Washougal | Greater St. Helens League Football

November 21, 2011

4A/3A/2A GSHL Statistical Leaders (Through Week 12, “Quarterfinals”)

The Camas trio of Jonathan Warner (#1) John Payne (#3) and Zack Marshall (#25) has put up some pretty nice offensive numbers for the Papermkers this season. The three have combined for 2,355 yards from scrimmage and 36 touchdowns helping Camas to an 11-1 record and a berth in the 3A Semifinals.

BEST payday loans

Here are the Offensive Statistical Leaders for the entire Greater St. Helens League 4A/3A/2A as well as each league on their own.

We understand that not all of the GSHL teams are still playing, however the teams that are playing are still accumulating stats that go towards their season totals.

Here are your final regular season (weeks 1-10) leaders for the GSHL

Greater St. Helens League All Level Leaders
Rushing: Parker Henry (Skyview) 169-1667 24TD
Receiving: Jesse Zalk (Prairie) 46-815 8TD
Passing: Colin Seitz (Prairie) 159/245 2243 28TD 6INT

Greater St. Helens League 4A
Rushing: Parker Henry (Skyview) 169-1667 24TD
Receiving: E’Lon Mack (Heritage) 48-617 6TD
Passing: Kieran McDonagh (Skyview) 106/158 1698 18TD 2INT

Greater St. Helens League 3A
Rushing: Remick Kawawaki (Columbia River) 121-1070 12TD
Receiving: Jesse Zalk (Prairie) 46-815 8TD
Passing: Colin Seitz (Prairie) 159/245 2243 28TD 6INT

Greater St. Helens League 2A
Rushing: Cy Whitmire (Woodland) 170-1281 14TD
Receiving: Beau Sparks (Hockinson) 31-524 6TD
Passing: Ryan Peerboom (R. A. Long) 94-198 1145 10TD 9INT

Greater St. Helens League All Level Leaders

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.statewidestats.com/embedjs.php?requestor=www.gshlfootball.com&context=group&id=2&season=2011&week=1-12&method=stream) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
in /home/content/20/9380820/html/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 36

Greater St. Helens League 4A Leaders

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.statewidestats.com/embedjs.php?requestor=www.gshlfootball.com&context=group&id=4&season=2011&week=1-12&limit=5&method=stream) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
in /home/content/20/9380820/html/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 47

Greater St. Helens League 3A Leaders

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.statewidestats.com/embedjs.php?requestor=www.gshlfootball.com&context=group&id=5&season=2011&week=1-12&limit=5&method=stream) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
in /home/content/20/9380820/html/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 56

Greater St. Helens League 2A Leaders

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.statewidestats.com/embedjs.php?requestor=www.gshlfootball.com&context=group&id=6&season=2011&week=1-12&limit=5&method=stream) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
in /home/content/20/9380820/html/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 66

November 19, 2011

Quarterfinals LIVE Saturday Game Updates

Saturday, November 19th
Time	Matchup	Stadium	live in game updates
2:00 pm	Woodinville 21 Union 9 FINAL	Pop Keeney	live in-game twitter updates (LISTEN ONLINE)
4:00 pm	Skyview 42 Bell. Prep 17 FINAL	Kiggins Bowl	live in-game twitter updates
5:00 pm	Camas 40 Meadowdale 0 FINAL	Doc Harris Stadium	live in-game twitter updates

November 18, 2011
No. 1 Bellevue At No. 2 Lakes LIVE Video On WashingtonPreps.com

No. 1 Bellevue travels to Harry Lang Stadium to take on No. 2 Lakes in the WIAA 3A Quarterfinals. Both Lakes and Bellevue are nationally ranked high school football teams.

Our man Dirk Knudesn has hooked us all up and the Bellevue at Lakes game will be LIVE streaming on WashingtonPreps.com.

Knudesn is teaming up with the boys from Tri Cities based Washington Sport Network to deliver the big game for FREE online tonight.

Kickoff time is 7:30 p.m.

Simply click on over to WashingtonPreps.com and do a little scouting of a who Camas could play in the state title game if the Papermkaes can win their next 2 games.

