Evadale JV Finishes Season 26-1

[Rebel Yeller]

The Evadale Rebels JV basketball team completed their season as the District 25A undefeated champions at 7-0 and are 26-1 for the season.

Hull-Daisetta and Spurger no longer have JV teams so the final two games of the season will not occur. As the parent of one of the players I wanted to thank Coach Rose for this season and to congratulate all the players on the team.

The team played so well early in the season and even when Devon Murphy (leading scorer up to that point) moved up to varsity (Devon hit the three pointer that sent the game into OT with Sabine Pass on Tuesday) before district started, the team just rolled on and even won the East Chambers Tournament. Then a few games back Coach Wilkins moved Hayden Dubose, Brandon Bruce and Shawn Totten up to varsity, but the remaining JV players (all eight of them) just kept on plugging away and still won out.

Evadale is very fortunate to have JV teams at the 1A level. They were 7-1 in football and now 26-1 in basketball. While so many schools are having to send their freshmen and sophomore players into competition with juniors and seniors, the Rebels have been able for the past couple of years the opportunity to get playing time and time for these players to improve against competition with players of their own age, even though the teams they play are usually from bigger schools.

Evadale has such a large percentage of students, girls and guys that play sports, this year they had Varsity and JV football, varsity, JV and freshmen volleyball, varsity and JV girls and guys basketball. They will also have varsity softball and track for the girls and varsity and JV baseball and track for the guys. There were more than 55 guys that played football, 26 guys started basketball, over 30 girls played volleyball and about that may started basketball.

1A schools seem destined to make the division 1 and 2 splits effective in district and when they do Evadale will have to be considered a favorite in most of the sports. In football we are loosing a great senior class, but a quick look at the Rebels depth chart shows two deep with players who are tested in games, some varsity some JV, the same goes in basketball as the varsity boys have only one senior and while their are 5 seniors on the girls, the eight other players on the squad are tested and can play very well. It is the same in the other sports.

Evadale may not always be dominate, but the talent stream does not show any sigh of drying up in the near future. This got kind of long, but I can't say it enough that I am very proud of the JV basketball team and they should be proud of what they have accomplished this season.   

[DP#1FAN]

Congrats on a fine season.

[Guest ghostt]

CONGRATS REBELS

[ballin24]

yall played very good on defense i should kno good job guys

[DC07]

Congrats

i've seen yall play and yall play very good D

[Guest hoops12]

Congrats

[pngstealth]

Congrats on a fine season. Going 26-1 gives ya'll more bragging rights than anyone else in my opinion, especially since none of the losses were district. Good luck next year.