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By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com As they finished their one-year update of the city’s biennial budget, various City Council members said the major increase in funding to support affordable housing was the single biggest item in the revised spending plan. At the urging of Deputy City Manager Lyman Howard, the council upped its donation to A Regional Coalition for Housing — better known as ARCH —

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The Eastside Catholic High School football team poses with their Class 3A state championship trophy after a 48-42 overtime victory over Bellevue on Dec. 4 at the Tacoma Dome. The Crusaders overcame a 42-14 deficit in the third quarter by scoring the game’s final 34 points. They finished the season 13-0 and successfully defended their 2014 title.

Barricade in working order, city says, but Redmond ambulance unable to raise it By Tom Corrigan tcorrigan@isspress.com A Sammamish city official said there was nothing wrong with the Opticom gate that crosses Northeast 42nd Street and made the news last week when a Redmond ambulance on an emergency run was unable to open the gate Dec. 1. “When we went to repair it, we found it in working order,” said John Cunningham, Sammamish public works director. He said the city was still trying to find out exactly what

happened to prevent the game from opening. Emergency crews are supposed to be able to raise the gate with a remote device from inside their vehicles. If that doesn’t work, crews have a key that allows them to open the gate manually. The Redmond crew apparently had the wrong key, Cunningham said, though that error has been corrected. He added the city also is adding a battery back up to the gate, allowing it to operate even if there is a power outage in the area. Sammamish resident Alex Pfaffe said his back was caus-

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ing him extreme pain when he woke the morning of Dec. 1. “I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t move,” he said. Pfaffe called 911 and was on his way to the hospital in an ambulance when suddenly he realized the emergency crew had turned around and was backtracking. They ended up using Sahalee Way and what should have been a five- or 10-minute trip to the hospital took 15 to 20 minutes. Pfaffe said that luckily, while he was in a lot of pain, his situation wasn’t life threatening. See BARRICADE, Page 2

from $10,000 to $100,000. Howard is chair of the ARCH board of directors. At a budget hearing before the council on Nov. 10, he argued the city’s planned $10,000 contribution was not in keeping with the donations of surrounding cities. “The ultimate feeling was we needed to catch up with some of our neighbors,” said Mayor Tom Vance following the Dec. 1 vote passing the budget. See BUDGET, Page 2

Issaquah Press group names new editor Stoddard then held positions at several papers with circulations that ranked in the Scott Stoddard is the new top 100 of U.S. newspapers, editor of The Issaquah Press including The Spokesmannewspaper group. He started Review in Spokane, the Seattle Nov. 30. Post-Intelligencer and the He replaces former managSan Antonio Express-News in ing editor Kathleen R. Texas. Merrill, who left The He has strong ties to Press in October. the Pacific Northwest, Stoddard comes from spending 19 years The News Tribune in at daily newspapers Tacoma, where he was in Washington and a news designer since Oregon over the course 2012. In his 27-year of his career. career, Stoddard has “Scott’s long history worked for papers large of editing and design Scott and small, doing every- Stoddard made him the perfect thing from page design candidate to be the new and copy editing to reporting editor of The Issaquah Press and photography. group,” said Charles Horton, “I’ve learned a lot, and I want to apply the best of what I’ve See EDITOR, Page 3 learned to this paper,” he said. The industry veteran’s Prsrt Std first job took him to Alaska U.S. Postage immediately after graduatPAID ing from Linfield College in Kent, WA McMinnville, Oregon. He Permit No. 71 made a December drive from Portland to Kenai, Alaska, to POSTAL become the sports editor of a 50¢ CUSTOMER small newspaper there.

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From Page 1 But even though he voted for the budget, Councilman Ramiro Valderrama-Aramayo said the increased donation to ARCH is not a done deal in his mind. In August, Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King County broke ground on 10 cottages on 228th Avenue Southeast near Southeast 20th Street. The project is meant to consist entirely of belowmarket affordable hous-

Barricade From Page 1 “It just could have easily have been someone having a heart attack,” he said. Pfaffe argues the 42nd Street gate serves no purpose except to protect a limited number of people from having added traffic in their neighborhood. A holdover from the days prior to Sammamish becoming a city, the gate has been controversial for some time. Some residents want it gone, but others say it helps control neigh-

