Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton

Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He discovered the grass is only greener here (it’s blue in Kentucky), so he returned to again take charge of his 1954 green Hudson Hornet that had been in storage, refilled his pipe, and is continuing his smokin’ ways. Here is what he recently told us at the Sports Paper.

 

 

Mike Craig Jr. and D.J. Hoem won the Kitsap Scratch Bowlers Organization Kitsap Medical Solutions doubles tournament held at Hi-Joy Bowl in Port Orchard. Craig Jr. and Hoem beat Brandon VanWinkle and Gary Heilman 229-203 in the championship finale. It was Craig Jr.’s first KSBO title and Hoem’s fifth. This was also the annual Toys for Tops event for KSBO. Another $525 was donated to the program, bringing KSBO’s collective contribution over 26 years it has participated in the program to $13, 518. … Hey, Big Dawg, want to play Rugby? Well, just step on the sand at Pendergast Regional Park in west Bremerton on Jan. 14 at 4 p.m. when the Kitsap Renegades begin the high school boys and girls spring season begins. At 6:30 p.m., the senior men’s/military team will start practice on the same sand. There is no experience required, and all body types and athletic skills needed. That would mean, Big Dawg that you can get your fat butt out there and get smacked around. Or you could take the easy way out and become a coach or administrative assistant, because head man Deane Shephard says they are needed too. … I see a lot of people are worried that the Saints, who are no longer the Aints, will have learned how to beat the Seachickens from that beatdown they got the first time they showed up this year at the Clink and indeed beat those Seachickens on Saturday. I don’t see that happening, but I do worry, Big Dawg, that should the Niners win against Carolina, as they should, that they will come to the Clink and end the season for the Seachickens. The Niners look real good right now. They have won seven in a row.  … Okay, Big Dawg, who are the Olympic Peninsula’s high school boy’s basketball powers? C’mon, don’t hesitate, answer me.  If you had to rank them top to bottom it would look like this: 1. Bainbridge. 2. South Kitsap. 3. Bremerton. 4. Central Kitsap. 5. North Kitsap. 6. Olympic. 7. Port Angeles. 8. Sequim. 9. Kingston. 10. Port Townsend. 11. North Mason. 12. Klahowya. 13. Chimacum. 14. Crosspoint Academy.  … Gig Harbor, which is coached by former North Mason star (and former Olympic College men’s coach) Billy Landram is 6-5, but should be 8-3. They were up by 15 points on Bremerton and lost by eight and they lost by one point to Utah’s Copper Hill in the championship game of the Surf ‘n Slam tournament in San Diego. Gig Harbor scored with three seconds left to take a one-point lead against Copper Hill and then a Tides’ player was called for a blocking foul with .8 seconds left. The Copper Hill player hit both free throws to win the game. Copper Hill beat Bainbridge by one point in the semifinals, so it would appear that Gig Harbor is equal with the Spartans, who appear to have one of the better 3A teams in the state. Nick Edens, who played for Bainbridge, is now playing for Gig Harbor. Edens is a 6-foot-7 senior. Gig Harbor is 3-1 in the 4A Narrows League. The strange thing about Gig Harbor’s lost to Bremerton is that Bremerton was beaten by Toledo and Vashon in the SunDome Shootout in Yakima.  Toledo, which is 8-0, and Vashon, 6-3, are both class 1A schools while Bremerton is 2A.