PLAINVILLE — On a night when the Plainville community raised money for Luke Santhouse with “Layups for Luke,” the Plainville boys basketball team must have been confused.

Instead of layups, the team hit 3-pointers. And hit a lot of them.

The Blue Devils (5-12) drained 12 3-pointers, including eight in the first half, en route to a 72-64 win against the visiting Rocky Hill Terriers (4-13).

Chase Tarca netted 20 points, but surprisingly enough only hit of Plainville’s 12 threes. Jalen Gardner and Alex DelRio came off the bench to score 19 and 16 points, respectively. Gardner hit five 3-pointers and DelRio sank four of them in an uncanny display of long-range shooting for the Blue Devils.

Tyler Cirinna led Rocky Hill with 23 points and 10 rebounds, while Nick Barron added 14 points, six rebounds and four assists.

With the loss, the Terriers were eliminated from state tournament contention.

But Tuesday night wasn’t about just the players on the court. It was about Santhouse, the Plainville sophomore who is fighting Leukemia.

All of the proceeds raised from Tuesday’s game — concessions, ticket sales and a special bake sale — were donated to the Santhouse family to assist with healthcare costs.

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Hospitals in Oregon and Washington are standardizing overhead calls and color codes to reduce the risk of confusion or human error. The move follows a survey that found wide variation in the emergency codes among the region’s hospitals. This matters because many doctors and nurses now work at more than one place. Correspondent Tom Banse reports.

If you’ve spent any time in a hospital, you know that the staff sometimes speak in code.

Overhead page: “Code blue in ER one. Code blue…”

Here at Capital Medical Center in Olympia, “code blue” means a patient’s breathing or heart has stopped. But at a few hospitals, code blue means “get security.” So now imagine a scenario involving a doctor or nurse who’s recently switched hospitals. Her patient goes into sudden cardiac arrest. She instinctively calls for code blue. But instead of the resuscitation team, the security guard comes running. This really happened at an unnamed Washington hospital. It is one reason Capital Medical Center’s chief nursing officer favors standardization.

Lisa Moylen: “When temporary personnel come, within the first hour they’re here they’re oriented to the codes because that’s very important. It would certainly be a lot easier if there were some universal components.”

Lisa Moylen says the use of temp nurses and traveling nurses has gone way up since she started in medicine 40 years ago.

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