The East Anchorage High School boys basketball team is on the brink of setting a state record for most consecutive wins against Alaska opponents and is in pursuit of a second straight state championship. sportsadn
As Anchorage third graders, they were adversaries. As freshmen on varsity, they were mostly relegated to the bench. As seniors, they are looking to make history.
Christina Dandelove takes a picture of posters of East High's starting lineup, including her son Elijah Reed. The five seniors have spearheaded the uncommon success that the football and basketball programs have enjoyed over the last four years. “This team is these five seniors,” East coach Chuck Martin said. “They’ve been a part of all of our success the last three years and certainly in the football program. We get leadership out of all five of those guys because this is their team. They know it and all the responsibilities that come with it, and they embrace it and love playing together.”
Friends and family gather at the Delaney home to celebrate Damarion Delaney, second from left, on his 18th birthday and play some video games. On Senior Night, East High's Damarion Delaney, center, is introduced with his parents Dominic and Shannon Delaney. This journey has been especially meaningful for the two members of their brotherhood who are actually blood relatives. Delaney and Zimmerman are two of the most dynamic athletes in the state for football and basketball. They both have been named to all-conference and all-state teams in both sports and have dominated in those arenas, playing side by side the whole way.
Delaney credits their family for their development and is amazed by how much they have both grown as players and young men. “Right now, I’m thinking I should’ve played, but at the time I wasn’t really committed to it,” Doughty said.Doughty has been heating up for the Thunderbirds down the stretch of the season and has been especially hot from behind the arc. He sank seven 3-pointers against West in a road game and finished with a game-high 27 points in the team’s 79-44 rout of their cross-town rivals.
“It was really like a little rewash in everybody’s brains,” Delaney said. “Now we understand that we’re able to lose a game, so it’s time to pick it up and go even harder in practice and go ever the details and fundamentals.”A Thunderbird fan soars in the stands. The East High School starting five, from left, Darael Doughty, Elijah Reed, Damarion Delaney, Kyler Johnson and Deuce Zimmerman, await introduction.
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