By SCOTT SANDSBERRY
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC

Here's one of the most incredible average-per-game season stat lines you'll ever see: 20.4 points, 10.4 rebounds, 7.4 assists, 1.8 steals, 1.4 turnovers. That's what Brewster junior Michael Taylor has done this season. Not impressed yet? He's also hit 54 percent of his 3-point attempts and 65 percent from inside the arc. And Taylor wasn't even the Caribou Trail League's MVP. That went to teammate (and 23.5-point scorer) Hawkins Gebbers.

Some other numbers worth noting? How about Kevin Hauschild of Winlock, who has 1,354 career points coming into this week's tourney and is an all-around player. In a winner-to-state, loser-out victory over Onalaska, Hauschild had 28 points, 14 rebounds and seven assists.

Coupeville girls coach Greg Oldham is having a little deja vu about his late-night opener against Liberty Bell. In his first state-tournament game as a head coach in 1988, then at White Swan, his team drew the late game against Liberty Bell. Since this will be his last game at Coupeville (he's going to be a graduate assistant next year at the men's program at Northern State University in South Dakota), he says, "It's kind of poetic full-circle."

For the record, boys coaches Mike Thacker of Freeman and Matt Thacker of Oroville are not related. Good thing -- they're in the same bracket, and if their teams, that could be a confusing story. ... Toledo's record in the boys is a little deceiving. The Indians have three losses, but they were all to the same team -- Napavine, which found a way to overcome Toledo's 6-8 all-stater, Artem Wallace.

Colfax girls standout Katie Burns reaggravated a hamstring injury last Friday against Freeman and was scheduled to have an MRI on Tuesday. She's expected to miss Wednesday's opener and probably Thursday, and after that it'll depend on the MRI and how she's feeling.

Another girl on the recovery road is Liberty Bell point guard Katie McCurry, who's most of the way back from a sprained ankle. A phenomenal defender, McCurry had a 17-steal game last year and, in this year's opening round of district, had eight steals in 22 minutes.

Burbank's girls got a taste of how good they could be last summer, when they played in a game at Medical Lake. Although standout center Hayley Clemmens was injured in the first game, the Coyotes won the tournament anyway. "Everybody got excited," recalls point guard Whitney Idler. "We've never had a summer where everybody played, and this year everybody did."

Should Napavine and Brewster meet in the boys title game, it'll feel like a reunion for some of their players. Napavine's Tyson Sturza and Loren Bluhm played on summer team called Whatcom County Hoops, which was coached by Brewster coach Tim Taylor and included the Bears' Hawkins Gebbers and Michael Taylor. The team played high-profile tournaments in Las Vegas and Las Angeles.

Speaking of high-profile summer hoops, Nate Hendricks and Jeff Downs of Bellevue Christian played with the Friends of Hoops program, guarding people like Micah Downs and Martell Webster and Jon Brockman and playing tournaments all over the country.

You want deep? Try the Freeman boys team, on which no fewer than 10 players average more than eight minutes, and on which probably six guys are capable of dunking. They had four dunks while putting up 104 points against Newport.