12/21/2020 Regardless of when the boys basketball season can resume this school year the Puyallup Vikings will be looking for a new Head boys basketball Coach as current coach Scott Campbell announced his resignation today. Scorebook Live’s Todd Milles has the full story and you can read it here. […]
Basketball
The Burner: Malachi Flynn, Jaden McDaniels headline 2020 NBA Draft prospects with Washington high school basketball ties
11/16/2020 If you’re itching for some high school basketball, you’re going to have to wait until at least January for any action on the hardwood. While you wait, Todd Milles at Scorebook Live takes a look at the 2020 NBA draft prospects with Washington high school basketball ties. Read Todd’s […]
Legendary Coach Don Kruse the Consummate Assistant will be missed
9/22/2020 Long Time Assistant Coach Don Kruse Succumbs to Stroke (Tumwater, WA) This is very personal and I am not even going to pretend that this is an unbiased story with simple facts it is personal not only to me but literally thousands who were touched by a very special […]
Hall of Fame basketball coach Ed Pepple passes away
9/14/2020 The state lost one of the greats today, when Ed Pepple passed away due to cancer. Pepple coached the Mercer Island High School basketball team for 42 years. In his tremendous tenure at MIHS, Pepple accumulated 958 wins along with 4 state titles before retiring in 2009. His Championships […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
WIAA Proposing Drastic Changes to State Basketball Tournaments
(Renton, WA) The WIAA is looking at making some drastic changes to the State Basketball Tournament format and have offered up 3 proposals and are now looking for feedback from coaches, athletes and the public. The changes are being sought for several reasons budget, giving players and fans a better […]
ESN’s Re-Live the Maddness Coming Soon!
4/2/20 (Centralia, WA) The Eli Sports Network will begin our own version of “Re-Live the Maddness” a series of Washington State Basketball highlight shows. Our National Network partner the NFHS has rolled out the National Re-Live the Maddness with highlights and reminders of terrific basketball games that did get played […]
ELI’S ALL TOURNAMENT TEAMS FROM THE Tacoma Dome(4A, 3A)
(Tacoma, WA) Here are our selections for the Eli Sports All-Tournament teams. This is after we have had time to reflect, look at stats and input from the ABC Jam staff who were at the tournament calling games. Our selections are based solely on the tournament games and only from […]
Eli’s All Tournament Teams from the Spokane Arena (2B, 1B)
(Spokane, WA) Here are our selections for the Eli Sports All-Tournament teams. This is after we have had time to reflect, look at stats and impacts from all of the ESN staff at the tournament calling games. Our selections are based solely on the tournament games and only from teams […]
Eli’s All-Tournament Teams from the Yakima SunDome (2A & 1A)
3/11/20 (Yakima, WA) Here are our selections for the Eli Sports All-Tournament teams. This is after we have had time to reflect, look at stats and impacts from all of the ESN staff at the tournament calling games. Our selections are based solely on the tournament games and only from […]
STATE B: Photo Highlights from Day #3 in Spokane
STATE B: Photo Highlights from Day #2 in Spokane
WIAA Hardwood Classic: Yakima SunDome 2A and 1A Full Tourney Coverage
(Yakima, WA) WIAA Tournament Central Link Day 4 Championship Saturday All Championship Stories written by Sandy Ringer for Eli Sports 1A Boys Championship Game King’s 70, Lynden Christian 67 (OT) Box Score Link Sophomore Tyler Linhardt was willing to carry the load to lead the 14th-seeded Knights to the championship […]
