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Friday, May. 09, 2008
Kennewick basketball hires Hanford assistant
COMPILED BY RENE FERRAN
Kennewick has named Hanford assistant Bradyn Leyde as its new boys basketball coach, replacing Ron King. His hiring was approved by the Kennewick School Board on Wednesday night.
"He is truly a good fit for Kennewick," said Lions athletic director John Rannow. "We are fortunate that he wants to be a Lion."
Leyde, 28, is a U.S. History teacher at Chief Joseph Middle School in Richland and has coached the Falcons JV program for the past six years. A graduate of Washington State, this is his first head coaching position.
Leyde inherits a team that went 12-14 and qualified for regionals for the first time since 1990, but graduated All-Area guard Robbie Mitchell among four players. The Lions return 6-foot-7 post Tony Bryant and guard Osvaldo Uvay, who averaged 9.2 points per game, as they return to the 4A ranks next winter.
"There are a lot of teams that are perennially tough in the league," Leyde said. "I want us to play hard and give ourselves an opportunity to be competitive night in and night out."
-- High school basketball has followed college ball by adopting a rule eliminating the two marked lane spaces closes to the end line during free-throw situations beginning next season. All players will move up one lane space during a free-throw attempt, and a new mark will be applied to the lane line near the free-throw line to designate the last 3-foot marked lane space. The rule change is an effort to reduce rough play on rebounds of missed free throws.
-- The Oregon Supreme Court said the state's school board must further review whether high school basketball tournament schedules should be adjusted to accommodate a team's Saturday Sabbath. The OSAA claimed that scheduling around Portland Adventist during the tournament would cause undue hardship for other fans, participants and member schools.