SAMMAMISH REVIEW ing. The property was donated by the city four years ago. According to Valderrama-Aramayo, Habitat for Humanity falls under the ARCH umbrella of nonprofits. He said the value of the property has to be taken into account. “I’d be interested to know what the value of that property is today,” Valderrama-Aramayo said. His understanding is that the ARCH donation was a “placeholder” in the approved budget, but that the donation would receive further discussion. In passing the updated

spending plan, officials were quick to note this is the seventh year in a row the council has not approved any increase in property taxes. Under state law, cities can increase property taxes by 1 percent yearly with no vote of the public. Following the meeting, Vance said the city’s predicted ending balance had increased from $35 million to $50 million. For 2015, the city originally budgeted total expenditures of $92 million, according to figures supplied by the city. By May, that figure had increased to $109 million.

The difference was offset by a larger-than-expected beginning fund balance of $78 million. Revenues also increased over what was predicted, moving from $72 million to $78 million. In total, the council approved $1.1 million in general fund adjustments, plus an additional $4.5 million that was channeled into the Southeast Fourth Street rebuilding project. The total adjustment was roughly $5.6 million. “It all worked out well,” Vance said, adding looking ahead, he believes that’s a trend that will continue.

borhood traffic. The issue reached the City Council in February. Though he didn’t say he supports the barricade, Councilman Tom Odell said 42nd Street is poorly designed and pointed to steep grades and odd turns where the road banks in the wrong direction. Timberline Park resident Greg Reynolds has long been an outspoken critic of the barricade. Reynolds said that during City Council meeting in May, officials promised to study the issue and come to some decision by September. That never happened. “I’m very frustrated with

the city,” Reynolds said. “I’ll be polite and just say that.” Like Pfaffe, Reynolds believes the gate serves no purpose but to keep traffic from flowing through certain neighborhoods. According to Tim Larson, communications director for the city, officials never promised to settle the issue this year. In an emailed answer to Sammamish Review questions, he said the council asked staff to gather and pass on to them all previous studies of the gate and whatever other information may be available.

“But the council never committed to doing a new study or to any timeline for further review of the issue,” he said. “During council discussions of the issue, the city manager, citing heavy staff workloads, recommended against making the barricade a part of the 2015 work plan.” As of the first week in December, the council, which will have new leadership in 2016, had not indicated whether they plan to take up the issue or not. “This is a big deal,” Reynolds said. “It needs to be dealt with.”

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Editor From Page 1 The Issaquah Press newspaper group general manager. “He’s committed to strong local journalism and understands the changing media landscape, and how we can best use the new tools to tell deeper stories that matter to the communities we serve.” The new editor already has plans to improve The Press group, starting with a greater emphasis on the digital side. Expect to see an increase in the papers’ online presence under

Meet the editor Meet new Issaquah Press Editor Scott Stoddard 8-10 a.m. Dec. 11 Issaquah Coffee Company 317 N.W. Gilman Blvd., No. 46 Stoddard. “We are going to put news out there on a daily basis,” he said. “We are not going to be a oneday-a-week news source.” Stoddard’s call to the newspaper industry came in junior high school after he won a journalism award in eighth grade, he said. He went on to write

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Buying up some Christmas spirit

