Amid the pandemic that has swept the nation, a group of high school athletes took to the diamond in a fastpitch showcase in Keizer, OR this past weekend. The Fastpitch Northwest Championships were set up to promote some of the best talent in the Northwest area to college recruiters. However, […]
High School Sports
ASU Sun Devils Honor Tyrenn Smith
7/29/2020 (Phoenix, AZ) June 2nd the sad news broke of the death of Tyrenn Smith. Tyrenn just finished his junior year at Kentwood High school and was killed in a tragic car accident in which he was a passenger. Tyrenn had already made a hard decision and that was to […]
WIAA Divides 2020-21 Sports into 4 Seasons
7/21/2020 (Renton, WA) The WIAA Executive Board has divided up the upcoming sports schedule into 4 seasons instead of the traditional 3 in an effort to be able to offer a season for each sport in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. After much discussion and different committees along with […]
Tragedy and Heartbreak Strikes Timberline High School
7/19/2020 (Updated 7/19/20 2pm) (Thurston County, WA) A group of friends were swimming in a pond near Millersylvania State Park Saturday afternoon when tragedy struck. 18-year-old Max Aunese jumped in the water to swim across to where his friends were when he went underwater and never came back up. Aunese […]
WIAA Exec Director responds to latest Governor mandates
7/17/2020 (Renton, WA) On Thursday, July 16, Governor Jay Inslee rolled back some of the conditions for those counties in phase 3 from allowing groups up to 50 back down to groups of 10 along with banning entertainment both indoor and outdoor. This has now put a stop to all […]
Eli’s Basketball All-Decade Teams and Grand Champion!
7/9/2020 (Centralia, WA) The Eli All-Decade Hoops Special is now in the books and all 4 of our Video Programs have aired announcing all the winners. There was so much information and video clips that we had to spread it out over 4 parts. Here is a simpler re-cap and […]
Eli’s Girls Basketball All-Decade Teams; 1A, 2B & 1B
(Centralia, WA) We have named our Girls Basketball All-Decade Program. We mentioned in our last all-decade team article that Eli Sports Network will be celebrating the 10 year anniversary this coming fall. Doing these all-decade teams for their respective sports gives us a chance to look back and reflect on […]
WIAA pushes back Start of Fall Sports (Updated!)
7/7/2020 (Updated 7/8/2020) We’ve updated this story with an interview of the WIAA Executive Board President Greg Whitmore. Whitmore is also the Athletic Director for Lind-Ritzville High School. Greg Whitmore WIAA Executive Board President updates Fall Sports (Renton, WA) The WIAA Executive Board met today and made one move toward […]
Football: King’s Way Christian puts the brakes on Football
7/7/2020 There are several stories out on King’s Way Christian putting football on hold to allow their feeder programs catch up to be able to sustain a competitive High School team. The Knights are in Vancouver and play in the the 1A Trico league. Below are links to stories on […]
Eli’s Girls Basketball All-Decade Teams; 4A, 3A & 2A
(Centralia, WA) We have named our Girls Basketball All-Decade Program. We mentioned in our last all-decade team article that Eli Sports Network will be celebrating the 10 year anniversary this coming fall. Doing these all-decade teams for their respective sports gives us a chance to look back and reflect on […]
Prep Football this Fall? Conditions MUST Change…Fast!
7/3/2020 (Renton, WA) WIAA Assistant Executive Director Andy Barnes talked with ESN Friday morning for an interview segment set to air on the “Eli’s High School Report” show on the ESN/NFHS Network on Tuesday, July 7 about football. The subject of how football could take place this Fall was front […]
Eli’s Boys Basketball All-Decade Teams; 1A, 2B & 1B
(Centralia, WA) We have named our Boys Basketball All-Decade Programs. We mentioned in our last all-decade team article that Eli Sports Network will be celebrating the 10 year anniversary this coming fall. Doing these all-decade teams for their respective sports gives us a chance to look back and reflect on […]
Eli’s Boys Basketball All-Decade Teams; 4A, 3A & 2A
(Centralia, WA) We have named our Boys Basketball All-Decade Programs. We mentioned in our last all-decade team article that Eli Sports Network will be celebrating the 10 year anniversary this coming fall. Doing these all-decade teams for their respective sports gives us a chance to look back and reflect on […]
Eli’s Basketball All-Decade Teams coming soon! Is your team on the list?
6/26/2020 (Centralia, WA) The Eli Sports Network is excited to present the Pacific Sports Spa All-Decade Basketball Teams beginning Monday, June 29 at noon on the ESN/NFHS Sports Network subscription Video Channel. Up first our hosts Luke Kilgore and Josh Kaiser count down the top 5 programs for the decade […]
WIAA Bulletin: Falls Sports Status Update
6/25/2020 (Renton, WA) The Governor’s office and State Health Officials recently responded to the WIAA’s request of what guidelines will be needed to re-open sports this coming Fall. This is the link to the WIAA website where you can look at each sports guidelines to meet before competitions can begin. […]
Centralia will have Sports; School Board continues work on Budget Shortfall
6/11/2020 (Centralia, WA) The Centralia school board met again via Zoom Wednesday night for their regular board meeting. Since the last time they met where it was reported that sports was being cut from Centralia there have been several communication “fixes” so to speak. ESN talked with Assistant Principal Scott […]
Souls of Hope must not be Wasted
6/11/2020 By Paul Beattie In 5 days we lost two beautiful souls, two young men taken from their families and our society. 17-year-old Tyrenn Smith died as a passenger in a tragic car accident the night before he was to fly to re-join his Mom in a move from Kent […]
WIAA Update; Basketball Tournaments, Foundation Games and Fall Sports
6/10/2020 (Renton, WA) WIAA Executive Director Mick Hoffman joined us on our last episode of Eli’s High School Report our new podcast launched late last month. We talked with Mick on a variety of issues including a decision for this year on the State Basketball formats a new Foundation game […]
The Hurt keeps coming; Mt Si Senior suddenly passes and the passing of a Broadcast legend
6/9/2020 (Updated with link to story on Dillon) Dillon Garnes was a Senior at Mt Si High School and he is the second tragic and shocking death of a student we have to report in less than a week. On Tuesday, June 2 Tyrenn Smith from Kentwood was killed in […]
Through the Storm Clouds, Tyrenn always Shined
6/7/2020 Go-Fund-Me Link to help Tyrenn’s family (Video clips of the Balloon Memorial, an interview with his Coach Michael Bush and a Remembrance Video are included as you scroll down) (Kent, WA) 9 years ago JR Deleon rolled into an apartment complex in Kent, Washington. He was there to do […]
