2010 ALL CASCADE CONERENCE
Offensive player of year — Trevor Bartels, Kings
Defensive player of year — Doug Ehlebracht, Archbishop Murphy
Coach of year — Ben Somoza, Kings
FIRST TEAM
Trevor Bartels, Jr., King's; Doug Ehlebracht, Sr., Archbishop Murphy; F Alex Nicholas, Sr., Sultan; F Erik Schmidt, Sr., Archbishop Murphy; F Nick Swanson, Sr., Kings; F Pat Myatt, Jr., South Whidbey; MF Brandon Ochoa, Jr., Lakewood; MF Gunnar IIdhuso, Sr., Kings; MF Sean Ryan, Jr., Archbishop Murphy; Spencer Tack, Sr., Coupeville; D Ingvar Judson, Jr., Cedarcrest; D Matt Leen, Sr., Archbishop Murphy; D Paul Gumke, Sr., Granite Falls; D Sam Hauck, Sr., Kings; GK Colin McHargue, Sr., Cedarcrest.
SECOND TEAM
F Alexis Magana, Jr., Archbishop Murphy; F Ben Toler, Jr., Cedarcrest; F Joseph Hawkins, Sr., Lakewood; F Justin Adams, Sr., Coupeville; MF Brian Ordonez, Jr., Sultan; MF Ian McCauley, Sr., South Whidbey; MF Jacob Hauser, Fr., Kings; MF Jamie Steinman, Sr., Archbishop Murphy; D David Shirley, Jr., Sultan; D Dean Freundlich, Jr., South Whidbey; D Jeremy Rose, Sr., Lakewood; D Travis Curtin, Sr., Coupeville; GK T.J. Russell, Jr., South Whidbey.
2008 - King's Boys Soccer Coach Ben Samoza is named the State 1A Boys Soccer Coach of the Year.
KING'S ATHLETES NAMED TO ALL STATE TEAM
1A SOCCER: 1st Team Defense- Michael Kenyon, King's; Alex Masaki, King's , 2nd Team Mid Fielder- Ryan McCormick, King's
King's Wins 2008 Class 1A Soccer Crown!
By Tony Dondero
Enterprise reporter
SUMNER - It took a little tap from Sam Hauck and Brett Simons did the rest.
King’s won a rematch with Highland 2-1 to capture its first state championship in boys soccer in only the second year of the program, Saturday at Sunset Chev Stadium.
With a little more than minute left in the game, the Knights drew an obstruction foul in the penalty box, resulting in an indirect free kick.
Sophomore defender Sam Hauck, who saved a couple goals in the first half, came up to take the kick on the left side of the field, about 15 yards from the goal.
“I was there, and I told Brett to stand where I was because the keeper was setting up near post,” Hauck said. “I played it ready, he nicked it off the (far) post. It was sweet.”
Simons said he was aiming for the far post all the way.
“I just curled it around the wall that was there, the keeper went running on, so I just curled it around far post. Just got in there,” Simons said. “It was great. We lost to them last year, we beat them this year. Revenge.”
“Brett, oh man, he’s the man,” said forward/midfielder Michael Kenyon, who scored earlier for the Knights.
Highland, a school from Cowiche, which is an unincorporated town northwest of Yakima in the heart of apple country, came into the game with 11-game winning streak, as did King’s.
Highland, who beat King’s 1-0 last year in the final, came out with energy and outshot the Knights 9-3 in the first half.
“We didn’t really show up at all the first half,” King’s coach Ben Somoza said. “I didn’t think we played well at all. We started putting pressure on them in the second half, finding our forwards feet a lot more. Our forwards scored both our goals. I thought we were giving them too much space to play. I thought the second half was a lot better than the first half.”
Highland, which won last year with a late second half goal by Jesus Silva last year, got a goal from Silva in the 55th minute. The junior forward, one of only five returning players off last year’s title team, corralled a long pass, took several dribbles and drilled a right-footed shot into the left corner past a diving Anthony Ulskey, the King’s goalkeeper.
But four minutes later, Kenyon evened it up. Defender Alex Masaki booted a ball into the penalty box, Kenyon juggled, it collected it with his right foot, turned and drilled a shot into the back of the net.
“I just wanted to get a goal and once we got a goal I knew we’d finally get another one and we did,” said Kenyon, a senior who will play for Pacific Lutheran next year.
That goal shifted the momentum back in King’s favor.
“You’re down 1-0 but there’s 25 or so minutes left in the game,” Somoza said. “In a game like this that was wide open as it was, there’s going to be a lot of chances. It was a matter of taking our chances. We took two decent chances right at the end of the game and we scored two in the last 25 or so.”
Highland, which was going for its third consecutive state title, had to win two loser-out district games to get to state.
“I thought we played pretty well in the first half,” said Highland coach Rick Hill. “We did what we needed to do in that first half. I was hoping for a goal in that first half to kind of get us going a little bit but that didn’t happen. We allowed them to make adjustments.
“King’s, they are a very disciplined team at times, and I knew they would come out and give us a run for our money,” he said.
The Knights avoided disaster several times in the first half, thanks to Hauck. He cleared a ball from the goal line in the 33rd minute that got behind Ulskey.
“That one, I had to give a little bike (kick) out of the goal to save it,” Hauck said.
Both teams played physical, and the Scotties’ Eric Perez and the Knights’ Hauck drew yellow cards for hard fouls. Masaki, an all-conference defender, had to come out in the 24th minute with a cut lip but returned in the second half.
In the end, it came down to a play off a free kick, which Somoza emphasized all year.
“You’re scrounging, clawing, fighting, whatever it takes to win a state championship,” Somoza said.
King’s who had everyone back this year, will return everyone next year except Kenyon and senior forward Tae Park.