Remove 42nd Street barricade

Welcome, my friends, to the holiday season, my favorite time of year, as well as a profoundly religious time when everyone expresses his or her beliefs by heading to the mall of their choice. Does that sound sacrilegious? Hey, everyone prays in his or her own way. If that way happens to include standing in line outside of Target or Best Buy on Thanksgiving night to honor the Gods of Commerce by fighting for a $200, 40-inch flat screen TV who are we to argue? I somewhat partook in the Black Friday ritual myself. My wife and I went to Target and JC Penney for no particular reason late on Thanksgiving night. I actually found a pretty cool and surprisingly cheap present for my Little Brother. Notice the capitalization. We met through Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Puget Sound five or more years ago. There Tom absolutely was some altruistic aspect to Corrigan snatching up that gift. The phrase “spirit of giving” is a pretty common one, so why can’t we just label gift giving/buying some sort of spiritual experience? This is probably at least the sixth or seventh Christmas column I’ve written. Some were pretty sentimental, but not always. My first Christmas column said something about using video games to figuratively rip the spine out of relatives who annoy you come the holidays. It also had some slightly nasty comments about imbeciles who take screaming children to see Santa Claus at the mall, and then seem upset when the pictures turn out like garbage. Those same parents, of course, try to place all the blame on Santa’s minimum-wage elves. For understandable reasons, my editor at the time put a disclaimer on the column. Looking back, I’m kind of surprised it saw print. To Carol, who may or may not see this, a quick thanks for indulging me. Seriously, there are things about the holiday that bug me. The traffic. The long lines in every store. And I’m not sure a purchase can be considered spiritual when you are muttering under your breath about the price. In the end, I think, the best thing to be said about Christmas is that there really is some kind of spiritual aspect to it, even if you never quite make it to a church. Perhaps to put it another way, yes, indeed, Virginia, there is in someway, or somehow, a Santa Claus. To mix allusions, sometimes it might be hard to believe, but we may in fact be the stuff that dreams are made of, and hopefully at Christmas, those dreams are Disney-tinted fantasies. Personally, I hope you make it to a real church on Christmas, but that is entirely up to you. No matter what, whatever your circumstances, let yourself have a merry Christmas. That, believe it or not, is also entirely up to you.

Every second counts in emergency response times. A few seconds could be the differencex between life and death or serious injury. The City Council needs to listen to the citizens and public safety experts and act swiftly to remove this barricade. Greg Reynolds Sammamish

A Timberline resident was being transported to the hospital when the ambulance encountered an Opticom barricade at NE 42nd Street on Nov. 25. The ambulance crew tried to get the Opticom barricade to open so they could pass, but were unsuccessful. The ambulance had to turn around and take the 3-mile-long “barricade-caused detour route.” Fortunately, the Timberline resident’s injury was not life-threatening — this time. How would you feel if your loved one suffered a heart attack and died, or was left disabled, because of the delay caused by this barricade? How would you feel if your home or neighbor’s home caught fire and a loved one was trapped and killed because of the delay caused by this barricade?

Defunding Planned Parenthood hurts those in need With very few exceptions (that will not cease thanks to defunding Planned Parenthood), the federal government does not pay for abortions. The abortions it does pay for (rape or incest, or for the sake of the woman’s life) will still be covered under Medicaid. (Rich people will have the same access to safe and private abortions they have always had. It’s only the poor

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that are penalized here.) As we should all know by now, abortion services make up only 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood provides. So instead of defunding abortion, Republicans have actually defunded contraception necessary to prevent unwanted pregnancies (thus obviating the need for an abortion), screening that can save lives from preventable cancers, and education that can improve the health of low-income families. And Republicans are using lies and a trumped-up video of one person’s flippant remarks as justification to do so. Why? Because it has nothing to do with them. It in no way impacts their lives or jeopardizes their health. Their rich white male privilege will remain intact, while those less fortunate are kicked that much closer to the curb. Mitzi Vaughn Sammamish

What does race have to do with it?

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Reading the Police Blotter in the Nov. 26 edition of the Sammamish Review, something caught my eye. Did you see it? “Stroll and grab. An unidentified female …” “Coal in his stocking? A mother called police … to say her son, 16, had forged …” “Shoplifting. An unidentified black male …” “Underage marijuana possession. … arrest of a minor, age not given …” I’m beginning to understand why the “Black Lives Matter” movement seems so angry. We don’t read about “an unidentified white female” or “arrest of an Asian minor,” so why is it noted that the shoplifting suspect was black? Doug Smith Sammamish

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Skyline High School cheerleaders named to all-state team The Washington State Cheer Coaches Association held its first All-State Cheerleading competition Nov. 12 at Mount Si High School, and eight Skyline High School competitors were named to the all-state

team for finishing in the top 25. Individual cheerleaders from across the state were asked to submit videos in order to be selected as a top-50 finalist for individual skills such as jumps, tumbling, dance, cheer and interview questions. Finalists demonstrated their skills in front of an expert judging panel.

