Foss boys basketball coach Scott Sonntag won’t be coaching the Falcons next winter. Instead, he’ll be chasing after his two young children, while he takes a one-year leave of absence from coaching, Foss athletic director Tom Burmester said.

Mike Cocke will take over in Sonntag’s absense. He has been an assistant for four seasons.

Burmester said Sonntag’s return depends on his family situation, “but he certainly would be welcomed back.”

Sonntag guided Foss to its first state tournament appearance since 2001 this year.

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association released the final standings for the 2007-08 Scholastic Cup. Here are this year’s winners:

Class 4A: Mead

Class 3A: Newport

Class 2A: Sehome

Class 1A: King’s

Class 2B: St. George’s

Class 1B: Odessa

Schools earn points based on sportsmanship and athletic and academic performances.

Here at The News Tribune, we publish an All-Sports Championship after the conclusion of each school year. Our standings differ from the WIAA’s in that we only give points for athletic achievements. I’m just finishing tallying all the points and we’ll likely run

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The rosters for the All-State senior baseball games have been released and the South Sound is well represented. The games will be played Friday and Saturday in Yakima.

Here’s a link to the complete rosters for all four teams.

The following South Sound ballplayers are participating:

Team A

Kevin Whitehead, C, Franklin Pierce

Logan Bushnell, OF, Emerald Ridge

Cody Resser, SS, Bonney Lake

Jake Hohbein, P/OF/1B, Peninsula

Cody Ryckman, C, White River

Team B

Colby Sokol, OF, Emerald Ridge

Sean Simpson, C, Capital

Kevin Meyers, 2B, Stadium

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Bellarmine Prep point guard Abdul Gaddy and former Gig Harbor forward Clarence Trent are expected to attend the NBA Player’s Associations Top 100 camp later this month on the campus of the University of Virginia.

The camp, which is scheduled for June 16-21, attracts the top high school players in the country. Past participants include Greg Oden, Kevin Durant, Spencer Hawes, Tywon Lawson and Wayne Ellington.

Trent is currently attending Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nev. Franklin point guard Peyton Siva, who verbally committed to Louisville recently, is also expected to attend.

Here’s a link to the

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Bellarmine Prep’s Nicole Cochran ran the Class 4A girls 3,200 meters at Star Track XXVI in 10 minutes, 36 seconds.

It took her 10 days to officially win the state title.

Cochran, whose state-winning effort was nullified by a rules infraction during the first day of the meet, was reinstated as the winner by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association.

The Harvard-bound Cochran was the runaway winner in that 3,200 race. But a half-hour later, meet officials declared that she was disqualified for making three consecutive steps on the inside line of lane one late in

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