Several holiday wrestling tournaments will be held over the weekend as the prep wrestling season gears up. The biggest is the Pacific Coast wrestling championships in Vancouver, Wash, where several of the top wrestlers and teams from Washington and Oregon will face off to see who’s best. Check out this link to see the brackets.

Closer to home, Vashon High will host its annual The Rock tournament, which features several of the top smaller school wrestling programs, including Orting, which has two-time state champion Tony Farrington (pictured above). Vashon, Lakeside, Quincy, Aberdeen,

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This list is fluid and will obviously change as the year progresses, particularly the smaller schools, which it is harder to find information on. But, as always, I’m interested to hear people’s thoughts.

Hurling insults about my lack of knowledge that the Napavine girls 2B squad is 9-0 is not necessarily required here, but will be taken with a grain of salt. Bring it on, I have thick skin.

Boys

Area

1. Federal Way 6-0

2. Decatur 7-0

3. Lincoln 6-3

4. South Kitsap 6-2

5. Enumclaw 5-1

6. Curtis

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The 2006 all-state teams, selected by a statewide panel of sportswriters coordinated by René Ferrán of the Tri-City Herald:

Class 4A

MVP — Kady Try, Mead

Coach of year — Judy Kight, Mead

FIRST TEAM

Hitters — Alex Dowling, Bellarmine Prep; Chantilly Watson, Spanaway Lake; Kady Try, Mead; Megan Amundson, Stanwood; Savannah Feist, Kentwood.

Setters — Katie Tribley, Wenatchee; Haleigh Adkins, Rogers (Puyallup); Karyn Mockel, Mead.

Libero — Anya Silva, Kentwood.

SECOND TEAM

Hitters — Meagan Ganzer, Tahoma; Jessica Brunt, Evergreen (Vancouver); Ashleigh Pollard, Rogers (Puyallup); Erica Ehlo, Lewis & Clark;

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All-state girls soccer

The 2006 all-state teams, selected by a statewide panel of sportswriters coordinated by René Ferrán of the Tri-City Herald:

Class 4A

MVP — Hannah Greig, Woodinville

Coach of year — Sully Hester, Woodinville

FIRST TEAM

Forwards — Jill Jensen, Emerald Ridge; Joana Houplin, Olympia; Lauren Hansen, Stanwood; Mel Hicks, Jefferson.

Midfielders — Bree Rowe, Federal Way; Kristin Innes, Kentridge; Taylor Cochran, Lake Stevens; Hannah Greig, Woodinville; Rachael Lowe, Richland.

Defenders — Kim Lowry, Evergreen (Vancouver); Teryn Taylor, Tahoma; Kati Sawchuk, Eastlake; Brandi Manley, Stadium.

Goalkeeper — Jodi Palmer,

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One of the best players in the state will be in the South Sound on Wednesday, taking on the Clover Park boys basketball team.

Senior Steven Gray, a 6-4, silky shooting guard for Bainbridge who committed to Gonzaga the summer before his junior season , will showcase his skills at 7 p.m. against the Warriors.

The trip also is a homecoming of sorts for Scott Orness, who coached at nearby Franklin Pierce High along with his father, Bruce. Bruce Orness is part of the Bainbridge High boys basketball coaching staff.

Gray

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With the exception of a few injuries, Matt and Zach Johnson have never played football without the other. And it was going to start in college.

Tumwater’s talented twin seniors will be taking their talents to Cheney this fall to play for Eastern Washington University.

"We visited there during the season," Matt Johnson said. "We watched a game and liked the campus. In the in-home visit we really liked the coaches. They had everything we said we wanted."

But the Eagles offered something more than what other schools like Washington State and Oregon State were

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Several SPSL games scheduled for today (Tuesday) have been rescheduled for Wednesday. Those games include the Kentridge vs. Jefferson boys and girls games, and the Todd Beamer vs. Puyallup boys and girls games. The Kentlake vs. Federal Way boys and girls games, and the Decatur vs. Kent-Meridian boys and girls games also were postponed, and will be rescheduled to a later date.

As for the SPSL games missed on Friday, Dec. 15, most of those games will be rescheduled to Jan. 6th, unless there is a facility conflict.

Mount Tahoma boys and girls basketball games against Garfield on Saturday have been cancelled. It’s uncertain if the two games will be rescheduled for later in the year.