Axodys

“Franklin too fast, too good”:http://spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=031603&ID=s1319613&cat=section.sports wins 67 - 55.

It was a fun game to watch and Morrison and Brooks didn’t disappoint at all, scoring 37 and 38 respectively. The real difference in the game was how Mead’s supporting cast looked downright ordinary all night long, while Franklin’s was aggressive, athletic and quick.

In other basketball news Gonzaga made the dance for the fifth straight year despite losing the WCC conference final to San Diego. The Zags play Cincinatti in Salt Lake City as the 9th seed vs. the 8th seed. If Gonzaga wins they will most likely play 1 seed Arizona.

“Feedster”:http://www.feedster.com the RSS search engine formerly know as Roogle now has its own domain. I haven’t gotten to play with it very much yet (and won’t get to at all this weekend), but it seems pretty nifty.

“Morrison As Advertised”:http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/preps/112337_prepbar13.shtml

bq. Standing there in the lane after the block, tugging his jersey around a sturdy 6-foot-7 frame, Morrison looked every bit the part of the Eastern Washington superman trans-Cascades reports claimed all season.

Mead won again tonight, but Lincoln gave them a pretty good game. Unfortunately Central Valley and Pasco both lost, although the Bulldogs gave Franklin a good scare. I’m heading over tomorrow to catch the semi-finals in person.

*Update:*
-Well, my perfect string of day one predictions ended with the last game of the night as Mountlake Terrace downed Prairie 49 - 47. Not completely shocking since that matchup included the two teams I knew the least about in the tournament.- Okay, this is weird. Despite the “WIAA”:http://wiaa.com site showing Mountlake winning 49 - 47 at the moment, the “Seattle Times tournament site”:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/sports/highschool/statehoops03/brackets/boys/4a.html indicates that Prairie won in overtime 62 - 55. I’m going to have to go with the reputable newspaper on this one.

*Day 1 Results*
Franklin 71 - Bethel 55
Pasco 54 - Rogers 46
Central Valley 61 - South Kitsap 36
Kentwood 64 - Mt. Vernon 45
Lincoln 76 - Eastlake 59
Mead 55 - Federal Way 42
Snohomish 55 - Walla Walla 52
-Mountlake Terrace 49 - Prairie 47-
Prairie 62 - Mountlake Terrace 55

“Jon Rentzsch”:http://rentzsch.com has started a series of online interviews with self-employed software developers he calls Engineer Entrepreneurs. I find these interviews especially enjoyable because being a self-employed software developer is probably my dream job. This month Jon “interviews Real Software founder Geoff Perlman”:http://rentzsch.com/engineerEntrepreneurs/perlman and gets some perspective on the company behind REALbasic.

*Washington State Championship 4A Bracket Predictions*

*First Round March 12*
09:00 AM Bethel (21-4) - *Franklin (21-2)*
_Experience and talent trumps a promising young team._

10:30 AM *Pasco (20-5)* - Rogers, Puyallup (15-10)
_Two straight losses going into State is not a recipe for success._

12:00 PM South Kitsap (23-3) - *Central Valley (19-6)*
_Bears pull a Kent-Meridian._

02:00 PM Mt. Vernon (15-8) - *Kentwood (23-2)*
_Bulldogs about to get conquered by another team with size._

03:30 PM Eastlake (17-7) - *Lincoln (17-10)*
_Abes home court good for one more game._

05:00 PM Federal Way (17-9) - *Mead (25-0)*
_Morrison is on a mission._

07:00 PM Walla Walla (18-8) - *Snohomish (20-2)*
_The -Hulk- Brockman brothers demonstrate yet again why size matters in basketball._

08:30 PM Mount Lake Terrace (16-8) - *Prairie (20-6)*
_Falcons feast on another weak Wesco team._

We’ll see how I did later today.

“LA2JAX”:http://www.cushwafamily.com/la2jax/ - A 9 year old boy and his dad as they cross the U.S.A by bicycle.

Definitely one of the coolest travel blogs I’ve seen to date; plus 9 year old Will frequently “updates”:http://www.audblog.com/media/1572/11504.mp3 via “Audblog”:http://audblog.com when they don’t have Internet access. I’m really looking forward to following the intrepid pair’s cycling adventures over the next couple months.

Apple has an “article featuring Shadowbane”:http://www.apple.com/games/articles/2003/03/shadowbane/, UbiSoft’s soon to be released cross platform MMORPG(Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). It looks really cool, but unfortunately I don’t have the hardware to play it at the moment.

The “Washington State Championship 4A Bracket”:http://www.wiaa.com/brackets/16entry4.asp?TourneyID=2020318 is up.

*First Round March 12*
09:00 AM Bethel (21-4) - Franklin (21-2)
10:30 AM Pasco (20-5) - Rogers, Puyallup (15-10)
12:00 PM South Kitsap (23-3) - Central Valley (19-6)
02:00 PM Mt. Vernon (15-8) - Kentwood (23-2)
03:30 PM Eastlake (17-7) - Lincoln (17-10)
05:00 PM Federal Way (17-9) - Mead (25-0)
07:00 PM Walla Walla (18-8) - Snohomish (20-2)
08:30 PM Mount Lake Terrace (16-8) - Prairie (20-6)

I’ll post my analysis and predictions in the next day or so.

The basketball season has finally come to an end for me as Ferris came up 4 points short of advancing to the state tournament in Tacoma. It was a good year all things considered, but it’s disappointing to miss a trip to State by just a few points. It wouldn’t really surprise me if it takes us another year to get back as we’re not going to have much size or experienced leadership for a while. Next year is going to be interesting in the GSL in general as this year’s top teams were largely senior dominated. Winning and losing aside it’s going to be fun watching our young guys develop and with the league down overall I like our chances as much as anybody.