I know this is not a GSHL game, but as we all know, the GSHL is plenty familiar with both Lakes and Bellevue.
- 2011 – Lakes defeated Evergreen 49-7
- 2010 – Lakes defeated Camas 27-24 OT in the 3A Quarterfinals
- 2010 – Lakes defeated Evergreen 54-14
- 2010 – Bellevue defeated union 20-6 in the Emerald City Kickoff Classic
- 2009 – Bellevue defeated Union 19-13 in the 3A Semifinals
- 2008 – Bellevue defeated Union 35-6 in hte 3A Finals
- 2008 – Union defeated Lakes 28-7 in the 3A Semifinals

3 GSHL Teams In The Quarterfinals Not Historical But Still Significant

Skyview defeated Union 44-27 at Kiggins Bowl in week 9 to win the 4A Greater St. Helens League title. The Storm and Titans are still both alive in the 4A Quarterfinals and could face each other again on December 3rd in the Tacoma Dome for the WIAA 4A Sate Championship. Photo by Dave Scott

As sports fans we are always looking for something that has never happened before. You know what I mean. “That’s the first time that has ever happened” It does not matter what it is, it could be first time a player threw 8 touchdowns in a single game, or it could be the first time a player has thrown a touchdown in the 3rd quarter when his team was down 14 points for 3 weeks in a row. Trust me, we are always looking.

That brings me to this weekends WIAA Quarterfinals and the Greater St. Helens League.

On Saturday we will have 3 GSHL football teams playing for a ticket to the Semifinals.

Is this the first time the GSHL has had 3 teams in the Quarterfinals in the same season? Ah, no. You don’t have to go that far back to get that, just 2 years ago in 2009, Skyview, Union and Mark Morris all reached the Quarters.

Is this the first time we have had 2 Quarterfinals games at home? Ah, no. Same year, 2009 both Skyview and Union hosted Quarterfinals.

Is this the first time we have had 2 teams for the same classification make the Quarterfinals? Ah, no. In 1983 both Kelso and Mark Morris of the AA St. Helens Conference played in the Quarters. Although that season, Kelso, the league champs played on the road while Mark Morris the league runner up played at home. Strange.

Is it the first time a school is in their 3rd Quarterfinals in a 4 year span (Union)? Ah, no. Kelso made 3 straight from 1986-1988.

But never fear, there are a couple firsts for the GSHL this weekend.
- First time 2 4A (or old AAA) teams are in the Quarters
- First time 3 GSHL teams from Clark County are in the Quarters
So while this is not a weekend of firsts, it’s still great to see the GSHL trending in the right direction.

4A Quarters

Union (9-2) at #2 Woodinville (11-0)
Date: Saturday
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Stadium: Pop Keeney Stadium
Can’t Make it?: Live updates, Radio

4A Quarters

#1 Bellarmine Prep (11-0) at #9 Skyview (9-2)
Date: Saturday
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Stadium: Kiggins Bowl
Can’t Make it?: Live updates

3A Quarters

#6 Meadowdale (11-0) at #5 Camas (10-1)
Date: Saturday
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Stadium: Doc Harris Stadium
Can’t Make it?: Live updates

Dating back to 1999, the GSHL has placed now 19 schools in the Quarterfinals, an average of 1.58 over the last 12 seasons. There has been multiple teams represented in 5 of the 12 years and only 2 years (2005 and 2007) where no GSHL team advanced to the Quarterfinals.

That’s quite a bit different than the decade which preceded this current run of greater success. From 1989-1998 the GSHL only had 3 teams advance, (Prairie ’89, Kelso ’94 and Evergreen ’95) with Evergreen being the only one of those to win their Quarterfinals game.

That down decade was right on the heals of a pretty nice run where from 1983-1988 the GSHL had 2 teams each year 5 of the 6 seasons and never went without a GSHL representative.

Current Camas head Coach Jon Eagle has been coaching in the GSHL since the mid 1980′s and has seen the ups and downs of the league. When Eagle took over as the Evergreen head coach in 1988 it was the norm for multiple teams to reach the Quarters, but then it quickly dried up. Were the teams just not as good for that decade? Eagle does not think so.

“We were 8-1 in 1989 and didn’t go to the playoffs,” said Eagle. “The new WIAA format that lets leagues share berths is better.”

He is referring to the addition of the week 10 Preliminary round games which were added in 1997. Prior to that the GSHL would only get 1 team from each classification some years, even though at times the AAA GSHL had up to 10 teams.

“That allows more good teams in the playoffs,” Eagle added. “More teams, more chances.”

Also in 1997 the WIAA split up the AA and AAA levels and made the current 2A, 3A and 4A levels. Imagine a 10 team GSHL that included Camas, Skyview and Union and only 1 team made the round of 16. No thanks, we have been there and done that.

However Eagle does not think that’s the only reason for the leagues recent success.

“CCYF. Period,” said Eagle referring to Clark County Youth Football the areas youth football league that has been around since 1983 and has grown from 1 and approximately 20 players team way back then to well over 50 teams and 1500+ players each and every year serving 2nd through 8th graders.

