By SCOTT SANDSBERRY
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC

This being the weekend of that other awards ceremony of note — you know, the one with movie stars, cleavage, the red carpet and those red-faced acceptance speeches — we hereby present the first annual Class 1B Dribblies, awarded for outstanding performances in whatever categories we happen to think of.

The envelopes, please.

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A CLUTCH ROLE: To DREW HEGARTY of LIBERTY CHRISTIAN, who hit nothing but net on his 14-footer with two seconds remaining in the boys 3rd-place game, the week's only game-deciding last-minute shot.

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A UNIFIED ROLE: To the INCHELIUM HORNETS, for their refusal to leave the court after the fourth-place trophy presentation until their senior leader — CHELSI PAKOOTAS, being attended to by medical personnel for a sprained finger at courtside — was able to join them at midcourt for the celebration photos.

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A HORROR ROLE (ENSEMBLE CAST): This goes to the two teams in the girls 5th-8th place, ENTIAT and GARFIELD-PALOUSE, who combined to shoot a combined 17-for-81 from the field (21 percent) in the 5th-8th place game. Compared to this ugliness, the Elephant Man was Brad Pitt.

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A NONSPEAKING ROLE: To coach DARREN JOHNSON of LUMMI, who had to stand mutely and take it as his Blackhawks were charged with 25 fouls to just eight for Tri-Cities Prep in the 4th-7th place game. But despite the disparity in foul shots (32 for TCP, 6 for Lummi), the Blackhawks still had the lead in the final two minutes before running out of gas in overtime.

BEST PERFORMANCE IN PRODUCT PLACEMENT: To the 1B community, which over the first three days bought more than $60,000 worth of souvenirs, mostly sweatshirts and T-shirts — more than vendors had sold at any of the 1A or 2A tournaments at the SunDome over the past several years.

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A ROLE REVERSAL: To the ENTIAT boys, who took the fifth-place trophy with a victory over Moses Lake Christian, which had handled the Tigers twice in the regular season, once by 17 points. Honorable mention goes to the COLTON girls, who were drubbed 61-37 by Tekoa-Oakesdale in the district final but won Saturday's rematch 45-42 in the 3rd-6th game. This doesn't earn the Dribblie primarily because these two teams met five times this year, with Colton winning three.

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: To AARON VAN DE GRAAF of Sunnyside Christian, who — as the Knight girls came off the court after losing to Sprague-Harrington — was right there with congratulations and only positive, supportive consolation for each and every one. This, of course, was only minutes before he and the rest of the Knight boys would be coming onto the court for their own championship game. Honorable mention goes to CHELSI PAKOOTAS of INCHELIUM and GLEN "BUG" ROBERTSON of LUMMI, the tournament leaders in assists (21 for Pakootas, 23 for Robertson).

BEST DIRECTOR: To LEON ENICK, boys coach at TULALIP HERITAGE. Seriously now, did anybody outside of a five-mile radius of Marysville think these state newbies would even be playing on Saturday, much less in the championship game? Enick also gets the Dribblie for Best Costume Design, simply because his hat is just so cool.

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A LEADING ROLE: RONI JO MIELKE of SPRAGUE-HARRINGTON. Her tournament numbers: 19.3 points, 3.7 assists, 5.0 steals. That girl can flat-out play the game.

BEST MOVIE: "Little Miss Sunshine." Oh, what the heck?