Skyline students who earned all-state honors included seniors Alexa Kourtis and Diana Hild, juniors Betty Zhou and Taylor Sistek, sophomores Kat Atkinson and Savanna Benedict, and freshmen Sydney Azzarello and Shayla Gehrke. The event is intended to recognize individual cheerleading skills in the

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When Christina Kejriwal was looking for a new space for her online invitation and card business, she immediately knew the former Trader Joe’s space in Issaquah would provide the perfect opportunity to open a brick and mortar retail location. She wanted to build more than just a store, but an inspiring, creative place where customers could touch, see and feel the products they were creating. Kejriwal launched her online stationery business in 2008, quickly expanded to an office in Factoria and moved PurpleTrail to its new location in June. The Issaquah building now houses an expanded printing facility, corporate offices and a large retail store and showroom. A workshop for craft classes and parties will be available starting in January. “We’re excited to bring our customized printing services to the Issaquah and Sammamish communities,” she said. “The added room has also allowed us to expand our capabilities from cards and stationery to include items such as personalized canvas and metal prints, embroidery and photo books.” According to Kejriwal, the company was founded on the principle that there is a designer in everyone and creativity shouldn’t be limited to just those with expensive software or training. “We give anyone the ability to bring their creative

vision to a reality. We have an easy-to-use tool available online at www.purpletrail.com and in our store.” All the items at PurpleTrail can be ordered online or in the store and picked up in as little as one day, giving local customers a flexibility previously only available online with significant shipping time and costs. The company also provides businesses with custom stationery and printing needs. “We know customers need a creative resource when planning occasions such as weddings, graduations, anniversaries, birthdays and holidays,” added Kejriwal. “Today at traditional retailers, stationery and gifts are still predominately boxed, stock items. We make it possible to customize and create unique, one-of-a-kind celebrations and gifts.” PurpleTrail also gives back to non-profit organizations and schools through its PurpleCoins for Causes program. It currently provides in-kind donations and discounts to local groups such as the Issaquah Schools Foundation, Grand Ridge Elementary, Cougar Ridge Elementary and Issaquah Valley Elementary. More information about the program can be found at www.purpletrail.com/purplecoins-for-causes. Grand opening specials and events will continue through the holidays at 1495 11th Avneue N.W., Issaquah, WA 98027.

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Issaquah receives school board of the year honor Issaquah was one of three school boards recently honored by the Washington State School Directors’ Association as a 2015 School Board of the Year. The awards were presented Nov. 20 during the annual WSSDA conference in Bellevue. Also honored were the University Place and West Valley (Spokane) school boards. The three were chosen from a field of 15 boards that applied. The annual program honors boards that demonstrate effective use of the Washington School Board Standards developed by WSSDA in 2009 and promote research-based

governance practices that lead to high levels of student and district achievement. Issaquah’s application highlighted the district’s increasing graduation rates, reducing achievement gaps and data to develop solutions and monitor results. Issaquah’s board of directors are Lisa Callan, Brian Deagle, Marnie Maraldo, Anne Moore and Suzanne Weaver.

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Tom Vance earns accolades for time on City Council with you,” said City Manager Ben Yazici. Yazici said he hopes After four years on the the community realizes City Council, including that being on the City two years as Sammamish Council involves a lot mayor, Tom more of a comVance attended mitment than what will be one attendance at two of his last council monthly meetmeetings as an ings. elected official Deputy Mayor Dec. 1. Kathy Huckabay Various officials also wanted to took the time to recognize Vance, Tom thank Vance for saying his most Vance his service and important accomaward him with plishment was several plaques honoring learning how to work that service. with regional officials “It’s been a privilege on issues of interest to and an honor serving Sammamish. Huckabay

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“I really enjoyed my time as mayor and on the council, and we’ll just see what happens next.” — Tom Vance Sammamish Mayor specifically cited Vance’s negotiations with Issaquah regarding the annexation of the Klahanie area. Voters easily approved that annexation after twice turning down becoming a part of

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sion. On a lighter note, Councilman Bob Keller said he believes Vance may hold the record for leading the longest council meeting, starting at 3 p.m. and not wrapping up until after 11 p.m. For his part, Vance said he isn’t necessarily through yet. He said he intends to stay involved with the city and the region. “I really enjoyed my time as mayor and on the council, and we’ll just see

what happens next,” he said. Vance lost his bid for re-election to incoming Councilman Tom Hornish. Hornish won Vance’s council seat, but not the mayor’s job. The City Council elects the mayor from among its membership, and that person acts as council president. The city manager handles the dayto-day operations of the municipality.

