Sunday, March 21, 2010

“All-State games held at Mountlake Terrace High School (Everett Herald)” plus 3 more

“All-State games held at Mountlake Terrace High School (Everett Herald)” plus 3 more

All-State games held at Mountlake Terrace High School (Everett Herald)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 02:52 AM PDT

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — The big kids are supposed to beat up on the little kids.

Only that was not the case Saturday afternoon in the final marquee matchup of the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association All State Games at Mountlake Terrace High School.

The 3A all stars, featuring three Division I hoops recruits in the starting five, took it to the 4A stars early and held on for a 121-111 victory.

For the most part defense was nowhere to be found but that didn't mean that these teams didn't care about the final outcome of the exhibition game.

"We wanted to win to prove that 3A was better than 4A," Meadowdale's Connor Hamlett said. "But it was all about having fun."

The game will likely be the last chance Hamlett—an Oregon State football recruit— will have such talent around him on any basketball court.

"It was a good time with a bunch of great players." Said Hamlett who started and scored 11 points. "It was a fun last experience of my basketball career."

Prior to the game Bellevue's Aaron Bright took home the WIBCA 3A player of the year award. The Stanford-bound point guard was the catalyst for the 3A stars, scoring 16 points and dishing out a game — high eight assists.

The 3A starting five that also included Lakes' Andre Winston Jr.

(James Madison), Mt. Si's Tanner Riley (University of Portland) and Bainbridge's Will Dilorio (2010 Metro league Player of the Year) took it to the 4A stars after Hamlett won the opening tip. Bright hit a 3 from the corner and notched two consecutive assists to give 3A an early 18-5 advantage.

Maco Hamilton of 3A State Champion Union (Vancouver) subbed out the starting five six minutes in. Both teams generally subbed five at a time.

"I like that (starting) lineup," Hamilton said. "I sure would have liked to coach them for four months."

With the starters on the bench the 4A reserves that included Jackson's Ryan Todd made a run, closing to 35-31 before Bright, Hamlett and co.

returned. The margin went in waves the rest of the game with 3A jumping out and 4A coming back. The 4A stars closed to 102-100 with five minutes to go in the game but Riley poured in seven of his team- high 20 points in the next two minutes, including a dunk that put an exclamation point on the win

"That last loss against Kentwood (in the 4A finals) stung a little bit," Todd said. "It was nice to get out here again and have some fun with talented players one last time."

Todd, who will play at Division II Seattle Pacific next year, had five points for the 4A stars. Stanwood's Kale Schmidt—a University of Washington Track and Field recruit— started and was third on the team with 14 points after taking several minutes to get his basketball legs back.

Though the 3A team was impressive the 4A stars were without arguably their best two players. Kentwood's Josh Smith (UCLA) is already committed to the maximum two all-star games including the McDonalds All-America game. Federal Way's Cole Dickerson (University of San

Francisco) was the 4A WIBCA player of the year but also committed to

two more prestigious all-star games.

Class 3A 121, Class 4A 111

3A 61 60 — 121

4A 48 63 — 111

3A Stars—Bright 16, Douglas 6, Winston Jr. 13, Brooks 11, Carel 8, Riley 20, Hamlett 11, Williams 6, Dilorio 16, Herman 14

4A Stars—McCloud 7, Nicholas 21, Schmidt 14, Roberts 12, Todd 5, Rogers 10, Weisner 18, Williams 12, Hope 7, Dunn 5

Three-Point Goals—Bright 4, Weisner 4, D.Williams 3, Brooks 3, Carel 2, Riley 2, Dilorio 2, Herman 2, Schmidt 2, Douglas, Winston Jr. A.

Williams, Roberts, Dunn

Class 2A 110, Class 1A 76

The 2A stars jumped ahead early and 1A never really challenged in the second game of the day. Ephrata's Patrick Simon — the 2A Player of the Year — hit three of the 2A stars' 11 3-pointers and finished with 13 points. Vashon Island's John Gage took home 1A POY honors and scored seven points. King's Dan Cheledinas and Ryan Hoff added 10 and nine points respectively. River Ridge's (2A) Joel King and Chelan's (1A) Joe Harris shared the game -high with 17 points.

1A 31 45 — 76

2A 54 56 — 110

1A Stars—Gage 7, Harris 17, Cheledinas 10, Sebans 5, Hoff 9, Downs 8, Washburn 4, Engstrom 5, Driessen 3, Egbert 7

2A Stars—Simon 13, Buchart 8, Voeut 11, Dickerson 11, Greene 10, Coulter 16, Penn 11, Jones 5, King 17, Atkins 8

Three-Point Goals—Simon 3, Dickerson 3, Harris 2, Gage, Sebans, Driessen, Egbert, Voeut, Coulter, Penn, King, Atkins

Class 1B 82, Class 2B 76

In the first game of the day an error at the scorer's table meant the teams played two eight-minute quarters followed by a 20-minute "second half". The 1B all-stars built an early lead and hung on for the six- point win. Cody Flett of Wellpinit was awarded Player of the Year honors for 1B and scored 13 points. Wahkiakum's Cody Olsen scored six points and took the POY for 2B but Jamie Meyer of Bear Creek stole the show with a game-high 23 points.

