2020 All-Star Results

Recently crowned boys basketball state champions Shaa Humphrey and Kobe McMillian of North Kitsap nearly orchestrated another improbable comeback Tuesday during the West Sound Senior High School All-Star Basketball Games gathering at Olympic College.

Humphrey finished with 26 points and McMillian added 21 points for Team Cascade, but a 24-point halftime deficit proved too much to overcome as Team Puget Sound held on for a 90-83 victory. 

“I was thinking we were going to come back like we did against Lynden,” McMillian said.

For McMillian, Humphrey and fellow North Kitsap seniors Logan Chmielewski and Kendall Miller, Tuesday’s game came three days after the Vikings captured the Class 2A state championship with a 56-53 win over Clarkston at the Yakima Valley SunDome. The Vikings’ tournament run included a semifinal victory over Lynden in which North Kitsap overcame a 14-point fourth quarter deficit. 

Led by South Kitsap’s Gavin Morkert (17 points), Kyler Kelso (16 points) and Central Kitsap’s Colby White (14 points), Team Puget Sound built a 47-23 halftime lead Tuesday. 

“They came out playing defense,” McMillian said. “We were letting them dunk and stuff, letting them show off. We came out in the second half and we’re like, ‘We’re in this game.'”

Prior to the game, Klahowya’s Matt Hytinen won the boys’ hot shot competition and Olympic’s Tyler Lindal won the 3-point contest.

In the girls’ game, North Kitsap’s Noey Barreith scored 11 points to lead Team Puget Sound to a 41-37 victory over Team Cascade. North Mason’s Natalie Mathews won the hot shot competition and Olympic’s Kaylani Riley won the 3-point contest.

Vikings still riding high after title run

McMillian said the reaction to North Kitsap’s state tournament triumph has been overwhelmingly positive as the Vikings became the first boys basketball team from Kitsap County to win a state title since 1983.

“It really hasn’t died down,” McMillian said. “Everywhere I go, people are saying ‘Congrats.'”

McMillian said that the victory over Lynden felt like a championship game considering the Lions were two-time defending state champions. North Kitsap made 10 of 10 field goals, including five 3-pointers, in the fourth quarter to prevail.

Statistically speaking, the chances of a team making 10 consecutive field goals (five 2-pointers and five 3-pointers) is roughly 0.2 percent. To do so in the fourth quarter of a state tournament game against the defending champions, it shows the special nature of the Vikings’ semifinal win.

“It’s a memory you’ll have forever,” Humphrey said.

North Kitsap’s players are in the process of ordering championship rings and head coach Scott Orness said the team will be ordering a replica golden ball trophy that will eventually be displayed at the high school. 

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