{"id":18536,"date":"2026-02-23T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=18536"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:05:17","slug":"falcon-boys-make-basketball-playoffs-for-first-time-in-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/falcon-boys-make-basketball-playoffs-for-first-time-in-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon Boys Make Basketball Playoffs for First Time in Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Boys-basketball-2-1024x693.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Boys-basketball-2-1024x693.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Boys-basketball-2-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Boys-basketball-2-768x520.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Boys-basketball-2-1536x1040.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Boys-basketball-2-570x386.jpg 570w, http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Boys-basketball-2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">EHS senior Kaiden Carter goes up for a shot against the Creswell Bulldogs during their final regular-season basketball game. (Photo by Falcon News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The Elmira High School boys basketball team has made it into the playoffs for the first time in a decade, finishing the season with a record of 15-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Falcons secured the No. 13 seed in the OSAA state playoffs, earning a home game during the first round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Easy Armstrong said it&#8217;s nice to be able to enjoy success during his final high school season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt feels like there is an added layer of success on the season because it has been so long since we\u2019ve had this much accomplishment,\u201d Armstrong told Falcon News. \u201cI&#8217;m really glad we were able to have this much success, especially after how hard my tenure has been.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior team captain Carsen Adams expressed a similar sentiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt feels really good to make playoffs my senior year, and the fact that we\u2019ve had so many struggles only makes that feel better,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Falcons will host the Corbett Cardinals (9-17) at 6 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team secures the No. 13 seed and will host a home game in the first round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":18614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-sports","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18618,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18536\/revisions\/18618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}