Swartout announced last March that he was stepping down from a program he had guided for 24 years, handing the reins over to T.J. Cotterill.
The 2022 Evergreen League announced its All-League awards for this past fall sports season, and there were many Cruisers on the list.
The Eatonville Cruisers scored first but ultimately failed to stop Freeman when needed and fell to the Scotties, 23-17, in the Class 1A state football quarterfinals, ending the Cruisers’ season.
The Eatonville Cruisers’ “bend-don’t-break” defense stopped Zillah at the goal line three times Friday, and the offense exploded for 28 points as Eatonville recorded its first shutout of the season to defeat the Zillah Leopards, 28-0, and advance to the quarterfinals of the WIAA 1A state football playoffs.
After having a successful season, the Eatonville Cruiser cross country team sent seven runners to the 1A state meet this past Saturday at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco. A total of 363 runners, both boys and girls, competed.
While the wet and windy weather the state experienced Friday slowed and hampered many teams around the state, the Eatonville Cruisers battled through it successfully.
Following their 24-18 victory over the Castle Rock Rockets on Friday, the Eatonville Cruisers clinched a berth into the state playoffs. The state seeding committee met on Sunday to seed the 16 qualified teams and awarded the Cruisers the No. 4 seed.
After being sidelined for the last two weeks because of game cancelations, the Eatonville Cruiser football team took out their frustrations on visiting Hoquiam to the tune of a 42-7 shellacking of the Grizzlies to clinch a share of the 1A Evergreen Conference title on Thursday night.
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