High School Boys Basketball: Wahkiakum foiled by all-too familiar foe at State
The 1B Tournament – Mules' comeback bid falls short in 57-52 loss to Columbia Adventist at Spokane Arena
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1B Prep Boys Basketball / State Report
SPOKANE — The Wahkiakum boys basketball team will not be bringing hardware home from Spokane this season. An offensive power outage over the first three quarters of the Mules’ matchup with Columbia Adventist in the Round of 12 at the 1B State Tournament, Wednesday, led to a 57-52 season-ending loss at Spokane Arena.
The No. 8 ranked Mules were out of sorts for most of the loser-out contest and couldn’t get on track before it was too late.
“The first three quarters we didn’t have a lot of energy,” Wahkiakum head coach Rob Garrett said. “It was a lot of guys standing and watching, and that’s not going to be a good recipe for success over here, especially against a team like that that does the complete opposite.”
And that team is a foe the Mules know all too well. Wahkiakum and Columbia Adventist split their regular season contests, before the Cathlamet cagers won the rubber match in a tiebreaker to determine the 1B Columbia Valley League title.
But the No. 17 Kodiaks wound up with the last laugh on the biggest stage, far, far from the familiar bends of the lower Columbia River back home.
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