The Seahawks concluded their Coach of the Week/Coach of the Year awards prior to Monday Night Football this past week.  Each Coach of the Week was invited to a dinner and presentation prior to the game, and an on-field recognition just before kick off.

Lynden’s Curt Kramme was named as Coach of the Year.

Seattle Seahawks 2011 High School Football Coach of the Year, MeridianFootball.com photo

RENTON, Wash. - The Seattle Seahawks and Sterling Savings Bank announced head football coach Curt Kramme from Lynden High School as the Jim Ennis Award for Coach of the Year. He was honored during a pre-game ceremony at the Seahawks versus Rams game on December 12 at CenturyLink Field. Coach Kramme will receive a $2,000 cash grant.

Throughout the high school football season, 20 coaches were named NFL Coach of the Week. Each coach received a $500 cash donation for their football program from the Seattle Seahawks and a $225 Sports Authority gift card, coach’s kit and Seahawks jacket from Sterling Savings Bank.

Coaches recognized as “2011 NFL Coach of the Week” are listed below.

The WIAA announced earlier this fall that it would be live streaming state semifinals and finals games for all classifications.

WIAANetwork.com is now live, and you can check out the upcoming game listings.  First up is Morton vs. White Pass in the 2B semis.  However it looks like only Westside Tacoma Dome games are up, so we’ll miss out Bellevue vs. Kamiakin.

Dirk Knudsen at NorthwestPrepReport.com is going wall-to-wall with the Bellevue vs. Lakes quarterfinals game (Friday, Nov. 18th, 7:30PM at Lakes) pre-game coverage.  And tomorrow night, WashingtonSportsNetwork.com and NWPR will be webcasting the game live.  Beginning at 6:30 tomorrow night, go here or here to watch the game.

The Lakes Football Twitter account says that as many as 3,500 tickets have been sold for the Lakes crowd.

Prior to Blaine‘s play-in game last night against Cedarcrest, I thought that Blaine needed to win in order for Mario Gobbato, with 2,283 yards through 9 games, to have a shot at Matthias Wilson‘s 11-man season rushing record of 2,678.

Blaine lost, 35-24, and Gobbato did not break the record, but it was so very close.

The loss ends Blaine’s season with a 4-6 record, while Cedarcrest moves on to face No. 1 Lynden at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, for the right to move on to the 2A State Playoffs.

Blaine running back Mario Gobbato gave Matthias Wilson’s single-season rushing record of 2,678 yards from 1997 a run, but came up just 9 yards short of tying the mark. Gobbato rushed for a season-high 386 yards on 36 carries, as he surpassed 300 yards for the fifth time this season. The Borderites had won the previous four times he reached the plateau, but they fell 11 points short on Tuesday.

We have Gobbato at 2,651, a little less than what the Herald has him at, but we’ll try to get that reconciled in the off-season.

Mario Gobbato in a Bellingham Herald photo from Blaine's game against Sehome

Blaine ran 41 plays last night, and Gobbato had 36 of those on four days rest (Blaine played Thursday last week).

All is not lost for Gobbato and the record book.  He’s just a junior, and furthermore Blaine will likely drop to 1A next year.

As close as Gobbato came to the record, Johnie Kirton came within 3 yards of the record in 2003.  Jonathan Stewart also broke the 2,600 barrier in 2003.

And in 8-man football, Joe Campbell rushed for 3,477 yards in 2006 for Tri-Cities Prep (1B).

After, oh, about 2 years of off-and-off work, we finally have a much improved Player Profile page.

We’ve tried to better organize and better harness player information and stats into four sections under navigation tabs—Profile, Career Summary, Career Detail, and Awards.

Under Career Summary, we now have nice charts on a player overall production, including versus opponents where available.

Please have a look.  If you notice any goofiness, let me know at statewidestats@gmail.com.

Here’s some examples to look at:

• Mario Gobbato—current 2011 rushing leader.
• Joe Campbell—3477 yards rushing for 8-man Tri Cities Prep in 2006
• Kellen Moore—Heisman Trophy contender of present, record-breaking Prosser QB of the past
• Jake Locker—A Titan, and player #4 entered into the database.
• Matthias Wilson—Washington’s season rushing record holder.
• Randy Honcoop—1972 rushing leader for Lynden.
• Manford Romero—Foster’s starting QB in 1984.

Full table below the jump.