Stickney, Vikings make KNG squad

North Kitsap Vikings’ Carlos Portillo, Steven Prevost and Marc Anderson each qualified for the Kitsap Newspaper Group’s Spring All-Kitsap County boys’ soccer team, and head coach Pat Stickney was selected as Coach of the Year.

North Kitsap Vikings’ Carlos Portillo, Steven Prevost and Marc Anderson each qualified for the Kitsap Newspaper Group’s Spring All-Kitsap County boys’ soccer team, and head coach Pat Stickney was selected as Coach of the Year.

Selected annually by the sports writers of the Herald, Central Kitsap Reporter and Port Orchard Independent, the complete list below highlights the county’s most lethal strikers, goalies and defenders.

The KNG’s All-Kitsap baseball team will be listed in the June 15 edition of the Herald and its All-Kitsap fastpitch team June 18.

The complete list is below:

Forward – Pat Perkins, Bremerton: Perkins was the Bremerton leader, scoring 17 goals and adding five assists. His total points (22) accounted for 80 percent of Bremerton’s offense this season.

F – Kyle Stroh, Central Kitsap: Stroh scored 11 goals and had three assists for CK, including both of the goals in the Cougs’ narrow playoff loss.

Mid-fielder – Carlos Portillo, North Kitsap: Portillo was one of the most potent scorers in the Narrows, amassing 17 goals in the season for 36 total points. Despite a laser of a shot and lightning quickness, coach Pat Stickney said it’s his ball-handling skills that he uses to baffle opponents and find holes in the defense.

“It’s a total mastery of the ball,” he said. “He can distribute from either foot and just place it on the goal nicely with pin-point accuracy.”

MF – Josh Lane, Klahowya: Lane scored just six goals and four assists for the Eagles, but it was his outstanding play-making ability that made him an asset to the team and the Nisqually League’s MVP this season.

MF – Marius Kjellevold, Central Kitsap: The Norwegian exchange student led CK to the postseason behind his team-leading 12 goals.

MF – Corey Kelmel, South Kitsap: Quick on his feet and even better with the ball, the Wolves’ Kelmel was a major factor in South returning to the state playoffs.

F – Steven Prevost, North Kitsap: Prevost racked up nine goals and six assists for 24 points in North Kitsap’s first season with a playoff berth in a number of years.

“He’s got speed, tenacity and a rocket shot with either foot,” coach Stickney said of the junior. “He just has a very complete game.”

Defender – Elias Cook, Klahowya: Cook was another key cog in the Eagles’ machine this season, scoring five goals and adding two assists.

D – Alex May, South Kitsap: Just a sophomore, May may have been the best defender on a team loaded with great defenders — someone South can build around next year.

D – Marc Anderson, North Kitsap: The Viking captain was moved halfway through the season to the backfield to bolster the defense. Clearly it paid off — the Vikings went from a .500 team to one that made the Narrows playoffs. What makes Anderson special, however, is what he does on the field as well as off, coach Stickney said.

“It’s his tenacity of play, Stickney said. “He’s 100 percent at all times. He leads by example and it showed in every part of his game.”

Goal keeper – Nick Boone, South Kitsap: Boone had a great senior season, posting seven shutouts while allowing just 16 goals in 17 games.

Coach – Pat Stickney, North Kitsap: Stickney, in his second year as coach, took a team verging on complacency — the Vikings only won two games the year before he took over — and put them in the playoffs for the first time since anyone can remember. But aside from the win/loss column, it is his desire to teach the next generation of soccer players that makes the sport his passion.

“This is where my love is,” he said. “I’ve always tried to coach tomorrow — teach the skills today and put in a quality of touch and a love for the game they can take with them.”

Honorable Mention:

Brett Pendt, Central Kitsap: Pendt was great at finding his open teammates, leading the team with five assists.

Charlie Giles, Central Kitsap: coach Charles Frohman attributed much of the Cougs’ defense to the play of Giles.

Shawn Flewell, Olympic: The Olympic forward kept the Trojans in the playoff hunt in a closely contested Bridge Division race this season, in part to his team-leading five assists.

Cody Clark, Olympic: The speedy Clark was the centerpiece of the Trojans strike-fast offense for most of the season — until an injury ended his year early.

Tyler Penn, South Kitsap: Penn led the Wolves in total points and was always a force in the middle and could score quickly.

Jason Hippe, Klahowya: Hippe’s physical, no-holding-back defensive attitude helped the Eagles to a first-place tie in the Nisqually League.

Bryce Wick, Klahowya: Wick was touted by coach Troy Oelschlager as “by far the best keeper we’ve had.”

Chris Lewis, South Kitsap: Missed much of the second half of the season with an ankle injury and then a mystery illness but was instrumental in the Wolves stellar defense.

Kyle Johnson, Bremerton: A perfect compliment to Perkins, Johnson scored six goals and led the Knights with seven assists.

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