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It's on: 5-way EvCo tiebreaker set for Tuesday night

• Published October 31, 2009

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The Elma Eagles’ second straight win has helped create a five-way tie for one playoff spot.

Thanks to Elma’s 48-14 upset of the Hoquiam Grizzlies at Hoquiam and Centralia’s 21-14 loss to Tumwater on Friday, there will be a five-way tiebreaker between the Class 2A Evergreen Conference football teams with 2-5 records in league play – Aberdeen, Centralia, Elma, Hoquiam and River Ridge – to determine the league’s fourth and final playoff spot.

The round robin-style tiebreaker is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday at South Sound Stadium, and the winner of the tiebreaker will travel to face top-seeded Mark Morris at 5 p.m. next Saturday at Longview Memorial Stadium in a state preliminary round game.

Elma entered Friday with one league win – a 14-7 victory over Aberdeen last week – and needed another victory and a Centralia loss to keep its playoff hopes alive. River Ridge and Aberdeen also needed Hoquiam and Centralia to lose.

Aberdeen defeated River Ridge, 24-21, on Thursday night, leaving both teams with two league wins and needing help on Friday.

Hoquiam, already with two wins, needed to defeat Elma to secure the No. 4 spot outright. Centralia also could have gotten the No. 4 spot outright if Hoquiam lost, but the Tigers couldn’t beat Tumwater.

The five teams have been seeded for Tuesday’s single-elimination tiebreaker.

The last tiebreaker to take place in the Evergreen Conference was in 2007, when Aberdeen, Chehalis and River Ridge played a three-way tiebreaker for the third and fourth spots. Aberdeen took the third seed and Chehalis claimed the fourth.