On an evening the Evergreen Plainsmen celebrated its greatest workforce in program historical past, it obtained its greatest win of the season to maintain its postseason hopes alive with two 3A Larger St. Helens League video games remaining.
Friday, Evergreen topped 3A GSHL-leader Mountain View, 58-56, behind Dez Daniel’s 19 factors — two shy of reaching 1,000 for his profession. At halftime, this system welcomed its 1995 undefeated state championship workforce with an prolonged halftime ceremony.
That 12 months, the Plainsmen went 26-0 and topped Sammamish in time beyond regulation at Seattle’s Kingdome for the Class AAA title, the state’s largest classification on the time. The workforce led the state in scoring at 75 factors per recreation, and in addition gained the tutorial state championship. Solely a season earlier in 1994, Evergreen made its first-ever state match look.
Most gamers and coaches from the championship workforce attended Friday’s occasion. Retired head coach John Triplett, now dwelling in Arizona, addressed the gang at halftime.
“I’m just proud to be part of what they were doing,” he mentioned, “and more importantly, we represented Evergreen High School and the surrounding community. … We were proud to represent EHS and proud to be part of anything that had to do with Evergreen High School.”
The ceremony concluded by unveiling a championship banner spearheaded by present Evergreen coach Brett Henry. Evergreen’s Fieldhouse acknowledges all workforce and particular person state champions within the faculty’s historical past within the gymnasium’s northwest nook, however Henry wished to raised showcase the 1995 workforce’s accomplishment.
“I saw this as a perfect opportunity to fix that,” Henry mentioned, “and make sure that it is on full display. The idea is that we want to honor every state championship team (across all sports) with a banner going forward, but this is hopefully to set it off.”
Basketball league champs emerge
Heading into the ultimate week of the basketball common season and three groups have already secured the No. 1 seed from their leagues into the playoffs.
The Camas boys (4A Larger St. Helens League), Mountain View ladies (3A GSHL) and Seton Catholic ladies (1A Trico League) have secured prime spots to bi-district and district playoffs.
Union ladies (4A GSHL) and Seton Catholic boys (1A Trico) are on the cusp.
After back-to-back wins over rival Camas, the Union ladies can clinch the No. 1 seed to the 4A bi-district match with a win Tuesday over Battle Floor.
The Seton Catholic boys have three video games scheduled this week. If the Cougars win a type of video games, they may safe the No. 1 seed to the 1A district match.
High seeds for different leagues possible will come right down to a deciding recreation this week.
The 3A GSHL boys race shall be decided Tuesday when Prairie (5-1 3A GSHL) hosts Mountain View (5-2). The winner would be the No. 1 seed to the bi-district, and the loser will get the No. 2 spot.
The 2A GSHL boys race possible will come right down to Friday’s matchup when Mark Morris (10-2) performs at R.A. Lengthy (11-1).
And all indicators level to the 2A GSHL ladies title being selected Thursday when Woodland (11-1) performs at Columbia River (11-1).
In fact, all of that is depending on the climate not throwing off the schedule this week.