Edmonds Cc Signs Trio Of Wesco Baseball Stars

Edmonds Community College baseball coach Blair Kubicek has announced the signing of seven 1993 high school graduates, including three from the Western Conference.

Felipe Figueroa, an outfielder for WesCo AA champion Meadowdale, and Steve Engelhart, a pitcher from Shorewood High School, have signed letters of intent to play baseball for the Tritons.

The other WesCo recruit has a built-in tie with the Edmonds program - it's Kubicek's son, Tony, a catcher from Mountlake Terrace High School.

Kubicek also signed three players from Sehome High School of Bellingham: third baseman Gabe Memmert, pitcher Kevin Bakker and outfielder-pitcher Jim Wellman.

Anacortes outfielder Corey Coleman also has signed with the Tritons, who took third in the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges tournament last season. The Tritons, 26-22, were the co-champions of the NWAACC Northern Division.

"I'm very happy with the group of players we've signed, especially the players from this area," Kubicek said.

Storm at nationals

The Seattle Purple Storm will play at the national AAU 15-under boys basketball tournament at Kingsport, Tenn. The tournament starts Saturday.

The Storm earned a berth at nationals by winning the Pacific Northwest qualifier tournament in April in Seattle. The Storm has raised around $10,000 to pay for the trip to nationals.

The Storm, 47-6, won the Seattle City League championship, six Pacific Northwest Classic tournaments and the Champion of Champions tournament this season.

The Storm is made up mostly of ninth and 10th-graders-to-be from the Shoreline area, with other squad members from Ballard and Mercer Island.

The team's leading scorers are Reid Anderson, Bryan Parker and Mike Johnson.

The Storm is coached by George Parker and Dallas Cochran.

Thompson on BCI team

Chris Thompson, a 6-foot-1 senior-to-be from Edmonds-Woodway High, is the Western AAA Conference's only representative on the state's Basketball Congress International teams that will play in national tournaments this month.

Thompson, who has the second-highest grade-point average (3.87) of all players on three BCI teams, will play on the BCI White team coached by Cascade's Charlie Cobb.

The team opens play in the Great Western Shootout in Huntington Beach, Calif., July 13-16. All three teams then play in the Summer Prep Slam 'N' Jam in Long Beach, Calif., July 17-22. Team Blue and Seattle BCI then play in the BCI Prep International tournament in Tempe, Ariz., July 24-31.

The BCI rosters:

BCI Blue - Lovell Brown, Garfield; Jason Cooper, Mercer Island; Jeff Daly, Roosevelt; Mike Dickerson, Federal Way; Jeremy Eaton, Richland; Josh Folsom, Redmond; Bjorn Magnussen, Issaquah; Brad McKnight, Newport; Tony Norman, Decatur; Michael Sims, Seattle Christian; Donald Watts, Interlake. Coaches: Ed Pepple, Mercer Island; Al Gleich, Olympic; Frances Williams, Rainier Beach.

BCI White - Roberto Bergersen, Decatur; David Britt, Eastside Catholic; Sam Feather, Lake Washington; Jevon Green, Hale; Jovan Hollins, Decatur; Jason Maners, Newport; Carl Schreck, Wenatchee; Mark Stottlemyre, Richland; Chris Thompson, Edmonds-Woodway; Jesse Walter, Eisenhower. Coaches: Charlie Cobb, Cascade; Eric Hjort, Blanchet; Jo Jo Rodriguez, Garfield.

Seattle BCI - Jerry Boston, Garfield; Terik Brown, Mercer Island; Matt Halverson, Juanita; Jeff Knoll, Mercer Island; David Mott, Wenatchee; David Oswell, Newport; Andre Pleasant, Decatur; Jimmie Rainwater, Sealth; Tywrone Still, Hale; Jason Terry, Franklin. Coaches: Ed Boyce, Decatur; Jim McDonald, Juanita.

Washington State BCI schedules - Great Western Shootout, July 13-16, Huntington Beach, Calif., Team White only. Summer Prep Slam `N' Jam, July 17-22, Long Beach State University, all three BCI teams participating. BCI Prep International, July 24-31, Arizona State University.

NOTES

-- Seafirst's Jammin' Hoops Camp makes its sixth stop of the summer on July 15-17 at Redmond High School.

The free three-day camp, open to kids ages 7 through 18, combines basketball instruction with motivational messages about staying off drugs and staying in school.

Applications for the camps are available at Seafirst Bank branches or at the Seattle SuperSonics office at 190 Queen Anne Ave. N. in Seattle.

-- The Class AA all-state high school boys soccer game 7:30 tonight at Shoreline Stadium is only the first of what Shorecrest Coach Teddy Mitalas hopes to be a long series of annual games in the same tradition as the all-state football, baseball and basketball events.

"We know what we're doing now," Mitalas said. "Next year we're planning to do girls all-star and boys all-star games the same evening in a doubleheader. The girls should be just as involved as the boys."

No admission will be formally charged for tonight's game, but organizers are asking for donations to help pay for stadium rental.

-- The 14th annual Diadora Cup youth soccer tournament, at the 15-field 60 Acres complex in Redmond, opens tomorrow at noon (opening ceremonies start at 11 a.m.). Sixteen separate tournaments will run simultaneously - boys and girls in eight age groups from U-12 to U-19.

Seattle Times staff reporters Sandy Ringer and Gordon Wittenmyer contributed to this report.