Thursday, March 14, 2013

2x State Champs!

Congrats to my former high school boys basketball team on their champion status
Here is a snipet from the proceeding news article a couple days after.  




"The defending state champion Red Devils moved into the 4A state championship against a Riverton team they had split with during the conference season. Riverton was ranked second most of the year, and had done what no Wyoming team had been able to do — knock the Gillette Camels out of title contention..

While this title tilt had some back-and-forth, with one tie and one lead change, the Wolverines fought back to keep the game within striking distance, though Evanston led most of the game, after trailing 9-11 in the first quarter. The Red Devils led 23-19 at the break.

Matt Johnson, Taylor Siemers, Ben Kunz, And Jemini Lecki (underneath  Matt) 


Jemini Leckie connected for 15 points through three quarters to lead all scorers, and was the major contributor in holding Riverton’s prolific Xavier Webb, the conference scoring co-leader with Evanston’s  Matt  Johnson, at 16.3 per game, through three quarters. Webb’s barrage of deep-threes late in the game had been the daggers to the Camels’ state championship aspirations. He would hit a pair against Evanston in the fourth quarter to finish with 11, but it was point guard Kade Salisbury, after just two in the first quarter, who was solid through the last three, scoring 18 to finish with 20. Seth Quayle got into foul trouble, ending with four free throws. Leckie scored 48 points in the state tournament, with 19 against the Wolverines, to Johnson’s 52, in three state games, with Kade Lym limited by ankle injury, especially in the final game.

The two-time state champions were honored with a police and fire truck escort into town, deboarded the buses to climb aboard the fire engines for a victory parade through Evanston on Sunday, with a celebration rally that included the Lady Red Devils, the cheerleaders, and the Classics."



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