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tant needs of our region. The work now underway will help move these solutions closer to reality.” “It is time for our region to respond to the rising demand for fast and reliable transit connections,” said Sound Transit Board member and Redmond Mayor John Marchione. In June and July, Sound Transit received input from 70 jurisdictions and stakeholder organizations, nearly 25,000 online surveys, more than 1,000 letters and emails and plenty of testimony from com-

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munity leaders. That input was used to finalize a list of potential or candidate projects. Here are just a few of the projects that made the cut and are on the agenda of the Dec. 4 meeting: q Bus rapid transit on the I-405 corridor: The project establishes bus rapid transit (BRT) service between Lynnwood, Bothell, Totem Lake, Kirkland, Bellevue and several other cities. Investments would include additional freeway stations and park and ride spaces.

q Light rail from Totem Lake to Issaquah via Bellevue: This project would build light rail from Totem Lake to the East Link Hospital Station in Bellevue, with some sections at-grade and other sections elevated, utilizing the East Rail Corridor. It would continue to downtown Issaquah generally following the I-90 corridor. The work may include a station, transit center and park-and-ride facility serving Issaquah’s designated urban center, the Central Issaquah Plan area.

q North Sammamish Park and Ride: This project would add a 200- to 300unit surface level parking lot in north Sammamish to provide East King County residents with access to bus and light rail service. q Study of a route from the Issaquah Highlands to Redmond’s Overlake area via Sammamish and Redmond: This study would look at a potential for a ballot measure subsequent to Sound Transit 3 to improve connections

Sammamish Symphony Orchestra, has retired for health reasons. Scott recently celebrated 16 years as conductor and musical director for the Sammamish Symphony

Orchestra. He also founded the Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra, serving as music director, conductor and general manager from 1967-1997, and served as resident conductor of the Lyric Opera Northwest from 2005-2009. He has appeared with numerous musical ensembles, including the Bellevue Opera, and has conducted world premieres of works by various regional composers. Scott attended the University of Oregon School of Music and studied conducting with Eugene Furst and Wolfgang Martin of the

Portland Opera. After moving to Seattle, Scott continued his studies with Henry Holt of the Seattle Opera, Mikael Scheremetiew of the Thalia Conservatory and Vilem Sokol for the Seattle Youth Symphony. Scott has been the recipient of a Sammamish SAMMI Award for the Arts, Best of Bellevue Musical Arts Pioneer Award and a certificate of recognition from Sammamish. Adam Stern was named the permanent replacement for Scott in the fall. He had been filling in for Scott since January.

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slated to release a draft system plan for public input. “By 2040, our region will be home to a million more residents, many of whom will need to reach jobs and homes on the Eastside,” said Sound board member and Issaquah Mayor Fred Butler. “We know that businesses and citizens alike rank transportation and mobility solutions among the most impor-

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Eastside Catholic completes improbable comeback to repeat as state champion By Neil Pierson npierson@ sammamishreview.com A lesser team might have believed it was beaten if it had looked at the scoreboard in the third quarter and found itself trailing by four touchdowns. Not Eastside Catholic, which steamrolled most of its opponents en route to a fourth-straight berth against Bellevue in the Class 3A football championship game. Bellevue dominated the first 30 minutes of the Dec. 4 matchup at the Tacoma Dome, using running back Ercle Terrell to devastating effect for a 42-14 lead. The Crusaders, however, failed to quit and scored the final 34 points for a 48-42 overtime victory that cemented a 13-0 record and put the championship trophy in their

By Greg Farrar/gfarrar@isspress.com

Eastside Catholic High School senior wide receiver Devon Arbis-Jackson (right) runs across the field for one very hard-fought yard as he is pursued by Bellevue’s Benaiah Ellington during the second quarter. clutches for a second straight year. “We have faith in our system, and we knew at

half that we could come back,” said EC junior tight end Hunter Bryant, who caught three passes

for 71 yards, including second-half scores of 28 and 5 yards. “We’ve done it before.

We’ve scored 35 points in a quarter previously this season, so we knew that we could do it. We came out, executed and got the amazing win.” After Bellevue missed a 40-yard field goal try on the first series of overtime, Brandon Wellington capped the rally with a 1-yard plunge, following two shovel-pass plays that put EC on the doorstep. The rally started midway through the third quarter when quarterback Harley Kirsch began heating up. He hooked up with Bryant on two scoring passes, trimming the deficit to 42-28 after three quarters. In the fourth quarter, Wellington stuffed Bellevue’s Omar Dyles on a fourth-down run at midfield, and the Crusaders capitalized on the turnover when Kirsch hit Matt Laris for a 4-yard TD.