“More players playing earlier has allowed us to compete at the statewide level,” Eagle added.

Current Prairie head coach Terry Hyde was a co-founder of the league back in 1983 and currently serves as the leagues President. He has stated that that was one of the goals of the league to provide a feeder system for area schools. On the leagues website, ccyf.com, they say:

The CCYF program has always been about giving the players a safe, positive football experience, with the motto “Kids First and Winning Second.” It has been a goal of CCYF to help build feeder programs to the local high schools, to help them reach their ultimate goal of winning a state championship for their school. This goal was first met in 1995 by the kids who had played for the Lewis River Raiders and went on to win the state class “A” championship for Ridgefeild High School. Then again in 2004 when Evergreen High School won the WIAA 4A State Championship.

Hyde has talked about how much he would love to see a representative from Clark County at the Tacoma Dome from each level of play from 1A to 4A. While that won’t happen this year, there is still the possibility of having 3A and 4A and even the ultimate, 2 4A teams squaring off for the state championship (Skyview and Union).

“That’s my dream,” said Columbian Sports Reporter Paul Valencia. “I would just write stories all week long on as many players as I could, it would be awesome!”

we are still a long away from the WIAA Finals on December 2nd and 3rd, but at least we have a shot! 3 of the final 16 teams in the states top 2 classification are form the Greater St. Helens League, and that awesome.
History of the Greater St. Helens League in the WIAA Quarterfinals*

2010
Camas lost to Lakes 27-24 OT at Doc Harris Stadium
Mark Morris beat Anacortes 36-31 (at Tumwater)

2009
Skyview beat Auburn 34-21 at Kiggins Bowl
Union beat Meadowdale 49-7 at McKenzie Stadium
Mark Morris lost to Ellensburg 28-7 (at Kennewick)

2008
Union beat Ferndale 21-14 at McKenzie Stadium

2006
Skyview lost to Oak Harbor 26-22 (at Snohomish)

2004
Evergreen beat Curtis 28-14 (at Curtis)
Kelso beat East Valley (Spokane) 41-32 (at East Valley)

2003
Evergreen beat Lake Washington 45-20 at McKenzie Stadium
Columbia River lost to Issaquah 41-21 (at Issaquah)

2002
Mountain View beat Kentridge 40-14 at McKenzie Stadium
Columbia River beat Ellensburg 24-7 (at Yakima)

2001
Mountain View beat Wilson 10-7 (at Wilson)

2000
Columbia River lost to Skyline 45-17 at McKenzie Stadium

1999
Hudson’s Bay lost to Lakes 28-0 (at Lakes)

1995
Evergreen beat Sehome 21-13 (at Sehome)

1994
Kelso lost to Cascade (Everett) 21-17 at Schroeder Field

1989
Prairie lost to O’Dea 17-15 (at O’Dea)

1988
Kelso lost to Kentwood 40-7 at Schroeder Field
Mountain View lost to Ingraham 29-14 (at Ingraham)

1987
Kelso lost to Puyallup 42-12 (at Puyallup)
Mark Morris lost to Lake Stevens 43-0 at Longview Memorial Stadium

1986
Kelso beat Olympic 31-15 at Schroeder Field
Prairie lost to Burlington-Edison 23-6 (at Edmonds)

1985
Columbia River lost to Interlake 21-7 at Kiggins Bowl
Prairie lost to Lake Stevens 26-8 (at Kingdome)

1984
Woodland lost to Meridian 15-0 at Woodland Stadium

1983
Kelso beat Shorewood 17-0 (at Seattle)
Mark Morris lost to Olympic 34-28 2OT at Longview Memorial Stadium

1982
Woodland beat Okanogan 22-10 at Woodland Stadium

1981
Kelso lost to South Kitsap 21-20 2OT (at Tacoma)

1979
Mark Morris beat Olympia 40-29 at Longview Memorial Stadium

1977
Columbia River lost to Sumner 22-14 at Kiggins Bowl

1974
Washougal beat Lynden 21-14 (at Burlington)

*NOTE: The WIAA started playoffs in 1973 with 8 team brackets which expanded to 16 team brackets in 1975. Washougal and Woodland were members of the A Trico League in ’74, ’82 and ’84. The AAA Southwest Washington League and the AA St. Helens Conference became the AAA and AA Greater St. Helens Leagues in 1986.

November 16, 2011

4A/3A/2A GSHL Statistical Leaders (Through Week 11, “First Round”)

Skyview QB Kieran McDonagh passed for 319 yards and 2 touchdowns in the Storm's 34-7 First Round win over Kentwood last week. Photo by Dave Scott