High School Boys Basketball: Toledo knocked out in Round of 12 battle with Burbank
The 2B Tournament – No. 4 Riverhawks fall 63-55 to No. 12 Coyotes in loser-out game at State
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2B Prep Boys Basketball / State Report
SPOKANE — It’s been said that there are no happy endings, just stories that ended before they were through. Whether that is true or not can be debated by poets and philosophers until the sun collapses and explodes, but its almost certain that the Toledo boys basketball team agrees with the sentiment this morning.
For the second straight year the Riverhawks were knocked out of the 2B State Tournament in the Round of 12, this time with a 63-55 loss to No. 12 Burbank (Columbia) on Wednesday evening at the Spokane Arena.
The loss comes on the heels of a one-point defeat at the hands of Tri-Cities Prep in the Regional round. Yes, the same TCP Jaguars who defeated Toledo in the State football championship game back in December.
Toledo and its four senior starters repeated as District champions this season, but there’s no doubt they had their hearts set on playing in Spokane until the final day of the season.
“I thought a four seed for us was gracious,” Toledo head coach Grady Fallon said. “I appreciated it because we won the District title and that should count for something. But clearly we weren’t the fourth best team in the state.”
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