Gridiron Classic: Last weekend’s 2008 WIAA football championships in the Tacoma Dome featured just about every kind of game imaginable, from a defensive struggle in the Class 1A title tilt to a good, old-fashioned shootout in the 1B final.
The action began Friday afternoon with a matchup of Napavine versus Asotin in the 2B championship game. Napavine won it, 28-24, for its 12th victory in 14 starts.
That evening, defending 4A champion Skyline of Sammamish completed a perfect season (14-0) with a 20-15 victory over rival Issaquah, in a game broadcast live on FOX Sports NW.
On Saturday, Cashmere also wrapped up an undefeated season (13-0) by edging Cascade Christian of Puyallup, 10-9, in the 1A championship.
Cashmere scored the go-ahead touchdown with 4:03 remaining and held Cascade Christian in check in the second half by intercepting its quarterback three times.
In the 2A title game that followed, Lynden (12-2) erased a 15-point Prosser lead in the final 2:22 of the fourth quarter on its way to a 35-34 victory in two overtime periods.
The longest game in WIAA championship history ended when Prosser’s 2-point try for the win failed.
The 3A game was never as close as Bellevue—recovered from a freak bus accident on Interstate 5 that sent seven players to hospital and delayed the playing of the Wolverines’ state semifinal by three days—rolled over first-time finalist Union of Camas, 35-6. Bellevue (14-0) scored on its first four possessions and led 28-0 at halftime.
The 1B game between unbeaten La Crosse-Washtucna-Kahlotus and once-beaten Wishkah Valley was a barn-burner that went down to the wire.
LWK took the lead for good on a 1-yard run with 1:10 to play that capped a 71-yard drive that began with 2:22 remaining.
The Tigercats then sealed the 64-62 win—their 13th of the season—by intercepting a Wishkah pass at their own 26 with 58 seconds left.
Wishkah’s 62 points were the most scored by a losing team in a WIAA championship game.
Outdoors: The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will consider adopting new catch-sharing plans for Columbia River spring and summer chinook salmon on the second day of a public meeting scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12-13, in Olympia.
The meeting, which will include several public comment periods, will be held on the first floor of the Natural Resources Building, 1111 Washington St. S.E.
A meeting agenda can be viewed on the commission’s Web site, wdfw.wa.gov/com.
Prior to that meeting, the Washington commission will meet today, Dec. 11, with the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission in Portland to discuss recommendations developed by a joint working group for apportioning fishing opportunities for chinook salmon between sport and commercial fisheries in the lower Columbia River.
Key goals of the plan, which has not yet been finalized, are to provide greater stability for spring and summer chinook fisheries, while meeting conservation goals for wild salmon.
The joint meeting will be held from 12:30-3:30 p.m. in the Embassy Suites Portland Airport in the Oak Room, 7900 N.E. 82nd Ave. The public is invited to attend, but there will not be a public comment period at the joint meeting.
The Columbia River Fish Working Group was created by the two state commissions to develop policy recommendations on joint issues, starting with allocation policies for spring and summer chinook salmon. Three commissioners from each state serve as voting members, joined by top fishery managers and citizen advisors representing sport and commercial fisheries, as well as local communities, in Washington and Oregon.
The Oregon commission is scheduled to consider adoption of the group’s recommendations on chinook salmon Dec. 12, a day after they are presented at the joint meeting.
In addition to possible action on a chinook-allocation policy, the Washington commission will consider proposals during its Dec. 12-13 meeting that would:
nExtend the current sturgeon-management policy on the lower Columbia River through 2009.
nUpdate facility requirements for oiled-bird rehabilitation activities.
nAllow the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife two acquire two properties for wildlife conservation in Okanogan County and a right-of-way for bridge improvements in Yakima County.
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