The official brackets have not been updated, but here are the pairings for the 2A West Central District boys and girls basketball tournaments.
Click here for the boys bracket and here for the girls bracket.
BOYS BASKETBALL
First Round
Tuesday, Feb. 14 At Foss HS
Game 1: Eatonville vs. Sumner, 6 p.m.
Game 2: Fife vs. Lindbergh, 8 p.m. At Lakes HS
Game 3: Renton vs. White River, 6 p.m.
Game 4: Foster vs. Port Angeles, 8 p.m. Read more »
With go-to player – 6-foot-9 center Zach Banner – on the bench with foul trouble for much of the game, a pair of undersized guards lifted Lakes High.
Dequam Walls and Phillip Winston hit clutch shots in key moments of the 3A boys basketball sub-district loser-out contest Saturday afternoon, leading Lakes to a 78-65 win over Enumclaw and keeping the defending state champion’s season alive.
“Dequam Walls kept us in the game,” Lakes coach JoJo Rodriguez said, “and Phillip Winston brought us home.”
Ninth-ranked Lakes owned a double-digit lead for most of the second half, but when leading scorer Banner fouled out with six minutes to play, Enumclaw made a run at the Lancers. Read more »
Here are the pairings for the 4A and 3A West Central/Southwest bi-district boys and girls basketball tournaments.
BOYS BASKETBALL
4A WEST CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST BI-DISTRICT TOURNAMENT
First Round, Tuesday Feb. 14
Game 1: Rogers at Curtis
Game 2: Gig Harbor at Union
Game 3: Beamer at Federal Way
Game 4: Kentridge at Bellarmine Prep, 7 p.m.
Game 5: Evergreen at Kent-Meridian
Game 6: Kentlake at Olympia
Game 7: Mount Rainier at Central Kitsap
Game 8: Battle Ground at Kentwood Read more »
Bellarmine Prep forward Lucas Meikla swats a shot made by Olympia High's Trevor Houser.
Dominick Francks shot and shot and shot and shot and shot and shot and shot.
Bellarmine Prep’s boys basketball team had no answer for the Olympia High guard as they watched Francks rain down 3-pointers in the Narrows League 4A tiebreaker Friday at Foss High.
Francks drilled seven first-half treys, including six in a row in a six-minute, second-quarter stretch that turned Bellarmine Prep’s eight-point lead into a six-point deficit.
“What can you say?” Lions coach Bernie Salazar said. “Francks was tremendous.”
Fortunately for the Lions, Francks hot hand cooled in the second half – thanks largely to a ratcheted-up defense – and second-ranked Bellarmine Prep emerged with a 68-51 victory over No. 7 Olympia.
“We didn’t change anything, we just did a better job getting in Francks’ face, taking away open looks,” Salazar said. “We just got after it in the second half.” Read more »
Here are updated schedules for the 3A SPSL/Seamount/Olympic sub-district boys and girls basketball tournaments.
BOYS BASKETBALL
FRIDAY At Lakes HS
Game 1: Kennedy Catholic vs. Decatur, 8 p.m. (winner No. 1 seed to bi-district, loser No. 2 seed to district)
SATURDAY At Lakes HS
Game 4: Enumclaw vs. Lakes, 2:15 p.m. (winner No. 3 seed to bi-district, loser out)
Game 5: Hazen vs. Bonney Lake, 6 p.m. (winner No 5 seed to bi-district, loser out) Read more »
Thre Narrows League boys basketball tiebreaker games have been scheduled for Friday night.
In 4A, Bellarmine Prep and Olympia will play at 7p.m. at Foss High to determine the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds to the bi-district tournament. At the same site, South Kitsap will face Gig Harbor at 5 p.m. in a loser-out contest. The winner advances to the bi-district tourney.
In 3A, Lincoln and Foss will square off at 7 p.m. at Mount Tahoma High to determine the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds to the bi-district tournament.
Will Lakes High defend its Class 3A boys basketball state championship?
Just as I did during football season, I’ll break down how teams can qualify for the basketball state tournaments. Because the current state tournament format has been used only once, here’s a brief primer.
For instance, when I refer to the “regional round of the state tournament,” I mean the games that will be played on Feb. 24-25. These games will be played at sites around the state and you can see the venues for each classification here. Teams will not play in the Tacoma Dome, Yakima SunDome or Spokane Arena, depending on their classification, until the quarterfinals of the state tournament, which begin on Thursday, March 1.
That out of the way, here’s how teams will qualify for state:
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CLASS 3A BOYS BASKETBALL: Road to the Tacoma Dome
NORTHWEST DISTRICT Teams to state: Two Lowdown: Six teams from WesCo and two from the Northwest Conference comprise this double-elimination tournament – two will advance to the regional round of the state tournament. The tourney begins on Wednesday (tonight).
SEA-KING DISTRICT
Teams to state: Five Lowdown: Metro League will send eight teams and KingCo will be represented by four teams in this modified double-elimination tournament, which begins Feb. 11. Both conferences have league tournaments that feed into the Sea-King District tournament. In the Metro tourney, top seeds Rainier Beach and Seattle Prep were upended by O’Dea and Franklin on Tuesday, which should make for some interesting pairings in the district tourney next week. Read more »
Gonzaga Prep held off Curtis and DaVonte Lacy (center) in the finals of the Class 4A boys basketball state tournament in 2011.
Just as I did during football season, I’ll break down how teams can qualify for the basketball state tournaments. Because the current state tournament format has been used only once, here’s a brief primer.
For instance, when I refer to the “regional round of the state tournament,” I mean the games that will be played on Feb. 24-25. These games will be played at sites around the state and you can see the venues for each classification here. Teams will not play in the Tacoma Dome, Yakima SunDome or Spokane Arena, depending on their classification, until the quarterfinals of the state tournament, which begin on Thursday, March 1.
That out of the way, here’s how teams will qualify for state:
ROAD TO THE TACOMA DOME
CLASS 4A: Boys Basketball
WESCO Teams to state: Two, plus one to pigtail game with KingCo Lowdown: The double-elimination tournament begins Wednesday (tonight). The top four teams from WesCo North and top four teams from WesCo South qualified. Two teams from this tournament will receive automatic berths to the regional round of the state tournament, while the third-place team will host KingCo No. 3 in a winner-to-state game on Feb. 21. Read more »
