Sauvage Will Coach Boys Basketball At Lakeside

Bill Sauvage is changing basketball coaching jobs in the Metro League. He will move from Ingraham to the Lakeside boys team next season.

Sauvage coached at Ingraham for three seasons. The Rams were 3-12 in the Metro League last season, 4-15 overall. In the 1996-97 season, they were 5-6 in Metro, 10-7 overall. In 1995-96, they were 7-4 in Metro, 11-7 overall and Sauvage was named Metro League coach of the year.

Lakeside was winless in 19 games last season. Will Bascus coached the Lions for three seasons.

Sauvage graduated from Seattle Prep and Seattle University. He was an assistant coach at Seattle Prep for four seasons.

Roosevelt hires Merrill

It took a while, but Tom Merrill is back as a head football coach at the big-school level. Merrill has been hired at Roosevelt High School, replacing D.R. Clausen, who resigned. The Roughriders will enter their second season in the KingCo 4A Conference next fall.

When Merrill left Kennedy after the 1994 season, he expressed a desire to return to coaching in the state's highest classification. He coached for 23 seasons at Kennedy, compiling a 146-80 record with eight league titles and 10 state playoff appearances. Kennedy played in Class AAA for 17 years, then dropped to Class AA.

Merrill spent one season as an assistant coach to his son, Mike, at Auburn Riverside. He has been head coach for the past two seasons at Tyee, where the Totems were 1-17.

Merrill has continued to teach at Kennedy. He will retire from teaching at the school after the next school year, according to Roosevelt Athletic Director Ed Putnam.

Bellevue hires Osborne

Shannon Osborne, a former standout at Redmond High School, is the new girls basketball coach at Bellevue High School.

He replaces Tom Bishop, who coached the Wolverines for two seasons.

Osborne earned all-conference and scholar-athlete-of-the-year honors at both Redmond and California's Pomona-Pitzer College, said Al Strand, Bellevue Athletic director.