State 2A & 1A Basketball All-Tournament Teams and Post Tourney Awards!

3/4/18

The Pacific Sports Spa and Thorebeckes Fitness Center 2A/1A All-Stars

(Yakima, WA) The Yakima Sundome was home to 4 spectacular basketball tournaments this past week and it’s our turn to honor those whose achievements shined. These honors are a compilation of input from the ESN announcers that called a 59 of the 60 games held in the Sundome from Wednesday to Saturday. (The only game we did not do was the Lynden Christian-Medical Lake girls game. This was not on purpose our video capture device that literally streams the video burned out. We did not know this could happen and did not have an extra one in time to get that game on the air. We so apologize and now we know to have a back-up video streamer.)

Let’s get to the Pacific Sports Spa and Thorebeckes honors and remember this is a celebration of those who stood out to us and not meant to downplay anyone we do not mention. This is strictly based on the 4-days in the Sundome only and what our general consensus was to come to these decisions. So let’s get to the honors!

First some of our extra awards!

Best Cheer Staff, Lynden Lions

Honorable Mentions: Lynden-Christian, Renton

Top Band: Zillah

Honorable Mention: WF West

Top Fan Base: Lynden-Christian

Honorable Mention: Cashmere 1A Girls

Championship Game INCREDIBLE!!!

Most Inspirational Team: Wapato Girls

Best Storybook story of the Tournament: 3-way tie

*The Northwest School House 2nd ever appearance at the State Tournament only their 3rd ever winning season in more than 20 years and they get into the Semi-Finals and take home the 1A boys 5th place trophy.

*The Renton Indians boys team made it back to the State Tournament for the 1st time since 1962 and finished in the top 8 getting knocked out on Friday.

*The WF West Bearcats boys team took 2nd after dropping to Lynden in the State Championship game 57-53. Just last week the Bearcats lost to the Lions in the Regional round 73-46 and played 2 loser out games prior to knocking off last year’s runner-up Selah and then last year’s State Champion Foss before falling short in the Title game. Oh, 1 last thing, the WF West Bearcats were 0-21 just 3 seasons ago.