The White River High baseball squad captured an 11-1 nonleague victory Saturday on its home diamond.
On White River High’s baseball diamond, the future is looking bright for a team heavy with senior talent.
White River’s fastpitch squad is out to prove it should not be taken lightly this season.
Although there will be some holes to fill in the lineup of the Enumclaw High girls fastpitch squad that took fifth in the state last season with a 18-7 record overall, the sluggers should be back to terrorize the South Puget Sound League 3A.
Wednesday, March 10 marks the beginning of the four-day Class 3A state tournament at the Tacoma Dome and begins the Hornets’ goal of again bringing home some state hardware.
In the semifinal round of the West Central District boys basketball tournament Tuesday night, Enumclaw High registered a 56-43 conquest over the feisty Foster High Bulldogs.
There is a catchphrase in sports that professes, “Offense sells tickets, defense wins games.”
Bill Hawk successfully coached the Enumclaw High boys basketball team in the 1980s and ‘90s and for two years headed up the White River boys basketball program.
During the first few minutes of Friday’s subdistrict basketball game, the No. 1-ranked Enumclaw High Hornets momentarily forgot their identity and tried to compete in a track meet instead of playing their productive, patient style against the fleet-footed No. 1 seed out of the Seamount League, 12-4 Kennedy Catholic.
After clinching its second consecutive South Puget Sound League 3A title with a 71-43 drubbing of a young but spunky Enumclaw bunch Friday night, the 14-2 White River girls basketball squad was named the SPSL 3A’s No. 1 seed for its subdistrict rendezvous with the Seamount League’s top group – the undefeated Kennedy Catholic crew – Friday beginning 7:30 p.m. at Foster High.
The No. 1-ranked Class 3A boys basketball squad Enumclaw High sprinkled a little more sugar on its already sweet 16 consecutive South Puget Sound League 3A victory Friday night before a packed house at White River as it relished going undefeated, 20-0, on the league campaign and in topping its cross-river nemesis White River 75-46.
The Enumclaw High boys basketball squad is still ranked No. 1 in the state with an untarnished 14-0 South Puget Sound League 3A mark and clinched its third straight SPSL 3A title Thursday night with a dramatic 44-43 road victory over its nearest competition, the Lakes Lancers.
The Enumclaw High girls basketball bunch fell to 2-12 on the nearly-completed season when they visited Auburn Mountainview Feb. 2 and lost 61-29.
