Naselle vs. Ocosta, 7 pm, Thursday, Oct. 27, Pentilla Field, Naselle, Wa.
Naselle (5-0, 8-0) has the chance to finish up their regular season a perfect 9-0 tonight when they face a pitiful Ocosta (1-4, 2-6) team. The Naselle seniors will be honored before the start of the game, and essentially every one of them has been vital to the success of this year's team. Those being honored are: Chris Walkowiak, Robert Eaton, Seth Scrabeck, Nick Zimmerman, Trevin Leeland, Beau Santjer, Jesse Kimball, Tanner Hoven, Ryley Queener and Jesse Lopez.
The Wildcats two wins this season have come against an 0-8 NWC and an 0-6 Chief Leschi — they also forfeited their first game of the year to Rainier. Ocosta is averaging just 14.6 ppg while giving up an average of 29.8. The Comets, who have scored more points than any other 2B team in the state this year, will likely have their JVs in the game by halftime.
PACIFIC LEAGUE NOTES
Raymond will host North Beach to decide third place in the league. The one through five positions in the Pacific League are not likely to change after tonight's games and will most likely be Naselle, Valley, Raymond, North Beach and South Bend — in that order — and advancing to the district crossover games on Nov. 5.
The top three teams in the Central League will finish the season with identical 6-1 records. Therefore, there will likely need to be a coin toss tiebreaker for seeding, due to the fact that Napavine beat Morton/White Pass but lost to Adna, Adna beat Napavine but lost to Morton/White Pass and Morton/White Pass lost to Napavine but beat Adna.
Speaking of which, here's the match-ups for those crossover games — so long as nothing crazy happens — Naselle plays Wahkiakum, Valley will play Toutle Lake, Raymond will play the #3 Central team, North Beach will play the #2 seed and South Bend will play the #1 Central seed.
Once again taking a little bit of a leap and predicting here, but the likely winners of those games will be Naselle, Valley, Napavine, Adna and MWP, making up the five seeds from District IV to the state playoffs. Naselle would be the top seed and Valley would likely be the five, setting up a first round matchup between the two. The District 4 teams will face the top three teams from District 1/2 on the western side of the bracket. Tacoma Baptist will most likely be the top seed from that district. The two and three seeds likely be Life Christian, Seattle Lutheran or Bellevue Christian. The district 4 team #3 seed will likely have the easiest first round game, as they will play the #2 District 1/2 team.
Ilwaco vs. Ridgefield, 7 pm, Friday, Oct. 28, Peterson Field, Ilwaco, Wa.
Going into last week's game, this week's game looked a lot more attractive. If Ilwaco (2-4, 3-5) could have beaten Castle Rock last week, this Friday night's game vs. Ridgefield (3-3, 5-3) would have qualified the winner for the district crossover games next week.
But wait, is there still a slim chance for the Fishermen? Why yes there is.
Castle Rock plays at Toledo (7-1) this week, where they will most likely lose, making them 3-4 in league. If Ilwaco could somehow find a way to get past Ridgefield, both the Fishermen and the Spudders would also be 3-4 in league.
This would result in the three teams playing a "Kansas City tie-breaker" in Kalama on Monday at 6 p.m. to decide that fourth and final seed to the district crossover games. Of course all of this would give the winner the daunting task of facing an undefeated Montesano team — 8-0, 416 points scored, while giving up only 22 all season, the Bulldogs are the toughest team in the state at 1A.
Ilwaco senior players will be honored before the game including: Justice Schenk, Josh Berteaux, Matt Wood, Peter Keller, James Morrison, Elliot Marcus, Kasey Plato, Brandon Malmsteadt and Edgar Galvan.
LEAGUE NOTES
Kalama travels to LaCenter with the league title and top seeing to the crosover games on the line. If the Chinooks win they will lock up the Trico title. However, if LaCenter were to win they would be in a three way tie with Kalama and Toledo. This should be a really good game, as both teams are pretty equally matched.
On the other side of the coin, winless Stevenson will host winless Columbia and somebody is getting out of there with a win...unless it ends in a tie...
In the Evergreen, second and third place will be decided in a game between Hoquiam and Tenino (both 7-1). Hoqiuam has the better D, but Tenino has the home field. Elma can wrap up the fourth seed from the Evergreen league with a win over Forks.
Be sure to check back for game recaps and photo galleries from both games
Pigskin Pick'em
Hmmm, 1-1 last week, 13-2 this year
W- Naselle vs. Ocosta
Is this game not over yet?
W- Ilwaco vs. Ridgefield
I know, I know, the smart money is on Ridgefield, but maybe thats what they think too, maybe a little overconfident on their part? Maybe Ilwaco takes advantage? Maybe Berteaux goes ballistic and singlehandedly carries them to their biggest win in a long time? It's all possible.
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