By Tim Clinton

SPORTS EDITOR

 

High schools

Boys basketball

Mount Rainier visits Puyallup for a 7 p.m. Wednesday playoff game that is loser out.

 

Girls basketball

Foster travels to Port Angeles for 5 p.m. Wednesday playoff action and Highline visits Steilacoom at 7 p.m.

 

Boys diving

State action takes place Thursday at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.

Class 3A competition starts off the day at 8:30 a.m., followed by the 4A at 1 p.m. and the 1A/2A at 5:30 p.m.

 

Boys swimming

Class 3A state preliminaries get underway at 8:45 a.m. Friday at the Aquatic Center with the Class 4A action at 1:30 p.m. and the 1A/2A at 6:15 p.m.

Finals open with 3A action at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and the 4A at 1:15 p.m.

Class 1A/2A finals start at 6 p.m.

 

Wrestling

State competition for girls and boys takes place this Friday and Saturday at the Tacoma Dome.

The first session runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and the second from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Championship finals start at 3 p.m. Saturday.

 

Gymnastics

Mount Rainier hosts regional action Thursday with sessions at 8 a.m. and noon.

 

Flag football

Highline plays a twin bill at Auburn Saturday, taking on Auburn Mountainview at 11 a.m. and Auburn at noon.

Evergreen meets Auburn-Riverside in a noon Saturday game at Highline Memorial ahead of a 1 p.m. clash with Mount Rainier.

 

Pros

Kraken

Seattle pays a 4 p.m. Thursday visit to the Boston Bruins before coming home to the Climate Pledge Arena to battle the Detroit Red Wings at 12:30 p.m. Monday.

Thursday's action will be televised on ROOT Sports Northwest and Monday's on ESPN.

 

Thunderbirds

Seattle hosts Wenatchee for a 7 p.m. Wednesday game at the Showare Center in Kent and visits Everett at 6:05 p.m. Saturday at the Angel of the Winds Arena.

The Thunderbirds visit Prince George at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday.

 

Silvertips

Everett goes over to Wenatchee for 7 p.m. Friday action before hosting Seattle at 6:05 p.m. Saturday and Portland at 4:05 p.m. Sunday.

 

Stars

Tacoma's indoor soccer team visits the Dallas Sidekicks at 5 p.m. Thursday and the Monterrey Flash at 1:35 p.m. Sunday.

 

Colleges

Husky men

Washington entertains Stanford at 6 p.m. Thursday on ESPN2 and California at 5 p.m. Saturday on the Pac-12 network.

 

Cougar men

Washington State hosts California at 7 p.m. Thursday and Stanford at 3 p.m. Saturday with both on the Pac-12 network.

 

Husky women

The UW visits Arizona State for a 5 p.m. Friday game and Arizona for 11 a.m. Sunday action with both carried on Pac-12AZ.

 

Cougar women

WSU is at Arizona with a 5 p.m. Friday start and at Arizona State at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Both games can be seen on Pac-12WA.

 

Husky baseball

Washington opens with three games in California at Long Beach State, playing at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.

ESPN+ has Friday and Sunday's games.

 

Husky softball

The Huskies are in Florida for their next six games.

They will be in Clearwater playing Kentucky at 6:30 a.m. Friday, Minnesota at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Wisconsin at 7 a.m. Saturday, Louisiana State at 2 p.m. Saturday and North Carolina at 6:30 a.m. Sunday.

They go to Fort Myers to play Florida Gulf Coast at 2 p.m. Tuesday.

All of the Friday and Saturday actíon is on ESPN+.