SNOHOMISH — The Glacier Peak and Edmonds-Woodway boys basketball teams squared off three times last season and the Grizzlies were victorious in every contest.
The Warriors haven’t forgotten.
Edmonds-Woodway got a little bit of revenge — and kept its strong 2015-16 season rolling — with a 74-63 victory over the Grizzlies in a Wesco 3A South game Thursday night at Glacier Peak High School.
“Psychologically, three games last year GP got us,” said Edmonds-Woodway head coach Robert Brown. “They’re good, they do what they do and they do it real well. For our guys to get over that hump helps.”
Edmonds-Woodway, which currently sits alone atop the Wesco 3A South standings at 5-1 (and 12-2 overall), pulled away from Glacier Peak late thanks, in large part, to its defense. The Warriors’ full-court pressure caused several turnovers that Edmonds-Woodway was able to convert into points.
Really, the only thing that could slow down the Warriors’ pace was the numerous foul calls.
“We just don’t like stoppage,” Brown said. “I try to tell the guys, ‘We’ve got to stop fouling because we keep stopping the game.’ We’re 11 deep, and the more people we can play and rotate the more we wear other people down. The fouls just throw us out of a rhythm.”
Edmonds-Woodway senior David Woodard was in rhythm, with the senior netting 23 points in the contest. Woodard scored nine points from the free throw line in the second half and added seven rebounds.
Tre Holland scored 17 points and Brady Edwards came off the bench to add 10 for the Warriors, who had a one-point advantage going into the fourth quarter before outscoring Glacier Peak 21-11 in the final period.
“That’s a Metro (league) talent team,” said Glacier Peak head coach Brian Hunter. “That’s not a traditional Wesco talent team. I thought our kids played really, really well. We just had some stretches where we didn’t get shots and they got shots.
“I think it was a fairly high-quality Wesco game tonight,” Hunter continued. “I think both teams made plays. I was proud of our kids for some of the plays that they made.”
Glacier Peak’s Zach Hatch helped the Grizzlies keep pace with 22 points in the contest. Bobby Martin scored 18 — 10 of which came in the first half — and Brendan Tetrault had 11 for Glacier Peak (2-4 league, 8-6 overall).
“I thought Bobby Martin played a solid, strong game,” Hunter said. “It was good to see Bobby do that. I thought Zach Hatch had some moments where he started to feel like himself.”
The win over the Grizzlies completed the first round of league games for Edmonds-Woodway, which suffered a two-point loss to Mountlake Terrace in its only league defeat. Brown knows that the Wesco 3A South teams are going to be coming after Edmonds-Woodway as the season goes down to the wire.
“The Wesco South is so much better this year,” Brown said. “It’s so much older and more experienced. Every game is important because every game is a fight. It’s just such a better game, every game, this year. There’s no easy games.
“This is the first leg of league. We’ll have everybody else again. I told the guys today that we’re wrapping up the first leg, but we’re going to see everybody again and it’s going to be that much harder.”
At Glacier Peak H.S.
Ed.-Woodway 19 13 21 21 —74
Glacier Peak 16 18 18 11 —63
Edmonds-Woodway—David Woodard 23, Tre’var Holland 17, Brady Edwards 10, Noah Becker 5, Edikal Seare 3, Ali Gaye 0, Jordan Rice 9, Ryan Peterson 1, Calum Knowles 5, Joe Cooper 0. Glacier Peak—Zach Hatch 22, Seiver Southard 0, Jack Wygant 0, Brendan Tetrault 11, Justin Guffey 4, Zach Argue 3, Bobby Martin 18, Kyle Dvorak 5. Records—Edmonds-Woodway 5-1 league, 12-2 overall. Glacier Peak 2-4, 8-6.
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