Prep Notebook: WIAA mulls changes to transfers' postseason eligibility
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 7:37 AM PDT
By Staff
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E-mail this articleThe Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) is in the process of rewriting its code book concerning eligibility for students who transfer from one school to another.
Under the proposal, if a student/athlete transfers as an incoming freshman, he or she would be eligible to play in all regular-season varsity athletic events, but would not be eligible for any postseason play as a freshman and sophomore. He or she would be eligible for the postseason as a junior and senior.
Incoming sophomore transfers could play during the regular season, but would be ineligible for postseason play as a sophomore and junior. He or she could play in the postseason as a senior.
Junior transfers would be eligible for all regular-season games, but wouldn't be allowed to play in the postseason as a junior. He or she would have full eligibility as a senior.
Senior transfers would be eligible for all regular-season games, but wouldn't be allowed to play in the postseason at all.
The WIAA has not yet adopted any of the rules, which are only in the discussion stages.
Under the proposed rule changes, an athlete such as Mark Morris basketball center Eric Hutchison ---- who transferred to MM after his freshman year at Kalama ---- would not have been eligible for any of the Monarchs' district or state playoff games this past season.
Big softball game set
The Kelso fastpitch squad travels to Vancouver today to resume a Greater St. Helens 3A League game against Columbia River that last month was halted by heavy rain with the score tied 1-1 in the top of the seventh inning.
Although today's weather forecast calls for rain, both schools have said they will do all they can to make sure the game is completed today.
Kelso trails River by a game in the GSHL 3A standings. A win today, however, would not only move the Lassies into a tie for the league lead, but would give them the inside track to the No. 1 seed for the upcoming league playoffs and an automatic bid to district.
A victory today would give the Lassies two wins over the Chieftains in three regular-season meetings.
There's another huge fastpitch battle Wednesday when third-place R.A. Long meets second-place Mark Morris in a Greater St. Helens 2A League contest at Seventh Avenue Park. A victory by the Lumberjills would move them past MM into the second spot, since they would have defeated the Monarchs two out of three times this season.
Monarchs lose top spot
For the first time all season, Mark Morris is not the No. 1 Class 2A baseball team in the state.
The Monarchs had occupied the top spot in Lem Elway's High School baseball rankings in every installation ---- until the Week 5 version, released Monday.
Mark Morris slipped to No. 2 behind undefeated Selah after suffering its first loss of the season at Astoria on Saturday.
Centralia is ranked sixth and W.F. West eighth among 2A teams, while Hockinson slipped out of the top 10 after losing twice last week.
There are no local teams ranked in the Class 4A or 3A top 10. White Salmon is ranked eighth and Rochester 10th among 1A teams.
The poll is published in The Seattle Times and can be found at washingtonbaseballpoll.com/ranking.php.
Bulldogs' soccer secret
The key player in the success of the Stevenson boys soccer team this season isn't the largest guy on the pitch. But he is the biggest offensive threat.
Mark Kilpatrick, a 5-foot-7 senior forward, has netted 30 goals and handed out 17 assists this season, and has amassed 90 goals in four years for the Bulldogs.
"He's small, but he's really fast and he's just got a good touch on the ball," Stevenson coach James Obias told the Vancouver Columbian.
Obias said he estimates Kilpatrick creates about half of his goals with his ball skills. Kilpatrick's favorite goal was a Pele-style bicycle kick from inside the 18-yard box against Tenino earlier this season.
Kilpatrick will lead the Bulldogs into the SWW 1A League's postseason tournament, which begins Monday.
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