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By SCOTT SANDSBERRY
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC

For those of you who have been sitting on your living-room couch watching the Winter Olympics or whatever showed up auto-recorded on your DVR, here are some of the highly rated shows you missed this week at the SunDome, the second home for basketball fans from the tiny communities that produce Class 1B high schools.

THE APPRENTICE: To DEREK ISAAK of ALMIRA/COULEE-HARTLINE, a sophomore who is simply too young to be that good. But he's the son of a coach and the grandson of a Husky Hall of Famer who played on UW's 1953 Final Four team, and he's on his way to rewriting the 1B record books. His 90 points this week only missed the tournament record by four, with the 59 tourney points he scored last year, he's on pace to shatter the career mark of 202 even if the Warriors don't reach the tournament in his final two years ... which they will.

LOST: To the WILSON CREEK girls, for whom the ball was precisely that, again and again, in the Devils' consolation-bracket elimination by Bickleton on Friday. Of their 52 turnovers, 32 were steals by the Pirates.

EIGHT IS ENOUGH: To the LAKE QUINAULT boys and the NEAH BAY girls, for whom eight -- or, anyway, eighth -- is apparently plenty. Those two teams have finished with the eighth-place trophy in both 2009 and 2010.

NUMB3RS: To the folks at BICKLETON, where, with an enrollment of roughly 23, numbers are hard to come by. Band is mandatory in Bickleton schools from fifth grade on up, and the pep band typically includes seventh through 12th grades. But with the girls basketball team on the court -- including the handful of them that might otherwise have an instrument in their hands -- the Bickleton band at the SunDome also included sixth-graders. And they had reason to play enthusiastically, with the Pirate girls earning the seventh-place trophy in their first state berth since 1981.

BREAKING BAD: To the ROSALIA boys, who played brilliantly last year en route to placing third, came in undefeated and ranked No. 1 this year and -- playing in that fiendishly stacked bottom bracket -- didn't make it past Friday.

STILL STANDING: To the PATEROS boys and the ST. JOHN-ENDICOTT girls, who did the hardest thing in any 16-team, double-elimination tourney. After losing on Wednesday, they had to piece together the fragments of their broken dreams enough to win Thursday, Friday and Saturday to place fifth -- which may be an even harder trophy to capture than the big one.

BOY MEETS WORLD: To THUNDER WELLHAUSEN of ACH, a freshman who had to hit two free throws with 7.8 seconds left in the semifinals to tie the game. In what might have been a knee-knocking situation, he drained them both. Welcome to showtime, kid. You can stay.

THE CLOSER: To the CUSICK boys, who had lost their Saturday trophy game in each of the past two years, thus ending their season on a down note. The Panthers' goal this year: Make it to Saturday and win that final game. Cusick closed the deal, knocking off ACH on trophy day to place fourth.

DAMAGES: To KATELYN CLINTON of BICKLETON, who in the fourth/seventh placing game -- for the second time this season, each time against Sunnyside Christian -- finished with an eye swelling shut on its way to turning black, having caught an elbow in the face.

CHUCK: To CODY FLETT of WELLPINIT, a sensational player who had probably the worst shooting night of his life (3-for-24) in the Redskins' semifinal loss, but did just what his team needed him to do -- keep chucking shots. Flett was back in form the next day, going 9-for-17 and scoring 26 points as Wellpinit placed third, its highest finish ever.

CSI: To the COLTON girls, whose three games leading up to Saturday's final were such brutal maulings that the only thing that kept them from being crime scenes were the lack of yellow tape and chalk-marked body outlines. KELSEY MOSER, the lone senior on this year's Wildcat squad, has played on Colton teams that have gone third, second, first and first over the last four years. Wow. We repeat: Wow. Yes, these were truly the GOLDEN GIRLS.

LIFE UNEXPECTED: To the SUNNYSIDE CHRISTIAN boys, whose quarterfinal comeback from a 38-19 third-quarter deficit was also reminiscent of a much older television show: THAT'S INCREDIBLE. With new tournament life, Sunnyside Christian went on to hold off Wellpinit in the semis and St. John-Endicott in the championship tilt capture to become ... wait for it ... yes, KING OF THE HILL.