1B 19 21 42 — 82

2B 11 21 44 — 76

1B Stars—James 9, Pumphry 1, Louie 6, Flett 13, Shaholter 5, Daniels 7, McNamara 0, Maley 15, Moss 10, Miller 16

2B Stars—Willey 10, Blankenbeckler 2, Olsen 6, Estes 2, Pynch 12, Meyer 23, Burkhalter 5, Stevenson 10, Joey Vetter 2, McGee 4

Three-Point Goals—Meyer 3, Pynch 2, Willey 2, Daniels 2, James, Flett, Miller

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Games connect SMCC kids to Haiti relief (The Sandusky Register)

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 11:32 PM PDT

Video games stunt boys' learning, study says (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 12:16 AM PDT

SPOKANE, Wash. – Parents who fear that buying a video game system will hurt their kids' schoolwork might be right.

Young boys who receive their first video game system don't progress as quickly in school as boys who don't own such devices, a study found.

The average reading and writing scores of the young gamers don't go down, but they don't improve either, said Robert Weis of Denison University in Ohio, co- author of the study.

"For children without games, scores go up over time," Weis said. "For boys with games, scores remain relatively stable. You don't see the typical development in reading and writing."

The study found that the young gamers averaged about 40 minutes a day on the PlayStation 2 system, likely cutting into study time and social activities. Children without the system in their homes still averaged nine minutes a day of video gaming, usually at the homes of friends, the study found.

An official for the Entertainment Software Association, a Washington, D.C., trade group for video game makers, said the study results were neither a surprise nor cause for alarm.

"Can anyone be surprised that kids tend to play more with new video games, or toys or bicycles, than with the older ones?" said Richard Taylor, senior vice president for communications for the group. But that novelty can wear off, and "the authors themselves note that they are not sure the effect would exist after four months," Taylor said.

The study was published last week in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Newspaper ads were used to recruit 64 central Ohio families with boys ages 6 to 9 for the study.

The families did not own video game systems, and the parents were told their sons were participating in an "ongoing study of boys' academic and behavioral development."

Girls were excluded from the study because researchers feared they would not play video games enough to produce meaningful results.

The families were promised a PlayStation 2 gaming system in exchange for their participation, plus three E-rated games. But half were given a video gaming system immediately, and half were promised it after four months.

The children completed intelligence tests, plus reading and writing assessments, at the beginning and after four months. Also, parents and teachers filled out questionnaires relating to the boys' behavior at home and at school.

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Kids learn about healthy habits at YMCA event (Grand Island Independent)

Posted: 21 Mar 2010 01:21 AM PDT

For more than 10 years, the Grand Island YMCA has promoted Healthy Kids Day, which was held Saturday at the Grand Island YMCA.

The message behind the promotion, according to Amy Rathje of the YMCA, is to encourage children and families to adopt behaviors that support a healthy lifestyle.

But after 10 years, the message behind this initiative is as urgent as ever.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unhealthy eating and physical inactivity is increasing the risk of a number of chronic health conditions including obesity as the percentage of young people who are overweight has tripled over the last 25 years.

One of the those chronic health conditions is Type 2 diabetes, which occurs when the body does not use insulin properly. According to researchers, this type of diabetes is becoming more common in children.

A study in the Oct. 8, 2003, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association projected that, if the rate of diabetes continues to increase, one in three Americans born in 2000 will be diagnosed with diabetes by 2050 and diabetes can significantly shorten an individual's lifespan.

As more and more research points to the problems associated with childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that school-age children should participate in moderate to vigorous activity for a minimum of 60 minutes a day, along with developing healthy eating habits while they are young.

Rathje said there has been a strong emphasis across the nation on developing proper nutrition habits among young people, especially as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 16 percent of children (over 9 million) 6 to 19 years old are overweight or obese -- a number that has tripled since 1980.

"Obesity trends are definitely increasing," Rathje said. "That is something as parents and the community we really need to look at how nutrition is being presented to our children and it needs to be presented in a healthy and fun way."

For example, some fast food restaurant chains are now presenting healthy alternatives, such as fresh fruit, instead of fried foods.

"That's an awesome idea and there are also simple things at home to make meals fun and tasty, but yet still healthy," Rathje said.

What troubles Rathje is the number of recent studies showing that this generation of children may be the first generation not to outlive their parents because health problems associated with an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise.

"Most stats are showing that most parents now will outlive their children unless they change their children's lifestyle," she said. "That not only includes their nutrition, but includes exercise. With 80 percent of what we put in our mouths effecting us, we need to educate our children right now because we are seeing more and more kids coming down with Type 2 diabetes and we are seeing kids with high blood pressure. There's an epidemic and we need to get a handle on it."

In an attempt to get a handle on this important national health crisis, at the Healthy Kids Day event were a number of sponsor booths promoting healthy alternatives to children and their parents.

One of the booths, Waters Dental Office in Grand Island, emphasized proper dental health for children.

"We want to make the point that healthy teeth are part of a health body," said Cori Waters. "Sometimes people think about the heart or weight, but they don't necessarily think about their teeth. Our focus is just don't forget the mouth."

The Hall County Cooperative Extension Office in Grand Island also sponsored a booth emphasizing proper nutrition.

"Our kids eat a lot of snacks that are not very good for them," said Extension assistant Linda Kunze. "What we are doing with this booth is trying to get kids to look at healthier snacks."

And while YMCA Healthy Kids Day was designed for children, there was also an important message for parents.

"In order for the kids to eat healthy snacks, the parents have to buy and offer healthy snacks as well," Kunze said.

For Casey Heck of Grand Island, that parental responsibility of developing healthy eating habits in young children is something she takes seriously.

"I think it is very important nowadays," Heck said, who brought her 6-year-old son Chase to Healthy Kids Day. "There are so many problems with kids sitting around watching TV and playing video games. They have a lot of great ideas here with healthy snacks."

And for Chase, he said it's "really good" for kids to be active and healthy so "you can really grow."


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