4 Mid-Columbia players on Top 100 WA football list. Ams sweep the weekend

Pasco senior Jillian Breedlove has her spring season of high school golf.

Then she’s headed to Clarksville, Tenn., where she’ll begin her college career at Austin Peay State University.

Breedlove committed to the school back in November.

As a junior last year, Breedlove was named Mid-Columbia Conference MVP, and she placed fourth at the WIAA 4A girls state tournament.

Austin Peay women’s golf coach Jessica Combs is excited to have the Bulldogs standout come in next fall.

“Jillian is a fierce competitor,” said Combs. “She does not like to lose and is dedicated to figuring out what she can do better than she was the day before.”

▪ Eastern Washington University’s football program looks like it’s going to get a couple of good ones for the coming season.

Royal senior wide receiver Edgar Delarosa, who helped the Knights win another Class 1A state football title last fall — announced that he’s committed to the Eagles.

The other commitment comes from Othello grad Isaiah Perez, who starred for the Huskies as a linebacker. This is a big get.

Perez was at BYU this past season. He had spent the previous two years as a missionary before being listed on the football roster this past fall. But Perez didn’t see much playing time, and earlier this month he announced he was entering the transfer portal.

Now he’s committed to EWU, with four years of eligibility left.

College update

Noelani Helm (Walla Walla) led the University of Portland volleyball team in assists this past season with 771, or 6.88 assists a game.

The senior was also second on the 10-19 team in digs with 280.

Helm finished the season as an honorable mention choice for the West Coast Conference all-conference team. She also made the WCC All-Academic team.

▪ Early warning: Tri-Cities Prep grad Logan Mercado is projected to be the University of Oregon’s No. 3 starting pitcher this season.

Mercado is a junior and had seen some spot starts as well as relief appearances the past few seasons.

Hockey

What a great weekend for the Tri-City Americans, and especially for Tomas Suchanek.

The Ams and Suchanek went 3-0 over the weekend, beating Everett at home on Friday and on the road Sunday, as well as pounding Spokane 6-2 on Saturday in the Toyota Center.

Suchanek won all three contests as goalie, and on Monday he was named the Western Hockey League Goalie of the Week.

Besides going 3-0, Suchanek gave up an average of 1.67 goals a game, had a save percentage of .948, and has now run his unbeaten streak to 11 games while in net.

The only bad part of the weekend was Parker Bell — the Ams’ standout forward — taking a blindside hit during Friday’s game in the Toyota Center.

Everett’s Andrew Petruk was giving a 5-minute charging penalty, a major misconduct ejection, and the WHL later gave him a 3-game suspension for the hit.

Bell wasn’t moving after being laid out on the ice before he finally came to. He was taken off the ice on a board and put into an ambulance. He was treated and released at a local hospital later that night, but Bell — a Calgary Flames draft pick — hasn’t played since Friday night.

Prep football

The Seattle Times released its annual Chips List this week.

It mentions the top 100 high school football players in the state of Washington who have a good to excellent chance of playing football at the next level.

Only six players were named Blue Chips: those who could start and star for an NCAA Division I football program.

Red Chips are those players who could become a starter in a major conference, such as the Pac-12.

And the majority of the players on the list are White Chips — players who are top prospects.

The Mid-Columbia had four players on the list, led by Kennewick senior Ashton Tripp, who is our lone Red Chip.

Tripp, an offensive lineman, has signed with Washington State University.

Three others — Kamiakin’s Gabe Tahir, Connell’s Cade Clyde, and Richland’s Seth Shook — are White Chips.

Tahir is set to play cornerback for Boise State University; Clyde is listed as a tight end for Weber State University; and Shook is listed as an athlete for the University of Idaho.

NFL

I’m not sure that Kellen Moore was out of a job for 24 hours.

Moore — the Prosser High graduate who made a name for himself as a quarterback at Boise State before becoming a top-level assistant coach in the National Football League — completed a two-day interview process last week for the head coaching position for the Carolina Panthers.

Moore had been the offensive coordinator these past few seasons for the Dallas Cowboys, and he interviewed last year for a few head coaching jobs in the NFL.

Then this weekend, he and the Cowboys decided to mutually part ways, and the next day the Los Angeles Chargers hired him as their OC.

Now he gets to work with one of the top young quarterbacks in the game with Justin Herbert.

Seems like a better job to me. But I’m sure going to miss the whining Cowboys fans complaining about his playcalling on a team that hasn’t won a Super Bowl since 1995.