmine Prep girls got six of their seven golfers through to the final round, led by …

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By his former coach’s admission, point guard Ahmaad Rorie is moving up to bigger challenges – in basketball and in life.

The two-time News Tribune All-Area first team guard, including player of the year in 2011-12, announced Tuesday he is leaving Lincoln High School to attend prestigious Montverde Academy in Florida.

Montverde, located 25 miles outside Orlando, finished last season as the top-ranked high school boys’ basketball program in the country by USA Today and ESPN.com.

“The coaches from Findlay Prep (Nev.) and Montverde has been talking to him the last couple months,” Lincoln coach Aubrey Shelton said. “The …

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