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Callan Wilkins of Goldendale
goes up for a shot Saturday against Napavine in the third-place game of
the Class 1A boys state tournament.
BRIAN FITZGERALD/
Yakima Herald-Republic |
Napavine Pulls Out Win for Third
Despite loss, Timberwolves pleased with season, state appearance
By
ROGER UNDERWOOD
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
Perspective can be elusive.
Especially for high-schoolers. Especially when they’ve just lost.
But Keegan Cook seemed to have a grip on matters Saturday, even though he’d
have much rather been on the other end of Goldendale’s 59-54 Class 1A state
tournament loss to Napavine.
“I’m not disappointed at all,” he said after hoisting the Timberwolves’
sixth-place trophy before a sizable throng of Goldendale fans in the Yakima
Valley SunDome. “My goal all along, once we got here, was to be playing on
Saturday. And that’s what we did.”
Despite losing its last two games, there was many more positives than
negatives about this team in this tournament.
First, even though it was the Yakima Valley district’s fourth and final
seed, it was the only one to win a trophy.
And the Timberwolves for the most part combined effort with efficiency,
wowing fans with two superlative winning performances before running into
once-beaten Seattle Christian in Friday night’s semifinals. The extreme
amount of energy spent in that battle no doubt took its toll against
Napavine.
“I think we played our best basketball here,” Cook said, “but we were
definitely tired today. We had a tough game last night, and it took a lot
out of us.”
Enough so that coach Mike Carlquist kidded afterward that perhaps his team
would have been better served by taking a different tact.
“Maybe we should have taken last night off and gone to a movie,” he said.
Nonetheless, it was a banner Goldendale season.
The Timberwolves finished 16-12 and won the 11th trophy in their 14 Class 1A
state appearances. And Cook put on a performance that his community members
will fondly recall for years.
The 6-foot-3 senior totaled 21 points, four rebounds and five assists,
capping what clearly was one of the top individual efforts of the
tournament.
“Keegan Cook,” Carlquist said, shaking his head in wonder. “He’s like
family. His dad called me when Keegan was in third grade and asked if he
could get into basketball camp a year early. And he’s, like, the perfect
example for all the little kids in Goldendale to look up to.”
Sophomore Callan Wilkins, who also had a stellar tournament, added 13 points
and Cody Latimer had 11 points and six rebounds.
But Napavine, coached by ex-Central Washington University assistant Rex
Stanley, outshot (50 percent to 41) and outrebounded (32-23) the
Timberwolves en route to running its record to 23-4.
Tyson Sturza was the Tigers’ hottest shooter with 18 points, making 4 of 5
3-pointers. Loren Bluhm added 12 points and eight rebounds.
Goldendale, which trailed most of the first half, staged a Cook-led 15-4 run
for a 41-35 lead with 36 seconds left in the third quarter.
But Napavine, spurred by successive 3-balls from Sturza, scored 16 of the
next 22 points for a 51-45 cushion with 3:51 left in the game. And by that
time Cook, Wilkins and company were out of gas.
“We’re not very big, so we have to be very active in order to rebound,”
Carlquist said. “Then again, we didn’t even include state in our first
meeting of the year. We didn’t even talk about it. It was just a great
season with a great group of kids.
“I should have payed the school district to let me coach.”
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Napavine -- Godsey 4-7 1-3 10, Wilson 0-0 0-0 0, Morris 1-7 3-4 6,
Sturza 7-11 0-0 18, Hieronymus 2-3 1-3 5, La. Bluhm 2-4 2-3 6, Lo.
Bluhm 4-9 4-6 12, Murphy 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 21-42 11-19 59. |
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Goldendale -- MacRae 0-0 0-0 0, Wilkins 4-13 2-3 13, Vogt 0-2 1-2
1, Chipman 1-2 1-2 3, Villamar 0-0 0-0 0, Cook 8-20 5-6 21, Antone 0-0
0-0 0, Latimer 5-9 0-0 11, Schwab 2-3 1-1 5. Totals 20-49 10-14 54. |
| Napavine |
12 |
15 |
11 |
21 |
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59 |
| Goldendale |
11 |
13 |
17 |
13 |
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54 |
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3-point goals--N 6-15 (Sturza 4-5, Godsey 1-3, Morris 1-6, La. Bluhm
0-1), G 4-14 (Wilkins 3-8, Latimer 1-2, Cook 0-4). Rebounds--N 32 (La.
Bluhm 9, Lo. Bluhm 8), G 23 (Latimer 6, Villamar 6). Assists--N 15 (Godsey
7), G 14 (Cook 5, Chipman 4). Steals--N 3 (Godsey 3), G 6 (Wilkins 2,
Chipman 2). Blocked shots--N 2, G 1. Fouled out--None. Total fouls--N
17, G 18. Technical fouls--None. Turnovers--N 13, G 6. |
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Tourney Bracket
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Boys tournament
Other Games
Saturday
::
Bellevue
Christian 61, Kettle Falls 48
:: King's 71,
Freeman 42
:: Napavine
59, Goldendale 54
:: Brewster
69, Seattle Christian 44
Friday
::
Bellevue
Christian 47, Charles Wright 36
:: Kettle
Falls 67, Orcas Island 39
:: King's 69,
Zillah 50
:: Freeman 57,
Winlock 52
:: Brewster
74, Napavine 39
:: Seattle
Christian 66, Goldendale 54
Thursday
:: Bellevue
Christian 73, North Beach 40
:: Charles
Wright 33, River View 27
:: Orcas
Island 57, White Swan 54
:: Kettle
Falls 53, La Conner 50
:: Brewster
53, Zillah 26
:: Napavine
53, King's 46
:: Goldendale
58, Winlock 48
:: Seattle
Christian 56, Freeman 41
Wednesday
::
Brewster 83,
North Beach 54
:: Zillah 42,
Bellevue Christian 41
:: King's 51,
River View 35
:: Napavine 48,
Charles Wright 33
:: Goldendale
62, Orcas Island 31
:: Winlock 54,
White Swan 51
:: Seattle
Christian 63, Kettle Falls 48
:: Freeman 51,
La Conner 43
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