Needing another stop in the final four minutes, EC got it when Bellevue’s Justus Rogers tried to fight for a first down, but fumbled, allowing Parker Davidson to recover. On the ensuing drive, Bellevue had an interception negated by a face-mask penalty, and Wellington knotted the score with an 11-yard run up the middle with 1:24 left in regulation. Bellevue had a 35-14 halftime lead as Terrell ran for 129 yards and four touchdowns. He finished with 225 yards on 31 carries, but the Crusaders made the necessary adjustments and forced some punts and turnovers that jumpstarted the comeback. “At halftime, we basically said, ‘Look, it’s do or die,’” said Kirsch, the Cornell-bound senior See CRUSADERS, Page 15

Gonzaga Prep steals Skyline’s thunder, 4A title By Neil Pierson npierson@sammamishreview.com In an age where high-octane passing offenses rule the landscape, the Gonzaga Prep Bullpups are a reminder that old-school football tactics still work. Gonzaga Prep ran the triple option with precision and power, racking up 521 yards on the ground en route to a 34-16 victory over the Skyline Spartans in the Class 4A state championship game Dec. 5 at the Tacoma Dome. The Bullpups finished off a 14-0 season and earned the program’s first state title since 1986 in dominating fashion, rolling up a 24-3 halftime lead. They ended Skyline’s seven-game winning streak and denied the Spartans (12-2) an eighth crown. “We’ve been underrated all year and we proved that the eastside team is here to play and here to stay, and we came out on top today and got ourselves a state championship,” said G-Prep senior Evan Weaver, who carried 24 times

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Skyline’s Joseph Chauvin (52), Danny Sinatro (11) and Harry Reed (1) tackle Gonzaga Prep senior quarterback Liam Bell during the second quarter. After beating three other undefeated teams in the state playoffs, the Spartans fell to the Bullpups, 34-16, and settled for second place. for 133 yards and two touchdowns. Skyline’s players were visibly distraught after the loss – many openly wept while others slammed their helmets to the turf in frustration. The Spartans committed five turnovers on

the night, including three in the red zone that stopped scoring threats. “I don’t know, we just didn’t play to our full potential,” said Danny Sinatro, a senior wide receiver and defensive back. “Gonzaga Prep, you’ve got to

hand it to them. They came out on top. They’re a good football team, but I strongly believe we beat ourselves.” The Bullpups lost three fumbles of their own, but overcame the mistakes. They got onto the board first on a 49-yard drive that ended with Devin Culp’s 16-yard end-around run with 3 minutes left in the first quarter. Sinatro intercepted an errant pass from Liam Bell earlier in the drive, but a roughing-thepasser penalty negated the turnover. Skyline’s Bradley Kim fumbled the ensuing kickoff, and G-Prep turned that into three points as Jared Kutsch hit a 27-yard field goal for a 10-0 lead. Culp, a 6-foot-4 sophomore receiver, burned the Spartans on another end-around play early in the second quarter, racing for a 59-yard TD run and a 17-0 lead. G-Prep went 73 yards in 10 plays to make it 24-0 late in the first half. Bell found Culp behind the defense for a 43-yard pass play, setting up Weaver’s 1-yard TD run.

Skyline managed only 102 yards of offense in the first half, but got on the board 19 seconds before the break as Jack Crane made a 33-yard field goal following a 46-yard pass to Logan Wanamaker. The teams exchanged three fumbles on four plays in the third quarter, and the Spartans capitalized on Matthew Cindric’s recovery with a 4-yard TD pass to Jake Pendergast. A blocked extra-point kick left Skyline trailing, 24-9. That’s as close as they would get as the Bullpups responded with a 15-play, 80-yard march that took more than five minutes off the clock. Weaver punctuated it with a 4-yard run. Sinatro got in the end zone in the fourth quarter, making a tremendous one-handed grab on a corner route for a 2-yard TD on fourth-and-goal. Skyline quarterback Blake Gregory finished 26 of 38 passing for 316 yards, but was sacked four times and harried much of the game. G-Prep See SPARTANS, Page 15

