Allan Steele

In just their second year, the Spud Kings are a playoff team.

Meet the best of the best. This season’s all-state basketball picks, selected by coaches and compiled by the Idaho Statesman, honors Idaho’s top players with area talent well represented.

Fastbreak! Ike Sutton with the ball out in front speeding toward the basket. He goes in for the layup, but wait! Sutton lobs the ball off the backboard and Isaac

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The Idaho Falls Bandits, who have become the much-celebrated local Boys of Summer after winning two American Legion World Series titles and playing in a third championship game over the

Dax Whitney had already signed with Oregon State before the high school season, so his baseball future was set.

-Tarik Allen, Hillcrest

State champion Sugar-Salem landed five players on the 3A All-State first team and Brady Gardner was named Coach of the Year in the All-Idaho list released Wednesday.

Max Traynor and Katie Woodhouse have been friends since seventh grade and have been playing competitive tennis together almost as long.

North Fremont coach Ericka Robertson was named 2A state softball coach of the year after leading the Huskies to the state tournament and Thunder Ridge’s two-way standout Kaliann Scoresby was