Fast Break
Prep football
Tigercats’ Blauert 1B player of year
Garrett Blauert of LaCrosse-Washtucna-Kahlotus was selected Friday as the Associated Press Washington 1B player of the year.
The junior running back ran for 295 yards on 38 carries and scored four times in the Tigercats’ win over Wishkah Valley in the 1B state title game. He rushed for more than 2,000 yards and scored 40 touchdowns during the regular season.
Jake Heaps, the highly regarding junior quarterback from Skyline High School in the Seattle suburb of Sammamish, was voted the player of the year for all classifications. He picked up all but three votes for state player of the year – the other votes went to Prosser’s Kirby Moore (two votes) and Heaps’ Skyline teammate Gino Simone (one vote). Heaps also was named the Class 4A player of the year.
Moore was the overwhelming choice as the Class 2A player of the year. Peter Nguyen of Bellevue (3A); Derek Todd of Cashmere (1A); and Creighton Alford of Asotin (2B) picked up player of the year honors for their classes.
Prep basketball
GSL resumes schedule today
As of Friday afternoon, nearly all of today’s Greater Spokane League games expect to go on as scheduled.
The only one postponed is East Valley at University. The others – Shadle Park at Lewis and Clark, Mt. Spokane at Central Valley, North Central at Ferris and Gonzaga Prep at Rogers – are to be played according to league basketball coordinator Eric Anderson.
Girls games are at 2:45 p.m. and boys at 4:30.
“I didn’t want to have to reschedule twice in January,” Anderson said.
Friday’s games were postponed because of this week’s two-foot snowfall. Anderson said he is looking at a couple of dates to reschedule, including, possibly, Dec. 31 because of availability of officials.
Men’s basketball
LCSC withdraws from tournament
Because of travel problems created by the record snowfall, the Lewis-Clark State College team was unable to make the trip to Arcata, Calif., for Humboldt State University’s DeBeni Holiday Classic, which began Friday.
After treacherous roads lengthened the usual two-hour drive from Lewiston to the Spokane airport to more than five hours, the team was greeted with a series of flight delays and cancellations.
LCSC had arranged to send five players on a flight that would have arrived before the Warriors’ tournament opener Friday with the rest of the squad arriving on Saturday but because those flights weren’t guaranteed to take place and with more snow in the forecast, the team and tournament organizers decided to not attempt the trip.
Tournament organizers found Simpson University available and that school took LCSC’s place.