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We will have live video here on the blog as Garfield point guard Tony Wroten Jr. makes his college choice Thursday at 3 p.m. The link to the video will be here as soon as the stream goes live.

Wroten said he’s created an inventive way to make his announcement, but wouldn’t give away any of the details. He will choose between a list of five schools that includes Washington, Louisville, Villanova, Connecticut and Seattle University.

I will be tweeting live from the announcement @masonkelley.

Juanita athletic director Tim Crowder announced Thursday the school hired Sherman Leach to coach baseball.

Leach was most recently as the JV coach at Inglemoor. He has ties to the Kirkland community, coaching numerous summer baseball and hockey teams in the area. His three kids all graduated from Juanita and participated in the school’s athletic programs.

“We are excited about the direction that his leadership will move this baseball program,” Crowder said in an e-mail.

TImes reporter Mason Kelley will be providing updates throughout Friday’s big KingCo league matchup.

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Kylie Huerta, who helped Kentwood win the 2008-09 Class 4A state girls basketball championship as a sophomore, has made an oral commitment to play at Eastern.

“I took my unofficial visit there and just really loved it,” the 5-foot-2 guard said Tuesday evening.

Huerta averaged 19 points, 4 assists and 3.4 assists as a junior last season as Kentwood reached the 2010 state quarterfinals, where they lost to Mead of Spokane. She was voted the co-MVP of he South Puget Sound League 4A North Division with Mercedes Wetmore, who led Auburn Riverside to the state title and is now at Washington. Both Huerta and Wetmore were on the 2010 Star Times All-Area team.

Huerta played with the Spokane Stars this past summer and said she considers Spokane a second home now. Eastern is only about 10 minutes away.

Kentwood returns all but one starter from the 2009-10 team and is expected to be among the contenders for the 4A state title.

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Stadium High School, with its grand architecture and bay views, is one of the most picturesque high schools in Washington.

ESPN RISE last month designated Stadium Bowl as having “the best view on and off the field” of any high school football venue in the country.

So it will be under that backdrop that Stadium Bowl will celebrates its 100th birthday Friday night when the host Tigers (1-1) play Bellarmine Prep (2-0) in what is being termed the “Centennial Game.”

It’s a celebration much bigger than just a football game with planning that started in April.

There will be a parade along St. Helens Avenue in Tacoma Friday and pancake breakfast Saturday morning, among other special things planned.

Northwest Harvest and the Centennial Foundation also are holding an ambitious food collection drive with the hopes of collecting 1 million pounds of food, which would break a world record, according to Jim Catalinich, Stadium athletic director and 1970 graduate of the school.

The emphasis is on canned goods. “In particular, they emphasize peanut butter,” Catalanich said.

The 7 p.m. game itself has intrigue in that Stadium hasn’t beaten Bellarmine Prep since 1968.

“There’s a lot of pressure on Bellarmine,” said Bishop Blanchet football coach Aaron Maul, a former Bellarmine Prep quarterback. “Stadium is freed up to go out and play as hard as they can and see what happens.”

After the game, two movies will be played inside Stadium Bowl: the 1986 comedy, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” and the 1999 romantic comedy, “10 Things I Hate About You.” The latter movie was filmed inside, around and even on the roof at Stadium.

Catalinich said his black Honda is in the background of parking lots scenes. He also plays a track coach in the background of a scene filmed in Stadium Bowl.

“They had me standing with a stopwatch and polyester coaching shorts,” Catalinich said. “I was embarrassed.”

The centennial celebration will even include three presidential actors re-enacting the exact speeches delivered by former U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Warren Harding and Woodrow Wilson in Stadium Bowl.

Calalinich said he takes pride in his job working at the unique high school he attended. He’ll be able to catch his breath when this weekend’s festivities are over.

“I’m looking forward to Saturday night when I can sleep,” Catalinich said.

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