Let them bowl!!!
Tacoma’s Wilson High School won the 4A girls bowling state championship, its third straight title on Saturday and Breanne Mattson of Cascade (Everett) won the individual title at Narrows Plaza Bowl in University Place. We’ll never know whether seniors Whitney Penny or Chelsie Cooper would have done anything to change that.Due to the closing of Snoqualmie and Stevens passes because of the weekend’s snowfall, Wenatchee was not able to get to the state tournament. Panthers assistant coach Jay Young said that Wenatchee athletic director B.J. Kuntz attempted to arrange a plane to fly the bowlers to the tournament but the weather put the kibosh on that plan too.Maybe postponing the entire event for two girls is a little rash, but for Cooper and Penny not to be able to compete for a state championship after earning the right to be there is inexcusable. Couldn’t the WIAA have set up a satellite event where Cooper and Penny could bowl somewhere around here with a sanctioned official watching the proceedings? It’s horrible to take away two seniors’ last chance at state glory in their chosen sport.”For us coaches, we’ll be back, but for the girls, this was their shot,” Young said.Hate to be the one to say it, but if anybody thinks the same thing would have happened to the Wenatchee basketball team going to state, I’ve got a bridge I’m looking to sell.