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Crusaders From Page 14 who finished 19 of 29 for 225 yards through the air, offsetting the Crusaders’ minus-6 net rushing yards. “Just how we turned the second half around, I thought, was an insane turnaround, especially for how the first half went. So proud of the defense for giving the offense a second chance in the second half, for how bad we played in the first half.” “It takes a while to get used to the pace of this Bellevue offensive line,” EC coach Jeremy Thielbahr added. “We’ve got some young guys on

the defensive front … so they had a hard time, got blown off the ball a couple times, and we had to make some adjustments.” EC took an early 7-0 lead thanks to a specialteams miscue. A muffed punt gave the Crusaders a short field, and following a 29-yard catch-andrun from Devon ArbisJackson, Chris Lefau barreled in from 1 yard. Kirsch, who had thrown two interceptions all season, was picked off twice in the opening half by Bellevue’s Benaiah Ellington. Both turnovers led to Terrell touchdowns, the first on a 24-yard burst off right tackle, the second up the middle from 3 yards. Bellevue threw only two passes in the first

half, but both went for big plays to wide receiver Tyson Penn. He dove to catch a 40-yard bomb, then tight-roped the end line for a 4-yard TD on a fade route with 15 seconds left before the break. EC’s biggest highlight of the first half was Wellington’s 97-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. It was the eighth kick return TD of the season for the University of Washington commit, a state record, and his third in two games. “He’s just a great player, great leader for us, and I think he’s just honored to play for us,” Thielbahr said of Wellington. “He plays for his family. He plays for the right reasons, because he loves the game.”

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Harley Kirsch (10), Eastside Catholic High School senior quarterback, hugs teammate Ricky Medeiros (50) after the Crusaders beat Bellevue for the Class 3A state football championship.

Eastlake girls open KingCo hoops with 60-50 win at Newport

Spartans From Page 14 also removed the running game from its defensive equation, holding Rashaad Boddie to 16 yards on seven carries. “We just got outworked,” Sinatro said of the battle up front. “They were getting some pressure on us,” Skyline coach Mat Taylor added. “We weren’t used to that the last couple weeks. But (Gregory) was still very effective; we just got out of our comfort zone a little bit.” Sinatro, who will be playing college baseball at Washington State next year, tried to keep a brave face following his final football game. “Whenever you get a chance, work your tail off,” he said. “It doesn’t mean the outcome is going to be what you want, but you can’t change the amount of work you put into some-

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Jake Pendergast (21), Skyline High School senior wide receiver, squirms around Gonzaga Prep’s Armani Marsh during the third quarter for a 12-yard gain and first down in the Class 4A state football championship game Dec. 5 at the Tacoma Dome. thing.” Taylor guided Skyline to the title game for the sixth time in his eightyear tenure. His voice was hoarse after sustaining a second defeat on the biggest stage, but he praised his players for a memo-

rable season. “This group had a lot of adversity and we had some really tough times in the offseason. The kids just came together and kept moving forward,” he said. “Basically, the last

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three weeks, we weren’t supposed to win any of those games, so I’m very, very happy. It stings a little bit right now, but at the same time, (Gonzaga Prep is) a phenomenal team and it wasn’t our night.”

The Eastlake High School girls basketball team doesn’t have a ton of depth, so the absence of any starting player could spell significant trouble. In the process of hitting a fourth-quarter jumper for her 19th point, Eastlake captain and senior forward Sarah Priestley came down awkwardly and rolled her left ankle in a Dec. 2 game at Newport. The Lady Wolves held off a late rally to beat the host Knights, 60-50, but Priestley was in visible pain and had be helped out of the gym with an ice pack around her ankle. Eastlake coach Sara Goldie said she was unsure how serious the injury is. The team is in the midst of a busy stretch of four games in nine days, all of them against Class 4A KingCo Conference foes, which began with a 58-27 blowout of visiting Mount Si. “Hopefully it’s just a sprain, but that would be a huge loss for us,” Goldie said of Priestley. Prior to the injury, it was a positive night for the Lady Wolves (3-0 overall, 2-0 KingCo), who led by as many as 23 points in the second half. Four players finished with double-digit points – sophomore Gina Marxen and junior Alissa Matrinez each had 13, and See WOLVES, Page 16

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